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Yas Links golf course provides one of the best vantage points over the construction site:

Shanghai Disneyland site office, 14 June 2012:

Ni Hao from a Chinese lady living right across from the Shanghai Disneyland site:

Photo update coming in two weeks!

Where is hiking pal Michael?


Where is The Theme Park Guy?


Here they are:

Update coming soon!

More here:
http://www.thethemeparkguy.com/park/yas-waterworld

Disney and More reports the opening of Grizzly Gulch mountain roller coaster is set to July 13:
http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/




More here:
http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/

Update shortly

Great detailed report about a patent supposedly filed for Shanghai's version of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride over at Screamscape:
http://www.screamscape.com/html/shanghai_disneyland.htm

@Phillips, big thank you for making the effort and posting this!

Yas Waterworld have launched their website that includes artwork, ride descriptions and a detailed park map:
http://www.yaswaterworld.com



Direct link to the map:
http://www.yaswaterworld.com/en/attraction/attractions/rides

I believe the site still lies idle. Photos taken on my visit back in 2009:






http://www.thethemeparkguy.com/park/universal-studios-korea/

@dejiki, thanks for posting this!

Disney and more's Alain Littaye uncovered some quite spectacular Shanghai Disneyland artwork that I believe we haven't seen before:
http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2012/04/shanghai-disneyland-update-new-artwork.html



More here:
http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2012/04/shanghai-disneyland-update-new-artwork.html

My local contact writes:

The construction site next to the Paramount site is huge to be honest! Normally, when they do a road, you see a straight line of cleared ground. Here it is just like the whole area, I saw a couple of sand trucks, and some workers sitting around having a chat during my last visit, but that was during lunchtime. When I get there next time I really want to find out what it's going to be

And a bit later:

I have figured some things out, looking at the boards standing on the photo. Pavasal is a company that does roads, garages, racetracks, hotels etc, here is their website: http://www.pavasal.com. Edisur is a company for electricity in Spain, the third board was hard to read. But I still can't say what it is.

Disneyland Paris will see a Ratatouille dark ride, Star Tours 2 and probably even a Star Wars Mos Eisley cantina coming to life in the next couple of years.

There's hardly a more authoritative source for Disneyland Paris news on the web than Alain Littaye's 'Disney and more' blog! This is where you get all the good news:
http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/




Source:
http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/

Alain also just re-released his brilliant classic Disneyland Paris book, you can buy it here:
http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2011/12/disneyland-paris-book-from-sketch-to.html

@look321, thank you very much for posting this!

@Knuffel, thanks a lot for sharing these pictures! Hope you can send in some shots of the rumored truck depot site close-by, as well!

Superb, detailed update from Dejiki Nicholas:

http://dejiki.com/2012/04/marine-life-park-aerial1/#.T47Y1jnjx3Y.facebook

@Rod, thanks a lot for the update!

There seems to be some movement at or close to the Paramount site. My local contact wrote a week ago:

There were more trucks taking the turn to the MU-602 (since the new road is here, the MU-602 is very quiet) then usual, the ones we only see when they need to clean out land. And there is not a lot to do there for those trucks at this moment, so it could be related.

And a few days later:

I checked again: at the site itself nothing is going on at this moment, they are cleaning out an area nearby and that could be the truck depot area for the construction trucks.

Thank you for your contributions @rubold and @Vika!

It'd be terrific to see an indoor version of Universal Studios. I can see it working in Moscow, since it won't solely cater to Russian citizens (143 million), but to all the former Soviet Republics whose nationals have visa-free access to Russia. Wikipedia estimates the number of Russian speakers at around 280 million. This is a huge market, and apart from desolate fun fairs there's absolutely no theme park all the way from Minsk to Vladivostok. It's about time.

I marked the proposed location on Google Maps:
http://www.thethemeparkguy.com/park/universal-studios-moscow/map

Some artwork illustrating 3-D attractions planned for Al Sahara Kingdom (pictured in 2009):

I hope my doubts are unfounded, I'd really like to see it happen!