Abandoned fake Disneyland in China

[mr_teisco_delrey]

I saw this while reading an economic report on China.

http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2011/12/12/chinas-deserted-fake-disneyland/

 

 

Has anybody ever seen this place?

Edited December 13, 2011 by robbalvey

[SharkTums]

We passed by on the 2008 China Trip. There's really nothing else to see other than the pictures that guy has. No attractions or anything were ever built.

[gisco]

I remember talking about this on the trip but I don't remember actually seeing it. I was probably dazed from the last factory tour!

[thomas2]

I expected to see pictures of Nara Dreamland tbh.

[SharkTums]

^^We passed by and you could see the castle off to the side of the road. Frank (our Chinese guide) explained that it was a failed Disneyland clone that had been given up on many years ago.

[cfc]

"Nara Dreamland China"?

[thomas2]

Read right over the China part

[aimster]

That's Wonderland! This was supposed to be a Disneyland clone but it was obviously never completed and now just sitting there, rotting away. That photo in the OP is kind of creepy and fascinating at the same time.

[Mechanic]

Even unfinished, the castle is still bigger than Disneyland's.

[Nrthwnd]

The castle looks like

 

a great place to eventually live

 

when overpowering and enslaving the world.*

 

 

 

*(And a definite fixer-upper, too.)

[davidmorton]

Theres a cool video of that place over on the photographer Trey Ratcliff's site;

 

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2011/11/07/abandoned-chinese-disneyworld/

 

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Couple of other links too;

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/chinas-abandoned-wonderland/100207/

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/china%E2%80%99s-deserted-fake-disneyland.html

 

http://www.timeoutbeijing.com/features/Propaganda/11322/Wonderland-Amusement-Park.html

[robbalvey]

I don't understand why these people have made such a big deal out of this. There really is nothing there, as it was never even close to be completed. They only got as far as that entrance area, and part of the castle. Maybe I'm jaded because I've been to places like Nara Dreamland and some of the other creepy Chinese Disneyland knock-offs that actually DID get built...but feel just as abandoned?? I dunno. I guess also what bothers me about these stories is how they seem to try to make you believe there is more there than there actually is. Like the one story claims "So, outside of Beijing, to the north, is a huge abandoned Disneyland", when, no there's not. There's a wall and a partially built castle, which is almost as interesting as a shopping mall under construction. There is NOT a "huge abandoned Disneyland." In Japan there IS a "huge abandoned Disneyland", but not at this location they are writing about.

 

Yeah, it's creepy that it was never built, and it's still just sitting there, but if you're looking for pictures of a COOL abandoned place, try this instead....

 

http://acidcow.com/pics/11975-nara-dreamland-abandoned-theme-park-in-japan-24.html

Edited December 17, 2011 by robbalvey

[gisco]

Kind of funny that if you look at the link to the video of the place, the guy chickened out and did not go in the castle.

 

Also interesting to see that the developers didn't own all the land before starting the project.

[Nrthwnd]

^^ Yes, Nara Dreamland was definitely more of a "Fake Disneyland," one that was actually 'completed' and running for awhile, before it closed up it's...uh....drawbridge?

[ScottBrown]

Is the wooden coaster at Nara a Viper clone?

[154bmag]

Is the wooden coaster at Nara a Viper clone?

Viper is a Cyclone cone, and so is Aska, so yes.