As the opening date for the highly anticipated Shanghai Disneyland nears, fans of Mickey and the gang are being reminded to behave.
Anticipation is rife for the grand opening of Shanghai Disney, just weeks away in June – but a select lucky few have already had a sneak peek inside the spectacular park itself.
Never-before-seen pictures show hoards of eager fans exploring the gigantic 963-acre amusement park, which cost $5.5billion (£3.8billion) to build, as part of its six-week-long trial period, which started on May 7.
While we’ve gotten glimpses and heard rumblings about the upcoming Shanghai Disney, the opening is still a month away. But, a few lucky people were able to explore the park early and, lucky for us, posted pictures on places like Twitter and Instagram.
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It’s still six weeks to Shanghai’s long-awaited official opening of Disneyland, but throngs of visitors hit the smaller peripheral Disney Town that opened over the weekend. Disney Town is part of the upcoming $5.5 billion 963-acre Disneyland in Shanghai — the U.S. conglomerate’s first theme park in mainland China, outside of its smaller Hong Kong park.
It’s not open for two months but some lucky fans have already seen the Shanghai Disney Resort up close.
Thousands of tourists flocked to the newly opened Disney Resort train station and boarded trains to the Disneytown area before the theme park’s official unveiling.
Disney is working its magic on classic Chinese dishes — including Peking duck-topped pizza in the shape of Mickey Mouse’s head — to be served up at its new park in Shanghai.
Zhou Jian, a 26-year-old folk dancer, dreams of a stage career, and he believes the Magic Kingdom can help him get there. Zhou recently made the 14-hour journey by train from Shanxi, China, to attend a jobs fair in Shanghai, where he hopes to land work at Walt Disney Co.’s 963-acre, $5.5 billion resort set to open June 16.
Walt Disney‘s theme park debut in China is off to an encouraging start as tickets for the opening day (June 16) were sold out within a few hours of being available on its official website.
Disney‘s Shanghai Disneyland Resort won’t open until June 16, but first-day tickets were sold out within a few hours of becoming available at midnight on March 28.
