no.swatz
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Damn that sucks then lol…
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HKDL gets new castle, frozen land and marvel land.
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Supersnow84
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Quinjet was in hindsight what the park most needed
That proverbial F ticket that people in Europe and America would go “yeah I’d go half way round the world to go on that ride”
Mystic is really only that ride for people who care more about imagineering than rides
That proverbial F ticket that people in Europe and America would go “yeah I’d go half way round the world to go on that ride”
Mystic is really only that ride for people who care more about imagineering than rides
You keep saying that but is there any proof?
Surely anyone considering travelling for “rides” can still look forward to it without caring about “imagineering”
Timothy_Q
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Quinjet would've been a DCA clone, so it wouldn't have drawn people from the west
This replacement may be the same ride system as TOT but it's an unique ride to HKD
It'll fulfill what you're describing much better than the Quinjet ride
Supersnow84
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I’m not saying they wouldn’t
I’m saying that you aren’t drawing “rides” people halfway round the world with something like mystic as opposed to something like Shanghai pirates
Right…
Gusey
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Not sure if that's just a cost of the trackless ride system becoming more common across the theme parks. When Mystic Manor opened, it was one of very few trackless ride systems, making it as unique a ride as Shanghai Pirates still is (they don't seem to have replicated that ride system as much). In a park without many dark rides, Mystic Manor is a solid addition and unique enough story-wise to encourage people to visit if you don't care about the tech involved. It definitely seemed to do its job of encouraging locals and the general public to visit as Hong Kong Disneyland's peak attendance was in 2014 at 7.6 million, and the park is only just got back to those levels of attendance in 2024
Really? The government reported when World of Frozen was close to opening that the resort had spent less than half, 44%, of the $10.9 billion HKD expansion fund. I am not familiar with the requirements or legal restrictions on how or when the money should be spent.
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Supersnow84
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Sorry that’s not quite what I meant
I meant that if the tower is so little of the remaining budget that they have more they can do with it then the park would be chomping at the bit to announce if given the money has already been proverbially spent so there is functionally zero downside
I agree that there is likely a lot of unspent money, it is just strange that they don’t seem to be rushing to use it
If the castle, frozen, the current marvel and Moana was 44% adding an off the shelf TOT model should basically leave enough money for ANOTHER frozen land. With that much money to throw around you’d think they’d want to do it now, HK with another frozen land under its belt would be in striking distance of the legacy castle parks
Gusey
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Didn't they also mention that some of the budget was going to a "Re-Imagined" project? It seems that the remaining budget is going to the whole Marvel area (the ride, entertainment and shopping) and this mystery "Re-Imagine". I don't think the Wayfinder Table retheme of Tahitian Terrace is that project?
fradz
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Hey guys!
Planning yet another Japanese trip that will involve a short stop over to HKDL, anyone has a view on the refurbishments? I can't find anything online and the official website only states what's closed today.
This will be around the end of november - mid december
Planning yet another Japanese trip that will involve a short stop over to HKDL, anyone has a view on the refurbishments? I can't find anything online and the official website only states what's closed today.
This will be around the end of november - mid december
Supersnow84
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True but again besides TOT barely tweaking around the edges unless this still unannounced (if it hasn’t already happened) reimagining is on the level of turning something like space into de la Terre a la lune
It seems like HK has the chance to get the upper hand over Shanghai here, the proverbial “we both gave you are well regarded new land and we
both gave you a new marvel thrill ride, but at Hong Kong we are going further and giving you x” with x being something big
Disneyfanboy27
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I am still betting on a Moana Flume Ride coming, maybe just wishful thinking but they’ve been adding a lot of Moana’s presence lately haha
Supersnow84
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Whatever it is it has to go in the grizzly plot
I could see them turning that into Moana and doing a Paris style “rivers of the far west” where Adventureland, “Moana land” and grizzly also kinda fuse into a pseudo super land
I could see them turning that into Moana and doing a Paris style “rivers of the far west” where Adventureland, “Moana land” and grizzly also kinda fuse into a pseudo super land
Supersnow84
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The autopia plot seems to be moving quite quickly as well, that’s been partially grass covered dirt since frozen stopped using it as a construction material storage area
Supersnow84
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Pixar’s sightlines are already impacted by frozen
At best whatever the building that’s being built backs onto frozen completely meaning from Pixar you only see the Pixar building
At worst nothing changes
It remains to be seen if they open the path all the way to frozen with the building facing both towards fantasyland and Pixar (fully completing the outer loop allowing you to walk from grizzly to storybook theatre on the outside of the train line or if they keep the detour through fantasyland giving the park a double heart shaped layout)
At best whatever the building that’s being built backs onto frozen completely meaning from Pixar you only see the Pixar building
At worst nothing changes
It remains to be seen if they open the path all the way to frozen with the building facing both towards fantasyland and Pixar (fully completing the outer loop allowing you to walk from grizzly to storybook theatre on the outside of the train line or if they keep the detour through fantasyland giving the park a double heart shaped layout)