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Road Test: Disneyland's Mystic Point

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Mystic Point is designed around the misadventures of an Old World explorer and his pet primate.

There's a new magical zone at Hong Kong Disneyland. Mystic Point, just like Grizzly Gulch, was conceived for the theme park by US-based "imagineers" (their real job title) in conjunction with local visitor analysis.

So, what's it like? My 10-year-old son, Joshua, was already familiar with the zone's main attraction, Mystic Manor, having visited the park on a school trip.

He told me it was focused on an old explorer and his companion monkey, who opens a box that contains an illuminated energy force that sparks some unexpected illusions. All this is experienced in the form of a ride through a darkened house. Some of it was almost scary, he said.

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On our visit, we queued up for the ride-through picture and artefact-filled rooms that show the intrepid pair on their exotic travels, some of which made us smile.

Then we reached a reception room, where an automated Henry Mystic, the explorer, popped up to introduce himself and Albert the monkey - who ignored instructions to keep a lid on a recently acquired music box. "Magic dust" escapes.

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In the next room we boarded a radio-controlled electromagnetic carriage, to be whisked around rooms in which the colourful dust swirled, bringing life to all manner of artefacts it touches.

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