Current:Home > MarketsHong Kong’s Disneyland opens 1st Frozen-themed attraction, part of a $60B global expansion-LoTradeCoin
Hong Kong’s Disneyland opens 1st Frozen-themed attraction, part of a $60B global expansion
View Date:2025-01-13 04:14:12
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong Disneyland opened its first Frozen-themed attraction on Monday, with thousands of eager visitors turning up to experience the new rides, some lining up for hours to get an early start.
Based on Disney’s wildly popular Frozen animation film, the new section of the park features landscapes and characters from the movie and two new rides, a roller coaster and a boat ride that takes visitors through different scenes featured in the film.
“Over the past decade, the film has grown into one of the most successful franchises in Disney history,” said Josh D’Amaro, chairman of Disney Experiences. “World of Frozen represents Hong Kong Disneyland’s largest and boldest expansion since the park opened in 2005.”
The opening comes after Disney announced in September a $60 billion expansion of its parks and cruises over about a decade. Now that Chinese tourists are venturing abroad again after the pandemic, the pandemic, the new attraction is meant to be a game changer for a theme park that has run losses for years.
Some of the hundreds of Disney fans who lined up hours ahead of time were dressed like characters from Frozen.
Disney enthusiast Bryan Darmanic, who had travelled from California with his wife and daughter, were among the first visitors to the Frozen-themed roller coaster and received limited edition souvenirs to commemorate the experience.
“The World of Frozen is really well-designed and beautiful,” said Darmanic, whose family was making its first visit to the Hong Kong theme park.
Winnie Ip, a tourist from Macao, said she arrived at 9 a.m. in the morning ahead of the opening of the Frozen section.
The Frozen attractions were “magnificent,” Ip said.
Hong Kong has been beefing up the park to try and draw more visitors. In June 2022, it debuted its Momentous multimedia and fireworks show, which is staged at its castle on most nights.
Elsewhere, Disney plans to launch a Zootopia-themed area at its Shanghai Disneyland in December, a Fantasy Springs port at Tokyo DisneySea next spring and a Frozen-themed Kingdom of Arendelle at Disneyland Paris, slated to open in either 2024 or 2025.
veryGood! (454)
Related
- Watch: Military dad's emotional return after a year away
- African American English, Black ASL are stigmatized. Experts say they deserve recognition
- Billionaires are ditching Nvidia. Here are the 2 AI stocks they're buying instead.
- Buttigieg scolds railroads for not doing more to improve safety since Ohio derailment
- Climate Advocacy Groups Say They’re Ready for Trump 2.0
- Derrick Henry to sign with Baltimore Ravens on two-year contract, per reports
- Madonna taps Cardi B, daughter Estere for Celebration Tour 'Vogue' dance-off
- Kate’s photo scandal shows how hard it is for the UK monarchy to control its narrative
- Former North Carolina labor commissioner becomes hospital group’s CEO
- Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper, Shouts Down Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro Over a Proposed ‘Hydrogen Hub’
Ranking
- Nelly will not face charges after St. Louis casino arrest for drug possession
- Dolly Parton says one of her all-time classic songs might appear on Beyoncé's new album
- Peter Navarro, former Trump White House adviser, ordered to report to federal prison by March 19
- Eric Carmen, 'All By Myself' singer and frontman of the Raspberries, dies at 74
- Mariah Carey's Amazon Holiday Merch Is All I Want for Christmas—and It's Selling Out Fast!
- Proof Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright's Marriage Was Imploding Months Before Separation
- Lily Allen says her children 'ruined my career' as a singer, but she's 'glad'
- Avalanche forecaster killed by avalanche he triggered while skiing in Oregon
Recommendation
-
Bitcoin has topped $87,000 for a new record high. What to know about crypto’s post-election rally
-
Scott Peterson appears virtually in California court as LA Innocence Project takes up murder case
-
Ex-Jaguars employee who stole $22 million from team sentenced to 6½ years in prison
-
New Heights: Jason and Travis Kelce win iHeartRadio Podcast of the Year award
-
Judge recuses himself in Arizona fake elector case after urging response to attacks on Kamala Harris
-
Climate, a major separator for Biden and Trump, is a dividing line in many other races, too
-
Renewed push for aid for radiation victims of U.S. nuclear program
-
Private utility wants to bypass Georgia county to connect water to new homes near Hyundai plant