Mr Broke Hoedown (aka Collateral Damage) asks in his blog today how things went this year for Lunar New Year at Hong Kong Disneyland. I’m reasonably sure his blog today is the first time anyone has written a sentence beginning “I sure wish I was married to an obsessive Disney fan,” and it also did contain this excellent tidbit about the year of the Pig:
Disney hopes the great swine can come to its aid. Its Three Little Pigs characters were featured prominently in New Year’s celebrations at Hong Kong Disney. Also Mickey, Goofy, Donald et al. wore traditional Chinese clothing during the festivities wrapped up last week. “The pigs are part of a marketing campaign aimed at shoring up the park’s reputation which was tarnished last Chinese New Year when overcrowding made officials lock the doors, barring scores of mainland tourists with valid tickets from entering.”
And I must say, it does sound like things went better than last time around for Lunar New Year at the park. I couldn’t find a single report of children being thrown over fences. What I did find was these news stories:
- Taipei Times: Disneyland in Hong Kong says growth steady over holiday
- Washington Post: Asians Greet New Year With Food, Prayer
- People’s Daily Online: Lunar new year, a golden chance for Mickey to win hearts of Chinese
Broke Hoedown 
gung hay fat choy, people! I had a chinese new year party out here and nobody knew what the heck I was talking about… and I didn’t even think to congratulate the 3 piggies if I could have found them last week, nor did I console pluto or goofy at the end of their reign! gee, I wish I had an irreverent, disney obsessed friend!