Shanghaî Disneyland Construction Pictures !

Shanghaî Disneyland construction began and as we know SDL news are rare. But Shanghaî Disneyland under construction pictures are even more rare! Thanks to a chinese photo agency we have the very first pictures showing the construction of Disney's most awaited theme park project.

As you'll see below this is just the start and obviously they're building now the park and resort's foundations. As to know what will be what by looking at these pictures, i'm sorry to say that i can't tell, at least not until there is more to see which hopefully will happen in a few months!

I remind you that i'm partly on a break all this week ( although as you can see it doesn't stop me to post new articles ) and also to don't miss the great Disney and more Contest in which there is two copies of the Disneyland Paris book "From Sketch to Reality" to win as well as one copy of the new DLP, 20 years of Dreams!

There is five questions to answer, it's fun to play, and with a bit of luck you might be among the lucky winners! The contest ends next thursday October 25 and  all you have to do is to jump HERE and answer to the five questions! Good luck to you!

Shanghaî Disneyland hotels were in fact already revealed on the 2011 D23 Expo SDL model !

Guess what?, the two Shanghaî Disneyland hotels which the plans were released three days ago - see yesterday's post HERE or next article below - were in fact already revealed on the Shanghaî Disneyland model displayed at the 2011 D23 Expo! And if you look well at the model pictures the shape of the hotels on the model is exactly the same than the one you've seen yesterday on the official plans!

You can see them on Andy Castro's picture above but you can have an even closer look on the picture below. The Hotel 1 is supposed to be a 5 Stars, seven floors, 41,955 square meters, victorian colonial hotel and the Hotel 2 is supposed to be a 3 or 4 stars, 7 floors, 44,901 square meters, Toy Story themed hotel. For more infos about these hotels see yesterday's article HERE.



While we talk about Shanghaî, more news about the Shanghaî DreamWorks project announced earlier this month: "It will be different in its essence from the Disney project. While Disney continues to emphasize its theme park-style attractions, Oriental DreamWorks wants to recreate an entertainment district, similar to London’s West End or New York’s Broadway.

The area will stretch over six city blocks and boost various entertainment venues. It will have the world's largest IMAX music venues as well as a "Kung Fu Panda"-themed pagoda. It will also integrate a real U$350 million animation studio called “Oriental DreamWorks”, as well as restaurants, shops and hotels. Some of the best world architects will be part of the construction project".

So, good news, it seems that the DreamWorks project definitely will not be a real theme park but more and won't try to compete with Shanghaî Disneyland.

Top picture by Andy Castro