Originally Posted By dagobert According to Screamscape and The Themepark Guy, construction of the Marvel/IMG park started. <a href="http://screamscape.com/html/dubai.htm" target="_blank">http://screamscape.com/html/dubai.htm</a> <a href="http://www.thethemeparkguy.com/board/img-theme-park/" target="_blank">http://www.thethemeparkguy.com...me-park/</a> I wonder what Disney thinks about that park?
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper I don't think they care much. They'll be getting a cut from the gate, I'm sure, and Dubai isn't really drawing from their normal customer base. That being said, the art is painfully less ambitious than the original plans for a Marvel park in Dubai, which stinks. Also, someone needs to tell whoever did that art that the Ninja Turtles aren't part of Marvel.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA A project like this just proves -- again -- how deleted the Marvel brand is.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>I don't think they care much. They'll be getting a cut from the gate, I'm sure, and Dubai isn't really drawing from their normal customer base.<<< So I guess TWDC bought Marvel just for the film studio. They own a brand which they can't fully control and use due to all the licence agreement.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Yup. It was always a film deal. Any theme park benefits were secondary motivations.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>Yup. It was always a film deal. Any theme park benefits were secondary motivations<<< Like Lucasfilm. There Disney is only interested in Star Wars. Hopefully they keep the company together and don't sell ILM, Skywalker Sound and other properties like Indy. However the park in Dubai will reflect back on Disney, since they own Marvel. Maybe they can dictate some standards, like they do with OLC.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^Doubtful. Like the Universal deal this was an agreement signed before Disney bought Marvel.
Originally Posted By Manfried Disney would love to do things with the Marvel characters in the theme parks. But the existing deals make that problematic with the more popular characters. As for Star Wars, that wasn't just for movies, but TV, Internet, videogames and theme parks.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>Disney would love to do things with the Marvel characters in the theme parks. But the existing deals make that problematic with the more popular characters.<<< I thought Marvel just can't be used in Orlando due to the agreement with Universal. But I see the problem. DLP is facing financial difficulties, Anaheim doesn't have so much space and Hong Kong just got an expansion. WDW would have enough space, but can't use it. Only Shanghai and Tokyo are left.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<Disney would love to do things with the Marvel characters in the theme parks. But the existing deals make that problematic with the more popular characters. As for Star Wars, that wasn't just for movies, but TV, Internet, videogames and theme parks.>> The only place there's a conflict with characters is Orlando. Everywhere else is free. And sure, they bought them for other secondary reasons, but film is far and away the primary driver.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<Disney would love to do things with the Marvel characters in the theme parks. But the existing deals make that problematic with the more popular characters. As for Star Wars, that wasn't just for movies, but TV, Internet, videogames and theme parks.>> The only place there's a conflict with characters is Orlando. Everywhere else is free. And sure, they bought them for other secondary reasons, but film is far and away the primary driver.
Originally Posted By oc_dean So, I got a question ... that "Marvel City" building - Is that it? Just this multi-story square building that is the ENTIRE theme park?
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Sure looks that way. It looks like a single attraction from EPCOT to me.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<Sure looks that way. It looks like a single attraction from EPCOT to me.>> It's a lot bigger than that from the construction pictures. From what I gather this is part of a larger park complex
Originally Posted By dagobert I can imagine that it will be of the same size like the Ferrari Park in Abu Dhabi.
Originally Posted By leemac <<I wonder what Disney thinks about that park?>> I've seen the plans and it is one of the new breed of indoor family entertainment centers that many of the studios are pursuing (like DWA's recent Russian venture). The developer has the same lofty goals that Dubailand and a million other projects in the region have had - this one reckons it will get 10k visitors per day. You only need to look down the coast to see the Ferrari World disaster to have a guess how this one will go down.
Originally Posted By leemac <<From what I gather this is part of a larger park complex>> It is approximately 35% of the total land devoted to entertainment. I don't believe that they are still pursuing the outdoor theme park that was on the cards a few years ago. City of Arabia is desperate to attract interest - it is in the middle of nowhere and developments away from the coast have failed miserably after the property bubble burst.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Leemac, any word about Universal in Dubai? According to recent reports it seems to be moving forward again?
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>Leemac, any word about Universal in Dubai? According to recent reports it seems to be moving forward again?<<< Wasn't Universal part of a bigger entertainment area? Isn't Universal planning to open a park in South Korea as well, or was that Paramount?
Originally Posted By leemac Uni at Dubailand is dead - I'd be shocked if it was revived. However a separate deal has been signed for a Uni-branded FEC in another part of the city (a new development called Mohammed Bin Rashid City. It is more likely to be about the same size of MARVEL Adventures. If Dubai Properties Group do push ahead with a theme park it will be the Universal one - they have pretty much dropped plans for all of the other parks. I'd happily wager that it won't ever happen. There is absolutely no evidence that Dubai can support an outdoor theme park in the 8m-plus annual attendance range. Meraas are developing a generic movie studios theme park called Dubai Adventure Studios and that one seems to be on the path to execution. That might spell the end of Uni at Dubailand.
