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Atlas Mini-Golf puts four themed worlds inside a Quebec City mall, built by three firms
Atlas Mini-Golf, an 18-hole course run by Méga Parc at Galeries de la Capitale in Quebec City, opened Nov. 6, 2026. Retail Insider reports an investment of nearly $1 million in more than 4,200 sq ft, with a merch shop. Agence Spatiale did concept and design, Les Ateliers du Carnaval made the themed sets and Rénovations MFSR handled construction. The lesson: on a themed build inside a mall, split story, sets and base build early, and draw the handoffs between them.
In brief. Atlas Mini-Golf, an 18-hole course run by Méga Parc at Galeries de la Capitale in Quebec City, opened Nov. 6, 2026. Retail Insider reports an investment of nearly $1 million in more than 4,200 sq ft, with a merch shop. Agence Spatiale did concept and design, Les Ateliers du Carnaval made the themed sets and Rénovations MFSR handled construction. The lesson: on a themed build inside a mall, split story, sets and base build early, and draw the handoffs between them.
Galeries de la Capitale in Quebec City already has an indoor amusement park, Méga Parc. On Nov. 6 it added an 18-hole mini-golf course on the first level, directly opposite the park, with a story, themed sets and its own shop.
Retail Insider reports that Atlas Mini-Golf is an investment of nearly $1 million by Primaris REIT, the centre’s owner, in more than 4,200 sq ft. Méga Parc runs it. General manager Kim Villeneuve told the publication that customers had shown interest in bringing mini-golf back to the centre, where an earlier course had operated.
A story in four settings
The course follows the fictional travels of Monsieur Tourne-Tête, the inventor character tied to Méga Parc. The holes move through mountain, underwater, desert and aerial settings, then end in the inventor’s workshop with a tribute to the park’s Zénith spokeless Ferris wheel. A shop sells plush toys, memory games and other themed merchandise.
In the supplied photos:
Underwater: a deep blue room with a large red octopus wrapping one wall, a half-boat set and coral cut-outs, with nets hung from the open ceiling.
Aerial: turquoise greens, cloud-printed walls, a big striped hot-air balloon with a wicker basket, a loop obstacle and paper planes hung overhead.
Workshop: a giant gear ring framing the last holes, gears on the walls, gear-shaped obstacles set into dark greens and a chalk drawing of a Ferris wheel labelled Zénith.
Elsewhere: palm-tree murals and cut-outs, a railway-carriage front and a yellow hull-shaped wall with portholes.
That’s our read of the photos; Retail Insider doesn’t say which hole is which. In the same photos, the base build stays plain: polished concrete floors and an open, dark-painted ceiling with track lighting, with the theme carried by walls, cut-outs and props.
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Retail Insider names the split:
Agence Spatiale: concept and design.
Les Ateliers du Carnaval: the themed sets.
Rénovations MFSR: construction.
That maps to three different skills on a themed build: the story, the things you can see and touch, and the room they sit in. The handoffs between them are where we’d spend early drawing time on a project like this:
Fixing points. A wall-hung octopus or an overhead balloon needs blocking or rigging points in the base build, located before walls close and ceilings get painted.
Power and light. Track lighting, lit props and signs need circuits where the set designer wants them, not where they’re easiest to run.
Play surface. Greens, borders and obstacles take traffic all day. Agree who supplies them and who replaces worn pieces.
Mall rules. Exits, fire separations and load-in hours come from the landlord’s spec, and the sets have to fit inside them.
Those are our steps, not a description of what the three firms did. The article doesn’t cover the build process, the schedule or the set materials.
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Management estimates that about 70% of Méga Parc visitors also spend money elsewhere in the centre, and reports average mall dwell time of about 76 minutes, up from about 68. Neither figure comes with a published method. A September 2025 Primaris presentation projected $1.185 million in first-year revenue for the course; that’s a projection made before opening, not a result.
Brience is a Toronto-based custom fabrication and experiential design studio. For agencies pitching entertainment into Ontario shopping centres, the part we’d copy is the split: a design lead, a set builder and a general contractor, each with a clear scope and a drawing that shows where one hands off to the next.
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Source: Retail Insider, “Primaris Expands Méga Parc with $1 Million Atlas Mini-Golf Attraction” (November 2026). Images supplied.
