Meanwhile Dubai Parks and Resorts: ????

That could be the reason why Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi is still operating today. A majority of the park is indoors, with the only exceptions being their big roller coasters like Formula Rossa and Flying Aces.

@@hsc894 same with Warner bros in Abu Dhabi.

@@dav_da The only outdoor park on Yas Island happens to be the waterpark, I see what you guys mean

That would just create a slow off season in the summer, would just make it even more perfect. If they have to close it during summer who cares, there are Six Flags parks in cold climates in the US that close during winter.

Yes you’re poor

It would fail. (5/5/21)

A big part of it is that the United Arab Emirates has pivoted heavily towards creating a massive tourism industry in anticipation of the oil industry, on which they are heavily dependent, slowly dying. A lot of the middle eastern countries are now throwing ridiculous amounts of money at infrastructure projects that don't necessarily make financial sense on paper. It will take them a very long time to make any substantial returns on their investments but the alternative is to die along with the oil industry.

@@654jimbob654 yeah in your dreams.

being anywhere NEAR that obscene place would be hell for me. never going to happen.

if you want an hd version planet coaster.

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I am so down

ME TOOOOOOOOOOOOO

BrightSunFilms has a video about Universal Studios Dubai

Yes please!

Moreeeee! I know Fox is done, keeeep goin! Lol

What's is Jew Bai?

Jübai

Hahahaha

doo-bye

@Sterling Phoenix correct noone cares

Brandon Townsend honestly ty for adding Fahrenheit. I’m murican

Seems like a living hell for half of your life

M T think so too, they arent like in europe or north america if they already put so much money then also of course for air conditioner

@@nesttea2239 no really we are night people if I go out in summer at 12 pm I take a car, but usually every one goes out at night in summer.

@@nesttea2239 you get used to it tbh

i cant even comprehend the hell of waiting for hours in line there

Super misting devices, smartly places trees and other shade making things, it's doable.

@@MrJasonshores364 No, not in the summer months in Dubai

@@MrJasonshores364 guess you haven't been in Dubai? Try the summer peak, say.. August to October. 😂😂😂

Well in Dubai folks usually do these sort of things at night. I was raised there and when we went to theme parks we’d start the day at around 5pm just before sunset and end it around 12-2am

Been here 13 years , your mean the 9 months of amazing 25-35C weather and then the 3 months of 40-48 C weather. Yer right, where are you from that’s better?

@@gazdubai Most places have better weather.

@@Chironex_Fleckeri I mean i live in a country that has those temperature and i thought it was normal until now apparently

We actually had plans to visit and review IMG World's of Adventure, Motiongate as well as a number of other Theme Parks in the UAE later in the year but sadly with everything going on that won't be happening now, we do hope to get out there and cover them eventually though! - Luke

ReviewTyme well I hope that we can all get back out there to the parks as soon as possible! I was supposed to be going to Disney World in November so I know how you feel! Great video as always ☺️

Motiongate is a beautiful park - the dreamworks section which is entirely indoors is probably the most beautiful themed areas I’ve ever seen

Img is amazing.. I hv been there 3 times and latest post pandemic during eid... Loved it!!

I remember vaguely going to one machine where it would mold out frankenstein and others for you.

I'm glad they didn't. The politics and social situation of Dubai should not be something any major company wants to associate itself with. I'm all here for new parks, but just don't build them in countries that violate human rights.

They ended up building 2 theme parks a few years ago -- Dubai Parks and Resorts and IMG Worlds of Adventure. They're both kind of mediocre, but huge projects.

Not only that but instead of lowering freaking prices they rather just give up,it's stupid!

Don't be sad. The Gulf Countries are miserable places and the sooner they are depopulated by gross financial mismanagement, the better.

Bright Sun Films did a great video on the Universal park. Is definitely worth a watch

One upmanship may as well be Dubai's motto. The tallest this, the biggest that, the most expensive this, the glitziest that. Strange really.

It would've made more sense if different people built many of Dubailand's projects individually.

@@peperivas4974 They certainly hold the record for the tallest building not connected to a working sewer system.

Why did you mention “tons of oil money can’t buy everything?”

Yeah whilst IMG looks pretty decent it can't live up to what Dubailand should have been sadly! - Luke

Yeah, but at least we have Dubai parks and resorts to give us a taste of what that moneysucking megaplex would've felt like.

DrDewott I'm honestly quite disappointed with Dubai Parks and Resorts because there aren't many thrilling rides.

img is honestly pretty disappointing ,, compared to dubai parks it feels so cheap

Oh wow that's a great tidbit Zach, thanks for sharing I had no idea about it. I can't imagine the desert heat would have been perfect for some of the animals, especially compared to the New Jersey weather! - luke

Not a problem. I love your channel. The idea was for most animals, the majority being african, to be sent over. If I remember the only exception was the Elephants.

I think he means a theme park they built outside of the US, as it stands the only theme parks Six Flags has built at all is Six Flags Over Texas, Over Georgia and St Louis.

Six Flags has Mexico and Canada. Maybe they meant out of North America.

