disney.dreams
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sadly no, u will enter the massive show building under the north mountain, passing by kristoff’s workshop and ice storage, and reached the royal pier (?) (so you kinda enter the castle area in terms of the storyline)
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HKDL gets new castle, frozen land and marvel land.
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It is meant to be a “prop castle” from day one which make sense to better utilize the space and planning to give the land a deeper feel. Having a real scale castle will just make the land small and fighting with the new castle not far away. I kind of look forward seeing the walk through of the FEA hk version. It seems like the outdoor space continues after passing by the clock tower.
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Supersnow84
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From what was said above from someone who did a cast preview the land already feels super small so I’m guessing a full sized castle would have made the land feel tiny
EPCOTCenterLover
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It still looks a million times better than Beast’s castle in the Magic Kingdom.
EPCOTCenterLover
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And I'll take charm in a castle park over and over again.
BrianLo
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That’s funny, I love this imagineer I guess.
BrianLo
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I have a soft spot for HKDL. Within the context of HKDL, Small world, Jungle cruise and Iron Man are all headliners. I get that it’s hard to draw comparisons between the other parks and ‘rank’ the attractions, but that’s what they are. Functionally the pulls of their various lands. I have no aspirations that FEA needs to be considered an E ticket on the world stage either, but that is what it will be for HKDL.
This does not take away that yes HKDL deserves a functional, world stage ‘F-ticket’. I also side with SDL is still somewhat objectively a more robust park on the world stage. Though I’d never tell anyone to fly to visit either in a silo, Hong Kong I prefer over Shanghai in terms of city pairs. SDL is more impressive for a Magic Kingdom/Epcot fan.
Hopefully the new DCL Adventure does some HKDL itineraries.
I think the preference for the park comes down to one’s affinity for charm versus scale. Neither is wrong per say. They are honestly like two sides of the coin, which is kind of nice. Though SDL will continue to probably accelerate as a resort and pull more clearly in front long term.
As mentioned, neither are monolithic or copy cats. I’m very glad both exist.
This does not take away that yes HKDL deserves a functional, world stage ‘F-ticket’. I also side with SDL is still somewhat objectively a more robust park on the world stage. Though I’d never tell anyone to fly to visit either in a silo, Hong Kong I prefer over Shanghai in terms of city pairs. SDL is more impressive for a Magic Kingdom/Epcot fan.
Hopefully the new DCL Adventure does some HKDL itineraries.
I think the preference for the park comes down to one’s affinity for charm versus scale. Neither is wrong per say. They are honestly like two sides of the coin, which is kind of nice. Though SDL will continue to probably accelerate as a resort and pull more clearly in front long term.
As mentioned, neither are monolithic or copy cats. I’m very glad both exist.
lazyboy97o
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Baxter brought him to Disney from Europa Park. He also spent a bit of time working at Efteling.
BrianLo
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I definitely see the Efteling energy. Hopefully he gets another project immediately with Disney.
Supersnow84
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There is an interesting idea that someone brought up though (it honestly might have been me I truly can’t remember) that if Shanghai is pulling 12 million but has a theoretical saturation point of 15 while HK is pulling 3 (about 7 or so in real terms) and has a saturation point of about 11-13 it might actually be more profitable in the medium term to expand HK first to push it towards that saturation point because with Shanghai you are more fighting to get the existing market to stay longer at the resort
Architectural Guinea Pig
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- In the Parks
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Orlando’s is probably the worst imo - it’s bumpy, outdated, and doesn’t have awesome music (there is none)
Supersnow84
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Paris should have just modernised de La Terre a La lune, I have no idea why they threw the baby out with the bath water with that because now the only standout part of Paris is the launch
Agree that besides HK Orlando’s is by far the worst
Agree that besides HK Orlando’s is by far the worst
Anaheims HSM is worse than HK with the first 1/3 of the battle projections usually missing
Supersnow84
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That I wouldn’t know; I’ve somehow managed to miss hyperspace mountain at Disneyland like the last 3 times I went so it’s been years since I’ve seen hyperspace mountain
I’m more just judging them on the queue line in general; the ride vehicle and the track
HKDLs queue and load seems testament to the parks original budget; track and car wise they should be equal assuming maintenance has been too. I’ll be able to compare the two very soon
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SplashJacket
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HK’s HSM is my favorite Star Wars mountain outside of Paris imho. Just well done compared to AnaheimHKDLs queue and load seems testament to the parks original budget; track and car wise they should be equal assuming maintenance has been too. I’ll be able to compare the two very soon
Well that explains a lot. I was wondering why there was literally nothing happening until halfway through the ride.
Animaniac93-98
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They nailed the integration with the natural environment and appropriately scaled the land with the rest of the park, two things Disney has not been doing so well with of late. Not having any giant boxes and and IP land in the right place, in the right park is nice to see....along with real park expansion.