Toy Story Land opens at Shanghai Disneyland
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SHANGHAI Disney Resort celebrated a major milestone yesterday with the opening of Disney Pixar’s Toy Story Land, the seventh themed area and the first major expansion of Shanghai Disneyland since it opened in June 2016.
The new area features new attractions, immersing visitors in the creativity, fun and imagination of Pixar’s Toy Story.
Bob Iger, chairman and chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Company, officially unveiled the expansion early yesterday. “We’re grateful to the people of China for wholeheartedly embracing Shanghai Disney Resort, for truly making it their own and also making it one of the most successful theme parks we’ve ever opened,” Iger said.
The new area, inspired by the popular Toy Story films, is adorned with oversized toys, new adventures, colorful sights and characters from the movies. It is designed to make visitors feel as if they’ve been shrunken down to the size of toys. It features three new attractions: Slinky Dog Spin, Rex’s Racer and Woody’s Round-Up.
Rex’s Racer, with its U-shaped track, is said to be the most thrilling of the three rides. It will zip forward and backward at increasing heights and speed on a 30-meter-tall track. Slinky Dog Spin will let visitors race around a “wavy roundabout.” Woody’s Round-Up features 11 ponies in a ranch, each one pulling a cart.
Work on the Toy Story Land started in November 2016 and was completed within a year-and-a-half, thanks to a simplified approval and verification process initiated by the local government.
The facility like Rex’s Racer, for instance, took about 40 days to get approval from the market supervision authority of the Pudong New Area.
The administrative commission of the Shanghai International Tourism and Resorts Zone, where the Shanghai Disney Resort stands in the core area, has set up a coordination platform for various governmental bodies to speed up their verification processes, Sun Caiguo, a senior official with the commission, said.
The tourism zone has received 34 million visitors since its official opening two years ago, the commission said.
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