Dubai Parks and Resorts expansion
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Originally Posted by Anonymous

I can spot at least three more theme parks to come:

What's the source for this image? That's really interesting and I hope that is the plan to grow further.

I can spot at least three more theme parks to come:

Mostly Que line for Zombiland.

so many photos!

so many photos!

more photos from today

I visited Motiongate again today. I only had 3 hours and have to say the park is coming along very nicely.

First off. Madagascar Mad Pursuit was running amazingly well. There are no inversions but a nice animatronic scene followed by a fast launch and some amazing airtime. Since my last visit a lot of the show elements have been improved and the whole ride is full of props that light up and near misses with all manor of objects. The ride was always amazing but the addition of the show elements really turns this into a world beating ride. I won’t give too much away but its easily the best ride in the park at the moment.

The Ghost Busters block party was as camp and amazing as ever. Even with the B team performing today to around 20 people they still put everything into it. Its a total must see if visiting the park.

Smurfs Studio Tour was running well today with several new effects working although some lighting effects still didn’t work properly.

Ghostbusters was running well and the guns seemed quite accurate now.

Hotel Transylvania was running ok although some of the physical effects weren’t working, although several new lighting effects were.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was testing with all the rafts running without water dummys and, looking from the Zombieland Blast Off Tower the ride seems larger than I had thought. On that note. the tower is still very good, with a very well themed queue and a ride that provides an amazing pop of airtime and very comfy seats! and yes, its an s and s.

I didn’t do much else today other than take photos.

I did go to the Step up Dubai all in show. Although the performance was stunning as always it still suffers from poor attendance and far too loud sound. This is clearly because the level is set to a fuller auditorium but with the public being made to sit in the front section close to the speakers I heard several people including me complaining about the loudness.

I had lunch at Baby Brents Luncheonette. the 2 slices of pizza I had were very good and reasonable. Although the tiramisu was ok, but the price AED 29 the same as my 2 large slices of Pizza was ridiculous.

Overall it was a great day, it was very quiet as I was there early on a weekday. One last mention has to go to the amazing staff. Everyone, including the guy sweeping trash, asked my how my day was going!

Here's the 1st batch of pics, they are mostly of Riverland

Updated satellite imagery from around November-December 2016:






Source: https://goo.gl/maps/kBQmTYZ6wHU2

According to "Dubai theme parks & resorts" FB page, the raft ride "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" is now open at Motiongate. Anyone has photos?

Look inside the new Dreamworks building which opened in Motionagate park only few days ago with Kung-Fu Panda, Shrek & Madagascar zones…tons of new photos now at travellerczech.com