Hong Kong Disneyland,

Hong Kong Disneyland
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by Marc Borrelli
September 6, 2002
Marc Borrelli returns with a first look at Disney's latest international project - Hong Kong Disneyland.
Well, after doing many updates leading up to the opening of DisneySea and then the approximately 2,000 picture tour of the park, I needed a little chance to recharge.  But I'm back, and very proud to reporting again here at LaughingPlace.com - The best Disney news and information site on the internet.

So, without further adieu...  Here we go again -
 
This is the first of many progress reports I'll put together over the nearly three and a half years leading up to the anticipated late 2005 /early 2006 opening on this new Disneyland in Hong Kong.  Further along in this report we'll look at the Penny's Bay site, but I 'd like to start of by setting the scene a little bit.  You can skip ahead if you like, but you'll be missing an extremely important aspect of this new park - its location, in what might be the most incredible city in the world...
  -- Marc Borrelli

Hong Kong

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They call it "The City of Life".

I won't argue with that.  This city of seven million people has more energy, more excitement, more life than any place I've experienced!

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There's Hong Kong Island itself, where you'll find "Central", the appropriately named financial center of what, for the past five years..
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... has been known as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China,
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... with it's improbably dense cluster of towering and ostentatious skyscrapers,
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... its frequent reminders of its 155 years of British rule,
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