Talk:Hong Kong Disneyland Resort

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Anyone know any of the rides in it? --Richy 15:13, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Merge

I believe that Hong Kong Disneyland Resort and Hong Kong Disneyland should not be merged because;

  • Hong Kong Disneyland Resort is the collective name of
    • Hong Kong Disneyland
    • Disneyland Hotel
    • Disney's Hollywood Hotel

The article Hong Kong Disneyland is about the actual theme park, whereas Hong Kong Disneyland Resort details on all aspects of the resort. As much as it may seem unclear, take a look at Disneyland Resort and Disneyland. The actual park and the resort it is in are two completely different things - this is how the documentation of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts works on Wikipedia. Please compare Hong Kong Disneyland Resort and Hong Kong Disneyland to these examples and you may get a clear picture;

Disneyland Paris is a theme park in the Disneyland Resort Paris which also includes another theme park and several hotels as well as the Disney Village.

The Magic Kingdom is the flagship park at WDW, yet it is just one part of a much bigger resort.

Disneyland has been open for fifty years, whereas the Disneyland Resort was only inaugurated in 2001 - yet Disneyland is still a part of the Disneyland Resort.

I hope you understand. Any further additions of the merge sign to either article will be taken as vandalism. Thanks in advance.--Speedway 17:15, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

I agree with this. However, is there really a designation for "Disneytown" in the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort? The only sources that come out in a Google search is articles that reference Wikipedia itself... Even the official website (http://www.hongkongdisneyland.com/eng/preview/diary/hkdisneyland_fs.html) doesn't mention Disneytown. --Mintchocicecream 22:40, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shark fin soup controversy

I like this part. It sounds interesting and very up-to-date. Nice job! -- Jerry Crimson Mann 18:58, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Being as no one has listed any reasons for a dispute in the talk page I think it is reasonable to remove the neutrailty tag. Please do not re-add it without listing a specific complaint 129.170.119.27 06:25, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed the neutrality tag removal. I was thinking, some of these critisisms are just rumors. I talked with Robb Alvey of Theme Park Review yesterday, and he is in Hong Kong right now (well, now Tokyo) and he said that the conception of kids peeing in the park and it being dirty is baloney. He said the service is better then some USA parks. WestJet
The issues (kids peeing into water fountains, etc) were raised in the HK media back in September shortly after the parked opened. The following blog quotes an AP article: http://www.bigwhiteguy.com/archive/2005/09/13/bare_necessities/ - perhaps worth finding the original article(s)?? --Mintchocicecream 06:57, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I think this section is well worth a review. Apart from the Shark Fin issue, all the other controversy arose around the opening and very early period of operation. The peeing in flower beds and smoking outside the designated areas seems to refer only to a single negative report of the first day of operation - in any case it's more about Hong Kongers views of mainland chinese manners than anything relevant to Disneyland.--Benbattle 12:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inspiration Lake and Recreation Center

Should we also put this under Hong Kong Disneyland Resort?

According to http://www.hkdisneyland.gov.hk/, it also belongs to the Project HKD.

BenLKC 07:14, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

The area is largly used by guests of the hotel resorts. It is basically a large walking/jogging/cycling path around a scenic lake, with exercise demonstrations every 100m or so... It is also the site of the WDI satellite studios in HKDLR, but I still think none of this constitutes enough to give Inspiration Lake full status as a major component of the HKDLR. Speedway 11:31, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
The area's also used by day-trippers who come to visit the resort but do not enter the park... I think it can go in a separate article (I'll start a stub article - Inspiration Lake, Hong Kong...) --Mintchocicecream 14:19, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bus lines

This is not encyclopedic content. If people want to know how to get there they should look somewhere else. Pascal.Tesson 20:24, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Misquoted statistic

Websites such as [1] confirm Disney owns 43% but does not mention if the HK Gov. owns 57%.

Are the $2.3b the total amount spent on the park?

Said website also mentions $513 million by the Disney Company I think and doesn't specifically give the total investment by the Hong Kong Government.

The Walt Disney Company gets 43% of share of the joint venture by investing HK$2.3b, while the Hong Kong Government gets only 57% while investing HK$23b.[citation needed]

-Edit: This also disagrees with what was said in the introHungryforinfo255 19:37, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Removed the stat. If my removal was inaccurate, put it back. Thanks! Insanephantom 00:22, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I have removed the stat not for the inaccuracy of the stat itself, but the implied message. The article previous implied that it was unfair or controversial for Disney to be allocated so much for so little but does not factor other issues such as the fact that Walt Disney Company owns the brand/licensing etc. If an article can be found that disputes this, by all means revert - with a citation. Crx2gen 01:12, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:26, 13 February 2008 (UTC)