Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< But with the speed of development in China, I think the surroundings were pretty plain a couple years ago. >>> Also, consider that the new metro line that will stop at SDL is not being built just for the resort, but will have many stops nearby. Development is done in conjunction with metro development.
Originally Posted By dagobert Here's a new update on SDL by Disney & More. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2014/01/shanghai-disneyland-update.html">http://disneyandmore.blogspot....ate.html</a> The article is about the DL Hotel and about the construction of a "mountain". Doesn't the DL hotel on the blueprint look familiar to the Grand California Hotel?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros The hotel's layout and vehicle area, with the ballrooms off to the side like that, look quite similar to the GCH, but the meandering wings remind me more of DLP's DLH. It will be interesting to see how it turns out! It's also interesting that the wings don't appear to all be the same width. I would assume that means that the rooms inside them will be slightly different sizes. I'm specifically confused by the wing a 3-o'clock (labeled 5F), which appears to be roughly half the width of the others; will it only have rooms on one side? Or be some sort of suites?
Originally Posted By dagobert Disney & More has posted an update about the Tron Coaster. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2014/02/shanghai-disneyland-tron-lightcycles.html">http://disneyandmore.blogspot....les.html</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Wow, it looks like it's going to require quite a big building. It doesn't look like the ride will be especially intense, but with a lot of track at a high elevation, it will be tough to conceal it behind a façade. It will be interesting to see how it turns out!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Let's hope this doesn't end up being another Rock n' Rollercoaster snooze fest, pitching around in an empty unlit Costco warehouse.
Originally Posted By dagobert According to Kong Kong Main Strett Gazette, SDL will serve Pepsi instead of Coca-Cola. This will make SDL the first Disney Resort to offer Pepsi instead of Coca-Cola. I know that DL served Coke in its early years, but it's still a strange move, when all other Disney parks offer Coke. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/wonderland912/status/438924408808148992/photo/1">http://twitter.com/wonderland9.../photo/1</a>
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>Let's hope this doesn't end up being another Rock n' Rollercoaster snooze fest, pitching around in an empty unlit Costco warehouse. <<< That'S why I like DLP's version of RnRC better. It doesn't feature any Hollywood theming, but I like the disco lights and the fog effects.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>Wow, it looks like it's going to require quite a big building. It doesn't look like the ride will be especially intense, but with a lot of track at a high elevation, it will be tough to conceal it behind a façade. It will be interesting to see how it turns out!<<< I guess it thesize of the building can be compared to RnRC. Maybe the building will be outside the park berm and so it is kept in the distance, like the showbuilding of RnRC in Paris.
Originally Posted By tonyanton Wasn't there a big dome like structure in the concept art? Kind of a curved version of Space Mt? Pepsi was also served (alongside Coke) at the WDW Magic Kingdom until the early '80s (they, along with corporate sibling Frito Lay sponsored an entire stretch of Frontierland...Country Bears, Mile Long Bar, and Pecos Bill Café)
Originally Posted By friarthe I actually kinda prefer the Orlando Rockin Roller Coaster... Sorry if I'm behind the times, but is any of the "Middle Kingdom" and "Old SHanghai" stuff actually going to be built?
Originally Posted By dagobert The deal between SDL and PepsiCo is now official. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2014/03/pepsi-co-shanghai-disneyland-beverages.html">http://disneyandmore.blogspot....ges.html</a> By the way, isn't Robert Iger currently in Shanghai to take a look a the construction. I think I read that somewhere. This is the reason why he couldn't attend the Frozen Oscar party at WDAS.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm not sure where he is at the moment, but he was sitting in the audience of the Oscars on Sunday. The camera showed him after each of the Disney wins
Originally Posted By dagobert Disney released a concept art of SDL's POTC attraction. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2014/03/shanghai-disneylands-treasure-cove-unveiled/">http://disneyparks.disney.go.c...nveiled/</a>
Originally Posted By dagobert Satellite image of the SDL construction site. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.themeparx.com/shanghai-disneyland/?p=4664#post4664">http://www.themeparx.com/shang...post4664</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Good find! It's odd to see how big Fantasyland is, when there's almost nothing in front of it (especially when you consider that some of the traditional FL spinners will be in front of the castle) In the Adventureland photo (which I assume is Treasure Cove), you can see the layout of the pirates ride, before they put the building frame over it. At the very least, it definitely looks like a different layout than the DL/WDW versions of the ride, since it has a lot more twists and turns You can also see what appears to be roller coaster tracks at the bottom of the Tomorrowland photo, including a helix that sticks out to the right, beyond the logical limits of a building. There's also a big building under construction, so I'm not sure which one will be the Tron coaster
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I wish I could get excited about this project, but I can't. From a design perspective I do like what I'm seeing so far (Pirates and the castle look very promising), but when the dust all settles it'll still just be another Disneyland. :/
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>I wish I could get excited about this project, but I can't. From a design perspective I do like what I'm seeing so far (Pirates and the castle look very promising), but when the dust all settles it'll still just be another Disneyland. :/<<< Maybe that's because the park will be in China and at least for me that country isn't high on my To Do List. On the other hand this is the first Disney park I can follow from planning over building to opening.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>You can also see what appears to be roller coaster tracks at the bottom of the Tomorrowland photo, including a helix that sticks out to the right, beyond the logical limits of a building. There's also a big building under construction, so I'm not sure which one will be the Tron coaster<<< I'm impressed by your sightings. I tooks me quite some time to figure out what you are meaning. I'm sure the coaster will be the Tron ride. I still think it's a bad choice, they should have used the traditional SM. Tomorrowland without SM isn't TL. They could have used DLP's version to avoid similarities between SDL and HKDL.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It's definitely exciting to get to follow the project's development from the very beginning. To an extent, I did that with HKDL, but there wasn't nearly as much information being put out there. Just the little preview website where you could learn about what would be in the park On a related note, does anybody know if SDL has a public website yet? And another fun thing I noticed in the construction photos: although there's still tons of work to be done on the park itself, it looks like the construction of the subway station is almost complete. I wonder if this will be used to transport construction workers throughout the project
