{"id":748639,"date":"2026-08-24T23:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748639\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:08:09","slug":"manga-inspired-theme-park-to-be-built-near-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748639\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga-inspired theme park to be built near Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three theme parks will be built near Paris as part of a \u20ac6bn (\u00a35.13bn) deal agreed between France and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new development is expected to include a manga-themed park, inspired by the popular Japanese franchise Dragon Ball Z.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">French President Emmanuel Macron hailed the move as on a scale not seen &#8220;since Disneyland Paris&#8221;, and added &#8220;you know my interest for manga&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An opening date for the parks &#8211; which will be built near Cergy-Pontoise &#8211; has not set by the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace, but they will open in stages and construction is expected to take years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project was given the green light during a two-day state visit to France by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It stemmed from a previous discussion between Macron and bin Salman about their shared passion for Japanese comics, &#8220;in particular Dragon Ball Z,&#8221; advisers to the president told reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three theme parks will be built near Paris as part of a \u20ac6bn (\u00a35.13bn) deal agreed between France&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}