Shanghai Disneyland Archive
Sorry, it’s been a while since Shanghai Disneyland Grand Opening Trip Report – Part 3. Hopefully, I’ll get the next couple of installments done fairly quickly. Now that we’ve detailed most of the main attractions, I don’t need to be quite as verbose. We left off the last installment with the sky starting to look
Our Shanghai Disneyland Grand Opening visit picks up here on day 2, after our experience closing out the park opening day. This is the first installment that will have (a few) on-ride photos, so if you want to avoid spoilers, exit now. Before we start running around on the second day, we wanted to briefly
We ended Part 1 of our Shanghai Disneyland Grand Opening Trip Report as Sarah and I ate lunch, after splitting up from Mark and Molly so they could watch Mickey’s Storybook Express parade. Once they were done blowing kisses to Olaf, we rejoined them. That’s where we’ll pick up in this spoiler-free trip report installment…
Shanghai Disneyland has been a long time coming. The project dates back to Michael Eisner’s tenure as CEO in the 1990s, and got serious with a letter of intent in 2002 before Hong Kong Disneyland even opened. Bringing the park to fruition from there was not simple, and took years of negotiations before the Shanghai
Counterfeit tickets. Broken rides. Food shortages. Plumbing issues. 100-degree weather so hot it softened the partially-set pavement. As compared to Disneyland’s “Black Sunday” opening day some 60 years ago, Shanghai Disneyland’s opening day was uneventful. Although there are radical differences between the launch of Walt Disney’s big, personal gamble on his park, and the one
The road to Shanghai Disneyland has been a turbulent one. Former CEO Michael Eisner began evaluating the viability of Shanghai in the 1990s, and got serious with a letter of intent in 2002 before Hong Kong Disneyland even opened. Getting a deal done with the Chinese government was no easy process, and it took his