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Originally Posted By ctdsnark Sounds fantastic---of course,it would be even more amazing if they had a Haunted Mansion there!
Originally Posted By Bob Paris Seems like all the company can do these days is make these seasonal transformation things. I guess they figure it works for KBF.....except this one will be a cutesy Disney version and miss out either end. IaSW will be about three years too late, when it opens and this park needs about five new E tickets a YEAR AGO. Hell.......I would settle for five EXISTING E's.......God forbid we actually expect a NEW one at this rinky dink park.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Like I said in the FIRST thread that had this , it all sounds great and certainly worth a visit if you around Hong Kong during that time at least, but the cynic in me (I know kids shocking I have one ;D) don't think this will improve anything beside a mere bump in attendance for a few weeks. This stuff is great, but its apparent the park will need to create more permanent attractions in the near future if it wants a more permanent healthy attendance to go along with it.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris I hear ya. As far as I am concerned, these kinds of "overlays"(and personally, I HATE them-imagine if you had visited from overseas for your ONCE ONLY Disney park trip and the whole place was done up like dark Halloween......or even worse, the castle cake *shudders*)are for existing parks, with full attraction rosters that want to provide something for the AP set who visit three times per week. Parks with only three attractions need MORE RIDES NOW........not more banners and pin giveaways.
Originally Posted By SuperDry From the article: "edgier"? - haven't they tried that somewhere before? <<< Parks with only three attractions need MORE RIDES NOW........not more banners and pin giveaways. >>> But rides cost serious money.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris I don't want to start the millionth version of this discussion on this website again but if you build a park with a third of the attraction roster of other versions, either expect to get a third(or less)of the revenue or build it out preety damned quickly!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I think they are doing the right thing at HKDL, they *need* the repeat local business. Notice how TDR started loosing ground when they began repeating their events in the last five years... I personally love the overlays and give me reason to invest in Annual passports.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Also, since it's obvious that Disney is not building attractions (except for Small World) right now, that this is the next best thing. The park NEEDS people to visit, and if there are no new attractions, then go all out for the holidays and make people come back with special events.
Originally Posted By Loomis The Hong Kong Tourism Board unveils plans for the rest of the year, and gives us a sneak peek at the promotional art for the forthcoming seasonal Space Mountain - Ghost Galaxy that will be unveiled as part of Hong Kong Disneyland's 2007 'Dark World' Halloween celebrations. <a href="http://news.hkdlsource.com/story/203" target="_blank">http://news.hkdlsource.com/sto ry/203</a>
Originally Posted By TDLFAN How exciting!!! In contrast, at "excellence award winner" WDW..we only get this excited when toilets get cleaned twice a day. Typical (roll eyes) Oh well... look for me at HKDL today the 7th from 2pm on. Catching "Waterworks" again at 3pm.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Wow cool art there! The Halloween event looks exciting...but not enough for me to haul my butt there . I actually have the time to make it to Hong Kong I just found out, but its obviously still a lot of money just to see a tempoary event. I'm sure there will be lots of pictures though from others .
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>...but not enough for me to haul my butt there<< Your loss, which is exactly what will happen to you in Macau as well.
Originally Posted By Loomis With the Halloween festivities less than a week away, the joys of YouTube have brought us the official television commercial for your viewing pleasure! It gives us our first look at the sort of thing we'll see in the Haunted Hotel! <a href="http://news.hkdlsource.com/story/210" target="_blank">http://news.hkdlsource.com/sto ry/210</a> We've been hearing about this for a few days now, and have only now just stumbled across it online.
Originally Posted By irishfan Wow, well there are certainly going for non kid friendly approach with the Haunted Hotel.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo That was quite a surprising add. At first I thought, cool - it's like a cross between ToT and HM, but then in the end I thought YUK. I wonder what the real thing will be like.
Originally Posted By SuperDry Very interesting. Finally, they've provided something that just might bring me back to that park! As far as it being not kid friendly, I think that the demographics of park visitors have a very small number of children as compared to the other parks. This allows them to do something like this and have it come off much better than it would at the other parks.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Wow, that was a good commercial and yeah that ending was a little undisney lol. Looks good, can't wait to see pics .
