Saturday, November 03, 2007

Disney Theme Park in Malaysia?

We have these rumors about Disney theme parks in Korea, another one in China, one in India, etc... etc.. surfacing periodically. Rumors of a possible Disney theme park in Singapore and nearby southern Malaysian state of Johor have also surfaced now and then. Since Universal is already building its theme park in Singapore, I'm guessing Disney would no longer be considering that location. However, the rumors of a Disney theme park in Malaysia continues to resurface, this one being the latest.

The proposed Disneyland theme park and resort is slated to be bigger than Hong Kong Disneyland and about the size of Tokyo Disney Resort, it said.


The location that is being proposed does makes sense, since it is isn't that far away from Singapore in terms of distance. But anyone who has tried to get across the causeway connecting Singapore and Malaysia during a busy period can tell you, traffic can get rather nasty. So if the major selling point of that location is to pull in tourists from Singapore as well, then some drastic construction to improve traffic flow between those two points must also be addressed.

And I would be very interested to see how Disney deals with getting rid of mosquitoes there! If they think they had quite a success in dealing with those insects in Florida, they haven't seen anything yet!

Of course, all of this is rather moot if there really is no Disney park being planned there.

Zz.

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