DUBAI | Dubailand Development News

[atlaslion]

Found this one on Dailymotion. Sums most of the projects.

http://www.dailymotion.com/search/dubai/video/xtaz8_dubailand

[prikhod]

Found this one on Dailymotion. Sums most of the projects.

http://www.dailymotion.com/search/dubai/video/xtaz8_dubailand

This is just stupid. When half of the world's population lives in poverty and is starving, such a waste of money is absolutely ridiculous, and whoever came up with this thing, should be ashamed of himself.

[NOLAUSA]

I dont know if they should be ashamed because some people in the world live in poverty. i just think the whole concept is to put it bluntly "retarded".

[ah786]

:ohno: American Jealousy?

[el palmesano]

Dubailand is a tourism and entertainment complex being built in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It will contain 45 mega projects that are divided into five themed zones and is expected to be completed between 2015 and 2018. oooo !!!

[cristobal_underscore]

Holy crap! How the hell can they do all of this? Where will all the people come from to fill this massive park?

And real dinosaurs, wtf?
They would need some superfast transport to get around this park.
But when its done, I will go there in a heartbeat.

[wiki]

cool video

[Don Omar]

was that the theme music to Jurassic Park? wow
i really dont know what to say

[spyguy]

I don't have much to say about the project, but the video was really strange. The cheesy voiceover basically reminded me of all the movies pretending to be from the future.

[SNT1]

holy crap, so are they going to break Kingda Ka and Top Thrill Dragster's 450 ft and 420 ft drop heights on roller coasters now? O.o make a coaster with a 'classified' top speed and height?

wowowowowow

[ming0318]

sorry but.. AL BAWADI is not included?

and I'm curious about how they make real dinosaurs,too :)

[aussiescraperman]

ahhh..can anyone tell me the name of the song or where to find the song which starts playing at the mall of arabia part?! it's driving me crazy...

and yeah, about the video, looks like a pretty cool place, but it is trying to become something it is not.
how much is it all gonna cost? 100billiion?

[DG]

This is just stupid. When half of the world's population lives in poverty and is starving, such a waste of money is absolutely ridiculous, and whoever came up with this thing, should be ashamed of himself.

hypocrisy :weird:

[Erebus555]

Ahem, dinosaurs? :dunno:

[el palmesano]

surely the dinusaurios will be mechanics, will be robots. And Proud_Melburnian you are right. But it is not because of this the problem. it is so that the rich countries have to be less egoistic and to destine good amount of money to eradicate the hunger and to avoid the wars. it is not possible to be let construct so that there is hunger. They are different things. this is an amusement park that will serve to guarantee the stability of the Emirates when it is not left petroleum, and that not this badly

[el palmesano]

I want to clarify that my English is bad

[Qatar Son 333]

hello the dinosurse will be animatronic they have laser in there eyes to interact with the people that are around them

[JoshYent]

hello the dinosurse will be animatronic they have laser in there eyes to interact with the people that are around them




WORD! :colgate:

[aussiescraperman]

surely the dinusaurios will be mechanics, will be robots. And Proud_Melburnian you are right. But it is not because of this the problem. it is so that the rich countries have to be less egoistic and to destine good amount of money to eradicate the hunger and to avoid the wars. it is not possible to be let construct so that there is hunger. They are different things. this is an amusement park that will serve to guarantee the stability of the Emirates when it is not left petroleum, and that not this badly

yeah, i wasn't saying that they shouldn't be building this..i think it is good..i was jsut wondering how much it will cost in the end total...cuz that is one hell of a lot of infrastructre

[el palmesano]

ok I have understood to you

[aussiescraperman]

gracias amigo..como estas bebe?! :D
just kidding

[xiaoluis]

Dubailand will win Disneyland but never be equal to it....

[TroyBoy]

Disneyland on growth hormoins, i'll go just to ride the rollercoaster, but how are they going to make a profit on this? Too much compotion, you would have to stay for 2 months to go to all the parks.

[prikhod]

:ohno: American Jealousy?

First, i'm not american

Secondly, did u read my comment, or did you miss it?

I don't want to sound rude, but you're showing the dumb side of you, i hope it's NOT the only side of you...

