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Franklin

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Shanghai disneyland by the numbers. Shanghai Disneyland opens today.

Shanghai Disneyland by the numbers

Shanghai Disneyland, Disney's first theme park in mainland China, is big by every measure. In fact, it's the entertainment company's largest overseas outpost.

Disney's expectations of the park and accompanying resort's popularity are equally grand, with CEO Bob Iger telling reporters that the company has already started expanding facilities within the seven-square-kilometer (2.7 square mile) property.

Here's a few of the monster numbers that brought the "happiest place on earth" to the world's second-largest economy.

100,000: Workers estimated to have worked on the park's construction, with thousands more working on the accompanying resort infrastructure

11,000: Workers on site during the peak building period

5: Years between breaking ground and the park's June 16 opening to the public

5.5: Billions of dollars it cost to build the park

10,000: Employees working on opening day

2.4: Millions of shrubs and plants needed to create the garden features, along with 12,000 trees

72,000: Metric tonnes of structural steel needed to make the park

160: Kilometers of piping used to construct the major water, fire, electrical and other utility systems, equivalent to 100 miles of piping

100: Species of shrubs used to construct the Gardens of Imagination, plus more than 60 species of trees

8: Main towers on top of the Echanted Storybook Castle, which is the tallest, biggest and most complex castle Disney has ever built

150: Performers and technicians needed to create the Mickey's Storybook Express parade feature, which runs along the longest parade route of any Disney park

3.6: Millions of liters of water needed to fill Treasure Cove

16,340: Square meters of space taken up by the Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure attraction, which is one of the most complex ever built by Disney

24,000: Square meters of rock work that was hand-sculpted to make Adventure Isle

966: Meters' length of the track for the Tron Lightcycle Power Run roller-coaster

4.8: Minutes it takes for an Olympic swimming pool-sized amount of water to flow through the Roaring Rapids flume

16: Millions of meals Disney expects to sell each year

150: Dishes on offer in the theme park, representing the eight major cuisines of China

700: Kilograms of rice Disney expects to serve each day

6,000: Burgers expected to be sold each day

600,000: Giant turkey legs visitors are expected to consume in a year

12: Million heads of bok choy that workers are expected to trim in a year
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antiterror13

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siegecrossbow said:
You've got issues like overcrowding though. There was a major trampling incident in Shanghai a while back.
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yes, incidents will happen, eventually ... and those are not bad anyway , we learn from it

But I don't see mass shooting would happen in China. Gun control in China (and other most countries) is very strict and the punishment is very hard too

The US is the exception, Second Amendment is very interesting to me ... not sure whether it has got anything to do during chaos period in the US (wild wild west) ... mind you, it was adopted in 1791, more than 200 years ago, obviously the situation was extremely different than today
 
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siegecrossbow

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antiterror13 said:
yes, incidents will happen, eventually ... and those are not bad anyway , we learn from it

But I don't see mass shooting would happen in China. Gun control in China (and other most countries) is very strict and the punishment is very hard too

The US is the exception, Second Amendment is very interesting to me ... not sure whether it has got anything to do during chaos period in the US (wild wild west) ... mind you, it was adopted in 1791, more than 200 years ago, obviously the situation was extremely different than today
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The Second Amendment came about back when the U.S. didn't have a standing army. If we didn't have the right to bear arms, we literally had no protection against European powers such as England and France.
 
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B.I.B.

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solarz said:
Probably not, no guns or alligators in Shanghai. :D
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I think alligators are regarded as a endangered species in China anyway, with its natural habitat taken up for rice paddies?
I believe they are alot smaller and not as dangerous as the regular American gator
 
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B.I.B. said:
I think alligators are regarded as a endangered species in China anyway, with its natural habitat taken up for rice paddies?
I believe they are alot smaller and not as dangerous as the regular American gator
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Here ya go. Go feed one like this and let us know how many fingers you got left.:D;)
 
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