HKDL to add 3 attractions - BusinessWeek - 2/27/2006

[figment1986]

In that case, bring it... Actually, wouldn't this work better at dca then crush?

Sound a like... I thought the computer would use voice recognition???

[Loomis]

In that case, bring it... Actually, wouldn't this work better at dca then crush?

Sound a like... I thought the computer would use voice recognition???

Apparently not. The ad for Stitch Sound-a-likes specifically mentions that the actor will require: "the ability to interact spontaneously with audience members. The actor is controlling an animated "Stitch" figure from an off-stage control booth. Video game experience is a plus! The show will be performed in Cantonese, Putonghua, and English. Native speakers in each language are being sought."

To me, this would suggest some kind of computer animated character being voiced and operated from "side stage" that interacts with the kiddies.

[tloolgb]

(Sigh) They sure know how to drag their broom sticks over there in Hong Kong, don't they?

No kidding witches.

I wonder though are the Hong Kongers going to get a nice sit down in seats show for Stitch or is going to be all Playhouse Disney & Turtle Talk stand or sit on the carpet kind of show? Lame, but popular I suppose.

I hope IASW is breaking ground soon WDW1974, it'd be nice to see another major ride show up in HK.

[Speedway]

Although, now that I think of it, it's very odd that China's DL has a Main Street USA and Japan's does not.

Climate differences. Tokyo Disneyland is more wet and cold (not generally, but in winter etc). Opposite with Hong Kong Disneyland. Speaking of Hong Kong being part of China... if HKDL had been built a few years earlier, I could have actually claimed that the British finally had a Disneyland of their own!

[pancakesaregood]

Whoa, I just found concept artwork for these attractions

http://www.etravelblackboard.com/ind...d=48277&nav=83

Stitch Encounter
Get ready for an out-of-this-world encounter with mischievous alien experiment number 626, otherwise known as Stitch. Guests arrive at the facility for a tour of Space Traffic Control in Tomorrowland. Space Traffic Control (or STC) is the nerve center for this quadrant of the galaxy and where all space traffic is closely monitored. The tour goes as planned until the host is interrupted by Stitch, a fluffy blue alien in a “borrowed” space ship. The fun begins as Stitch interacts in real time with the guests, plays games with the kids and even teaches everyone how to speak Hawaiian. Ultimately, Stitch’s old nemesis, Gantu shows up and wants his ship back. It’s up to the guests in the audience to help Stitch escape! The show is full of comedy, action and, best of all, it’s never the same show twice!

Autopia
Drive into the future aboard electric cars that cruise along the highways of tomorrow. No driver’s license is necessary. In fact, the road is open to guests of all ages. The only requirement is that they be tall enough to “put the pedal to the metal” in their batterypowered “zoom” buggies with on-board instrumentation and audio effects. The cars jet around an alien landscape filled with strange-looking trees and shrubs that are (or at least appear to be) out of this world.

UFO Zone
Get up close and personal with some UFOs (Undeniably Fun Objects) in this interactive play area designed for guests of all ages. The colorful, oversized props include a mischievous robot that sprays water and makes noises when his buttons are pushed, a water-squirting ray gun, a crashed rocket ship (still “smoking” from impact), a flying saucer in take-off mode and an alien plant that unexpectedly wiggles to watery life every few minutes. Guests can choose to get wet – or not – amid all the pop jets, bubblers, misters, thrusters and squirters. This is one alien invasion people will be running to, not from.

[drnilescrane]

As of yet there is nothing avaliable on Disney's official HKDL press website, which is wierd and kills any possibilites of finding High-Res Concept Art.

[Loomis]

As of yet there is nothing avaliable on Disney's official HKDL press website, which is wierd and kills any possibilites of finding High-Res Concept Art.

Actually, given the size of Hong Kong Disneyland, those are are ACTUAL SIZE photos

Although it is not exactly 'news', the mention of the 'battery powered' Autopia vehicles has got me wondering how different they will be.

Well spotted, pancakesaregood.

[ni_teach]

I think they should have built Autopia, Pirates and Peter Pan as the three new rides instead of Stitch and these robot playgrounds.

Yes, but these three things can be build ASAP. Does the Stitch show sound like turtle talk to anyone else?

[tloolgb]

http://www.clubjosh.com/diaries/gall...ry&id=IMG_4675
http://www.clubjosh.com/diaries/gall...ry&id=IMG_4676
The Stitch concept art is the only thing that is new. All the other art has been up since opening day.

[ni_teach]

The Stitch concept art is the only thing that is new. All the other art has been up since opening day.

I could not find the stitch concept art... just the autopia and the ufo park.

[pancakesaregood]

I actually like the Autopia Concept. You can see the cars from outside the entrance, unlike having to walk aways in DL, they really have done a neat thing.

As for Stitch, it seems to be Turtle Talk with Crush, updated and rethemed...

[Witches of Morva]

ORDDU: Thank you for putting up the pictures, pancakesaregood, duckling. We agree with you that the Autopia is well done--even if it isn't one of those sorts of things that attracts 3 witches all the way from Morva to ride. (When it comes to transportation, nothing does it better for us than an old fashioned broom stick.)

[stitch101]

Hmm I can't wait to see HKDL get improved by these rides.

[WDW1974]

<<As for Stitch, it seems to be Turtle Talk with Crush, updated and rethemed...>>

That's 'cause it is.

[Mickey_D]

<<As for Stitch, it seems to be Turtle Talk with Crush, updated and rethemed...>>

That's 'cause it is.

Don't worry - as I said in an earlier thread, the short term additions to HKDL are designed to distract you more than they do "Immerse" you in what's to come for the Park. No, I don't work for Disney myself. I do however know that their plans are a little grander than what is given and projected by many, forethwith. Expect the unexpected dear children. The best is yet to come!!