The beauty of building in hong kong is that disney has access to the potential consumers in mainland china (being a comunist country they don't let people travel willy nilly but hong kong is now part of china so the 1,000,000,000 (that's a billion) Chinese can get there a lot easier than they can get to Tokyo
The island that HKDL is on is the same island as the airport that serves Hong Kong is on. there's a highway that goes from the city to the airport right on the other side of the mountian from the bay being filled in. The auto access to the site is through a mountian pass. (seen in the rear corner of the photo in overall site photo #3) I think the side of the island that's being filled in is on the city view side of the island so it may be somewhat protected from storms coming in off the ocean but I'm not that sure about the local topography
The bay being filled in is going to hold more than just the magic kingdom and resort hotels, there is room for a second theme park (I'll guess that it would be a hollywood theme but I'm sure they're going to get this one up and see how it goes before they even thing about the second) and I think the government is planning to keep some of the land for themselves or use it for other things (since I believe they are the ones paying for the infill)
I have a map of the area from laughingplace but couldn't find the page to link to it and don't have my own photo album (sorry)
Here's a description of what's in Hong Kong from a mouseplanet update (edited to remove a few sarcastic comments) but from what I've seen it's pretty accurate. Very big adventureland, very few attractions...
Any more questions??????
Ed
Here's the rundown for it, gathered from several sources, subject to change of course,
* It will have a Main Street USA, anchored by a familiar train station on the Town Square, leading to three Lands; Tomorrowland, Fantasyland, and Adventureland.
* Tomorrowland consists of a Space Mountain, a Buzz Lightyear, and the Rocket Jets, shops and a Tomorrowland Terrace.
* The Castle is almost a direct copy of Disneyland USA's, as the size and scale the same. Fantasyland is done in the old Disneyland style, (in a much cheaper to build "medieval faire" plywood heavy theme with banners and tents) and it has a Carousel, a Winnie The Pooh dark ride (Florida version, not the Tokyo one), Tea Cups, Dumbo, a 3-D show called Mickey's PhilharMagic, and a Fantasyland Train Station. (The Park train only makes two stops, Main Street and Fantasyland)
* Adventureland is basically a river called "Rivers of Adventure" with an island in the middle. Jungle Cruise- sized "river boats" travel around the river in place of a large steamboat or sailing ship with some "show scenes" along the banks of the river. There is a Pocahontas' Canoe attraction that travels the same river, plus Rafts that take you over to Tarzan Island that has a version of Disneyland's rather inexpensive Tarzan's Treehouse in the middle. Adventureland also has an "Adventureland Theater" where a Lion King stage show may be produced.
And that's IT for the attractions.
There are no Pirates, no Mansion, no Small World, no Thunder or Splash, etc., what people consider to be the signature Disney attractions. There is no Indy or Star Tours.
