The ambitious expansion plan calls for three new themed lands featuring a mountain-range coaster, a Haunted Mansion dark ride and a “Toy Story” kiddie area... Toy Story Land [will be] a carbon copy of the Toy Story Playland scheduled to open at Disneyland Paris in 2010... Grizzly Trail [will be] a Frontierland-like gold mining town featuring the Big Grizzly Mountain roller coaster... Mystic Point [will be] home to Mystic Manor — the Hong Kong park’s version of the Haunted Mansion.
The new Haunted Mansion will be of specific interest to Disney fans. It's the one attraction that's found in all Disneylands and is never just carbon copied from one location to another. It's in some ways the unique stamp that's put on every park, and it'll be interesting to see how they approach creating the Hong Kong version. The blurb from the story only said that the mansion would be "the home of an eccentric world traveler and exotic artifact collector."
The openings of each of the new lands will be staggered. Toy Story Land will open in 2011/12, Grizzly Trail a year later, and Mystic Point a year after that. We're always agnostic about overseas theme parks - you're in a new country, why would you go to cookie cutter attraction and stand in line? Of course we don't travel with kids who need to be amused in between trips to museums and ruins, so we understand we're not the best judges on these issues.
[Photo: Hong Kong Disneyland via LA Times]
Related Stories:
· Hong Kong Disneyland expansion to add three new themed lands [LA Times]
· China Travel [Jaunted]
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