The Ultimate Yellow Duck Craze: Cable Car Dress Up, Flash Mob, and Charity Sale

2023-06-12 11:17:20

Yellow Duck Craze︱Cable Car Dress Up “Flying Rubber Duck” 5000 Duck Flash Mob Temple of Heaven Buddha

[Yahoo News Report]After the reunion of two giant yellow ducks in Victoria Harbour, the “Rubber Duck Tour Ngong Ping 360” event is also launched today. “Flying Rubber Duck”, “Yellow Duck Bubble Bath Theme Cable Car”, about 2-meter-high “Huge Transparent Bathtub” and “Dream Bathroom Scene” including a yellow duck; 1,000 yellow duck dolls were also sold for charity To raise funds for the Neighborhood Advice-Action Council, the Yellow Duck Sale was sold out within two hours of the opening of the event. Some “duck fans” learned yesterday that yellow ducks were scattered outside the Temple of Heaven, so they took the cable car to check in today, only to find out that it was a “flash mob” event, but they returned disappointed. They could only stand in front of the stone steps of the Great Buddha, and A newly purchased yellow duck for charity sale checks in.

天壇大佛下的石階前僅有一隻由鴨迷自攜的黃鴨。 — In front of the stone steps under the Great Buddha of the Temple of Heaven, there is only one yellow duck carried by a duck fan.

Text reporter: Zhong Jianhua

Photojournalist: Davies

Duck fans: Disappointed not to see yellow ducks all over the Buddha

The reporter observed at Ngong Ping, and at around 12:00 noon, more than a dozen tourists deliberately took a photo with the yellow duck doll and the Buddha. Ada, who joked that she is a “duck fan”, made a special trip this morning to take the cable car to the Tian Tan Buddha with her friends , but when I arrived at the scene, I found that there was “no ducks” around the Buddha. “I read the news yesterday that the yellow ducks were all over the stone staircase of the Buddha. I felt very shocked and looked forward to “checking in”. Duck), disappointed”. Ada said that even if there were no ducks at the scene, it would not hinder her elegance in “checking in”. She took out a yellow duck doll purchased from Ngong Ping 360’s charity sale to check in with the Buddha.

Ada（白衣）稱雖因大佛下「空無一鴨」而感失望，但仍無礙她「打卡」的雅致。 — Ada (in white) said that although she was disappointed by the “empty duck” under the Buddha, it still did not hinder her elegance in “checking in”.

A reporter from “Yahoo News” asked Liu Weiming, managing director of Ngong Ping 360, that the news about the yellow ducks covering the stone steps in front of the Big Buddha in the Temple of Heaven was a flash mob event, but failed to spread word of mouth among the citizens. Disappointed, Liu emphasized that both the press release and Ngong Ping 360’s social networking page stated that the event was only a flash mob. More than 5,000 yellow duck dolls were collected immediately after the photo was taken, of which 1,000 were used for charity sale in the Ngong Ping store. , the remaining more than 4,000 will be used for charity purposes in the future, and the money raised from this event will be included in the self-financing community plan of the Neighborhood Advice Association.

昂坪 360 董事總經理劉偉明強調黃鴨遍佈天壇大佛石階僅屬快閃活動 — Liu Weiming, Managing Director of Ngong Ping 360, emphasized that the yellow ducks all over the steps of the Big Buddha in the Temple of Heaven is just a flash mob event

Yellow ducks sold out in two hours

Of the 1,000 yellow duck rubber dolls sold for HK$50 each for the charity sale, more than 200 were sold at 1:30 p.m., and they were all gone about an hour later. Many tourists were interested in the yellow ducks at the charity sale. There was even an uncle who was unable to buy a pair of yellow ducks because the charity sale restricted one person to buy one. He asked the surrounding residents for help. He said with a smile: (Yellow duck dolls) Of course, it’s good to be in pairs, it’s boring to have only one!”

今天到訪昂坪 360 的遊客購買義賣黃鴨公仔 — Tourists who visited Ngong Ping 360 today purchased yellow duck dolls for charity sale

Ngong Ping 360 hopes that activities will inject vitality into society’s “return to normal”

Ngong Ping 360 hopes to add vitality to Hong Kong after the society “returns to normal”. It also hopes that the art of yellow duck costumes will attract more tourists to visit Ngong Ping and take the cable car. It emphasizes that yellow ducks are not only seen on sea and land, ” That kind of happy thing (yellow duck) is also seen in the sky!” Liu Weiming shouted excitedly at the press conference. He continued that the average flow of people in recent months has returned to the peak period before 2019, with an average of more than 5,000 people. It is hoped that this Yellow Duck event will at least drive a single-digit percentage increase.