News Disney and Miral Announce New Seventh Theme Park Planned for Abu Dhabi

[Robbiem]

yas island is huge, I’m assuming at minimum it will be built with a similar master plan as HK, room for a full magic kingdom and one more fully built out park. I doubt it’ll will have the space of Shanghai or Paris though

Hong Kong has a great layout IMO. If they had built it out as planned it would have been a really great resort. If they do something similar in AD with parks leading to oceanfront hotels it could be really nice.

I wonder how the resort will integrate with the wider yas island. Will it be a traditional resort with the other attractions outside like the stateside resorts or will Disney be much more inegrated with the existing and planned attractions with shared transportation etc

 

[DisDude33]

It’s my understanding that Miral sees Yaz island as one mega resort so Abu Dhabi’s Disney park should be looked more like a new gate within a much larger eco system. Also with it being a in-door park I imagine that if they do build any corresponding Disney hotels it will be on the beach front since it’s likely to be the only place guests will get any good views of the water.

 

[Robbiem]

I wonder how much the indoor components will add to the cost. I hope its not at the expense of attractions

 

[Comped]

This Forbes article (and its paraphrased offshoots elsewhere) is interesting if slightly misleading. While the UAE does reject less Indians (6%) versus the US (10-16% depending on the year), the US is also significantly more accessible to more people visa-free (since the UAE and the wider GCC don't let anyone in visa-free except each other, versus 42 countries with the Visa Waiver Program). The process to get a visa for the UAE is relatively easy for most westerners (and a number of others), but it's still very funny to me that somebody thinks a huge reason why Disney agreed to this deal with how accessible the UAE is. (Most US visa denials are for textbook reasons, mainly reasonable concern about overstaying or an inability to provide for oneself while in the US...) And the UAE has started to ramp up rejections for tourist visas for many countries as well (mostly those without electronic visa access like India).

Interesting to see how some outlets are trying to justify the deal, even if it's not really right!

 

[Gusey]

Sounds like we're getting our first Abu Dhabi update on September 8th, in the We Call It Imagineering episode. It's going to incorporate water

 

[Ayla]

This Forbes article (and its paraphrased offshoots elsewhere) is interesting if slightly misleading. While the UAE does reject less Indians (6%) versus the US (10-16% depending on the year), the US is also significantly more accessible to more people visa-free (since the UAE and the wider GCC don't let anyone in visa-free except each other, versus 42 countries with the Visa Waiver Program). The process to get a visa for the UAE is relatively easy for most westerners (and a number of others), but it's still very funny to me that somebody thinks a huge reason why Disney agreed to this deal with how accessible the UAE is. (Most US visa denials are for textbook reasons, mainly reasonable concern about overstaying or an inability to provide for oneself while in the US...) And the UAE has started to ramp up rejections for tourist visas for many countries as well (mostly those without electronic visa access like India).

Interesting to see how some outlets are trying to justify the deal, even if it's not really right!

Anyone who claims this is not paying attention to current events.

 

[Bullseye1967]

Anyone who claims this is not paying attention to current events.

I think I get it, but can you broaden that statement a bit?

 

[Ayla]

I think I get it, but can you broaden that statement a bit?

No.

 

[Nickm2022]

posts possible names for the resort, including the following:
Emerities Disneyland
Arbia Disneyland
Yas Disney
and Disneyland Yas isalnd

 

[mickEblu]

posts possible names for the resort, including the following:
Emerities Disneyland
Arbia Disneyland
Yas Disney
and Disneyland Yas isalnd

Too bad they can’t just call it Disneyland Dubai. Has a much better ring for it. I mean it works for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

 

[Nickm2022]

Too bad they can’t just call it Disneyland Dubai. Has a much better ring for it. I mean it works for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Agree, personally I want Disneyland Abu Dubai to be the name

 

[Comped]

Anyone who claims this is not paying attention to current events.