This isn't the first time Bob's spoiled someone else's parade. ( I'll show myself out )

@@TheARGblue No I think they meant built because Six Flags has only built 3 parks and they're all in the US, all other parks have been aquisitions.

He meant Six Flags parks built from scratch, la Ronde, Six Flags Mexico were bought not built

Yep I remember watching it years ago now too and getting incredibly hyped up for what was coming, I don't think we will ever see a project this ambitious again! - Luke

Yeah but the F1 roller coaster did manage to find a home. It's now located at the "Belantis" theme park in Leipzig, Germany where it's known as "Huracan".

Yes it is sad. If the 2008 financial crisis did not happened. Then Dubai would have gotten a great themeparknaras. And hugely benefited from being regional hotspotsvfor theme parks. But now Abu Dhabi has siffered up some of that tourism parks (WB, F1, etc). And whats left in Dubai is too watered out to be seen as a «theme park hub». And also Saudi Arabia is not so passive anymore. And the metrolines to those places also got cancelledcduecto the 2008 financial crisis. And the huge airport in the south, also the operation plans got cancelled/delayed. So people are not coming anywhere near to those parks, unless they know of them and they then take taxis. You will severly limit number of potential customers when you have to rely on cars.

Funny

@@ceogotgud3547 those doesn’t protect you from the humid heat of Dubai

@@millennium091 and where in this comment thread that “Dubai is a country” is explicitly/implicitly stated?

@@ninelie4274 actuallybyoubwould be amazes D!:) And the winter season is great. Example Global village from october to april.

@@ruben7937 first of all the winter season in Dubai doesnt last that long. Its already very hot right and its still April. winter season in Dubai is extremely short (3-4 months at most) Global village is not open year round and cost much less to maintain. If you own a theme park with high costs to maintain and only expect a rise of customers during the short winter; you'll breakeven then lose profits very quickly.

I think they're looking back at it now and thinking "whew, glad we got out of that place before we had lost too much money there!". Apparently the parks in Dubai are bleeding money and getting less than half the projected attendance, and that was before the Covid pandemic.

Erlend Andenæs yeah mybe at a different spot and rename it of course Universal Studios Dubai

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Yeah I thought he was saying jew-bai land...

u talking about usa and israel?

The Jew Bai Giant

That's what I heard too 😂

it's jube island in the auto-generated closed caption. Jew bai. Failure.

Restless Planet is something we are considering to look at in a future video, we're just trying to find enough information on it to make sure we have our facts straight. How can we go past the closest thing we were ever going to get to "Jurassic Park!" - Luke

@@ReviewTyme Thank you so much for your reply. Actually I'm still holding out hope that the Restless Planet and the dinosaurs WILL happen one day !

lol, Thats definitely not why, considering without the park they reached their goal of 15 million visitors last year. Dubai has relaxed and opened up to the wester's way of life. Dubai is not the radical city like the rest of the united arabs are.

Hey Mark, we do want to head over to the UK and visit and review their Theme Parks sometime, but with everything going on in the World currently sadly it might be a little while until we can leave Australia again! - Luke

@@ReviewTyme Excellent. Hopefully, you guys can make it over and experience what we have. Looking forward to the time when it happens. Cheers.

It’s a Fail. This is a private project and contracts were made, since owner didnt pony up on his end. The contracts got canceled. This much construction would not occurred if the contract stated a finish date for the project and money got placed down on insurance if owner doesn’t bring in the money.

It’s not fluff describing what’s supposed to be in the parks. How else are we supposed to know what it was supposed to be into the first place?

the idea failed

Every fool on the planet is full of ideas and plans, but they never get beyond the talk stage. The UAE is also full of fools with ideas and plans but they were even more foolish because they spent their money to get drawing of their foolish ideas. Dubailand was never anything more than the fever dreams of low IQ people with too much money.

hahah it gets really annoying after a while!

You are right!!!! Looks like this guy didn't do his homework!!!!

It does look like Dubailand might have gotten an Intimin Pre-fab, with the last one being T-Express and they had built El Toro. I personally prefer Holiday World and Knoebles' wooden coasters though

Six Flags Dubai the second version of the park which would have been built next to Motiongate, Legoland and Bollywood looked to be incredibly underwhelming and just a generic Six Flags park compared to the incredible looking Dubailand concept! - Luke

True and now COVID-19 has made things even more worse.

So few people seem to understand how finances work. None of these projects were ever financially viable and all of them were doomed to bankruptcy.

I agree. I spent 7 days and had a great time but can’t really see any reason to go back.

Wow.... you guys really are not knowledgeable about Dubai. But i guess it is Dubai own fault for not marketing itself better. I could easily spend 6 months with daily activities and still not be «done» with Dubai.

The fact there is no Universal park in Europe seems to suggest they've already found out it isn't really feasible to build one there. Disney struggled to establish themselves, and Universal sold their stake in PortAventura, so I think the market situation simply isn't good enough to risk it. Maybe it would even give some undesired competition to their Florida parks, which probably see a lot of European visitors.

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Yeah there was plans for Disneyland Dubai but they were never officially announced, we have covered the Disneyland Dubai project previously if you're interested in finding out more about it - Luke kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZx4mtafst6YoYU.html

You mean Like America?