It definitely looks smaller than Hong Kong’s

And Hong Kong’s small scale was a massive mistaken

I agree!

Yesss!

Right?! What a missed opportunity. I would pay big money to stay in that palace.

Alejandro Palacios Agreed

If I remember correctly, I could have SWORN that there was once an Aladdin Castle display for Disney Dubai in One Man's Dream at Disney Hollywood Studios.

Alladin is more hindu and the original source material of alladin is chinese.

As a Theme Park fan the whole Dubailand project looked spectacular, it's such a shame it fell and failed so quickly! - Luke

There’s also the question of the entire UAE’s appalling record on human rights. An area where journalists are silenced and political activists are “disappeared,” where victims of sexual assaults are themselves charged with crimes in order to intimidate them into silence, where all major projects are built by workers who’ve had their passports confiscated and who are now trapped in de facto slave labor, is going to find drawing tourist dollars difficult. Maybe some of Dubai’s massive sovereign wealth fund would be better spent enacting democratic and human rights reforms across all the emirates.

@@danopticon Disneyland China literally exists as we speak. Let's not pretend that huge MNCs like Disney care about anything other than profit

@@vacationbonerschool Two of them.

​​@@danopticonTalk about the US crimes before taking about others. You people did soo many terrible things to humanity that you couldn't even count them by finger. Read your dark history Americans (Stupid hypocrites)

Purple Melody (ColumineMiette) is that racist?

I love that! and the entrance is the big Lion and you have to climb into his mouth.

Okay so hear me out because this is a long concept. To enter the queue you walk through the tiger’s mouth and as you do, you hear a voice saying, “touch nothing but the lamp”. Once inside, the queue walls look like a cave but they’re covered with jewels and you see piles of glittering gold and statues and things like that everywhere. At one point in the queue, you see Aladdin and Abu, but only in shadow form as projections on a wall, as if they are walking with you and you can see their shadow because of the torch light. You then see the shadow of the magic carpet rise up and fly behind them. When you get to the loading dock, it’s the biggest space yet. You hear Aladdin encourage you to hop on the carpet. This would be coaster cars painted with the carpet design on the sides. You board your vehicle, then pull forward and hear Aladdin say, “let’s go!” You launch off. You are still in a cave setting, but Aladdin is projected along side you to look like you all are flying. He says, through speakers by your head, “let’s find that lamp and get out of here!” You speed around the cave doing tight turns and loops and all sorts of tricks. You hear Aladdin say, “there it is!” As the lamp on the tall pile of rocks comes into focus. You slow down and in the next scene, an animatronic Aladdin is seen about to grab the lamp when the lighting changes and everything starts to rumble. We see a light illuminate an animatronic Abu holding the red jewel. We hear the angry tiger voice say his line from the movie, I can’t quite remember it at the moment, but using the 2 1/2 D tech from Runaway Railway, projections make it look like everything is starting to melt and turn to lava. We hear Aladdin yell to “hurry out of here” and once again, we launch off, but backwards! We race through the cave again with lava all around us. We slow down when we get to an animatronic Abu about to be swallowed by lava. He is slightly lower than our view point. The train is situated on a drop track so it actually drops, then we hear Aladdin say, “we got him! Let’s move!” And we launch one more time. We race to the finish and as we pull into a separate unloading station from the loading station, we hear Aladdin say. “Now what are we going to do? I guess we’re stuck in here. Wait, what’s this writing on the lamp?” As you walk out through a cave like tunnel, there’s one final twist, the Genie. We see his shadow emerge from the lamp then as you exit the tunnel into a shop because, well, it’s Disney, they either just have a set of blue hands and a speaker playing his voice or a semi-animatronic that is really just a static figure made to look like it’s pulling open the exit, but his head is an animatronic and it says different phrases about providing a way out. I’d love to see something like this come to fruition. It would be an indoor coaster with some traditional dark ride elements and while I’m typically not a huge fan of screens or projection mapping for rides, I think it would fit well with this concept. I borrowed a bit from Hagrid’s coaster, but being completely indoors definitely makes it different.

