Disney Announces New Theme Park Resort in Abu Dhabi

[jzarley]

Some surprising news coming out of this morning’s earnings call—Disney announces a new theme park resort in Abu Dhabi. It will be developed by Miral (the same company who developed/manages SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, Ferrari Land, and others) with design and operational support from Disney. 

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-announces-abu-dhabi-theme-park/

[Diamondback_Is_King]

So much for the concept art...you can hardly make out anything!

Definitely different than Universal's concept art! Still looks cool, but I'll never go there 

[jzarley]

9 minutes ago, Diamondback_Is_King said:

So much for the concept art...you can hardly make out anything!

Definitely different than Universal's concept art! Still looks cool, but I'll never go there 

I kind of doubt if I’ll ever go there either   A friend who I used to work with at SeaWorld moved to Abu Dhabi and now works for Miral—he says he likes it there.

In fairness about the concept art—the day Universal announced Epic there was no detailed concept art either…they announced the individual lands 1/1 over several months to keep it in the news/chat groups for as long as possible. It’s just hard to remember that now because we’ve been talking about it for six years 

[Losantiville Mining Co.]

This looks like it'll be an interesting park for those who are able to visit it. The castle (or what I assume is the castle) has a similar vibe to other architecture in Abu Dhabi, although the art style hides more architectural information than it shows.