According to the Hollywood Reporter , on 16 June, the Shanghai Disneyland amusement park opened to the public. The 963-acre (390 hectare; 3.9 km2) development was built in the city's Pudong district. The project was the idea of Zhu Rongji, who had visited Disneyland in California in 1990 while he was mayor of Shanghai (Zhu later became vice-premier, then premier). It received the approval of the national government in 2009, after the Walt Disney Company agreed to make it "embody Chinese culture."
Disney agreed to take a minority 43 percent stake in the theme park itself, with the rest held by a consortium of Chinese state-controlled companies called the Shanghai Shendi Group. (Disney did retain operational control, however, owning 70 percent of the management company created with Shendi to run the resort.)
The city's subway system was extended to the park; the trains are decorated in a Disney theme.
Taiwanese tourists who made a banner that read "Participating in the Shanghai Disneyland Opening Ceremony" were "blocked" (Tor-friendly link) by guards, ostensibly because the word "Disneyland" violated copyright.
additional coverage:
- Rappler
- Shanghai Daily
- Orange County Register (editorial)
- Harbour Times
- CNN
- Barron's blog
- Movie News Guide
- Shanghaiist (Tor-friendly link)
- Inside the Magic (video; may require disabling of ad-blocker)
- afr.com
- South China Morning Post
- Orange County Register
- Theme Park Insider
- The Nation Bangkok
- Santa Fe New Mexican
- Plastics News (about plastic used in the park)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 25 2016, @04:53AM
The Chinese government took a good look at how Disney does business, and liked what they saw.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Saturday June 25 2016, @05:48AM
This sounds less like the Magic Kingdom and more the Tragic Kingdom.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday June 26 2016, @06:01AM
Does Disney know there's a Shanghai Disneyland?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday June 25 2016, @04:57AM
"The city's subway line was extended to the park" should read "a line was built extending the city's subway system to the park."
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday June 25 2016, @05:10AM
I found a simpler change.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 25 2016, @05:18AM
What are we supposed to make of this sentence?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday June 25 2016, @07:07AM
You can refer to the linked Hong Kong Free Press article if you'd like to see it expressed in different words.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 25 2016, @08:44AM
Huh, had thought you were implying something more/else.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 25 2016, @07:24AM
What are we supposed to make of this sentence?
That the majority of people don't understand the difference between trademarks and copyright?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 25 2016, @08:55AM
I agree that the sentence is confusing. I actually went to read the article to understand it.
In brief, the guards have a clear misunderstanding of what "copyrights" refer to. I guess we can interpret this as a sign of inappropriate preparations.