Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 In his latest editorial piece on the front page of Miceage today, Al has shared a juicy little bit of info that is a MAJOR spoiler regarding this(apparently)soon to be announced park. The most interesting tidbit is in the very first sentence! "The highly anticipated Shanghai Disneyland development, featuring A VERY KINETIC PARK THAT WILL NOT LOOK LIKE ANY DISNEYLAND YOU'VE EVER SEEN, is finally nearing a public kickoff announcement. Disney is now sending over reinforcements from Anaheim and Burbank to the team already in Shanghai to prepare for a very big media announcement and official groundbreaking ceremony to be held on the property the first week of April. Disney's corporate media machine is pulling out all the stops for this big event to attract as much attention from Chinese citizens as possible. Mark your calendars for early April!" "A VERY KINETIC PARK THAT WILL NOT LOOK LIKE ANY DISNEYLAND YOU'VE EVER SEEN," I don't know what that exactly means but I LOVE the idea of a "kinetic" park. One of the things I loved about the old TL(although never having gone there at the time)was the notion of all these forms of transportation moving around and through each other. It just gives the land a living, kinetic feeling. Suddenly SDL just got VERY interesting!!!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Careful what you wish for. A park like Magic Mountain and Cedar Point are also very kinetic and do not look like Disneyland. I will wait and see what they announce, but this makes me nervous, especially after comments made by Disney insiders about some of the rumoured attractions in the mooted Marvel concept.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo How ever Bob, if it is like the old Tomorrowland world on the move type kinetics (or Frontierland of the 50's and 60's), then yes, I would get very excited.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***"A VERY KINETIC PARK THAT WILL NOT LOOK LIKE ANY DISNEYLAND YOU'VE EVER SEEN,"*** Then why call it Disneyland? Shouldn't they call it something else (it's not as though they haven't branched out into new park concepts, but they've kept the "Disneylands" consistent with the original which I think it appropriate).
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Ok, not exactly how I remembered, but check this thread out: <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/MsgBoard-T-116024-P-1.asp?C=1" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/Ms....asp?C=1</a>
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Very interesting. I guess they are finally moving forward with the government?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros As with everything related to the Shanghai project, I'm really not holding my breath on this announcement. And my first reaction was also "why call it Disneyland then?". If it's something else, great! Call it something else. I don't think that the 'Disneyland' brand is strong enough in mainland China to justify using the name for it, based on name recognition alone. Yes, there's the park in Hong Kong that they have tried their hardest to advertise, but I think it might confuse people to have two parks with (basically) the same name, but very different content. And given how rocky HKDL's start has been, it might be better to let it have its own brand, which seems to be fairly strong at the moment, instead of taking away what little the advertising has going for it.
Originally Posted By Manfried Anyone in the know all ready knew what Al said. Gee look at who is heading up the design, Bob Weis. Did you expect the same old thing? Really?
Originally Posted By brotherdave I'm obviously curious (as I'm sure that most folks on these boards are) of what plans Disney may have for Shanghai. It may have the possibilities for an amazing park. I'm also just a slight bit concerned that they may alter the successful "Disneyland" formula layout for this park. That in of itself may not be a "bad" thing, just different, which could be good. But given Disney's recent track record for new parks (DCA, WDSP, HKDL), I think many here, including myself, are skeptical as to what the final results may be. Honestly, I hope they can create another fantastic park like TDS or DLP, but something tells me that it will be slightly more than HKDL, but a whole lot less than what we're hoping for.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Major?? Spoiler??? A major spoiler would be a full layout of the new park, and all the rides planned. The most this is, is a teaser .. nothing more. He said April. We're a couple months off .. until then .. time to go back to sleep.
Originally Posted By SuperDry How could I possibly go back to sleep when I've already had my steaming cup of coffee and bran muffin?
