Shanghai Disney Resort adding Spider-Man-themed roller-coaster ride to its web of appeal

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The forthcoming attraction, which will offer guests a high-speed, fully immersive experience, is based on the popular Marvel Super Heroes

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Shanghai Disney Resort, which encompasses the Disneyland theme park, hotels and Disneytown and Wishing Star Park areas, began operations in 2016. Photo: Kyodo

Daniel Renin Shanghai

Published: 2:06pm, 12 Aug 2024

Shanghai Disney Resort will add a new Marvel attraction as it presses ahead with an expansion plan to tap increasing travel demand in mainland China in the post-Covid-19 era.

The company, a venture between Walt Disney and state-owned Shanghai Shendi (Group), said on Sunday that the Spider-Man-themed roller-coaster ride will offer guests a high-speed, fully immersive experience. It did not reveal the investment or the completion date for the ninth attraction at the Shanghai Disneyland amusement park.

Based on the popular Marvel Super Heroes the proposed attraction will allow guests to follow Spider-Man, who has got himself into a bit of a tangle, at very high speeds to help him get out of trouble, Shanghai Disney Resort said in a statement.

The announcement came just eight months after the opening of a Zootopia-themed attraction, the first of its kind in the world, to burnish the appeal of the US$5.5 billion resort.

“The new attraction’s initial construction preparation work began earlier this year,” the statement said, adding that it will be located next to the Zootopia-themed land.

Shanghai Disney Resort, which encompasses the Disneyland theme park, hotels and Disneytown and Wishing Star Park areas, began operations in 2016. Two years later, Disney and state-owned Shendi, which owns 57 per cent of the resort, added a Toy Story-themed attraction.

A new Spider-Man roller-coaster rise is coming to Shanghai Disneyland. Photo: Disney/Marvel