Screamscape announces the opening of 3 new attractions at Hong Kong Disneyland to open this summer.
Quote from: "Screamscape"The AP reports that Hong Kong Disneyland announced three new Tomorrowland attractions opening this summer. First up is the new Autopia car ride, confirming the rumor that it would use electric cars instead of gas engines. They will also add Stitch Encounter (a "theater show") and UFO Zone (a water-squirting robot, rocket ship and flying saucer).
http://www.screamscape.com/html/hong_ko ... eyland.htm (http://www.screamscape.com/html/hong_kong_disneyland.htm)
Note than their Stitch attraction will NOT be a clone from the WDW major flop. It will be like Crush Turtle Talk but using Stitch.
Quote from: "Kinou"Note than their Stitch attraction will NOT be a clone from the WDW major flop. It will be like Crush Turtle Talk but using Stitch.
Sounds good, but isn't Stitch a bit of an odd choice for an attraction like that, since he hardly speaks? :D
It's really good to see HKDL expanding with simple, managable attractions that will increase the amount of things to do and the capacity of the park without costing too much. It's a much more practical plan than the one they had for Euro Disney, but let's hope that the park will still get its classic Disneyland E-Tickets someday soon. (Starting with POTC, it seems)
What will this "UFO Zone" be? Is it the new version of Disneyland's old UFOs?
Also, does anyone know where abouts in Tomorrowland these things will go (except for Autopia) ?
Quotethe WDW major flop
That was actually one of the few rides I liked at the Magic Kingdom... :lol:
Well you must be one of the ten people who did Lol :lol:
Disneytheque informs that the UFO Zone will be a recreative zone similar to the Liki-Tiki statues in the HKDL Adventureland.
Quote from: "raptor1982"Disneytheque informs that the UFO Zone will be a recreative zone similar to the Liki-Tiki statues in the HKDL Adventureland.
Oh. *falls asleep*
It's a shame they're filling the park up with play areas and not proper Disney attractions - I'm glad Paris has the more interesting walk-through exhibits like Legends of the Wild West and Aladdin now...
So, you thought that the original Toon Studios concept art was the ugliest Disney concept art ever? Think again!
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Stitch Encounter
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UFO Zone
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Autopia
In fairness, these look like really good additions (even UFO Zone!), and the Autopia and UFO Zone concept art is nice - just the Stitch one stinks. :)
More here: http://www.miceage.com/guest/gu030706a.htm (http://www.miceage.com/guest/gu030706a.htm)
OMG they look bad! But the autopia one looks good. I like the position were it is. Not to sure on the ufo zone
Ok I don't ever recall CGI concept art for theme parks :lol: , that's just plain cheap and bad and insulting the imagineers inteligence of how to draw, unless of course they are simply rubbish at drawing and were taken from a street and told to design something :lol: . I actually quite liked Toon Studios concept art :P . Though Autopia really is a must for every Disney Tomorrow/Discoveryland concept anyway.
Quote from: "Dlrpfan"OMG they look bad!
Do you even think Autopia looks bad? It looks better than I expected, to be honest. There's more going on around the roads (trees, decoration, etc.).
It just looks like they didn't have any Stitch Encounter concept art ready, so someone knocked that thing up quickly on Illustrator... :lol:
At least their Autopia looks a bit like ours, the WDW one is really really boring and ugly...
I ment not including autopia but forgot to add it in (i was real tiered that night!
I noticed today on the UFO zone art that there's a bridge over it with Autopia cars on it. That really looks neat. :D
Quote from: "raptor1982"I noticed today on the UFO zone art that there's a bridge over it with Autopia cars on it. That really looks neat. :D
Yeah, it curves nicely around that area with a waterfall cascading down the side of it!
I think our Discoveryland really lacks areas like this actually. Discoveryland reminds me a bit of WDS in a way, because it's just attraction/attraction/attraction/attraction/etc without any little theme areas inbetween. I guess the Nautilus is the exception to this, but the land could still do with something like Adventureland's islands or the UFO Zone...
It looks very smart indeed :D
Here are some pictures of the three new attractions that are awaiting thier grand opening!
UFO zone
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Autopia:
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and Stitch Encounter:
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http://www.dlrp.fr/actulargeasia.php?id=80 (http://www.dlrp.fr/actulargeasia.php?id=80)
UFO Zone: Horrible. Autopia: rather nice. Stitch Encounter: cheap and cheerful.
I'm proud of HKDL for making the most of these "three major new attractions!" though. :D
ill have to agree with ballo on that on although i think the stich encounter will be a huge hit among the chinese
Yeah, you're probably right. I bet they'll love it. The animation of him in that image looks a bit nasty though... "Cheap and cheerful" sums it up quite well actually - it's probably quite a cheap attraction, yet as you say it'll be a big hit.
I guess HKDL are doing better with their new attraction plans than DLRP did when it opened. They definitely did the right thing to start small and then build it up over the years. (Though I don't think that would have worked in Paris - people complained of too few attractions as it was!)
Quote from: "Baloo"They definitely did the right thing to start small and then build it up over the years. (Though I don't think that would have worked in Paris - people complained of too few attractions as it was!)
Stitch Encounter and Autopia seem like two nice little additions to Hong Kong Disneyland. But I am afraid that these attractions are not going to pull in the crowds. Many Western Disney fans do complain about the small amount of attraction being the factor for low attendance. But this is just one of the many factors in my humble opinion. Let's not forget that people in China aren't as used to the Disney brand as the Western world does. Besides that, Disney doesn't really have a fanbase like the other Resorts do. It will come, but it takes time. We must also not forget that many people from China (not Hong Kong) are quite poor.
Hong Kong Disneyland must get rid of the bad word of mouth. One of the things they can do is lower the admission prices (like with the current Summer Passes), add more attractions (like Stitch, Autopia, and so on) and use marketing to adverstide the Resort (as they are doing). Disney is handling in a good way now.