D Hulk
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A really, really good idea...that's already done at rival Ocean Park.
I still love the concept. A romanticized urban entry set across from Main Street, like how WestCOT's entry would've been New York City circa 1900.
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I still love the concept. A romanticized urban entry set across from Main Street, like how WestCOT's entry would've been New York City circa 1900.
Maybe we can transform and expand the pier to become this park’s Disney Springs, using some of te space for the Second Gate area? Also I believe you mentioned the potential for a DCL Port right?Some quickie site analysis.
The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort is located on Lantau Island between the airport and Hong Kong. By public metro, you can easily travel from downtown to the park gate in under 20 minutes.
Lantau feels isolated, like a tropical Hawaiian island. The resort is built upon landfill in a secluded cove south of a short mountain range.
The resort is laid out tightly. Parking and public metro arrive north of Disneyland. Hotels are to the south (note one undeveloped hotel space remaining). A pedestrian corridor connects these areas. Trams travel Disneyland's western perimeter to ferry hotel guests to the northern entry area if they don't wish to walk. Intriguingly, there's an underutilized pier on the southern coast.
Note the blue area in the corridor near parking - this is the "esplanade" area which is already designed to accommodate second gate entry. At the esplanade's center is a statue of Mickey surfing atop a whale.
I think this resort layout leaves us great opportunities! The second gate expansion could include new hotels and a Disney Springs shopping district along the pedestrian corridor. The pier has great potential for something!
And remember that it's all landfill (the expansion pad land was added after HKDL's opening), so we can expand further into the seas if we need to.
Pi on my Cake
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An indoor land, Wakanda, Spanish Pirates, Middle Earth, mythology, literature, boardwalk...
We have a lot of awesome ideas so far! Let's keep it going! What other ideas for environments would we like to see or would work well in with the mountains and the sea?
I could see a land themed around Cryptids and urban legends being pretty cool. Maybe based around yhe American Pacific Northwest. Sort of like a more realistic Gravity Falls like setting. I'm pretty sure I remember @D Hindley doing something like that in Sywtbai back in the spring. Could work great with a mountain backdrop or as a perpetually night time indoor land.
We have a lot of awesome ideas so far! Let's keep it going! What other ideas for environments would we like to see or would work well in with the mountains and the sea?
I could see a land themed around Cryptids and urban legends being pretty cool. Maybe based around yhe American Pacific Northwest. Sort of like a more realistic Gravity Falls like setting. I'm pretty sure I remember @D Hindley doing something like that in Sywtbai back in the spring. Could work great with a mountain backdrop or as a perpetually night time indoor land.
FireMountain
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Why not just make it Gravity Falls?
Suchomimus
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But this isn’t just any theme park we’re talking about, it’s Disney; the one movie studio most well known for adapting fairytales into their movies.
Pi on my Cake
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Well basing it just on the show might limit us a bit for including new ideas and expanding the scope of the land. But I definitely think having a Mystery Shack gift shop/walkthrough would be cool if we did the land!
FireMountain
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How about a golf-cart coaster where you ride through the town encountering monsters? Maybe you could walk along the trail similar to Nature's Wonderland.
D Hulk
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The islands of Hong Kong already look like Motunui, so a Polynesian area combining Moana and other South Seas myths could work.
So too could Atlantis - either Disney's animated version or an original idea.
A Finding Nemo kiddie land works too. The "underwater" section in the reefs would be set indoors.
What about tying into Chinese culture and doing an original land inspired by their mythical classics like Journey to the West?
D Hulk
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The "Disney Springs" can share a border with the Second Gate. Upstairs levels can be a new hotel with views into the park or into the shopping district.
I don't know if Disney Cruise Line does anything in the Pacific yet. We could create a dedicated port alongside the Second Gate. Imagine taking a cruise out of Long Beach to Hong Kong, and having your cruise ship dock inside of a theme park!
FireMountain
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So basically we're taking elements from the Tokyo Disney resort, and putting it in Hong Kong.
I see we're having the brain of Eisner here, with the mindset of "We need more stuff, so that people will stay more time at our parks and not at the competition." Not that that's a bad thing, those are great ideas, the more the merrier!
Pi on my Cake
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All these sound like awesome ideas! Especially if we go with a mythology theme!
Personally, I feel like a dark ride would work better than a coaster. Like Grunkle Stan set up a dark ride to attract crowds. It starts real cheap and tacky and fake looking. Then "actual" monsters start attacking and wrecking it. Chaos, comedy, a daring rescue by Ford and the Mystery Twins, etc. Something yhat would work as a great ride based on the show as well as a ride that could stand on its own as a monster ride! Though coaster would be cool too
Anyways, I'm off to see Christopher Robin! Be back later!
Outbound
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MCU has so many properties, and from what I understand they've only used Iron Man. There's plenty of options, but I'd think the best would be Doctor Strange, considering there is a Sanctum in Hong Kong. Some sort of simulator, perhaps?
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FireMountain
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We need to come up with a definitive idea for a park first, then we can find a way for the Muppets to fit into it.We are forgetting the most important IP...
I think it would be nice, if edutainment is present within some of the attractions, it’s a concept that unfortunately seems to have been forgotten!
FireMountain
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What topic would it be about? How would it fit into the park?
Pi on my Cake
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Christopher Robin was absolutely phenomenal!! Heart warming, heart breaking, and full of humor! Can't recommend it enough!
Depending on the route we go it’s how it could be adapted, but there’s always something new to learn!
Pi on my Cake
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I agree! Every park (with the possible exception of castle parks) should in some way seek to teach and inspire while it entertains!
Epcot with science and the world. Studios with filmmaking and storytelling. DAK with environmental issues and animal science. California Adventure with California culture and history. DisneySea with how to make a perfect dang theme park.
Any good second gate inspires and teaches in some way shape or form. Even if that isn't our focus.
FireMountain
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Too bad the folks at HKDL can't watch it because it's not coming out due to...reasons.
Exactly!