[prikhod]

sorry but.. AL BAWADI is not included?

and I'm curious about how they make real dinosaurs,too :)

Don't worry dude... real dinasaurs aren't a problem... Oil pays for all... it's not like they have to make them all by themselves, just hire some smart people for other places :) lol

[prikhod]

hypocrisy :weird:

Are you pretending to be an idiot or are you for real?

[Julito-dubai]

I think the video is quite old as they have not included Bawadi and the City of Arabia looks very weired too... maybe 2000-2002 when it was made...

[el palmesano]

http://www.dubailand.ae/

look this page

[el palmesano]

what company develops this project?

[smussuw]

^^ Dubai Holding but most of the project done by individual developers.

As for Dubai doing a better job if it donated the money what about the $800 billion used to kill people in Iraq and Afghanistan? At least Dubai is developing a nation with this money unlike others. Beside UAE with GCC countries are the biggest donater in the world. We dont speek about it like others do.

[Architek]

wtf....u ppl need to fucking stop with the american bashing....most of the ppl criticizing this dumb as hell project aren't even american yet the first comment out of the supporters is a comment about americans, go screw urselves u retards, and i dont undertsand what the war has to do with dubai building a tacky resort

[Jai]

hello the dinosurse will be animatronic they have laser in there eyes to interact with the people that are around them
Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!1!
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/1447/800pxdrevil51bce57yy1.jpg

[White_soX]

Is there demand for all stuff Dubai building right now?

Hehe, just a quest, no flame me:ohno:

[SimLim]

Just phenominal. To be honest Dubai is what the 21st century needs. London, New York and now Dubai. Taking each era to the next level.

Dino World looks fantastic ;)

[AltinD]

wtf....u ppl need to fucking stop with the american bashing....most of the ppl criticizing this dumb as hell project aren't even american yet the first comment out of the supporters is a comment about americans, go screw urselves u retards, and i dont undertsand what the war has to do with dubai building a tacky resort

:nuts: :lol: :nuts: :lol:

[sajtion]

so much crap unbelievable but it's still only a desert

[Eureka!]

London, New York and now Dubai.

No. Maybe in 100 years but not now. Just because there are a few buildings being built doesn't make you the biggest city in the world.

[DarkFenX]

Are you pretending to be an idiot or are you for real?

I have to agree with him. You are being hypocritical considering many other countries, maybe including yours, are spending and wasting millions of dollars on something that isn't helping those who are starving around the world.

[DarkFenX]

This project will be enormous. 2 billion square feet? Wouldn't that be like 71.74012855831037 square miles large? (yes I used a conversion site for this). Thats more than one and a half times the size of my city. O_O

[TroyBoy]

Wont the smaller places, loose out to the bigger ones because they are so many so close together, in the end there will probaly be at most 10 big ones.

[panamaboy9016]

You Dubai people are just crazy!!!! :eek2: :applause: :applause: :applause: :eek: :eek: :eek: :rock: :rock: :rock: :banana2: :righton: :righton: :omg: :omg: :omg: :drunk: :drunk: :cool: :cool: :okay: :okay:

[yusef]

This is just stupid. When half of the world's population lives in poverty and is starving, such a waste of money is absolutely ridiculous, and whoever came up with this thing, should be ashamed of himself.

For the most part I agree with your comments, yet that is not to say being wealthy is wrong. It's what people do or don't do with wealth is where the problem arises.

[Erebus555]

I cant believe that it will be twice the size of all the Disneyland/world resorts put together.

[SimLim]

No. Maybe in 100 years but not now. Just because there are a few buildings being built doesn't make you the biggest city in the world.


I was'nt talking about being the next biggest or most powerful city in the world, I was talking about taking that next step in producing a world class city. London developed heavily, so did New York now Dubai has taken over that mantle of building for power. You need a stable economy to become a powerhouse. Dubai however has an idea and is setting the benchmark for future developments. UAE will never reach the heights of countries like the US or UK but each future project helps make thier cities world class. Las Vegas did it. Now its Dubai's turn yet in a shorter and more rushed timeframe. Within 20 years, Dubai will be respected amongst the likes of Tokyo, Paris, London, New York but with less financial benefits and more fun. You cant ridcule the UAE for producing what will become earths biggest play pen.