@@srayj omg dude! Yes!! That is fantastic!

@@ColumineMiette glad you like it!

Me neither. Back then like ten years ago when there was no single avengers ride in Disney, I have heard Disney planned to open Marvel Land exclusively in Dubai.

There was a Marvel Theme Park planned for Dubai around the same time as this was leaked, there's concept art out there for it and it definitely looks interesting! - Luke

U missed nothing special; its Disney 🙄 get a life

And it would have undergone numerous revisions before getting built.

That's what a concept art is.

@Hyperskreem 82 Oh god, you're rude and stupid.

@Hyperskreem 82 not really, just think 90% of the parks in Dubai look boring or poorly planned out, this would have been another park to add to that list. The whole idea of a Disney park is that you step into one area and can't see another, making you feel more immersed in the area but this completely ignores that.

It looks like they focused more on getting the popular IPs in the park, than making sure they fit well within the park. It's a shame we don't have a ton of information on what would have been contained within the show buildings so they may have been more immersive than the outdoor sections . - Luke

That's another concept. Like a patchwork, a fireworks of theme. It reminds me of Phantasialand in a way.

i agree, it was nice than when they got to the hotel i was turned off.. what a horrible thing. so glad it got shelved. its like they dont know what they want.

gissneric I wish they would stop expanding Florida and work on Disneyland . Florida has tons of room but Disney doesn’t so lets expand for fix things up and replace to make more room

@@adrienmata5693 Disneyland in Cali has no room. It's surrounded by residents.

Yeah, but the US alone already have 2 parks, while Africa has no parks, Europe has only 1, Southern Asia has none, the Middle East has none, Central Asia has none, South America has none, and Central America has none.

@tinylilmatt Disney is and has always been an American owned and operated company.

@@aidenk7047 Except Tokyo Disneyland. It is owned and operated by the Oriental Land Corp.(Japanese Company)

imo Disney saw this idea / pitch and was interested but. I think they wanted more or had a list of demands / rules and I don’t think the other party could meet or wanted to deal . imo it could have made the theme parks in that region take off or boom and stay gendered but who knows

With temperatures easily reaching triple digits even in the coolest time of the year, folks would be so blinded by sweat that I don't think they would even notice a lack of consistency theming, if anything they'd be looking for shady spot to sit down

The first thing I thought when I saw that concept art was, “what happed to sight lines”?!

I agree but I think arabians would rather have a sloppy Disney park then not.

And there was even a version of Galaxy's Edge in this concept. The irony of that doesn't escape me...

Wouldn't it be nice to stay in a Disney Castle by the Sea? Perhaps in Disney World. I would think waiting guests would be "out the door" on that one.

I think I'm your FBI agent

I guess the upper middle class isn't big and wealthy enough to provide the kind of profits Disney is looking for. That, plus a sprinkle of political instability and the fact that Florida is close enough to draw a significant number of visitors from South America as it is.

I think if Disney were to build another theme park it wouldn't be in Australia. Most people that would go to Australia for Disneyland already have a disneyland of there own. I think the only place Disney could build another resort would be India in the future if India continues to improve.

I agree, both img and motiongate looked like ghost towns when I went to them, even though it was right in the middle of the tourist season.

@Hyperskreem 82 Dubai's dry heat must be a freakin' winter vacation spot next to that.

Dubai can get very humid too. When I was there in Aug 2018, it was extremely humid.

The 105 in summer in the average temperature across the entire summer not the highest temperature (Which last year was 115). Using the same metric as the 105 Average Temp for Dubai puts San Diego at a summer average of 75 farenheit. I guess that's what happens when you build a city in the middle of a desert! - Luke

@@ReviewTyme San Diego is considered a desert climate, believe it or not. I'll admit, we've topped out at 112-f, but the humidity... We've had veterans come back from deployment and tell us Kandahar was nicer, only because of how dry it was. I'm not sure where that 75-f average keeps getting measured at, perhaps Lindberh field, a coastal airport with a breeze often regarded as the focal point of all temperature measurements, and a terribly unfair place to evaluate our city. :-( Still, I get your point. Dubai is hot. I just can't get over how many people I meet who come here and say it's worse.

