Fake DisneylandS, did you know?

[97guns]

I never knew there were fakes until last night, met with a friend that told me about them in Asia so I googled it and was surprised to see several. China, Japan had one, Germany and more. I went to Disneyland Hong Kong and it was real but very small in comparison to California Disneyland

[PeggyHefferon]

What do you mean by fake? Are they not owned and run by Disney?

[disneysteve]

What do you mean by fake? Are they not owned and run by Disney?

Correct. They are cheap knock-offs.

[Jody Lynn]

There are only two Disneyland in Asia, Hong Kong and Japan. I've been to both and they're legit. Hong Kong is small and their latest attraction is Iron Man. Where did you get that Disney Japan is fake? Not true. It's better than Hong Kong.

[Singuy]

They are referring to parks not called Disneyland, but some other name used. If you ever see the mascot, they are obviously copying Disney...except in a weird freaky odd kind of way.

[JoeP]

I never knew about this!

"We vigorously protect our intellectual property and will take action to address infringement,” the Walt Disney company said in an e-mailed statement to Bloomberg. “Our characters and stories have delighted generations, these illegal and substandard imitations unfortunately disappoint all who expect more.”

But Wanda has vigorously denied there was any infringement of Disney intellectual property.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2016/0...egal-tiff.html

Maybe Disney will exact revenge by pulling manufacturing of their cheap junk from China and move operations to U.S. factories, even if it means making less profit...and lower stock prices...no wait never mind, they'll keep manufacturing in China!

[PeggyHefferon]

what that is so wrong. See i dont get why people just had to ruin the dream by making false assumptions. morally wrong if you ask me.

[~bs]

I've been to the parks in Japan, I assure you it's not fake.

[97guns]

In 1959, a group of Japanese investors tried to convince executives at the Walt Disney Company to build a second Disney theme park… in Japan. Disney liked the idea, but not the location and opened a sister park for its Disneyland in California with Disney World in Florida. Undeterred, the consortium decided to move forward without Disney’s blessing and build an exact replica of Disneyland in Nara, Japan. Opening in 1961, Dreamland had all of the amenities of Disneyland, such as replicas of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, The Jungle Cruise, Autopia, the Matterhorn, a monorail, and even a Main Street USA recreating that old timey small town Americana feel for Japanese tourists. Dreamland was the top amusement park in Japan throughout the ’60s and ’70s…until the genuine article Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983. Dreamland closed for good in 2006.

Europa Park (Germany)

The most popular amusement park in Europe? Disneyland Paris. The second-most popular amusement park in Europe? Europa Park in Rust, Germany…which hopes you really don’t notice that it’s not, technically, a Disney theme park. Opening in 1975, popular attractions include Geisterschloss, or “Ghost House,” which is inspired by Disney’s Haunted Mansion and the EuroSat, a futuristic roller coaster with a lot in common with Space Mountain. Europa Park’s mascot, by the way, is Euromaus, a friendly cartoon mouse.

Shijingshan Amusement Park (China)

This government-owned park in Beijing opened in 1986. Much like Dreamland, Shijingshan has its own Sleeping Beauty Castle, and employees walk the grounds dressed like characters who bear striking likeness to Donald Duck and Snow White. But its potential infringements aren’t limited to just Disney’s intellectual property. The park is filled with statues, rides, and characters clearly based on Batman, Shrek, Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, and Hello Kitty, among others. In 2007, Disney actually filed suit, but park management (once again, the Chinese government) claimed that the park’s features were actually based on Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which fall in the public domain, and that any similarities were entirely coincidental. Nevertheless, they quietly removed many of the park’s most obvious Disney references.

Wonderland (China)

In 1998, a Thai-owned development company called the Reignwood Group, made plans for a faux-Disneyland on pastureland 20 miles outside of Beijing. The planned 120-acre Wonderland would have been Asia’s biggest theme park. But the local government, the farmers who worked the land, and the Reignwood Group couldn’t come to an agreement on the value the property…even though construction had begun. It was scrapped entirely in 2000. All that’s there now is a partially completed Cinderella’s Castle, based on the one at the Magic Kingdom in Florida.

Lotte World (South Korea)

South Korea has its own fake Disneyland, as well, but Lotte World’s backers at least poured some money into constructing an impressive tourist attraction in its own right. As Disney’s California complex is split into two parks (Disneyland and California Adventure) Lotte World is split up into distinct theme parks: Magic Island, a manmade island surrounded by a manmade lake, and Adventure, an indoor park, housed under a glass ceiling. Popular—and familiar—attractions include the Gyro Drop (a haunted house thrill ride heavily based on Disney’s Tower of Terror), Adventures of Sinbad (a thinly veiled Pirates of the Caribbean clone), and Pharaoh’s Fury (a takeoff on Disney’s Indiana Jones Adventure). One big difference: you can’t buy souvenir “Mouse ears” at Lotte World. You’ll have to settle for tiger ears.

[~bs]

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Wow, I had no idea. Second most visited theme park in the world, seems like they're losing out a bit by not owning the park (although they control all creative content and licensing).

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Tokyo Disneyland (東京ディズニーランド Tōkyō Dizunīrando?) is a 115-acre (47 ha) theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, near Tokyo.[1] Its main gate is directly adjacent to both Maihama Station and Tokyo Disneyland Station. It was the first Disney park to be built outside the United States, and it opened on 15 April 1983. The park was constructed by Walt Disney Imagineering in the same style as Disneyland in California and Magic Kingdom in Florida.[1] It is owned by The Oriental Land Company, which licenses the theme from The Walt Disney Company. Tokyo Disneyland and its companion park, Tokyo DisneySea, are the only Disney parks not wholly or partly owned by the Walt Disney Company (however, Disney has creative control).

The park has seven themed areas: the World Bazaar; the four classic Disney lands: Adventureland, Westernland, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland; and two mini-lands: Critter Country and Mickey's Toontown. Many of these areas mirror those in the original Disneyland as they are based on American Disney films and fantasies. Fantasyland includes Peter Pan's Flight, Snow White's Scary Adventures, Dumbo the Flying Elephant, based on classic Disney films and characters.[2] The park is noted for its extensive open spaces, to accommodate the large crowds that visit the park.[1] In 2013, Tokyo Disneyland hosted 17.2 million visitors, making it the world's second-most visited theme park behind the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort.[3]

[PeggyHefferon]

They all pale in comparison to Walley World