[White_soX]

Pride pride ego ego goes around............

[White_soX]

I cant believe that it will be twice the size of all the Disneyland/world resorts put together.

For some reason, Dubailand will never get to offer what Disney offering. Disney is a legend and Dubailand, just a project:nuts:

[panamaboy9016]

For some reason, Dubailand will never get to offer what Disney offering. Disney is a legend and Dubailand, just a project:nuts:

Envy I see. I think this project is awesome, and for whomever said that there is world hunger and Dubai is spending money on this project, is NASA wouldn't exist, and all the money spent in NASA would be given to the world there would be NO World Hunger. So if it was an American who said it, think again, I'm American but I'll go against my country mainly because sometimes we're just dumb. Keep building Dubai keep building because you all will become THE city to go to in a near future, maybe about 20-25 years from now. I'll be part of your cities' tourism.

[jacobboyer]

People can spend there money however they want. Giving money to the poor is not gonna help them you would have to give them lessons on investing and creating money and give them some money and tell them we tought you this stuff go on and teach another person what you have learned. It's like two people one wins 100,000 the other gets 40,000 everyyear for the rest of his life who is getting a better deal once the guy spends his 100,000 there is nothing left for him but the other guy is set for life. All the people who say it's not gonna be as great a disney world are jelous.

[Escoto_Dubai2008]

I think this video is awsome, and I like the project too. By the way, does someone know the titles of the songs that was in the video as soundtracks, please post it.

[TarheelsCubs]

I don't understand a lot of this project though. The video went into very little detail. The sports world for example.....it shows a baseball field...then they say "see real stars play" where are they going to get sport stars for all the major sports? lol

The place seems really cool, I would go. But they need to do a better job of explaining things....they made everything sound so unreal.

About spending all that money....they can do what they want with it!

[Alle]

This is just stupid. When half of the world's population lives in poverty and is starving, such a waste of money is absolutely ridiculous, and whoever came up with this thing, should be ashamed of himself.

Trade and developement is a good way to stimulate economy. Better than just giving money to countries from where the money will go mostly straight back to the west for debtpayback. These companies who are building in Dubailand also invest in undeveloped/developing countries.


TarheelsCubs:

I dont think it was that throughly planned when the video, or compilation of videos was made. Many, if not most of the projects have not started construction yet.

[aussiescraperman]

lol...they showed some afl in the sports section:D

[Escoto_Dubai2008]

Please!!! Do someone know which are the titles of the songs of the video?
Don't bab with me. Tell us which is the tracklist of this fantastic video.

[aussiescraperman]

yeah i want to know what the song is when the mall of arabia section starts..i thought it was off a beautiful mind..but had no success there....i want to know what song it is......:(
lol, cheers

[Escoto_Dubai2008]

yeah i want to know what the song is when the mall of arabia section starts..i thought it was off a beautiful mind..but had no success there....i want to know what song it is......:(
lol, cheers

Thank you, for supporting my idea of the Tracklist of this video.

[aussiescraperman]

hehe....well i don't think anyone knows what it is, bummer......

[fahed]

I don't understand a lot of this project though. The video went into very little detail. The sports world for example.....it shows a baseball field...then they say "see real stars play" where are they going to get sport stars for all the major sports? lol


You are absolutly right. I hate this kind of advertisment too! However, this video is very old. It is an early video released at the the early stage after lunching the Dubailand project to attract investors.

It was a good illustration though.

[nygirl]

:ohno: American Jealousy?
Jealous of what? None of this is exactly destined to work out. It's all hotels and residencies and now an amusement park. Lol 1200 foot hotels and 300 foot office towers. Things are a bit backwards. Whatever though you can go ahead and consider that jealousy but we created the skyscraper and the first Supertalls( Since 1931). We're still pumping them out and we will be pumping them out long after your ubber rich stop wasteing their "hard earned" money for you guys to brag about your weak looking disneyland . Can ya touch that? No way in hell.

