World of Frozen opens at Hong Kong Disneyland

"the very first theme park attraction dedicated to the film"

Besides the ride at Epcot... and Maverick.

The coaster there looks spectacular – or should I say half the coaster. It might be twenty seconds from top of lift to brakes.

I've been checking it out on YouTube. Very impressive.

kpjb:

the very first theme park attraction dedicated to the film"

Besides the ride at Epcot

I guess they don’t count that because it’s always broken?

And this one and the one in Tokyo, don't use face projection, they use full animatronic figures.

Couple observations;

First, wow to the theming for the coaster, but also wow to all that theming for such a lame coaster.

Second, and this is from someone who has never traveled to a Disney park outside of the United States, I found it odd that English is the primary language being used in all the theming. Is that the norm?

English and Chinese are official languages in Hong Kong, and seeing as how it was a British "colony" up through the 90's, that's not surprising.

The more you know. I didn't know either of those things.

I've never been to Hong Kong but it's very common in Japan for attraction signage and attraction names to be presented in English. TDL's Pirates of the Caribbean's narration is in English but everything else I recall was Japanese. Then there's the electrical parade which is a mix of Japanese and English.

I was talking about this with a coworker, about how English is the certain common language in certain places, even to a degree around Europe. This after pointing out the weird one-off things that happen in English, making it one of the most difficult languages. Also the joke:

What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks one language? American.

(This is actually not that true, as various estimates put multiple language speakers in the US at around 1 in 4. But for comparison, it's 2 in 3 in Europe, and that's including the UK and Ireland.)

https://www.americathebilin...-tells-us/

eightdotthree:

it's very common in Japan for attraction signage and attraction names to be presented in English.

This is even more bizarre to me.

On Jungle Cruise HKDL there were 3 lines (at least the last time I went which was 2015). One for Cantonese, one for Mandarin, one for English. I'd love to hear the different scripts translated and see how they compare (I know about 2 words in Cantonese and about kindergarten level Mandarin).

When we saw the Festival of the Lion King show (which was spoken in English), in between scenes, a pair of monkeys would come out and tell everyone in Cantonese what had happened and what was going on.

One of the most jarring moments, language wise was when a perfect Jack Sparrow look alike character opened his mouth and spoke fluent Cantonese. That totally weirded me out for some reason.

One of my fav parts of Disneyland Paris was hearing Anthony Daniels voice 3PO in French, but with a Queer British tone...

“This is actually not that true, as various estimates put multiple language speakers in the US at around 1 in 4.”

I would say that number is predominantly immigrant households where English is not the primary language.

Still way too many “muricans” who can’t speak a second language .

Well, yes, that was kind of my point. Some folks have a pretty messed up view of what "American" means.

Still way too many “muricans” who can’t speak a second language .

Per the article I linked above, 60% of people in Sweden are bilingual, 37% in the Netherlands, 28% in Germany, 23% in US, 22% in the UK, 20% in France and 11% in Italy. EU average is 25%. Point being that Americans don't suck at language (at least on relative basis) as much as is often said.

GoBucks89:

Point being that Americans don't suck at ...(fill in the blank)... as much as is often said.

Dude. Read the room. CoasterBuzz.

If we can't incorporate some quip about how we're not as good as other countries, it's not coaster discussion. And even when you throw some numbers out there, we'll rationalize it into a failure.

Regardless, I admire your stamina.

"High five!"