I agree

Not real

The fact is that as a Dubai resident the country focused on the development of renewable sources and sustainablity, and many more important stuff

Besides, the theme parks aren't so small considering the amount.

It almost seems like more of Magic Kingdom style park crossed with a "second gate". Yeah it's a shame the castle would have just had elements of Arabian design rather than being a full on Arabian Castle, something like the Sultan's Palace from Aladdin! - Luke

ReviewTyme Absolutely right in the second gate vibes. It’s a bit DCA 1.0. And the Star Wars land is laughable knowing what we know now, but as a SW overlay Tomorrowland it’s not that far fetched. Great video guys 👍

Yes. My thoughts exactly. Would the local government ignore these situations as long as the guests stayed on Disney-themed property? Also, would Disney executives pressure Dubai to have "Gay Days"?

not really

.....all you have to do is go on youtube and see couples hollidaying in dubai to see that your claims are false..

@@user-ds3fj3qe6z um ive been living here for 18 years and everythings fine all i see is westerners in the comments section spreading hate towards this country while you people have lots of problems you can fix for yourselves🤷‍♂️

There's no guarantee it would rake in big money. Remember their biggest rival Universal was a total failure and all that got off the ground was the entry arch.

Dubai in regards to Theme Parks seems to have taken the "If we build it, they will come" mantra but then when they did build some of them no-one came. It's a strange situation for sure, we wanna get over there sometime and check it all out for ourselves! - Luke

I feel like there's just so much do in Dubai. If it were only 1 or 2 them parks they'd probably be packed.

Take legoland for example. If you see it from google map you'll understand why its a ghost town

but China is ok....?🤔

China shouldnt have a Disney either than.

So all the natives don’t exist.... I’m sorry that this isn’t Sweden

lol

When were you in Dubai? I've lived here for 8 years and the humidity in the fall is 100%, all day every day. The temp then can get to a 'feels like' of 150. At night. At NIGHT!! We have 6 months of summer and 6 months of hell here.

Even at Disneyland California. We went during the month of April and were dripping in sweat. I couldnt imagine going in Summer.

They are focusing on improving current parks, if they were to build a new one my guess is Australia or another European resort

Somewhere that is rich, populous, and easily accessible from just about everywhere...

well they are still doing construction in various parks

We were sweating in April at California Disneyland too. But they had fans with a mist everywhere.

Dude this was a pitch idea. It’s not gonna open.

Jack Hammer actually all the 6 disney parks is international

They want no beaches near it, that's why they didn't build Euro Disney in Spain

@@queenmedesa And yet they built on the crocodile infested swamp waters of Florida.

I would love that. The Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios California was one of my faves.

I agree. Especially putting a hotel inside a park was an impulsive move. It didnt follow the traditional layout of a traditional disney park. And the park is too small for guests to move around making it boring. Personally, this might be the only disney park i wouldn't enjoy

Why do u say it’s poorly designed? Please explain I’m curious.

@@nadfiali3400 you could see others lands’ rides from another land

Nah. Even with the financial crisis out of the way, most of the theme parks in Dubai are ghost towns. If Disney would consider going into the Middle East, I’d place my bets on Qiddiya.

@erinsmith7372 mostly during the summer because of heat. But I think Disneyland would have definitely been busier just based on the name alone. I know many people in the middle east that would have loved to take their kids but due to being hard to get visas they couldnt. Anyways that was before the boycotts. Fk Disney. Never taking my kids again.

How is early May weather. Thats when we are coming, but Im worried now lol

@@jannalam6861 Hi. Early May will be ok, with temps running from 23-37 C (78-100 F). The humidity is the worst part, but that doesn't kick in until August time frame. Hope you enjoy your time here.

How is May weather?