“Start waving, start waving” urged a manager walking behind rows of youthful park staff lined up on both sides of Main Street at Hong Kong Disneyland. It was seconds after 10 a.m. Thursday, the bri…
“Start waving, start waving” urged a manager walking behind rows of youthful park staff lined up on both sides of Main Street at. It was seconds after 10 a.m. Thursday, the brief meet-and-greet formalities with the press had been completed, and the park’s first paying guests in some four months were just making their way through temperature checks, ticket scanning and security searches.
The blistering hot day made for picture-perfect photos — blue skies and puffy white clouds — even if due to social distancing measures close-up snaps with Disney characters were off-limits. At the Mad Hatter’s Teacups, a gentle ride perfectly suited to pre-schoolers and their parents, a Mickey and Minnie Mouse duo hammed it up gamely, trying to throw themselves into everyone’s viewfinder.
Heather was not sure of her favorite ride — “Maybe ‘Mystic Manor,'” she pondered — but instead offered: “We’re mostly here to see the shows. They are indoors and air-conditioned.” According to the park’s electronic noticeboards, there were to be four indoor performances Thursday. And, on every corner, a cast member held up a two-handed reminder for people to keep apart. One, Peter, who declined to provide his full name but whose sole job description may as well be “social distancer,” toldThe bigger challenge facing the Hong Kong park seems not to be luring back die-hard fans like Diana and Heather. Rather, it may be finding enough for Peter and other cast members to do — as well as keeping the local politicians on side.
On an earnings call in February, Disney execs warned that if the Hong Kong park were closed for two months, it would likely lose around $40 million in operating income. In the end, Hong Kong Disneyland was closed for double that , and a return to normal operating levels still may not be possible before the end of its current financial year.
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