[Kngkyle]

About 80% of what is in that video is taken from American Theme parks, mostly Disney World and Sea World. =x

[ChicagoFan]

Geez guys stop bashing on the people of Dubai. It is a good project. Yes it's not disneyland yet....because there is no competiton to against Disney. And for the poor thing, yes there are millions of poor peolple in the world but this is a developing country that is doing it to secure financial status so that it's people won't also be poor. (Oil in that nation is running low, time to switch to tourism) And since when has any rich nation spent their hard earned money on just the poor and not grand beautiful buildings. End of Story!!!!!!!

Just as a side note the first skyscraper was built on 1885 not 1931 and it was in Chicago.

[Epi]

This entire project reeks of Euro Disney and HK Disney, except 10x bigger. I honestly don't see how this will make money. But if Dubai wants to do something so ridiculous go for it haha.

[Escoto_Dubai2008]

Geez guys stop bashing on the people of Dubai. It is a good project. Yes it's not disneyland yet....because there is no competiton to against Disney. And for the poor thing, yes there are millions of poor peolple in the world but this is a developing country that is doing it to secure financial status so that it's people won't also be poor. (Oil in that nation is running low, time to switch to tourism) And since when has any rich nation spent their hard earned money on just the poor and not grand beautiful buildings. End of Story!!!!!!!

Just as a side note the first skyscraper was built on 1885 not 1931 and it was in Chicago.

I'm agree with you, Dubai is trying to create another way to earn money because the black gold won't last forever.

[AltinD]

Jealous of what? None of this is exactly destined to work out. It's all hotels and residencies and now an amusement park. Lol 1200 foot hotels and 300 foot office towers. Things are a bit backwards. Whatever though you can go ahead and consider that jealousy but we created the skyscraper and the first Supertalls( Since 1931). We're still pumping them out and we will be pumping them out long after your ubber rich stop wasteing their "hard earned" money for you guys to brag about your weak looking disneyland . Can ya touch that? No way in hell.

:nuts:girl

[khanbhai1]

Jealous of what? None of this is exactly destined to work out. It's all hotels and residencies and now an amusement park. Lol 1200 foot hotels and 300 foot office towers. Things are a bit backwards. Whatever though you can go ahead and consider that jealousy but we created the skyscraper and the first Supertalls( Since 1931). We're still pumping them out and we will be pumping them out long after your ubber rich stop wasteing their "hard earned" money for you guys to brag about your weak looking disneyland . Can ya touch that? No way in hell.

yup she is jealous:nuts:

[khanbhai1]

i thought dubai make money through their seaport
its abu dhabi that makes money from oil

thats wat i heard

[MA]

This video and the whole project is the most ridiculous thing i had ever seen.
the park would have to open day and night to get enough money.
I understand prikhod's opinion completely.
People dying in the third world because they are to poor to buy food or medicine.
I know that many other cities have theme parks for example hongkongs disneyland. but THIS has nothing more to do with entertainment.
In the end they need hundreds of millions of visitors to make such a project profitably. And ( not to make any dubai-lover angry ) Dubai is to far away from europe and america so that a trip only for a park would be very expensive

[storms991]

what complete waste of money

[nygirl]

:nuts:girl

Allow me to express myself through smilies:

:doh: :hug: :2cents: :2cents: :2cents: :drunk:

Translation: DOH! I still wuv you... God bless my 2 cents., lets forget about our differences and get a drink.

[nygirl]

Allow me to express myself through smilies:
:lol: :nono: :2cents: :2cents: :2cents: :fiddle: :blahblah: :rock: :toilet: :goodbye:

Translation: Ha Ha Ha, that's just my humble opinion ( that is obviously shared), you don't like it? Boohoo, I'm still gonna say what I want basically. Rock on Khanbhai but if ya don't like it here is some toilet paper. Payce!

yup she is jealous:nuts:

[DudeMiester]

I would agree that the money could be better spent in other ways, but then again, so could the $30 billion the US government blows on pork projects every year.
http://porkbusters.org/
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-06-11-nasa-pork_x.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2006

I bet you could build 2 Dubai-lands per year with that money!

Still, I'm sure it will work out in the long term. The hypocritical Americans will disappear because of their expanding waistlines and ever growing debt. The over-eager Chinese will be tamed when their pollution starts doing them in. Likewise, the building obsessed UAE will relax when their buildings are finished.

