doctornick
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Also significant for WDW is that anything built for Abu Dhabi would need to be designated for that climate and would be useful for WDW to copy.
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News Disney and Miral Announce New Seventh Theme Park Planned for Abu Dhabi
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What Miral has done spending billions of dollars transforming Abu Dhabi to a world premier destination is nothing short of amazing.
Too bad they've often cheapened out on the details... See the "AAs" they have in many of their parks for an example.
MK-fan
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Let’s take this ride at Warner Bros World Dubai for example:
The ride imo is kinda lame and doesn’t have a lot going for it in terms of pacing and execution. Is Warner Bros just licensing the IP and Miral has complete control over the design and budget of the ride? If this is the case, Disney dark rides for this new park will not be very interesting and only fun for the very young.
The ride imo is kinda lame and doesn’t have a lot going for it in terms of pacing and execution. Is Warner Bros just licensing the IP and Miral has complete control over the design and budget of the ride? If this is the case, Disney dark rides for this new park will not be very interesting and only fun for the very young.
dmc493
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Wow that is pretty lame (and oddly crazy long too). I have no idea how the WB agreement is structured, but nothing about what has come out about the Disney deal indicates DLAD will end up like this. There's full Imagineer involvement and creative oversight over the park and I would expect something similar to Tokyo quality levels based on what others have said
Centauri Space Station
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Sorta odd MK got the better version with finale in the cottage all 7 dwarves, snow and the witch while SDL got a tree with a few woodland creatures and Dopey.
THEMEPARKPIONEER
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That’s explains allot, this is why I wish the Walt Disney Company would just sell off the parks and collect a percentage like they do with the parks overseas.
The role of WB besides cashing cheques has never been seriously explained - but IMO much of the design issue for that ride (and many others) lays as much at the hands of the design firm who designed the place as Miral. No competent firm would voluntarily agree to this being world-class (or even the best they could offer given their near limitless budget). Miral approving it makes me wonder as well... Doubt Disney would let that happen, but if I was Bob it'd be a huge red flag against working with them.
Tha Realest
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I’d argue it will affect the stateside parks, unless they can do 1:1 copies here. It’ll draw Imagineering resources away on different projects, at the very least.
peter11435
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Not really. Imagineering isn’t a static finite resource. They mostly hire project based work forces and inflate and deflate accordingly.
Go_Bears_80
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It was Imagineering that came up with the disastrous D-land Tomorrowland rework. Granted it wasn't what Marty wanted, but it was what Eisner wanted and his toadies gave him what he wanted, even though they were bad. If Frank Wells hadn't passed away, the disaster never would have happened. Wells death exposed Eisner.
lazyboy97o
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Warner Bros World was designed by Thinkwell, who was a major contributor to the creative development of Hogsmead, Diagon Alley and Dark Universe. The park cost $1 billion, which is nowhere near “limitless” when compared to Shanghai Disneyland, Universal Studios Beijing and Epic Universe.
For a park in a country with significant cost differences compared to a major Western market, it may as well be, especially with major government backing involved and the lack of several major costs in usual construction projects, most notably land acquisition...
lazyboy97o
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You just described Shanghai Disneyland and Universal Studios Beijing which both surpassed $6 billion.
I'm pretty sure you can see why they spent an extra $5 billion in both parks, in terms of quality, size, and amount of offerings. Plus, construction in major Chinese metro areas is, as far as I'm aware, more expensive than it is in AD. A billion dollars in the UAE cannot compare to 6 billion in one major Chinese city, let alone two. Especially when the scale of either project is completely different.
Bayou
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Fan made
rd805
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Both things I too have thought (and worried?) about.
It is using their people, who get paid - their mind, their resources, some of their tech, their time. ETC. They are "paying" in diff ways.
rd805
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Some of those animatronics were from the recently closed Scary Adventures (I think -right?) - could be why!