Originally Posted By Mr X ***why does so much of the concept art use off-model imagery?*** To prepare the customers for an off-model park. Duh. Isn't it obvious that they're preparing everyone for just such an experience? Every bit of imagery/artwork/model I've seen smacks of it. Or perhaps you're just stuck in "Disneytown" bemoaning the lack of quality.
Originally Posted By Mr X Need I remind all of you that you were promised a sub-par experience in Hong Kong, which they delivered in spades? Notice that this looks WAY worse? Yeah. Thought so.
Originally Posted By Mr X Is it ME who's missing the boat here? Somehow I don't think so, but at the same time I think it's verboten to point out that "These Disney Parks are going to suck" on the internet these days. At least not without some sort of a severe backlash. Yeah...looks like garbage to me. Especially the TWORIDE land (er Twomorrowland?). Blech. I regret that I wasted 5 hours in Hong Kong. You'll find me visiting this place if it's the last tourist attraction Shanghai (an awesome city, I'm sure!) has to offer. And only then. Reluctantly.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros This photo is just begging for a "Caption This" contest. Any takers? <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-07-15-at-9-54-01-am.png%3Fw%3D840%26h%3D485%26crop%3D1">http://fortunedotcom.files.wor...crop%3D1</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Need I remind all of you that you were promised a sub-par experience in Hong Kong, which they delivered in spades?<< I agree; in a lot of ways, this reminds me of HKDL's opening lineup. What was there was really well done. There just wasn't very much there This seems like it's being done on a bigger scale, with some new real E-ticket attractions. And a couple B/C ticket attractions. And TONS of empty space in between them. This park is going to be huge. The roster is not. It's just going to have a lot of blank space between the handful of things to do. Let's hope that they did some master planning for how to develop all that space in between things, lest we end up with another hodgepodge of a park. Lord knows Disney already has enough of those...
Originally Posted By FerretAfros There's always a chance that Disney really has a good feel for the pulse of the Chinese market and knows what they want. This sounds like a nice city park with some amusement rides added in. Sort of like Central Park in NYC with the little zoo in it If that's what the Chinese guests want (and the ticket price is set correctly), I could see this being a moderate success. But if expectations are for a park full of attractions, then I see some troubles ahead. Given that most visitors will only have HKDL (and local non-Disney amusement parks) for a point of reference, maybe it could work. To most of them, "Disney" doesn't conjure up the same images that it gets in the rest of the world
Originally Posted By dagobert Many concept arts combined in one official Disney Parks video. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rayJWFrUlj8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...JWFrUlj8</a>
Originally Posted By dagobert Does someone know what companies are contracted to build SDL? Only Chinese companies? I'm asking, because the roof of the Tron attraction building looks like a job for Waagner-Biro, an Austrian company that is leading in the fiels of glass-steel-structures. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.waagner-biro.com/en/divisions/steel-glass-structures/about">http://www.waagner-biro.com/en...es/about</a> By the way that company also built Mickey's Fun Wheel. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/files/waagner-biro_17_128.jpg">http://www.themeparkreview.com..._128.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By dagobert Here's the full presentation. Around minute 12 Bob Weis starts his presentation of the park. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=833&v=Q7ayaPZa2PU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?t...yaPZa2PU</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I don't know who did that design, but I agree that it looks similar to their work. Did they also do the Reichstag in Berlin? That roof looks similar as well There's also a similar roof over the courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery in DC. I found an article that said Norman Foster designed it, but nothing about who actually built it <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bustler.net/images/gallery/ggn_tucker_design_award_01.jpg">http://www.bustler.net/images/...d_01.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>Did they also do the Reichstag in Berlin? That roof looks similar as well<<< Yes they did the Reichstag in Berlin. They also did the roof of the British Museum, the Yas Marina and the Sony Center in Berlin. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.waagner-biro.com/en/divisions/steel-glass-structures/about">http://www.waagner-biro.com/en...es/about</a> According to the world map, they didn't build anything in the US. However they are a subcontractor for Intamin AG, the Swiss amusement rides company. That's why they built the Mickey's Fun Wheel. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.waagner-biro.com/en/locations?filters=references">http://www.waagner-biro.com/en...ferences</a>
Originally Posted By dagobert D&M did an interesting article of the TRON coaster. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://disneyandmore.blogspot.co.at/2015/07/all-about-shanghai-disneyland-tron.html">http://disneyandmore.blogspot....ron.html</a> I know many don't like the look of the building, I'm also not so sure about that, but I think the coaster can be very cool. At least I like it judging from the article.
Originally Posted By dagobert D&M has posted a picture of the SDLH Lounge. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/302042929839518/photos/a.408006435909833.89949.302042929839518/921970837846721/?type=1&theater">http://www.facebook.com/302042...&theater</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Looks nice. I hope that the Fantasia mural is subtle enough to fit in. Nothing like some awkwardly-placed Disney branding to ruin a nicely appointed space
Originally Posted By dagobert D&M has posted an article with all concept arts and model pictures out there. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://disneyandmoreartwork.blogspot.co.at/2015/07/shanghai-disneyland-artworks-park-model.html">http://disneyandmoreartwork.bl...del.html</a> Maybe this article was alredy posted, but D&M did so many recently so that I lost count.
Originally Posted By dagobert D&M has posted a new update with new pictures. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2015/07/shanghai-disneyland-update-new-pictures.html">http://disneyandmore.blogspot....res.html</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Lots of new information. I like the look of most of it, and they've done a great job of reimagining the MK concept for the Chinese. Pirates sound awesome, and I'm especially impressed by Tomorrowland's overall aesthetic, but the hodge podge of stories and characters in that land is just odd. Ooooh but how cool is the Tron coaster though?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Anybody else think it's odd that the park entrance is a train station, even though there's no railroad. TDL doesn't have a railroad that circles the park, so they have a more standard Victorian-ish building for the entrance to World Bazaar (though I guess theirs is more than a simple bridge like Shanghai, since it brings you under the covered roof) From the image of the rapids ride, the layout looks *very* similar to Grizzly River Run at DCA. Although it's a perfectly nice ride, I've never thought it was great enough that the layout needed to be duplicated elsewhere With what's there so far, I'm starting to worry about the look of Tomorrowland. Obviously there's a lot of time left to add some more details, but the basic structure of those elevated walkways is too reminiscent of a freeway overpass. In fact, when I first saw the photo I thought it was from a nearby roadwork site, until I looked at the image closer and read the caption. Especially for TLs, the devil is in the details, so hopefully they do a good job with this
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Anybody else think it's odd that the park entrance is a train station, even though there's no railroad." Has it been confirmed that it's supposed to be a railroad station? As for GRR, I rode the attraction for the first time in years on my last trip, and it happened to be with a random tourist family. The whole group loved it. Lots of screams, smiles and giggles throughout the entire ride. I can't imagine that a similar ride wouldn't be well received by guests in Shanghai. OAN, I'm officially a fan of this iteration of Tomorrowland (assuming the real thing looks like the concepts). The lighted roof of the Tron coaster looks awesome. Again, my only gripe is that for a park with such strong cohesive storytelling TL's this and that content is a bit weak.
