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INTRODUCTION
With less than a month of the
officially opening date, Shanghai Disney has been attracting guests since June
16th 2016. Official soft openings for the park began May 7th
2016. Shanghai Disney is located in Pudong Shanghai, China. It is owned by The
Walt Disney Company and the Shanghai Shendi Group. Construction of the park
began April 8th 2011. It was announced on November 5th
2010, that this park was going to be created. There was construction delays ,
the park originally was supposed to open in late 2015. The park cost about 5.5
billion dollars to create. Tickets for Shanghai Disneyland are cheap. It costs
about 75 dollars for adults and 60 dollars for children on weekends and 60
dollars for adults and 45 for children on weekdays. Guests can explore and be a
part of 6 magical lands: Mickey Ave, Gardens of Imagination, Fantasyland,
Treasure Cove, Adventure Isle, and Tomorrowland. On opening day, similar to
Disneyland Park, Shanghai Disney was experiencing ticket issues which caused
headaches and folks who waited in line to enter had to wait in long lines for
ticket booths. Tickets were sold ou for the opening day in March 2016. Mickey
Ave is a mixture of Mickey’s Toontown and Main Street. Gardens of Imagination
serves as the park’s hub and viewing area for the fireworks. Fantasyland is
home of Storybook Castle, Shanghai Disney’s icon and biggest Disney castle ever
with a height of 196.8 feet.
The Park
The
park has the following attractions/shows/ and dinning:
ADVENTURE ISLE
Attraction
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Type
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Camp Discovery
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Walk Through
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Roarin’ Rapids
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Ride
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Soarin’ over the Horizon
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Ride
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Disney Jungle Characters
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Meet and Greet
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Tarzan: Call of the Jungle
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Show
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Piranha Bites
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Dinning
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Tribal Table
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Dinning
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FANTASYLAND
Alice in Wonderland Maze
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Walkthrough
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Hunny Pot Spin
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Ride
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
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Ride
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Once Upon a Time Adventure
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Walkthrough
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Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
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Ride
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Peter Pan’s Flight
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Ride
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Voyage to the Crystal Grotto
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Ride
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Frozen Sing Along
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Show
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Disney Princesses
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Meet N Greet
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Celebration Café
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Dinning
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Merlin’s Magic Recipe
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Dinning
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Pinocchio’s Village Kitchen
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Dinning
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Royal Banquet Hall
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Dinning
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Tangled Tree Travern
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Dinning
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Troubadour Treats
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Dinning
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GARDENS OF IMAGINATION
Dumbo
the Flying Elephant
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Ride
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Fantasia Carousel
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Ride
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Marvel Universe
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Meet N Greet
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Golden Fairytale Fanfare
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Show
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Ignite the Dream
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Nighttime Spectacular
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Meet Mickey
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Meet N Greet
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Storybook Express
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Parade
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Picnic Basket
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Dinning
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Timothy’s Treats
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Dinning
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Wandering Moon
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Dinning
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MICKEY AVENUE
CND Treehouse Treats
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Dinning
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II Paparino
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Dinning
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Mickey and Pals Market Café
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Dinning
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Remy’s Patisserie
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Dinning
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Garden of 12 Friends
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Walkthough
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Meet Minnie
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Meet N Greet
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TOMORROWLAND
Buzz
Lightyear’s Planet Rescue
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Ride
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Jet Packs
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Ride
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Star Wars
Launch Bay
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Meet N Greet
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Stitch
Encounter
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Experience/walkthrough/show
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Tron
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Ride
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Spiral
Snacks
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Dinning
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Star Gazer
Grill
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Dinning
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TREASURE COVE
Barbossa’s
Bounty
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Dinning
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Pintel and Ragetti’s Grub to Grab
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Dinning
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The Snackin’ Kraken
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Dinning
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Tortuga’s Treats
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Dinning
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Explorer Canoes
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Ride
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Pirates of the Caribbean Battle for the Sunken
Treasure
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Ride
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Shipwreck Cove
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Walkthrough
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Siren’s Revenge
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Walkthrough
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Eye on the Storm Captain Jack Stunt Spectacular
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Show
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Meet Captain Jack
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Meet And Greet
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That was the complete breakdown on
what Disney Shanghai has to offer. 14 rides, 7 shows, 7 meet and greets, 8 walk
through, and 22 dining options. That makes it 62% of attractions and 38% of dining.
