Editor's Note: FOUR new topics this week-end, with news from Disneyland, DCA, Shanghaî Disneyland and Universal Singapore! And those of you who wants more Star Tours 2 videos can jump on my Star Tours section where i have embedded three interesting new videos. Also, if you're looking for the Little Mermaid ride video, just scroll down!

Universal Studios Singapore Grand Opening Celebration !

It should have happened one year ago but it happened finally: Universal Studios Singapore had today its Grand Opening celebration! After one year with many problems all rides are now working, including the Madagascar flume ride - see a new full ride video below - and later this year the highly awaited Transformers ride.

Talking about the Transformers ride Universal announced this week that the new attraction based on the 1.6 billion dollar Transformers movie franchise will be a simulator attraction, with cars travelling for a quarter of a mile, and rising 60ft in the air. The ride will last for five minutes, and 20-30 minutes of story telling will be built into the queueing time, similar to the way it is done at Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey in Orlando.

Another good news as it was announced today that three more brand new attractions will open in 2013 at Universal Singapore, and two of the three attractions will be unique for the park! Now as you might want to have a look at the grand opening here is the video of it filmed in HD by the Sentosa Blog.




As usual in this kind of Grand Opening celebration many celebrities were invited including Jet Li, Paula Abdul, Maggie Cheung, Fantasia Barrino and Vicki Zhao Wei Lead and the Sentosa Blog have more exclusive videos of them so jump to his site to have a look!

You can also see a photo report od USS Grand Openin on Dejiki Nicholas web site HERE.

The Sentosa Blog also filmed this new video of the Madagascar flume ride which seems to me to have a better filming than the previous one i have posted one week ago. have a look!




The Transformers ride is definitely the next interesting attraction to open this year and i'll keep you informed of its opening! In the meantime if you missed my previous grand pictorial report about the park, jump HERE!

All videos: copyright Sentosa Blog.

Shanghai Disneyland Gets Loan From Twelve Chinese Banks

Here is some news about Shanghaî Disneyland! Financial news, in fact: Twelve Chinese banks have signed a syndicated loan deal with Shendi Group, Disney Co's local partner, for the construction of the Shanghai Disneyland theme park, the Xinhua News Agency reported late on Friday.

It did not mention how big the loan was but said the lead lenders were China Development Bank, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and Bank of Communications. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, China Construction Bank and Bank of China are co-leads of the loan. Other participating banks include China Exim Bank, Bank of Shanghai , CITIC Bank , Huaxia Bank and Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank.

As you know, the deal to build the $3.8 billion resort, recently approved by the Chinese central government, gives 43% of the project to Disney and 57% to a trio of state-owned businesses, collectively known as the Shanghai Shendi Group. The project's costs--and profits--are to be divided along those proportions.

Wow, that's a lot of banks. Now that they've got the money, they have to build the park and let us know more about it!


News From Reuters

Artwork: copyright Disney

Imagineering Video Previews Goofy’s Sky School at Paradise Pier

Disney Imagineering has posted a new video which preview the new Goofy’s Sky School at DCA, introduced by WDI Imagineer Larry Nikolai. The attraction is a little bit late and won't be ready for June 3 but more probably early July and it's look cool. Have a look!




Video: copyright Disney

Disneyland Mickey's Soundsational Parade Premiere - HD Video

Along with Star Tours 2 and the Little Mermaid ride, guests of the June 3rd press
event will experience the new Disneyland's Mickey's Soundsational Parade. The parade in fact already began at DL and you'll find below a "full parade" video filmed by Asianjma123

Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily the two great artists who creates unique Disneyland collectibles items also worked on the design of the parade and you can read moe about it on Kevin's blog HERE.



Video: copyright Asianjma123

Little Mermaid Ariel's Undersea Adventure Full Ride Video !

That's it, here is the first video of the Little Mermaid Ariel's Undersea Adventure full ride and the ride is a Wow! The HD video filmed by Asianjma123 is excellent and of course if you're planning to do the ride at DCA anytime soon it's better to don't watch the video as it is a giant spoiler.

That said, it is a really charming dark ride in the grand Disney dark rides tradition, with state-of-the-art Audio-Animatronics. If you expect this - and not an attraction like Pirates of Caribbean or Haunted Mansion - then you won't be disappointed at all.



However, the only thing that seems off is the transition from the Kiss the Girl scene to the end finale. A big climax scene with the death of Ursula would have been welcome as the ride ends a bit abruptly. Let's hope that this missing climax scene will be added in the WDW version. Otherwise the whole ride looks pretty solid.

But we must congratulate Tony Baxter and all the WDI Imagineers as they did a fantastic job on this ride! Now, if the ride could come to Disneyland Paris in the future, that would be great!

Enjoy the video, and most of all watch it full screen!




Picture and Video: copyright Asianjma123 whom i thanks a lot for his perfect filming!

Hong Kong Disneyland Expansion Update Video

...And in the meantime what is happening at Hong Kong Disneyland? The video below will show you at what point are the works on the three new attractions and mini lands. I remind you that the first attraction to open will be Toy Story Land, which will be followed the next year by Grizzly Gulch and then by Mystic Point.



Picture: copyright Andy Castro

Video: copyright michael20183