Disney reveals a first look at an impressive audio-animatronic Elsa as part of 'Frozen Ever After' at Hong Kong Disneyland

Feb 07, 2023 in "Hong Kong Disneyland"

Posted: Tuesday February 7, 2023 12:20pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has shared a new construction update on the new World of Frozen land coming to Hong Kong Disneyland in the second half of 2023, including a sneak-peek of an impressive Elsa audio-animatronic figure.

The world’s first Frozen-themed land will be home to two new attractions, Frozen Ever After and the first-of-its-kind Frozen-themed family-friendly roller coaster Wandering Oaken’s Sliding Sleighs.

In the drone video of the construction site below, you can see the entire themed land is a recreation of the kingdom of Arendelle, drawing upon the natural landscape of Lantau Mountain behind Hong Kong Disneyland as a backdrop.

In this second video, Disney shows off its latest audio-animatronic, a life-size Elsa.

Walt Disney Imagineering collaborated with Walt Disney Animation Studios to ensure that every detail of these characters feels like they’ve stepped right out of the movie.

World of Frozen is expected to open in the second half of 2023 at Hong Kong Disneyland.

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    Supersnow8416 hours ago

    Thinking about movement of cast only areas does anyone know if Hong Kong has land integrity

    britain1 day ago

    I guess the Dwayne Johnson movie wasn't a big enough hit.

    Supersnow842 days ago

    The resort doesn’t own any land they could relocate the cast areas to (all they could really do is make them more dense) There is currently 3 primary cast only areas in HK. 1) north of arendelle/west of space 2) north of Main Street 3) south of Main Street/east of theatre in the jungle The resort owns no “off park land” they could move these to as the only unused land they own right now is the 4th hotel and the other expansion pad east of grizzly (plus off siting cast areas is a nightmare for the cast especially if the park has land integrity, I don’t know if HK has land integrity or not). Of those three sites the only “useful” pad is north of arendelle but that’s also the hardest to move because that’s the vast majority of cast space anyway. They may be able to condense it and open one more pad directly west of space but it’s debatable, arguably everything east of rehearsal road could be made guest facing but with the design of the lands opening a pad where in that zone would be awkward from a guest flow perspective, they’d probably have to rip down storybook theatre and have it flow from small world’s courtyard The original park is just starting to run out of land since it’s boxed in on all sides. This was always meant to be countered by the second gate, not condensing the cast only areas

    LameBoi2 days ago

    With all this talk about expansion, HKDL will have to restructure backstage sooner than later to create more room. Tokyo has been actively tearing down backstage of Adventureland and now we know why. I guess the Jungle Cruise will be replaced now in TDR.

    Supersnow842 days ago

    I’m not opposed to a log flume in any way but honestly I feel like they could substitute the “water ride” by just making FEA get you a little more wet. Some seats on FEA do get wet, if it was more like splash in terms of how wet you got on the main drop it could fill the log flume position without much effort

    no.swatz2 days ago

    This would be truly amazing.

    Gusey2 days ago

    DLR922 days ago

    A splash mountian style based on Pirates of the Caribbean would be amazing!

    Timothy_Q2 days ago

    Really wish they'd bring their Pirates concept back, on the plot east of Grizzly The park still lacks a proper water ride

    Supersnow842 days ago

    I’m assuming they over supplied budget money to quinjet expecting the revolutionary new technology would be super expensive and they didn’t want the budget to run short Now that it’s been replaced with a more generic TOT they probably have excess budget but since some of that budget is from the government they want it re-allocated, not just absorbed into the park funds. But they also want the original plans actually built before they discuss re-distributing excess budget The Pixar zone is entirely independent and the park itself going “see we don’t always need the government to help us pay for everything” and much is why it’s happening alongside the expansion

    Hkayer3 days ago

    They said the pixar venue is funded by the park itself but not the expansion budget. So only tot is announced for the remaining half now.

    IMDREW3 days ago

    Surely the spidey tower and pixar venue cant make up for the other half?

    no.swatz3 days ago

    Yea also they are taking the "second gate" talk slowly. They (government officials and HKDL board) are still discussing on expansions inside the park (Hong Kong Disneyland) instead of the entire resort itself. I'm still surprised how only HALF of the budget was spent so far with the opening of Castle of Magical Dreams, the addition of the daytime castle show (Follow Your Dreams), a Moana show in Adventureland, the nighttime spectacular Momentous, Ant Man and the Wasp Nano Battle (retheme of Buzz Lightyear), Iron Man Experience and World of Frozen.

    lazyboy97o3 days ago

    They could not. Projects are not funded that way nor do they work that way.