Mengwaitan Scenic Area is located at No. 233, Dudu North Street, Hengdian Town, Dongyang City, on the south side of Pinghu Road and on the west side of Dudu Road, adjacent to Nanjiang River. The scenic area takes old Shanghai from the 1930s to the 1940s as its main prototype, vividly recreating the urban landscape of that time, restoring the old charm of Shanghai’s famous ‘Bund’, and reproducing classic Shanghai buildings such as the Peace Hotel, the HSBC Building, the Customs House, the Waibaidu Bridge, Broadway Mansion, Yong’an Department Store, Shanghai Great World, and Tianchan Theater.
It showcases the unique Shanghai style of integrating various architectural styles from around the world. Mengwaitan is a Hengdian brand cultural theme scenic area that integrates a movie-themed amusement park, film and television shooting services, tourist leisure resort hotels, and comprehensive services.The construction of Mengwaitan Scenic Area is divided into two phases, with the Spring Festival of 2020 as the boundary. Phase one includes two live shows, ‘Broadway Dance Show’ and ‘Laughter and Tears of the Foreign Play’; three entertainment projects, ‘Tram Journey’ with 360 dual curved screen, ‘Great Uproar in the Sky’ dome cinema, and ‘Mengtongbao’ film and television career experience hall; and commercial offerings such as museums, cultural and creative products, micro-movies, catering, specialty food, handicrafts, and old Shanghai style experiences.
Phase two of Mengwaitan Scenic Area is planned to include water and fire stunts in the ‘Tram Journey’ disaster experience hall, ‘Gang Chase’, ‘Film and Television Bungee Jumping’, ‘Dark Roller Coaster’, ‘Mengtongbao’ third-floor project, ‘Film Festival’ in buildings 15-16, and a film adventure tour in building 22, as well as indoor entertainment facilities and supporting projects such as parking lots, ships, and special commercial projects. The scenic area plans to officially open for business during the Spring Festival of 2020.
[Main Performances] 1. Broadway Dance Show (Coming Soon) This show, with a new performance style, multi-scenes, panoramic, and characteristic of the 3.0 era, showcases the style of old Shanghai in the 1930s, giving visitors a sense of immersion, participation, and experience. It uses multi-level multimedia and multiple full-color lasers, cleverly combined with water and fog systems, to create the splendor and dazzle of Shanghai at night, humorously presenting the heavy and bloody gangster and street culture. Foreign dancers, aerial diving, synchronized swimming, and silk dances, against the backdrop of a dreamlike water stage and water stunts, form a strong Shanghai regional characteristic, and the magnificent Broadway Dance Show scene, combined with surround 9.1 sound effects, gives a strong audio-visual impact, immersing people in it.
2. Laughter and Tears of the Foreign Play (Coming Soon) This show, with exaggerated and humorous performance techniques, combines traditional opera with modern pop elements. The story unfolds with a warlord who loves traditional opera during the old Shanghai period, trying to please his fashionable concubine by taking her to the theater to watch a play. However, the concubine does not like traditional opera and insists on watching foreign plays, leading the warlord to order the theater owner to switch to foreign plays.
For the sake of making a living, the theater owner reluctantly copies mechanically and makes opera actors perform Western operas. All roles such as sheng, dan, jing, mo, and chou appear on stage. Martial actors perform acrobatics, and huadan sings. The combination of hand, eye, body, and foot movements, along with traditional opera makeup, arias, and recitations, is combined with modern popular music opera arias and dance drama fragments. The plot is connected by time-traveling storylines, showing the confrontational scenes between traditional opera and Western operas, which are both amusing and ridiculous. It reproduces the theater culture style of old Shanghai. Opening hours: Open all year round from 14:00 to 21:00; Open all year round from 14:00 to 20:30. Preferential policies: Children: Ages 8 to 13 years old (inclusive) (born between 2016 and 2011) or with a height of 1.2 meters (inclusive) to 1.5 meters (exclusive), half price. Children under 7 years old (born in 2017 or later) or with a height of less than 1. 2 meters must be accompanied by a ticket-purchasing adult and are free. Seniors: For men, those born in 1964 (inclusive) or earlier (over 60 years old); for women, those born in 1969 (inclusive) or earlier (over 55 years old). Enter the park by presenting an ID card or senior citizen card for verification, with a 30% discount. Students: Teenagers/students (inclusive) aged 14 years old (exclusive) to 18 years old (including teenagers born after 2007). Present a student ID or ID card. Fresh graduates present an admission ticket or letter of acceptance. Full-time students present a student ID., with a 20% discount. Teaching staff: Teachers present their teacher qualification certificate issued by the county-level or above education bureau and an ID card for verification to enter the park., with a 20% discount. Disabled people: Present the original disability certificate and get half price. Military personnel: Active-duty military personnel present military ID cards or officer ID cards (excluding retired, professional, demobilized, retired and other personnel) and are free. Supplementary note: Parent-child ticket notice: Notice for free children: Only one adult can bring one child. No matter whether the child meets the ticket purchase standard, only one child can be brought! (For example: 1 adult + 1 child (1. 2-1.5 meters) + 1 child (a child under 1.2 meters); and so on. If it is considered that the number of parent-child exceeds the limit, only one child is allowed. Non-parent-child: For free children: Only one adult can bring one child.
