North (where the drop tower is supposed to go)
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HKDL gets new castle, frozen land and marvel land.
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lazyboy97o
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They could not. Projects are not funded that way nor do they work that way.
no.swatz
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Yea also they are taking the "second gate" talk slowly. They (government officials and HKDL board) are still discussing on expansions inside the park (Hong Kong Disneyland) instead of the entire resort itself.
I'm still surprised how only HALF of the budget was spent so far with the opening of Castle of Magical Dreams, the addition of the daytime castle show (Follow Your Dreams), a Moana show in Adventureland, the nighttime spectacular Momentous, Ant Man and the Wasp Nano Battle (retheme of Buzz Lightyear), Iron Man Experience and World of Frozen.
IMDREW
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Surely the spidey tower and pixar venue cant make up for the other half?
Hkayer
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They said the pixar venue is funded by the park itself but not the expansion budget. So only tot is announced for the remaining half now.
Supersnow84
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I’m assuming they over supplied budget money to quinjet expecting the revolutionary new technology would be super expensive and they didn’t want the budget to run short
Now that it’s been replaced with a more generic TOT they probably have excess budget but since some of that budget is from the government they want it re-allocated, not just absorbed into the park funds. But they also want the original plans actually built before they discuss re-distributing excess budget
The Pixar zone is entirely independent and the park itself going “see we don’t always need the government to help us pay for everything” and much is why it’s happening alongside the expansion
Now that it’s been replaced with a more generic TOT they probably have excess budget but since some of that budget is from the government they want it re-allocated, not just absorbed into the park funds. But they also want the original plans actually built before they discuss re-distributing excess budget
The Pixar zone is entirely independent and the park itself going “see we don’t always need the government to help us pay for everything” and much is why it’s happening alongside the expansion
DLR92
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A splash mountian style based on Pirates of the Caribbean would be amazing!
no.swatz
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This would be truly amazing.
Supersnow84
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I’m not opposed to a log flume in any way but honestly I feel like they could substitute the “water ride” by just making FEA get you a little more wet.
Some seats on FEA do get wet, if it was more like splash in terms of how wet you got on the main drop it could fill the log flume position without much effort
Some seats on FEA do get wet, if it was more like splash in terms of how wet you got on the main drop it could fill the log flume position without much effort
Supersnow84
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The resort doesn’t own any land they could relocate the cast areas to (all they could really do is make them more dense)
There is currently 3 primary cast only areas in HK.
1) north of arendelle/west of space
2) north of Main Street
3) south of Main Street/east of theatre in the jungle
The resort owns no “off park land” they could move these to as the only unused land they own right now is the 4th hotel and the other expansion pad east of grizzly (plus off siting cast areas is a nightmare for the cast especially if the park has land integrity, I don’t know if HK has land integrity or not). Of those three sites the only “useful” pad is north of arendelle but that’s also the hardest to move because that’s the vast majority of cast space anyway. They may be able to condense it and open one more pad directly west of space but it’s debatable, arguably everything east of rehearsal road could be made guest facing but with the design of the lands opening a pad where in that zone would be awkward from a guest flow perspective, they’d probably have to rip down storybook theatre and have it flow from small world’s courtyard
The original park is just starting to run out of land since it’s boxed in on all sides. This was always meant to be countered by the second gate, not condensing the cast only areas
There is currently 3 primary cast only areas in HK.
1) north of arendelle/west of space
2) north of Main Street
3) south of Main Street/east of theatre in the jungle
The resort owns no “off park land” they could move these to as the only unused land they own right now is the 4th hotel and the other expansion pad east of grizzly (plus off siting cast areas is a nightmare for the cast especially if the park has land integrity, I don’t know if HK has land integrity or not). Of those three sites the only “useful” pad is north of arendelle but that’s also the hardest to move because that’s the vast majority of cast space anyway. They may be able to condense it and open one more pad directly west of space but it’s debatable, arguably everything east of rehearsal road could be made guest facing but with the design of the lands opening a pad where in that zone would be awkward from a guest flow perspective, they’d probably have to rip down storybook theatre and have it flow from small world’s courtyard
The original park is just starting to run out of land since it’s boxed in on all sides. This was always meant to be countered by the second gate, not condensing the cast only areas
britain
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I guess the Dwayne Johnson movie wasn't a big enough hit.
Supersnow84
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Thinking about movement of cast only areas does anyone know if Hong Kong has land integrity
Supersnow84
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God that was quick
You’d think they would do the entrance into existing guest facing areas last
Maybe the foliage will be going. Must say I assumed it would just be a small themed facade entry into a tent.
Supersnow84
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I assumed that as well but you’d think they would build the thing then worry about its opening to guest facing areas, not rip down the shielding foliage first
no.swatz
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That'll be interesting. Any guesses on what this "entertainment area" could be? Perhaps a PIXAR stage show or something similar to the Cruella red carpet show in Halloween but themed to PIXAR?