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[dagobert]

According to Al Lutz of Micechat.com we can expect an official announcement of Shanghai Disneyland in April.

Editor's Note 2/4: 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! - Al Lutz

http://micechat.com/forums/shanghai-dis ... 1056422062

[dagobert]

ICe101 over at Micechat.com hast posted a new concept art of Shanghai Disneyland. It was released at the investors conference.


Credit goes to Jose Castillo.

http://micechat.com/forums/shanghai-dis ... 1056439100

To be honest I can't recognize anything on that picture, except for fireworks and a mountain that looks a little bit like Mt. Prometheus at TDS.

[dagobert]

Alain Littaye posted the new concept art picture with a higher resolution and he made some guesses about certain things.



http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2011/ ... k-and.html

[Scissorsboi]

That's interesting, and a beautiful piece of artwork!

Looks to me as if that is a Pirates of the Carribean/Splash Mountain crossover! This park seems to focus very heavily on the idea of water, most of the places where a traditional land would be has a body of water winding through it. I can't wait to see how this progresses!

I may have missed it, does anyone know which Castle the park is getting? Ours it the only that doesn't have a twin at another park.. maybe it'll be the first copy?

[dagobert]

That's interesting, and a beautiful piece of artwork!

Looks to me as if that is a Pirates of the Carribean/Splash Mountain crossover! This park seems to focus very heavily on the idea of water, most of the places where a traditional land would be has a body of water winding through it. I can't wait to see how this progresses!

I may have missed it, does anyone know which Castle the park is getting? Ours it the only that doesn't have a twin at another park.. maybe it'll be the first copy?

I think I've read on another forum, that Shanghai DL will receive its own unique castle, maybe based on the one seen in Tangled.

That POTC/Splash Mt. crossover was already envisioned for HKDL, but unfortunately it didn't get built.

[15MagicalYears]

It looks like where Main Street and Central Plaza would normaly be is a lake or river, intresting!

[Scissorsboi]

I can imagine that walking through a beautiful gardens area towards the Castle would be really magical! As if you're uncovering it for yourself. Even better if the Castle does end up as an original one which no one has seen before!

As for the Pirates/Splash ride, I'd love to see that happen! It almost looks like Shanghai will be the next Paris where the Imagineers go really Blue Sky on the project and come up with something beautifully realised!

[dagobert]

Disney And More has posted a new article about Shanghei Disneyland.
http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2011/ ... ed_08.html

Here's an insteresting plan of the new Disney resort:


It seems that Disney has planed to build four hotels. Hopefully they are not going to make the same mistake and build to many rooms, like the did in Paris.

I really like the layout, because it seems there will be two hotels with views over the new park and it looks like that one hotel will be at the entrance, like DLH in Paris and Mira Costa in Tokyo.

[Josh]

It's a good layout, but there doesn't seem to be much land. Maybe they learned from DLP not to buy too much off the bat.

However, it doesn't look as though driving into the park will be that exciting. It's amazing when you're driving into DLP and you can see the Disneyland Hotel in the distance.

[dagobert]

Disney And More has posted a new map of Shanghai Disneyland. Actually it is just a colored version of the map above.



http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2011/ ... yland.html

According to Alain Littaye the blue square is a river that serves as the boarder of SHDL.

[Josh]

Where it says "commercial facilities", I'm assuming that's going to be their Disney Village. It's sticking out into the lake; it could be like a boardwalk or a pier.

[Anthony]

Will there only ever be two parks in the future then? Doesn't seem to be much left for a third. I always thought Shanghai would turn into the Disney World of the East.

How big is this compared to say DLP? Would anyone be able to overlay the maps?

[davewasbaloo]

Anthony, it looks like the land could hold 3 or 4 parks potentially. All the white space with a dotted line are future phase development space. My understanding from a friend on the project is 3 parks are planned in the master plan, just like Paris' masterplan.

[dagobert]

The plan shows four hotels. Do you think Disney will build all four? I mean HKDL has two and that's enough at the moment. I know that SHDL will be bigger and will offer more, but I still have my doubts that this resort will attract more people than HKDL.

In Europe Disney is known for decades and DLRP still hasn't enough visitors to earn money. I don't know how well known Disney is in China, but I think there is a possible chance that SHDL will be another failure, even if this park will have fantastic rides.

[Josh]

If they have a third theme park, it would have to be small. I'm guessing it's going to be a water park.