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http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1678
It's hillarious how a spokesperson for the park said that the Minnie lookalike was actually a "cat with very big ears". Ya, I'm sure 
What a rip off. And a depressing one, at that.
Check out how greasy the Mickey ripoff looks:
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Link= not found
Pictures= blue questions marks.
Brilliant job. At least your sig worked.
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Pictures aren't working for me.
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Glad it's not just me.
Guess the Chinese Gov have shut it down.
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Well now, that is weird. The entire domain is 404'ed.
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Originally Posted by centerchannel68 
Brilliant job. At least your sig worked.
I see you're irritable as always...
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Originally Posted by analogika
Is it called "BS Amusement Park" for a reason? 
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Originally Posted by Kenneth
I'm not surprise.
No, Surprise is in room 206, down the hallway.
You must be fluster.
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Originally Posted by analogika
No, Surprise is in room 206, down the hallway.
You must be fluster.
why 206 and not 207?
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Originally Posted by Kenneth
why 206 and not 207?
207 is Abuse, 209 is an Argument.
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"Disneyland is too far away...Please come Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park"
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 ..... ovdje se glasovi odljepljuju iz rijeći i niko nikoga ništa ne razumije.
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There is something to be said of a country that has little or no respect for trademark laws.
I saw Jeep Cherokees that were 100% fake Jeep Cherokees... what a country.
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Originally Posted by osiris
There is something to be said of a country that has little or no respect for trademark laws.
I saw Jeep Cherokees that were 100% fake Jeep Cherokees... what a country.
You mean they were manufacturing rip-off Jeeps? In China?
How similar were they?
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Originally Posted by zwiebel_
"Disneyland is too far away...Please come Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park"
LOL
What's about the official Disneyland in Hong Kong. It's small, but still a Disneyland.
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Originally Posted by design219
You mean they were manufacturing rip-off Jeeps? In China?
How similar were they?
Identical looking on the outside. I'm not sure what the interiors were like though.
Same for Citroens, Peugeots, and recently Ferraris!
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Wow. A 1.4 MB preloader with absolutely no content. Impressive.
What a load of crock. And they ruin a perfectly good natural resort (Shijingshan) for it, too.
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Now that the pictures actually load, I'm dumbfounded.
Not that I'm a huge Disney fan - I've seen their lawyers bust up street vendors big time... but this - this is serious!
The Japanese commentary is funny too (Cinderella's castle?)
good stuff.
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The US has got to stop forcing it's culture onto other foreign lands...
oh wait..
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Originally Posted by design219
Glad it's not just me.
Guess the Chinese Gov have shut it down.
I very much doubt that would be the reason: this amusement park is, according to some of the signs visible in the background in the video from the blog linked to in the first post, as well as according to that blog itself, a 国营企业—a state-owned and state-run business. They wouldn’t shut down their own money-grabber or its website.
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
I see you're irritable as always...
It was a joke. As in giving you crap. For fun. I'm not irritated about it.
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Originally Posted by Kenneth
What's about the official Disneyland in Hong Kong. It's small, but still a Disneyland.
Its in Hong Kong, not Mainland china.
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It's umm, not a rip-off. It's inspired.
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Originally Posted by Eriamjh
"I'm an original character like Ricky Rouse or Ronald Muck" - Sherri Bobbins, The Simpsons
lol, exactly what I was thinking 
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey
Its in Hong Kong, not Mainland china.
But there's only one China! 
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Chinese Morality - Oxymoron
The best chinese products are still only about an 87%. This goes for injected molded kits, and hobby related items.
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The best chinese products are still only about an 87%. This goes for injected molded kits, and hobby related items.
Uh, wha? Come again?
Chinese Morality - Oxymoron
Why? The Chinese have just about as much morality as anyone else. It’s just a bit different in certains aspects.
The Chinese government, on the other hand...
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Half priced Chinese SUV's like the Landwind don't pass European safety regulations. because they score a 1 out of 10 they are sold with a warning.
(but I don't mind because i drive a classic car that wouldn't even match the Chinese regulations)
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
But there's only one China!
Its funny how nearly everyone else (US, UK, EU, AUS) is allowed to come to Hong Kong anytime, but Chinese citizens need to get visas.
Anyway Tokyo Disneyland Japan is closer to Beijing, I wish they would go there.
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
But there's only one China!
Yeah, but it's an illegal copy of itself.
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Originally Posted by osiris
Yeah, but it's a an illegal copy of itself.
It’s funny ’cause it’s true. On so many levels.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
The Chinese have just about as much morality as anyone else. It’s just a bit different in certains aspects.
Maybe. Not to generalize or derail, but mainland Chinese citizens have no qualms about copying anything they can get their hands on. I wouldn't consider it a moral issue, but more of a survival issue as most mainland citizens are horribly poor. Really really poor. +mainland Chinese have a significantly lowered standard on what morals are - it's hard to be considerate for your fellow human when there are millions within a square kilometer fighting for food, clean air, and new shoes.
I hope they have a revolution there!
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Maybe. Not to generalize or derail, but mainland Chinese citizens have no qualms about copying anything they can get their hands on. I wouldn't consider it a moral issue, but more of a survival issue as most mainland citizens are horribly poor. Really really poor. +mainland Chinese have a significantly lowered standard on what morals are - it's hard to be considerate for your fellow human when there are millions within a square kilometer fighting for food, clean air, and new shoes.
Precisely. It’s not that the moral of the Chinese in general is low (it’s not, really); but there is a certain spectre of the population that have quite a different notion of ‘morals’ than most—and most of these tend to go into more or less suspect businesses (often copy-catting).
Most of ‘us’ (meaning what the Chinese usually call ‘Westerners’) have little problem with downloading movies, games, programs, etc., off p2p networks, either. ‘We’ just don’t have that spectre of people who go out and make an enormous business out of actual, large-scale production and sale of copied products—at least not on such a scale as in China.
I hope they have a revolution there!
I think they’ve had quite enough of those—and a revolution wouldn’t even solve anything. We can only hope that they slowly manage to build up a more stable economy and diminish the population enough to become self-sufficient. China has a rough few decennia ahead of her, with an enormous imbalance of young and old people.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
I think they’ve had quite enough of those—and a revolution wouldn’t even solve anything. We can only hope that they slowly manage to build up a more stable economy and diminish the population enough to become self-sufficient. China has a rough few decennia ahead of her, with an enormous imbalance of young and old people.
Agreed. I should have said "really slow, long-term revolution." But definitely a bright future IMO.
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Originally Posted by zwiebel_
"Disneyland is too far away...Please come Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park"
LOL
Yes, there are lots of things over there where they are a rip off of products from GM, Toyota, and Honda. I think they are allowed to copy the design, just not the technology.
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey
Its funny how nearly everyone else (US, UK, EU, AUS) is allowed to come to Hong Kong anytime, but Chinese citizens need to get visas.
Anyway Tokyo Disneyland Japan is closer to Beijing, I wish they would go there.
It's even funnier when you try and get into a philosophical discussion about it with a customs agent on the mainland. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
A friend of mine almost lost his job as an English teacher when he failed to include Taiwan in a map of China he drew on the blackboard (after that I made sure to get the kids to draw my maps).
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