The theme park business in China saw its biggest event of the year on Thursday when the $5.5-billion Shanghai Disney Resort opened. It is Disney's sixth park worldwide and the largest in Asia, wowing both local and foreign tourists with exotic experiences and Chinese elements.
Shanghai Disney Resort, with its unique blend of Disney magic and Chinese culture, officially opened Thursday.
Even as gates open to the public this week, it's still building to keep customers keen.
The $5.5-billion Shanghai Disneyland set to open in June will blend a traditional Magic Kingdom-style theme park with attractions based on recent Disney and Pixar films more familiar to the Chinese audience.
As the opening of the $5.5 billion Shanghai Disneyland draws near, Walt Disney Co has a challenge. The hold of rival Asian characters such as China’s homegrown Boonie Bears or Big Big Wolf means seven-year-olds like Li Yixuan have less time for Mickey Mouse and Friends.
China's real estate giant Dalian Wanda Group on Saturday opened the first of its ambitious theme park projects, seen by foreign media as a move to challenge Disney's monopoly.
China's largest private property developer, the Wanda Group, opened an entertainment complex on Saturday that it's positioning as a distinctly homegrown rival to Disney and its $5.5 billion Shanghai theme park opening next month.
After six-year preparation and construction, Shanghai Disney Resort is scheduled to be inaugurated on June 16, allowing tourists from home and abroad to have a wonderful tour in Shanghai.
For the second time this month, fans are urging Disney to give the star of one of the studio’s films a same-sex partner.
Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin, whose Dalian Wanda Group is launching a chain of theme parks and entertainment complexes around China, has taken aim at rival Walt Disney ahead of the Magic Kingdom’s opening next month in Shanghai.
Visitors can't take the souvenir balloons they purchased at Shanghai Disneyland on the metro train when they leave－that's one of the bugs discovered during the trial run of the 389.7-hectare park.
New characters? No problem for the Disney film, which has given 'Batman v Superman' a run for its money
The June opening of the Shanghai Disney Resort, Disney's first theme park in the Chinese mainland, triggered a sales rush after tickets became available Monday.
Disney's family-friendly hit "Zootopia" topped the box office of North America this week, marking the second week in a row in which the film has been occupying the first place since its release.
Fans of the blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens will have to wait two more years for the next installment as Walt Disney on Wednesday pushed back the release of Star Wars: Episode VIII by seven months.
Shanghai Disney Resort will officially open and welcome its first guests on June 16, the Walt Disney Company and Shanghai Shendi Group announced Wednesday.
The under-construction Shanghai Disney Resort will adopt a new green technology to supply some of its energy, boosting the resort's environmentally friendly credentials, the Shanghai Disney Resort Management Company announced on Thursday.
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