Shanghai Disneyland Park

I'm going to do something fun, and I'm going to jump to the classic rides.

I'm going to take the Crystal Grotto from Shanghai Disney, where you're on a boat and you see all the different princesses' performances, and you see lights and water, and you go inside underneath the castle in the grotto.

I think I'm going to take that.

I think that's a unique ride.

trackless ride because I think I'm going to take a ride that you're probably not going to take for my last dark ride.

And I'm choosing between The Enchanted Tale of Beating the Beast, which is at Tokyo Disneyland.

I'm also choosing between Zootopia Hot Pursuit from Shanghai Disney.

And then I'm also thinking about Pooh's Honey Hunt in Tokyo Disneyland as well.

Beyond that, we, we also have, uh, Jim Hill Media's newest show, The Case For with Chris Cox, and I have to mention Disney Unpacked.

That's the show that I do with Len and veteran Imagineer, Jim Schull, for Patreon, and we're just now finishing up the script for the next episode of that series, uh, which shines a spotlight on the Pixie Hollow project, a Disney fairies-themed land that was supposed to be built, well, not just at the Magic Kingdom down in Florida, but also over in China at Shanghai Disneyland, and, uh, actually hoping to record that show this week with Mr. Tester and Mr. Schull.

And let's see, what else? Oh, uh, as we go to close up shop here on this solo edition of Fine Tuning, I just wanna thank Eric Hersy and David Gray for the great job they do with the editing and production of this podcast.

Uh, I also, uh, gonna ask a quick favor of you folks, if you could please head on over to Apple Podcasts and rate and review this show, as well as Light the Fuse.

The middle sections of the book mostly focus on individual events, many of which I think would be of interest to listeners here.

Mostly events that relate to the parks, such as the evolution of Epcot's Future World, the development of the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Hotel, buying back shares of Disneyland Paris, and the opening of Shanghai Disneyland.

There's a section on each, and each of these stories fills in little bits of the various larger company historical narratives, such as how Disney regained control of the Paris resort, even though at one time it was owned by a couple hundred thousand individual shareholders.

But one significant element that I noticed as I moved through this section was this, where Chapek's gaze was in terms of what and who he was focused on.

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Captain Salazar's phantoms in Shanghai Disneyland.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, okay.

And I'm Kate.

And today we're talking all about Shanghai Disneyland.

But first, before we start, Kate, what are you wearing?

So a tragedy occurred like a few minutes before we started.

What do you think?

Yeah, I would agree.

I was thinking about this question and I feel like the majority of foreigners that go to Shanghai Disneyland are, one, if they live on that side of the world, so it's just easier.

If you live in Australia or things, it's easier to get there.

All right.

If we move the people, Disneyland will make the people move again.

[laughs]

That was your weekly people mover fact from Sam.

Boys.

Go ahead, Sam, pick one.

Disneyland Park.

Disneyland Park in California is number two at 17.337 million.

What was your relationship like with him prior to all of this? It was fabulous.

I mean, you know, we went, you know, sometimes when you go through really tough times and, you know, not only the 20 years that I worked with them, but we would fly to, we probably flew to Shanghai back and forth trying to get Shanghai Disneyland open 20, 30 times.

And we would, you know, drink red wine and do play Name That Tune with songs from our phones.

And it was as good as it could be.