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Want to meet favorite Animal Crossing character? Nintendo is bringing them to Myrtle Beach

The moray eels at Ripley’s Slime Exhibit. An Animal Crossing popup will be visting the aquarium starting June 14.
The moray eels at Ripley’s Slime Exhibit. An Animal Crossing popup will be visting the aquarium starting June 14. Jason Lee jlee@thesunnews.com

Tom Nook, Isabelle and K.K. Slider will be visiting Ripley’s Aquarium on select days as part of a nationwide aquarium tour, according to Nintendo.

From June 14 through Aug. 11, the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Aquarium Tour will be visiting the Myrtle Beach area aquarium, located at 1110 Celebrity Circle. This was successfully started at the Seattle Aquarium and is now going across the country, visiting Oregon, Tennessee and Arizona, among other states.

Tickets can be purchased directly from Ripley’s Aquarium. There will be photo opportunities, character standees and more. Nintendo has not released a lot of information about what will be included, but a TikTok video shows what the Seattle experience was like.

@mayplaystv would you visit the animal crossing aquarium in real life? i had to go to seattle to support blathers #animalcrossing #acnh #animalcrossingnewhorizons #aquarium #nintendo ♬ original sound - flowrence
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Emalyn Muzzy is the retail and leisure reporter for The Sun News. She started as a breaking news reporter in Myrtle Beach before switching to the business beat. She graduated from the University of Minnesota is 2022 with a degree in journalism and Spanish.
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