Find Fairies With Your DS At Tokyo Disneyland

By Spencer . April 13, 2009 . 6:01am

Disney magically made a theme park guide for the Nintendo DS before. A new partnership with Oriental Land adds an alternate reality game. The Ikspiari Nintendo DS Guide is a download you can get at an entertainment area inside Tokyo’s Disney Resort. The guide tells you where shops are and offers other information like movie times.

Users also get a quiz game and a fairy finding game. The mystery mini-game has players scout the shopping complex in search of virtual fairies. Oriental Land’s system has a Pictochat-like bulletin board system which lets friends setup meeting times and, presumably, pass tips on where to find the fairy.

OK, so searching for Tinkerbell may not be high on your list, but what do you think about hide and seek or other alternate reality games as DS downloads? Would you want to go on a DS treasure hunt or crack a (an imaginary) crime case at your local mall?

TAGS: Disney Interactive, Nintendo, Nintendo DS

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James A. Calwell III

Have they made a real application of the DTS yet?

Joanna

sounds fun, but as a 22 year old, I would look too ridiculous doing it XD (I want to keep some of my dignity, not that I have much left...lol)

Scypher

Sounds awesome. I think mobile/handheld-driven ARGs is a excellent idea for any venue.

How would you get that software on your DS, though? Do you have to buy a DS cart at Disneyland that can access the download? Or do you really mean just DSi and not DS?