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Set within Universal Studios Hollywood, the life-sized
"Springfield" plays host to many of the show's landmarks such as
the cooling towers of the Springfield nuclear power plant,
convenience store Kwik-E-Mart, Moe's tavern and Krusty Burger.
Actors Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright and Joe Mantegna, the
voices behind some of the characters, walked the "yellow carpet"
on Tuesday at the park, which expands on "The Simpsons" ride at
Universal Studios.
Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson, said the three-dimensional
park was a departure from the imagined two-dimensional world of
the wayward Simpsons and their friends.
"It's very strange ... I feel very much a part of Lisa Simpson
and she feels like she is in me but the world feels very
two-dimensional to me so this is actually all very new," she
said.
The long-running Fox series about bumbling Homer Simpson, his
wife Marge and their children Bart, Lisa and baby Maggie has won
fans around the world in its 26 seasons.
"Bart never ages and yet ... if they had really hired a
10-year-old kid, they'd be ... 35, 36 years old right now," said
Cartwright, who plays Bart Simpson.
"Nowhere but the Simpsons could we do something like that."
(Reporting By Reuters Television in Los Angeles; Writing by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian in London; Editing by Crispian Balmer)
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