Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park

 This theme park, located in the  Shijingshan District of BeijingChina, first opened in 1986. It is owned and operated by the  Shijingshan District government. The park has been featured in international media this year for having made unauthorized use of Japanese and American cartoon characters. From Wikipedia (Dec 2007):

according to a report originally broadcast on  Fuji TV’s FNN News, the park features a castle that resembles  Disney’s trademark  Sleeping Beauty Castle and a structure that looks like  Epcot’s  Spaceship Earth. The park also features a host of costumed characters that look amazingly similar to not only  Disney’s trademark characters, but also  ShrekHello KittyDoraemonBugs Bunnyand a number of other trademarked characters.

 

Park officials denied any wrongdoing. When asked by the FNN News reporter if the characters are related to Disney, the themwe park’s general manager Liu Jingwang said that their characters are based on  Grimm’s Fairy Tales. In another question, Liu insisted the  Mickey Mouse-like character wasn’t actually a mouse, but a “big-eared cat.”

 

A… translation of the (old) Chinese slogan (was) “Disney is too far, so please come to Shijingshan.” 

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One Response to “Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park”

If you listen to the Japanese, you’ll see that while they are focusing on the fact that they have ripped of Disney (and other) characters, they are not a fake Disneyland.

They really just an amusement part with pretty standard amusement park rides and a handful of Disney stuff there as well. Sure, they’ve got a Splash Mountain style raft ride but so lots of other people that aren’t called fake Disneyland.

Those segments, especially the second one, are very politically motivated and probably also racist. They are very actively trying to belittle the Chinese by showing the way they’ve ripped of US and Japanese characters as a way of insinuating that Chinese people are uncreative and lawless and the Chinese government is out of control. In the process, they are almost certainly playing up, heavily, the role that the Disney characters play in the park.

Keep that in mind.

mako added these pithy words on Dec 18 07 at 3:32 pm

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