Disneyland Shanghai
Disneyland Shanghai,… or something like that might be the name of the next Disney park. This news for a second park in China has been floating around the web for a time now, but according to this article at modbee.com Disney chairman George Mitchell has been quoted saying in a Chinese state-run newspaper that Shanghai city officials are now in talks with the central government about a Disney theme park in the Chinese financial center.
This would be a second park in China, but there is no concern the Hong Kong Park would suffer from a park in Shanghai
Mitchell was also quoted as saying in the report Saturday he doesn’t think a Shanghai park will hurt Hong Kong Disneyland, which opened in September.
“There has been very careful analysis from us and Chinese government officials,” he said.
“There are a very large number of people in the Shanghai area and we don’t think that this will have any more of a negative effect on Hong Kong than say having a park both in California and Orlando, Florida,” Mitchell reportedly said.
June 26th, 2006 at 12:33 am
It’s interesting that Disney is already planning a second park in china. How is the Hong Kong park doing? I read a few reaction pieces after it first opened, and I got the feeling that people didn’t like it very much. It was too small, to expensive, etc. But it must not be doing too bad, I guess!