Overview
- Industry coverage has intensified suggestions that The Walt Disney Company may announce a second theme park at Shanghai Disney Resort during the resort’s 10th-anniversary events, with reporting tracing the chatter to a recent Forbes piece and fan sites.
- Disney has made no official announcement and company statements do not confirm plans for a second gate, so current descriptions of a new park remain unverified speculation.
- The rumors have been fuelled by Disney’s public pledge to spend $60 billion on its Experiences division and by recent, confirmed resort moves such as a planned Spider-Man attraction and hotel expansion.
- Online leaks and fan-circulated concept art refer to the project as 'Project Atlas' and offer varying visions—from a science-style park to immersive lands tied to local franchises—but those materials have not been authenticated.
- Observers say a second park would materially expand the Shanghai resort and change Disney’s competitive position in China, though analysts note any build would be shaped by the resort’s complex local ownership and financing arrangements.