Calculating the percentage of acres per attractions and dinning Shanghai Disney
has 0.37 percent per acre with attractions and 0.2 percent per acre when it
comes to dinning. Shanghai Disney has 963 acres, making it the biggest Disney Park
in the world. With this much acreage and that small percentage of attractions
and dining options, it seems a bit of a disappointment.
Disneyland Parks is 85 acres and
has far more attractions than shanghai, in fact if you combine all the
attractions and dining options Shanghai has to offer, Disneyland almost tops it
with just the attractions alone.
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The Pros and Cons
PROS
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CONS
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Biggest Disney Theme Park
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Food Prices
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New Technology
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Merchandise Prices
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More representation of Princesses and Characters
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Amount of Rides
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New Lands
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Quality could be improved
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A new park
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Shows could be better
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Ticket Prices
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Carbon Copies
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The beautiful Castle
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Representation of Characters
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The Biggest Disney Park:
This is always a good thing, this is a big theme park which means more room for
new cool stuff right?
Food Prices:
Reports and guests have been saying prices of food have been high and that can
be a bad thing.
New Technology:
This is always a PLUS for any Disney Park! Sadly US Parks haven’t seen it yet.
BUT the amazing technology on Pirates Battle for the Sunken Treasure is
immersive and beautiful, this is soon coming to Avatar Land and Star Wars Land.
Merchandise Prices:
Again very high similar with food prices, this is not a good thing
More Representation
of Characters: This is a PRO and CON! It is beautiful that we finally see
Mulan and Tangled in the parks but not the way I would of expected, a meet and
Greet and a themed restaurant is not enough! A Tangled and Frozen ride should
have been added into Fantasyland.
Amount of Rides:
Which leads to this…. We need more rides in Disney Shanghai, especially in
Tomorrowland and Fantasyland which is truly the spirit of Disney and Walt Disney.
New Lands: New
lands were introduced like Adventure Isle and Treasure Cove.
Quality can be
improved: When Shanghai Disney was announced, Pirates was not the only ride
with promise. We also had Tron and Roarin Rapids, But Roarin Rapids lacks a lot,
almost being a carbon copy of Grizzly River Run but with different theming.
There is a big dinosaur like figure on the ride but it needs more scenic views
and audio animatronics.
A New Park: A new
Disney park to enjoy this is a PRO
Shows could be better:
The only show with promise is the Jack Sparrow and Tarzan show. Ignite the
Dreams could also be improved, it is almost a carbon copy of Disney Dreams
without Peter Pan’s shadow. The Frozen and Star Wars segments seem out of
place. More representation of Snow White could have been added.
Ticket Prices:
These prices are affordable for the average American and cheap compared to the
US parks.
Carbon Copies:
There is carbon copies which seem unfair since The Shanghai Shendi Group made a
deal with Disney that the rides that were original to Shanghai Disney could not
be duplicated anywhere else in any other theme park. So say goodbye to those
carbon copies of Pirates and Tron… Soarin’ over the Horizon seems to be out of
the loop since they are given different names and different endings. But
Shanghai Disney got copies of the Seven Dwarfs coaster, Winnie the Pooh, and
Star Wars Launch Bay.
The Castle: This
is a PRO! That castle is beautiful! It is the castle for all the princesses.
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The Results
The big
budget of this theme park caused an impact across the company. The parks were
affected with budget cuts and shorter hours, the company went down in stock and
started the quarter poorly. The Gaming department shut down which caused Disney
Infinity to be cancelled.
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Conclusion
Shanghai
Disney is beautiful and has a lot of details but it still needs a lot of work
and for the amount of money spent, there should have been more rides than any
other theme park. After all here are the facts:
Theme Parks
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Acres
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Disneyland
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85 acres
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Disney California Adventure
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67 acres
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Magic Kingdom
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142 acres
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Epcott
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300 acres
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Disney Hollywood Studios
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154 acres
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Hong Kong Disneyland
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60 acres
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Walt Disney Studios Paris
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62 acres
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Tokyo Disney Sea
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122 acres
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Tokyo Disneyland
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126 acres
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Disneyland Paris
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126 acres
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Disney Animal Kingdom
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500 acres
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Shanghai Disneyland
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963 acres
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Disneyland Shanghai could be better, I am not impressed.
SHOCK! I know right, sue me! The only thing worth it for me seems the Pirates
ride, and even yet I will not be desperate to go. The most superior and best
Disney park will still be Disney Tokyo Sea.
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Shanghai Disney deserves 3 out of 5 stars!