I said most (and arguably the vast vast majority) for a reason. The ones you read about in the papers are a very small percentage of total visa denials at ports of entry - the rest are routine denials that would happen (with very similar standards in most cases) in most country in the world (almost all minus the obviously corrupt).

 

[MisterPenguin]

Too bad they can’t just call it Disneyland Dubai. Has a much better ring for it. I mean it works for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

If there was a Disneyland in Scotland, it wouldn't be called "Disney England," it'd be called "Disney Scotland" (or named after the town it's in). Scotland and England are two of the four kingdoms of the United Kingdom.

In the same way, Dubai and Abu Dhabi are two of the several emirates (i.e., ruled by an emir) in the United Arab Emirates.

Thus, it would be "Disneyland Abu Dhabi."

Agree, personally I want Disneyland Abu Dubai to be the name

You mean Abu Dhabi? Or are you purposefully mashing 'Abu Dhabi' and 'Dubai' as part of a "joke" as you humans call it?

posts possible names for the resort, including the following:
Emerities Disneyland
Arbia Disneyland
Yas Disney
and Disneyland Yas isalnd

I vote for "Disneyland YAS!!" followed by copious finger snapping.

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[mickEblu]

If there was a Disneyland in Scotland, it wouldn't be called "Disney England," it'd be called "Disney Scotland" (or named after the town it's in). Scotland and England are two of the four kingdoms of the United Kingdom.

In the same way, Dubai and Abu Dhabi are two of the several emirates (i.e., ruled by an emir) in the United Arab Emirates.

Thus, it would be "Disneyland Abu Dhabi."




You mean Abu Dhabi? Or are you purposefully mashing 'Abu Dhabi' and 'Dubai' as part of a "joke" as you humans call it?




I vote for "Disneyland YAS!!" followed by copious finger snapping.

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I know. That’s why I gave my Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim example

 

[Nickm2022]

If there was a Disneyland in Scotland, it wouldn't be called "Disney England," it'd be called "Disney Scotland" (or named after the town it's in). Scotland and England are two of the four kingdoms of the United Kingdom.

In the same way, Dubai and Abu Dhabi are two of the several emirates (i.e., ruled by an emir) in the United Arab Emirates.

Thus, it would be "Disneyland Abu Dhabi."




You mean Abu Dhabi? Or are you purposefully mashing 'Abu Dhabi' and 'Dubai' as part of a "joke" as you humans call it?




I vote for "Disneyland YAS!!" followed by copious finger snapping.

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Yep mistyped ABY DHABI DISNEYLAND

 

[BrianLo]

Thus, it would be "Disneyland Abu Dhabi."

Or Abu Dhabi Disneyland.

Convention has 3/4 cities before and even Euro Disneyland before Paris broke ranks. I think they’ll workshop what sounds better.

ADDL is more alliterative.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Yep mistyped ABY DHABI DISNEYLAND

Natives pronouce it ah-BOO-dah-bee, very quickly as if one word.

 

[Comped]

If there was a Disneyland in Scotland, it wouldn't be called "Disney England," it'd be called "Disney Scotland" (or named after the town it's in). Scotland and England are two of the four kingdoms of the United Kingdom..

Universal (weirdly) has gone with Universal Great Britain, versus Universal UK (which would make sense) or Universal England (which makes no sense)... I do hope they change it to Universal UK IMO. Sounds better.

As for DLAD, I obviously prefer the Disneyland at the front in this case. It sounds better. Better acronym too (and it's caught on).

 

[MisterPenguin]

Universal (weirdly) has gone with Universal Great Britain

I knew it! They hate the Irish!!!!

 

[LittleBuford]

Scotland and England are two of the four kingdoms of the United Kingdom.

The Kingdoms of England and Scotland haven’t existed since 1707, when they were merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which was itself merged with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom in 1801. Wales wasn’t a kingdom but a principality when it was conquered by England back in the Middle Ages.