Ponyland Caresa shut down following lawsuit by Hasbro

June 12, 2017

CARESA, CULLIVANA--- Hasbro has filed a lawsuit demanding the Ponyland theme parks in Caresa and Solomeda shut down immediately. However, due to the jurisdiction affected in the case, the Solomeda park remains open. It's part of an ongoing legal battle between Hasbro and KPL Parks Company, who operates Ponyland Caresa. With the lawsuit taking effect immediately, the park in Caresa was ordered to shut down until further notice.

The two parks are based on the My Little Pony toyline. The Caresa park opened in 2012, while the Solomeda park opened in 2015. The lawsuit only covers the Caresa park because the Solomeda park is officially licensed by Changkaru Toys, who licenses the My Little Pony toyline in Metroworld. As a result, Ponyland Caresa was closed for investigation.

The investigation involves a copyright infriginment case against KPL Parks Company, who makes nothing original and just steals the brands to build its parks for. It operates another park in Bombodia based on Nintendo's Mario and Sega's Sonic IPs, and it plans to build an unlicensed LoliRock theme park in Lochena to compete with Universal Studios Silverio World. Looks like that won't be happening anytime soon.

UPDATE September 21, 2017

The park has been closed permanently and as a result, will be demolished by the end of the year. Studio World Caresa, not very far from Ponyland, will be taking over the site for future expansion oppurtunities.

KPL Parks Company is in hot water now after Japanese media exposed Mario World Park. We'll continue coverage when content updates.