In the end, foolishness destroys itself, leaving the successful and good to reign supreme, imho.

[TopperCity]

Huge project! It's all business. Every country has the right to business enterprise. No matter how many mega projects Dubai will come up with, just be sure those don't turn around the table and come back to haunt the capital and Dubai's residents. Otherwise, everything looks seemingly prosperous and amazing.

Go Dubai!!!

[delores]

Oh come on....its absurd to think this place is the main reason to visit dubai? its pretty shallow isnt it? a theme park ? oh well let them waste all this money. Its going to be fun walking around a theme park in 45 degrees heat watching mechanical dinosaurs and dumb representations of iconic buildings ..nothing better!

[AM Putra]

D-ubai-sneyland above the cynicalism of the city of architecture.

[Escoto_Dubai2008]

Until now, nobody has any idea of the tittle of the songs of this great video, and I'm asking again: Does someone knows the tittles of the songs?, please post it.

[egonecron]

Found this one on Dailymotion. Sums most of the projects.

http://www.dailymotion.com/search/dubai/video/xtaz8_dubailand

oh la la! :eek2:

[mr.x]

this is nuts.....in a postive way.

http://www.condohotelcenter.com/images/dubailand-arial.jpg
http://www.condohotelcenter.com/images/dubai-sports-city-arena.jpg
http://www.travelizmo.com/archives/Dubailand.JPG
http://realestate.theemiratesnetwork.com/developments/dubai/images/dubailand/dubailand.jpg
http://www.funonthenet.in/images/stories/forwards/dubai%20projects/Dubailand%20Ski%20Dome.jpg
http://www.eldesoky.net/gallery/albums/DubaiLand/dubai1.jpg
http://www.skidubai.com/skidubai/dubai/project-sports-city-dubailand.jpg
http://admin.realcomm.com/filecabinet/Image/000000/dubai_dubailand5.jpg
http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/5316/dubailand6pg.jpg
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/969/dscn35061jm.jpg
http://www.dubaiholidayspecialists.com/images/dubai_sports_city.jpg
http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/9852/arabiacity81yr.jpg
http://www.agsproperties.com/images/dsc.jpg
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/8042/insectworld3cl.jpg
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/866/butterflyworld2fv.jpg
http://i2.tinypic.com/x3bo5f.jpg
http://img414.imageshack.us/img414/592/legendsdubai8bh.jpg
http://i2.tinypic.com/x3bod1.jpg
http://static.blogo.it/travelblog/bawadi_tatweer_dubai_060502_0433.jpg
http://www.propertywealthy.com/PwAdmin/upload/legends%20-%20main%20image.jpg
http://www.hotelindubai.com/real-estate/snow-dome/snow-dome-dubailand.jpg
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/1316/h0067au.jpg






No casinos????:lol:

[aussie2000]

don't get me wrong this is am amazing project and will be great when complete, but . . . . its all just a big FAKE world. i'd rather go and see real snow than ski in a frezer, i'd rather go north and see the real rainforests than go see some contained in a big room (we have an indoor rainforest in adelaide australia, which i think is the biggest in the sountern hemesphere and i would rather see the real thing), i would rather visit real landmarks and cities than walk around in these small copies(although it would be a good experience), who will accually fill these tall towers that are being built dubai, who will fill these huge stadiums and resorts? (those are real questions, i can't think how they will be filled)

things i think are interesting is stuff like the space part and the dinosaurs thing . . . . amazing !!!

I hope it all works out, the other thing a thought was great to see was all of the different cultures of the world having fun together and the acceptance of western world culture in this city is fantastic this is the atitude that the rest of that part of the world needs to obtain peace. :)

Thank You
All the best


------------------PEACE-----------------------

[Ese del 69]

WHAT THE HELL is that?
http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/5316/dubailand6pg.jpg
http://i2.tinypic.com/x3bod1.jpg
Do they plan to compete with Las Vegas?
I wonder who is going to spend vacations in this part of the world though.

[dubaiflo]

8m people do it every year in Dubai.

