Shanghai-Disneyland & DreamWorks Animation

Coming to Shanghai’s Chuansha town, the Shanghai Disney Resort  will be the sixth Disneyland in the world, the third in Asia, after Tokyo Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneyland.
Costing an estimated RMB 24.5 billion, the The 1,160,000-square-meter resort will open its doors in 2015.

It will include a 404,685 square meters man-made lake which will occupy half the size of the entire park. 
The monumental Disney castle - set in a forest, is located across the lake from the main gate

Walt Disney Company said that no two Disney Worlds in the world are ever identical. As seen at its opening ceremony on 8th April, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck were dressed in red Tang suit.
 Shanghai Disneyland will try to get close to Chinese visitors with its Chinese cultural elements.

From the drafts disclosed by Thomas O. Staggs, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, in the center of Shanghai Disneyland,it will house the BIGGEST Disney castle in the world. Remember the  Hogwarts in the Harry Potter movies with a winding staircase ? Well, This Castle In Shanghai Disneyland will be more impressive than that

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Among the world's firsts - most delightful to the Children will be the worlds first  ALL Disney Princesses in the Disney castle and will also be the first one to host an in-castle Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique princess makeover experience.
A  3D stimulation of the Shanghai Disney castle has been released on YouTube.

Click to see what mainland China’s first Disneyland will look like.
 to view its latest construction updates view it at:
http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com

For more updates click More on CNNGo: Everything you need to know about Shanghai Disney 
and
Shanghai Disneyland Park, China www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/shanghai/disneyland..
  

To Top it all in Shanghai DreamWorks Animation Entertainment District also plans to open in the same year as Shanghai Disneyland


DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.'s also plan to open an Entertainment district  in Shanghai which will cost more than $3 billion to be opened in 2016, the  same year as Shanghai Disneyland

Dream Center, as the Their Entertainment District is to be known,will include hotels, restaurants, shops and others

FUN - Our family holiday in Hong Kong Disneyland - latest updates

While we were in HongKong for the year end holiday, we of course went to the Disney Land theme park.

Although the park was small in comparison to the one at Anaheim (my wife and myself went to USA West coast for our honeymoon) and without most of the thrill rides, it more or less made up for it with its good public relations by having quite a good number of spots for photography with the Disney characters.

All the Disney carton characters clowned with everyone that went in for a photograph. We remembered Goofy, he kept jumping up and down and pointed his hand upwards nonstop when he saw my daughters, and everyone was laughing with his clowning. When I realised that he was trying to tell my daughters that they were very tall, only then he stopped jumping and nodded his head.

The shows were great, do go for the "MICKEY'S SYMPHONY". It's a 3D show and when you put on the 3d glasses, the characters ran around the 180 degree screen right in front of your very nose.

Though it was drizzling before the park closed for the night , the firework still went on for almost 20 mins.

Rooms for improvement- service and entertainment:-

Services staff were very friendly , but...

1) The queue area for the shows were held in very stuffy and hot areas.  It wasn't very comfortable standing in those confined areas packed to one another. There should be better ventilation. We left the queuing area for the "Stitch Encounter "after standing in line for about 5 mins.

2) Food was expensive. Could put some fastfood outlets as in Anaheim.

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