For something unusual, how about King Triton's castle?
So, it's been done, and very nicely. I think in HK, they wanted to reproduce the original, just as the Japanese had requested direct translations for their park. Obviously, starting small allows the locals to return for the growth to follow, but risks offending the international traveler familiar with the other Disney parks around the world. Hong Kong - who is paying for this park - is apparently more interested in developing a local attraction for Chinese citizens, than a destination resort. The scale makes sense when appreciating that those 1 billion+ people do Not know a Disney park could be different. The old Disney TV showsjust now getting there proves that. All the parks have 'grown' on their local audience, who come to love them watching them develop. Mind you, none of this will impress international Disneyland travelers, but there are actually quite few of them; and the park does offer unique beauties for the connoisseur. HK is an amazing place, but a bit short on things like museums and such - they want to beef up the offerings to make that an even more impressive city with this project, but do not require that it be so massive to draw people to a swamp like central Florida did.
Actually the reason the Japanese had so much artistic control over their parks is because it is owned by an independent company separate from Disney, The Oriental land Co. The folks at OLC wanted to reproduce a Disneyland for their own country which explains all the clones. Disney the company had nothing to do with the OLC parks (which is why it often never mentioned in the states, this also why the OLC parks have better attractions)
Hong Kong however, like Paris, IS owned by the Disney company and they can do pretty much anything they please with it. The reason the park is so small and has very little is not because they want to start slow but because they want to build cheap
and mind you, the government of the place where the parks are built often has very very little to do with the planning and decision-making in the parks. All the place does is agree for parks to built there
and HK Disney is indeed planned to be a destination resort. The chinese/hong kong government did agree for this to keep the tourists coming. proof of this are the hotels they are already building around it.
and you were wrong about the whole "central Florida had WDW built there to draw people there" The reason WDW is in Florida is because Walt wanted to make a city and he chose Florida for the place. But when he died the people he left felt that his dreams had to be realised and the Florida property be used...long story short= poof comes Walt Disney World
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