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HKDL gets new castle, frozen land and marvel land.
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Rush
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Interesting! Where was this posted?
momo123
Member
I also had a thought not sure if this is even feasible but would a tot work without a tall tower as many have said its not a great idea to have something towering the castle example could they go underground for a little bit of it to counteract the height or is there a way to simulate the whole drop?
Supersnow84
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I think that was just an unofficial mock-up they made for the idea going around for the TOT attraction, nothing official
they could, TOT isn’t a free fall it’s basically a super fast lift system so there is nothing to say the entire drop needs to be above ground, but it would require a lot of imagineering tricks to simulate looking like you are entering a tower when the majority of the drop is actually underground
Supersnow84
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Okay let’s start with the good
Now the “why did they decide to do that”
Now the “why did they decide to do that”
momo123
Member
This is to hide the back why is that needed because it’s to visible from Toy Story parachute drop? Ruins the whole look with that
Supersnow84
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I thought iron man always had COMD and arendelle
momo123
Member
Yea I’m pretty sure when I went during covid they had it both
IMDREW
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Used to have Sleeping Beauty castle. They switched it during the COMD build and added Arendelle at the same time so it wouldnt need another update that fast.
Maybe the budget is not enough?
I don’t know, but I don’t think it needs high budget to install the details.
Compare with Tokyo’s Arendelle castle, this just made me feel HK’s castle looks like a toy.
It’s so shame that HK Arendelle’s everything is so perfectly great except the castle.
BrianLo
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Hong Kong's castle is meant to evoke Disneyland scaling. It's all quaint and fantastical. Tokyo DisneySea as a whole is more architectural accurate and larger scaled.
I'm going to take the stance that both takes are actually perfectly correct given the parks they were built for. If these lands came domestically for example, Magic Kingdom would skew more TDS and Disneyland definitely HKDL.
BrianLo
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Will have to wait to see it in person, but you are looking at some long view lens shots trying to look into the land that are probably few and far between. I don't imagine the backside looks anything to the human eye like the photos.
It’s a good point. I also thought if it was because WDI deliberately downplayed some details of HK’s Arendelle castle in order to reflect the distance of the castle.