HKDL gets new castle, frozen land and marvel land.

[Hkayer]

 

[616.1314]

omg the drones are such an amazing addition to this show!
cannot wait to see it in person tomorrow!

 

[22031029]

Official ceremony video.

looks great! fun fact: i did hear that imagineers stated that the giant lake in WOF could be used for nighttime drone and water shows in the future. i wonder how that would pan out with momentous already being the park's staple "nighttime spectacular"

 

[BrianLo]

I think it’s a good thing for their partnership ultimately. This land launch is an unusually supportive marketing pivot for HKDL from the Disney Company.

Iger has already been to this park ?three times since he has been back. Do we have evidence he even visited more than a handful of times in the first 20?

I also think more projects are clearly being actively pitched.

 

[marni1971]

looks great! fun fact: i did hear that imagineers stated that the giant lake in WOF could be used for nighttime drone and water shows in the future. i wonder how that would pan out with momentous already being the park's staple "nighttime spectacular"

I’d think anything would be supplemental to a main show. Not enough viewing capacity (and an ops nightmare)

 

[Disney Analyst]

Wow. They are so excited!!

 

[ChrisFL]

I still can’t believe it’s just a clone when they had the ability to make something new from scratch with a new land. The only thing improved are the faces. What’s really funny to me is that the first scene with Olaf and Sven is actually better in the Epcot version imo.

And Oaken being even shorter than Seven Dwarfs… lol.

Just watched a ridethru and yeah...amazing it's nearly a 100% copy/paste job from a super limited ride experience that was originally due to lack of space back when it was Maelstrom.

 

[Haymarket]

Zootopia is exactly a month away.

 

[ChrisFL]

Great, but wrong park

 

[marni1971]

Day one evening wait times

 

[Haymarket]

 

[AEfx]

Just watched a ridethru and yeah...amazing it's nearly a 100% copy/paste job from a super limited ride experience that was originally due to lack of space back when it was Maelstrom.

Thank goodness I'm not the only one that noticed that.

I kept stopping the video to make sure I was watching the right one, LOL.

It kind of boggles my mind, actually - I'd think it would be more of a pain to recreate it than to create something new.

I actually was decently impressed over here with what they were able to do with Malestrom to make it that much of a Frozen ride, but much less impressed when they started from scratch over there and built a whole land around it for what appears to be the nearly the same exact experience.

Oh well, at least for us in the stateside parks, we don't have to say "wow, the one in X-foreign park is so much better..." for this one.

 

[ChrisFL]

Only have to wait til June to see what Tokyo does with theirs

 

[Haymarket]

I wonder if, a few months after Zootopia opens, Hong Kong will announce the e-ticket Marvel ride (King Thanos) is in development for the park and DAC (with Hong Kong paying 52% of the R&D), and Shanghai will announce their new outdoor custom Vekoma coaster (Spider-Man probably).

 

[Eric Graham]

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/hong-kong-disneyland-opens-worlds-first-frozen-amusement-park-area.html

 

[Eric Graham]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/travel/disney-first-world-of-frozen-opens-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html

 

[PymParty]

opening day review !

 

[22031029]

Thank goodness I'm not the only one that noticed that.

I kept stopping the video to make sure I was watching the right one, LOL.

It kind of boggles my mind, actually - I'd think it would be more of a pain to recreate it than to create something new.

I actually was decently impressed over here with what they were able to do with Malestrom to make it that much of a Frozen ride, but much less impressed when they started from scratch over there and built a whole land around it for what appears to be the nearly the same exact experience.

Oh well, at least for us in the stateside parks, we don't have to say "wow, the one in X-foreign park is so much better..." for this one.

To be honest, my local friends were extremely impressed with frozen ever after, so although it still is an admittedly lazily copied ride, I think it would fare well with the local audience and people who don’t know that it is a cloned ride

 

[Mike S]

Only have to wait til June to see what Tokyo does with theirs

Isn’t that also going to be a clone? Although they sort of get more of a pass since it’s coming along side the new Tangled and Peter Pan rides.

 

[fradz]

Isn’t that also going to be a clone? Although they sort of get more of a pass since it’s coming along side the new Tangled and Peter Pan rides.

The showbuilding is quite a lot bigger than HKDL's and it is expected to be a different, bigger & better ride