Ninja Kidz Action Park, a venue featuring wall-to-wall trampolines, ninja obstacle courses, stuntman airbags and adventure slides, has opened in Edinburgh and Dundee. The launch was held earlier this month in Edinburgh, and a parent journalist described it as the best family day out he has seen in 10 years.
YouTube stars behind the park
The venue opened in conjunction with the American YouTube superstars Ninja Kidz, whose videos have amassed millions of views and inspired a generation of children to pursue gymnastics and martial arts. Ninja Kidz TV began as a family YouTube channel in 2017, with siblings Bryton, Ashton, Paxton and Payton Myler turning their martial arts, gymnastics and stunt skills into fast-paced videos aimed at children. The family quickly found a huge audience with superhero-themed adventures, challenges, parkour and action-packed sketches, helped by the fact the siblings had grown up training in martial arts and held black belts.
Since then, Ninja Kidz has exploded into a global children's entertainment brand, amassing more than 24 million YouTube subscribers and billions of views. The brand has expanded beyond social media with merchandise, live shows and a growing chain of Ninja Kidz Action Parks in the US. Now the craze has crossed the Atlantic, with the first UK sites opened in Edinburgh and Dundee and more on the way.
What the park offers
The park includes a space for children to practise flips and cartwheels, climbing walls that test balance, perception and coordination, and football and basketball courts that allow kids to be active. At the launch, Ninja Kidz Dad, aka Ninja Dad, told excited children and their parents how the family had launched the channel to inspire viewers to not just watch but to get out and learn new skills or take on new challenges.
One parent journalist, travelling to Edinburgh with his son Gabriel, said his son was able to interact with the stars, pose for pictures and show off his skills with nunchucks. Although the Ninja Kidz are not going to be there on every visit, the park itself has enough about it to make it a go-to destination for children in its own right. As family day out destinations go, the journalist said he has seen very few on the level of Ninja Kidz Action Park in his 10 years as a parent.
