Soarin' Over... Hong Kong Disneyland

Editor's Note: It's summer holiday season and many of you are probably planning to go soon on vacation. But one thing is sure, in July and August everybody wants to "fly" away from home. Good news, we'll have a "Soarin'" week, which started yesterday with the presentation of my new iPad application "Egypt from above" and today we will soar over Hong Kong Disneyland and soon above others Disney theme parks, and you'll see how these aerial pictures can bring interesting informations about the future. So, make sure to don't miss any article of this week!

My good friend Stefan Zwanzger - the Theme Park Guy - is going to be jealous today! Recently he did a seven hours trek up the hills and through the jungle located behind Hong Kong Disneyland to shot great pictures of the park from above, and last week a HKDL fan sent me these great aerial pictures of the park shot very recently and i didn't even had to move out of my home! Yeah, i know, life is unfair...

Seriously, this is a great shot - click on it to enlarge the picture - as we're able not only to see the park and hotels clearly - as well as the new lands - but we also can see the land which is still available for future additions...Let's zoom in the picture to have a better look...



First, as you can see on the next picture below, the big land between the HKDL Hotel and the Hollywood Hotel, the one near the sea, is supposedly reserved for future hotel(s) which most probably will be build in a near future. About the park itself, now: on the top left (color red on the pic below), in front of the HKDL Hotel and on the left of the brand new Grizzly Gulch you can see a big land available - almost as big as Grizzly Gulch - once envisioned for the Pirates of Caribbean land before the project was permanently - and very unfortunately - cancelled. With a bit of luck we'll find it in Shanghaî Disneyland, but that's another story... By the way, you can see that the picture was shot recently as Grizzly Gulch is completed but not Mystic Point of course, still under construction. On the right between Toy Story Land and It's a Small World facility (color green and yellow) there is also a big piece of land available and, who knows, may be they will build Toy Story Mania near TSL someday there...





In the backstage of Tomorrowland there is also some land which could be used for a future attraction, but it's not that big as you'll see on the next picture. It's the land that you can see near the bottom left (color purple), behind the Buzz Lightyear ride building which is on the left of Autopia and Space Mountain. I'm not talking about the big land that you can see on the very bottom left under the plane wing, but the smaller one right over it, where are some kind of containers now. Star Tours 2 was envisioned to be build there some months ago, before it was also cancelled. It seems that there is also some land which could eventually be used behind Space Mountain, on the right. Although there is some backstage buildings (color blue) on it they might be able to remove some of them and get some space for a future ride.



As you can see there is still some land available but not that much, may be they have enough room for three or four rides or mini-land. After that, they won't have the choice than to build the second park as they can't expand the first park either because there is the main road all around it, or the natural hills, or simply no land at all. I remind you that where Hong Kong Disneyland is built there was no land at all 15 years ago, only the China sea!


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