Jake's View | Don’t waste our money on Disney, give us waterfront parks for all
How come we can pony up for failing theme park but can’t afford five promised waterfront parks that will bring much needed green space?
Hong Kong Disneyland is seeking to boost business with a HK$10.9 billion expansion – more than half of which will be funded by taxpayers – featuring, in a global first, zones based on themes from its blockbuster Frozen and Marvel Superhero films.
SCMP, November 23
I had my sister and her husband over recently for a visit and took them to both HK Disney and Ocean Park. Their verdict: Ocean Park every time, Disney isn’t even in the same league.
I mention it because I have yet to meet anyone who thinks differently.
It should not be surprising that the Disney Park is losing money again after briefly sticking its nose up out of the red. Leave alone the competition emerging everywhere in the mainland, its amusements are tired and dated.
Thus to perk itself up with a fresh look, it will ... do the same old thing – a bigger plaster and paint fantasy castle of 1930’s provenance (you can only look at it) and new fairground rides based on 1950’s comic book themes of men in bizarre costumes throwing impossibly heavy things at each other. Hollywood has run completely out of ideas.
