SHANGHAI DISNEYLAND
Shanghai, China
Walt Disney Company
Opened June 16, 2016
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(1/18/2025) Construction Well Underway for 3rd Shanghai Disneyland Hotel
(11/28/2024) Shanghai Disneyland Switching To Real-Name Ticket Policy In Mid December
(8/12/2024) Shanghai Disneyland To Add Spider-Man Themed Roller Coaster Attraction
(6/3/2024) Shanghai Disneyland To Adopt New Six Tier Surge Ticket Pricing Later This Year
Resort News - (11/28/2024) In an effort to crackdown on problems with illegal ticket scams involving visits to Shanghai Disneyland, the theme park resort announced that starting on December 23rd they will be putting a new ‘real-name ticketing policy’ into effect. All guests planning on visiting Shanghai Disneyland will be required to purchase tickets using a valid government ID, with each ID only being able to purchase one ticket, per-visit, per visit date.
Upon entering the park guests will have to show not only the ticket, but present a physical copy of the same official government ID used to purchase the ticket. It is also said that the same rules will be used for the purchase of annual passes to the park as well.
(6/3/2024) Admission pricing into the Shanghai Disneyland Resort theme park has now gotten a little more complicated. Borrowing a move out of the US park’s playbook, Shanghai Disneyland has announced that they will be adopting a new six-tier pricing structure for tickets to visit the theme park that will go into effect on Nov. 24th.
Much like the US parks, this has become more commonly known as “surge pricing” or “dynamic pricing”, which is the kind of thing you may be more used to seeing with Hotel bookings, as the more busy they expect to get on any given day, the higher the ticket prices will go. The new pricing tiers will range from 475 yuan ($65) up to 799 yuan ($110).
2025 - Nothing new is expected at this time...
 2026?? - Third Resort Hotel - Under Construction - (1/18/2025) Blooloop reports that construction on a third resort hotel at the Shanghai Disneyland resort is well underway, with the basic structure for the new building standing completed. I don’t think Disney has revealed the name for this newest hotel just yet, but it will stand 9-stories tall, feature 400-rooms, and is located not far from the existing Shanghai Disneyland Hotel along the shore of Wishing Star Lake. Based on the progress, I’d guess it will likely be ready for guests sometime in 2026.
(1/17/2024) A quick look at the concept art for a new hotel planned for Shanghai Disneyland to be built along the shore of Wishing Star Lake can be found over at ThemeParkInsider. The 400-room hotel has not been given a name yet, but has been referred to as Project Triangle so far.
(8/31/2023) Blooloop confirms that the Shanghai Disney Resort has broken ground on building a third resort hotel property. According to the description, it will be inspired by “Art Nouveau architecture” and will be both, “authentically Disney and distinctly Chinese”. Look for the new 400 room resort to rise on the shore of Wishing Star Lake.
???? - New Spider-Man Themed Roller Coaster - Under Construction - (8/11/2024) Shanghai Disneyland will be getting a new attraction themed to Spider-Man as the park’s first Marvel thrill ride. Based on the concept artwork, this will be some kind of new roller coaster based attraction.
(4/27/2024) Shanghai Disneyland is apparently looking to build a rather large new roller coaster that will feature forward and backwards launch sections. A layout drawing was discovered within government permits filed it seems and has been reposted on social media. From the look of things the trains will move into some kind of scene area and stop, only to be launched right into the backwards section of the ride first, before coming to a stop within another ride building where it will then launch forward into the much longer forward facing ride portion.
All said, the attraction is said to occupy a 5 to 6 acre site and appears to be a mostly outdoor coaster with a few indoor sections, mainly to enclose the two reverse and launch points, as well as the station. The theme of the coaster is not known at this time, it will be located on a currently unused expansion plot tucked right in between the new Zootopia themed land and the backstage ride-building for the Pirates of the Carribbean attraction. The way things are laid out right now on the layout, the access point to the new coaster would be through Zootopia, which could also make this the most logical theme for the new attraction as well and give the land a second phase expansion.
Of course, this could also be some kind of stand-alone themed attraction as well, much like Big Grizzly Mountain roller coaster at Hong Kong Disneyland, which also features forward and backwards sections, and a launch. In fact, the layout of the section of the new Shanghai coaster where it rolls backwards into an enclosed area to allow for the track to switch before it launches forward once again along a parallel track is essentially a mirror-image version of how it happens on the Vekoma built Big Grizzly Mountain in Hong Kong Disneyland (photo). The basic layout of the coaster, which features a lot of spiraling turns and cross over points is also reminiscent of a Big Thunder / Big Grizzly style mine-train roller coaster, which would be considered a staple check-box experience offered by every single one of Disney’s main “Disneyland” style theme parks except for Shanghai right now. Much like Hong Kong, Shanghai Disneyland was also built without any kind of “Frontierland” style land, so a stand-alone coaster like Big Grizzly would also fit well to serve that function.
(8/29/21) An interesting post on Twitter was sent my way regarding a possible new roller coaster project in development for Shanghai Disneyland. The image posted is entirely in Chinese, so I really have no idea what it says, but according to the post it is a request to manufacturers to submit bids for a double-launched roller coaster with a track switch.
It’s worth noting that this should not be for the Zootopia attraction that is well under construction at this point, but should be something for the park’s next new attraction after that. So far, we really haven’t heard too many rumors about what may be intended, so anyone else know more?
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