'The Seek for Snoopy,' a 'Peanuts' Expertise, Is within the Works

“Peanuts” followers who’ve dreamed of visiting Snoopy’s crimson doghouse, Lucy’s remedy sales space (solely 5 cents!) or Charlie Brown’s classroom may have their probability subsequent 12 months, with an interactive expertise in Honolulu referred to as “The Seek for Snoopy: A Peanuts Journey.”

The occasion will take guests via the acquainted surroundings of Charles M. Schulz’s newspaper strips and cartoons, and can be introduced at Ala Moana Heart, an open-air mall, beginning in March.

“The fantastic thing about ‘Peanuts’ is that there are 17,500-and-some-odd strips that Sparky — Charles Schulz — created over the 50 years of ‘Peanuts’ in syndication,” which supplied many tales, themes and areas to mine, Craig Herman, a Peanuts Worldwide vice chairman, mentioned in a convention name with the present’s producer. (Authentic “Peanuts” strips have been printed from Oct. 2, 1950, via Feb. 13, 2000. The final unique installment got here out the day after Schulz’s demise.)

For the Hawaii expertise, Peanuts Worldwide partnered with Kilburn Stay, the corporate that produced an interactive Dr. Seuss Experience, in a collaboration that started three years in the past. “It takes a very long time to get it proper,” Mark Manuel, the chief govt of Kilburn, mentioned within the interview.

Different set items in “The Seek for Snoopy” embody Charlie Brown’s bed room, the place guests can launch a Charlie Brown-like “Aaugh!” that can be measured and ranked, and Charlie Brown’s classroom, the place contributors can hear themselves within the indecipherable garble of the adults as they have been heard in “Peanuts” on TV. A nationwide tour of the present is deliberate following its run in Honolulu.