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| TDLFAN
Sun 12/24/2006 9:48p | >>Now, with half of it devoted to the drawing class, and the corridor on the right devoted to peddling WDCC statuettes, it's really not even worth visiting.
A shame.<<
I agree. There has been some great displays here... especially the pre-opening preview of TDS and the 20th anniversary look back at the first 20 yrs at TDL. Now? with that stupid classroom taking up 25% of the space there, the exhibit is not worth it. |
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| TDLFAN
Sun 12/24/2006 9:49p | Aw... ^^^ a wasted "Dalmatians" post. Oddly enough, the current Disney Gallery display at TDL is "Disney pets". |
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| wildghostz
Mon 12/25/2006 3:19a | so how big is that for HKDL? will the class take up a large potion of space as well? |
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| The Goddess Mara
Mon 12/25/2006 11:53a | There is no gallery at Hong Kong Disneyland, so the Animation Academy is not taking space away from anything else that I know of, though that may be where the preview center used to be. It was setup as a Santa meet and greet when I was there in December.
This is just another crappy low-budget fix. So far the only important thing is Small World, not this pay-for-your-own-drawing class or the Spitting Mickey parade.
They need to immediately start construction on two big E-tickets that are "people-eaters" like Pirates or Mansion, which can move through large numbers of park-goers and really deliver the goods. |
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| TDLFAN
Mon 12/25/2006 5:48p | With the less than stellar lineup of rides and slow crowds.. I can see those "people eating" E-Tickets dispatching empty boats one right after another. Just like Space Mountain seems to be at times. I would call it the "Sindbad Predicament". |
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| ChampDisney
Tue 12/26/2006 10:50a | I seriously hope that the land Hong Kong Disneyland is clearing out will be another land to put in Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, if not I will be extremely disappointed. |
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| The Goddess Mara
Tue 12/26/2006 11:02a | Most people who go to Hong Kong Disneyland are disappointed.
Westerners expect many of the rides and attractions they know from the other Disney parks--and they're not there.
The Chinese are disappointed because the park is so small and lacking in the kind of out-of-the-ballpark rides for which Disney is famous. They're not sure what exactly they're missing, but they know it's not in Hong Kong Disneyland.
That's why annual passes cost less than $100.
Part of the problem is reflected in TDLFAN's remark that the E-tickets would be mostly empty. YES, that's true right now, but if you don't build them people won't come. |
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| TDLFAN
Tue 12/26/2006 3:55p | I agree... but I don't think we can blame the entire situation on Disney's being cheap. I don't think Hong Kong (or any other place in China for that matter) is a good location for this type of entertainment. Just like Paris, many tourists go there for the *city* and would only do theme parks as an added incentive if the time is there. Sadly for those who have been to HKDL, they now realize the place is not worth much for the money paid versus the entertainment they offer. |
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| The Goddess Mara
Tue 12/26/2006 4:06p | I think the situation in Paris is similar: a park that has too little in it when first built and too many hotels.
In the case of Euro Disney, there were five (?) hotels and Disney Village there to service a half-day park upon opening.
In the case of Hong Kong Disneyland, one hotel would have sufficed and the rest of the money should have been put into the park for two more big attractions. And their plans to add attractions are going to take too long and cost them hundreds of millions of dollars in the next few years. I have friends in Hong Kong, but none of them would go to the park with me! Either they'd already been once and that was enough, or they'd heard that it wasn't worth a trip.
The whole thing is really sad. |
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| TDLFAN
Tue 12/26/2006 4:34p | >>I think the situation in Paris is similar: a park that has too little in it when first built and too many hotels.<<
I somewhat disagree. Yes, they should have only built two hotels max at DLP when it first opened, but this park was quite full of attractions when it premiered. It was definitely a full-day visit there, unlike HKDL.
>>In the case of Hong Kong Disneyland, one hotel would have sufficed and the rest of the money should have been put into the park for two more big attractions. <<
I somewhat disagree again. Having two hotels offering two different price ranges is a good call. Besides, even the hotels at HKDL were built on a small scale and both have ample room for expansion. I don't think the hotels are the problem here.
>>The whole thing is really sad.<<
I somewhat disagree again... while I agree it's sad the crowds are not coming like they had hoped to (especially when people are stupid enough to skip visiting simply because they "have heard it's not worth the trip" Why can't they go and make up their own mind?!?!?) Not all is sad about HKDL. Great looking park, lovely location, nicely done attractions and shows.. etc. The park is enjoyable for what it has. We can not totally shot the place down for not being big enough. What's there is quality... not enough to do for a full day, but there is a good base of quality upon which they can expand, and *that* they must do.
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