TheMaxRebo
DIS Veteran
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- Jan 12, 2008
Trying to get this back on topic.
Is this really big enough to be a "land"?(in shanghai) Is it being built with an eye towards expansion if it proves to be popular?
Disney has had a history of smaller areas that are temporary. Small areas with no attractions that aren't necessarily a "land".
Just curious what folks definition is of a land? Must it have attractions? Is a cohesive theme of an area, enough? Must it have it's own music loop.
Would you consider Main street USA a land, or liberty square? Could you have a land within a land? (For example something along the lines of Cars land, inside a Pixar land).
Sometimes we throw out definitions that I don't think we all see eye to eye on.
No right or wrongs here, just curious what everyone's take is.
I think there are different definitions but if you look at Hong Kong Disneyland, their first expansion was three smaller lands, that were each called a "Land" two of which really only have 1 attraction. I think a "land" is a uniquely themed area and that once you are outside of that theming you are outside of that land
Even at the original Disneyland, they have Critter Country which just has Splash Mountain and Winnie the Pooh ... even their New Orleans Sq is pretty small land wise (granted it has 2 classic attractions so *feels* important, but size wise it is pretty small)
EDIT - added a map of those small lands in Hong Kong Disneyland ... I would think this Zootopia would be at least as big and immersive as they are: