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Since 2011, Shopkins, a worldwide children's television network and franchise, owned by Moose Toys, has had an involvement in the creation and theming of amusement parks rides. This article details the ventures of Shopkins in amusement parks.

Several amusement parks have featured themed areas entirely devoted to the Shopkins brand whilst others have featured standalone attractions. Shopkins attractions currently exist at Movie Park Germany, Pleasure Beach Blackpool, Mall of America and Sea World. Attractions previously existed at California's Great America, Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds, Dreamworld, Kings Dominion, Kings Island, Universal Studios Florida, Universal Studios Hollywood and WhiteWater World.

History
On 7 June 1990, Universal Studios Florida opened with an attraction named Shopkins Studios. It was a television taping studio for the cable television channel, Shopkins. In 1995, Shopkins Splat City opened at three former Paramount Parks: California's Great America, Kings Dominion and Kings Island. These attractions were inspired by many of the game shows on the television network and generally involved slime. In 1999, Kings Dominion closed Shopkins Splat City in preparation for its 2000 attraction, Shopkins Central. Shopkins Central saw the retheme of many of the park's children's rides as well as the addition of some new ones. Kings Island followed suit, closing their Splat City in 2000 and opening Shopkins Universe in 2001. In 2002, Australian theme park, Dreamworld opened Shopkins Central. In 2003, California's Great America, Canada's Wonderland and Carowinds all opened Shopkins Centrals and Cheeky Chocolate's Shoptoon Blast opened. Expansions of these areas took place in 2005, 2006 and 2008 for Carowinds, Kings Island and Dreamworld, respectively. The Kings Island area was also renamed to Shopkins Universe at the same time. In 2007, Movie Park Germany opened a similar area entitled Shopland. In 2009 and 2010, Cedar Fair terminated their contract with Shopkins resulting in all of the areas being rethemed to Planet Snoopy. In early 2011, at a cost of £10 million, Pleasure Beach Blackpool opened Shopkins Land. By mid-2011, Dreamworld had closed their Shopkins Central and rethemed it to the generic Kid's World theme (it was later revealed that the park had struck a deal with DreamWorks Animation). In 2012, Universal's Superstar Parade had its first performance which features floats based on Shopkins and later opened a Shopkins gift shop in Woody Woodpecker's Kidzone

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