HKDL gets new castle, frozen land and marvel land.

[Supersnow84]

To think they cut a dark ride for dining that's hardly ever open. Classic Pressler decisionmaking skills at work.

I don’t think clopins was ever actually slated for a dark ride, it has less space than most people realise, if there is going to be a ride there it’ll likely be like that weird alice ride that half outside from Disneyland, they aren’t fitting Shanghai pan in that space

Plus the park kinda did need the dining before explorers restaurant and now arendelle took the wind out of the original areas dining sails, definitely needs to go now

they need to bring those rope course challenge trails from shanghai to USA

Challenge trails is best kept a Shanghai exclusive I think; Shanghai is the one park that feels both theme park and “park” and challenge trails fits in well with that, I don’t think it really suits the vibe of the American parks

 

[DisneyDean97]

Tron is yesterdays news now (not to mention a low realistic ROI) but a POTC style attraction using a fluke system should be a no brainer. Stick Pan in Philharmagic plus the long anticipated Tomorrowland attraction and it'd work wonders

Still wish HKDL built Tim Delaney's concept of a POTC flume. Is there still room for it between adventureland and Grizzly?

 

[marni1971]

Still wish HKDL built Tim Delaney's concept of a POTC flume. Is there still room for it between adventureland and Grizzly?

There’s still an expansion pad in the area.

 

[J4546]

i feel like they prob wouldnt build another flume, but def a boat ride would be great

 

[DisneyDean97]

There’s still an expansion pad in the area.

Wasn't Geyser Mountain pitched for this side of the park too? Or was that exclusive to just DLP?

 

[J4546]

geyser mountain would be sooo cool imo

 

[DisneyDean97]

geyser mountain would be sooo cool imo

and give the park a much needed E-Ticket!

 

[Supersnow84]

and give the park a much needed E-Ticket!

Which to be fair that’s what quinjet is/was

In hindsight now that we’ve seen It start moving this expansion planned way back in 2016 hit every single note almost perfectly, it’s just kinda stumbling a bit at the end because quinjet may not make it off the drawing board

 

[PiratesMansion]

I don’t think clopins was ever actually slated for a dark ride, it has less space than most people realise, if there is going to be a ride there it’ll likely be like that weird alice ride that half outside from Disneyland, they aren’t fitting Shanghai pan in that space

Plus the park kinda did need the dining before explorers restaurant and now arendelle took the wind out of the original areas dining sails, definitely needs to go now

But given that previous castle parks had dark rides on both sides of the castle, the precedent was there, and they could have easily (had they wanted to) built out the show building more to accommodate another dark ride.

Judging by the tepid crowd levels the park has experienced for most of its existence, while I wasn't there, I'm not convinced that the park really ever *needed* dining on both sides of the Fantasyland courtyard. Certainly, if it ever did, I imagine the demand didn't last much beyond the first few months of the park's existence.

 

[Supersnow84]

But given that previous castle parks had dark rides on both sides of the castle, the precedent was there, and they could have easily (had they wanted to) built out the show building more to accommodate another dark ride.

Judging by the tepid crowd levels the park has experienced for most of its existence, while I wasn't there, I'm not convinced that the park really ever *needed* dining on both sides of the Fantasyland courtyard. Certainly, if it ever did, I imagine the demand didn't last much beyond the first few months of the park's existence.

true but Pooh is already on clopins side and there isn’t a lot of space there, I agree that maybe concentrating a lot of the dining in fantasyland wasn’t the best idea but at its launch the park didn’t have Tahitian terrace or explorers so it was basically the two fantasyland restaurants, Main Street, comet cafe/starliner and Riverview, 5 restaurants for a budgeted 6 million makes sense to me

Now it’s obvious it isn’t needed so change clopins into a Alice ride to make an Alice mini land and change philhar into pan and fantasyland will balance much better with arendelle on the other side

 

[DCBaker]

Disney has shared a first look at Frozen Ever After in World of Frozen.

 

[DCBaker]

Disney has also shared video after Cast Members and Imagineers went for a test ride.

 

[Supersnow84]

Disney has shared a first look at Frozen Ever After in World of Frozen.

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Well it certainly looks better than the Epcot version so far

That scene of Anna and Elsa together in the video looks far better than anything in Epcot

 

[MisterPenguin]

 

[JediMasterMatt]

Ok EPCOT Center time travelers... who on earth had Maelstrom on their bingo cards being cloned 2x in the future?

What a timeline we live in.

"Full of surprises."* "Brand new experience"*
*Your milage may vary.

The new animatronics look nice.

 

[Supersnow84]

Ok EPCOT Center time travelers... who on earth had Maelstrom on their bingo cards being cloned 2x in the future?

What a timeline we live in.

"Full of surprises."* "Brand new experience"*
*Your milage may vary.

The new animatronics look nice.

To be fair other than the layout from what we have seen so far this doesn’t look anything like the patchwork ride at Epcot, this looks more like a true movie based dark ride like beauty and the beast at Tokyo

 

[J4546]

looks great imo. HK is getting a beautiful new land. good for them.

 

[Rush]

FEA's not so positive reception is mostly due to it being in World Showcase. An improved FEA in Fantasyland is great however. It's not much larger than your classic FL rides so it retains a certain charm, it's muscial, has loved characters and a cute storyline that's not necessarily a book report. This a huge win for HK, especially since it comes with what looks like a fantastically themed land and a supporting ride. Exciting!

 

[Supersnow84]

FEA's not so positive reception is mostly due to it being in World Showcase. An improved FEA in Fantasyland is great however. It's not much larger than your classic FL rides so it retains a certain charm, it's muscial, has loved character and a cute storyline that's not necessarily a book report. This a huge win for HK, especially since it come with what looks like a fantastically themed land and a supporting ride. Exciting!

Now we just need one more e ticket and maybe a water ride and the park will be ready for a second gate

 

[Rush]

Now we just need one more e ticket and maybe a water ride and the park will be ready for a second gate

This is sad to say, but I don't think HK is getting a second gate, nor do I think it really needs one. Expansion and working to raise and maintain interest and attendance is the best route and the route i see management taking. The biggest expansion i see happening outside of the park is a water park, which I think would be a great addition to the resort and might justify building a smaller Disney Village in the esplanade.