[Escoto_Dubai2008]

Nice pictures, but I'm still asking for the tracklist of the video.

[Charles Dubai]

this photo its really cool:)

http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/1316/h0067au.jpg

[FROM LOS ANGELES]

The part I dont get is, 1. aren't the stadiums going to be empty most of the time? 2 How do you filll all those hotels? 3 Will they plan some sort of rail system? yikes with the traffic.

[mr.x]

The part I dont get is, 1. aren't the stadiums going to be empty most of the time? 2 How do you filll all those hotels? 3 Will they plan some sort of rail system? yikes with the traffic.

well, so far what i've seen is a huge network of perimeter highways and highways that go right through it.

[dubaiflo]

^^ and the world's biggest metro system with around 10 tram and monorail systems within the single masterplanned projects.

Filling the hotels shouldn't be a problem when u consider the incredible high prices in Dubai at the moment (2nd in the world) with an occupancy of more than 90% nevertheless (1st in the world)

What events in the stadium.. well the ICC moves its HQ here... ManU is going to have a football school.. not sure what else is going to take place in Sports City.

[IDigFla85]

Enough with all the models and renderings! Let's see some actual construction progress out there!

[The Cebuano Exultor]

Dubai ain't got the 'world's biggest metro system'! It only has 10 metro lines and a monorail line! Greater Tokyo has 136 of railway lines of all types (monorail, heavy-rail, light-rail, tramway, people mover line, commuter 'Bullet' train lines).

What exactly do you mean when you say that Dubai has the second highest prices? :?

[dubaiflo]

^^ 2nd highest average hotel prices.


the metro is red Line: 50 kilometers, Green Line 20km, Blue Line 47 km and purple line is 49 km
while the latter two are still under design and an extension.

it will be the longest driverless fully automated metro system in the world.

the monorails for all the single projects come in addition to that, as well as the Tram.

[The Cebuano Exultor]

Re: Dubai has the second highest average hotel prices
Oh...I see. :yes: :cheers:

Re: Dubai's metro-system will be complemented by the monorail systems of individual projects plus the tramway so that it will be a pretty large system.
Well, yeah, the addition of monorail systems of several single projects will significantly increase Dubai's urban railway network. But, again, it is out of context to claim that it'll be the largest in the world. Remember, Dubai is an auto-centric city as opposed to the rail-centric cities like London and Tokyo.
Tokyo has over 2,300 kilometers of urban railways (And, that's just the 2004 statictics. There are several railway lines beng extended or, even, brand-new lines added into the network every year).

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Anyway, Dubai's metro development is a very positive and long-forsighted move coming from the Dubai government for the improvement of Dubai's overall transportation inrastructure network

[ccfc-4-life]

http://www.superherohype.com/news.php?id=5370

wow, i guess

i don't know whether or not this will be connected to dubailand or will be a completely unrelated project.
Enjoy

[WANCH]

A marvel superhero theme park would be a good idea but just curious if Marvel comics or it's characters are popular to it's city's youths.

[Imre]

18/October/2007

Dubailand mixed pics

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[FK]

Is the first picture in the last post a render or a real time shot?

:dunno:

[Imre]

that is the sales center

[FK]

Oh okay, thanks for the clarification!

[Sander-]

Shouldn't the first post be remade so that it actually says something informative about the project? The video is great, but in the years that have past the project has developed in quite a different manner so it need a solid update...

PS! The poor discussion; there's a saying that says that the best thing you can do for the poor and downtrodden is not to be one of them. Dubai is a center where over a million people from around the world has come to pursue a better life. It is the epicentre of escaping poverty and will be a shining example for other developing countries to follow.

[goschio]

This Eiffel tower looks so tacky. Every provincial amusement park in Europe got either an Eiffel Tower or Statue of Liberty. Honestly.

[Imre]

20/January/2008

TDIM 2008

Dubailand , mixed pics


http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/2279/imresolt085tw2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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[Imre]

20/January/2008

TDIM 2008

Falcon City

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[Alle]

I hope the amusement park areas are somewhat coherent, and that wont need a car to get around. It seems pretty fragmented in the models and redners. I know there will be more to it than an amusement park, but still, it wouldnt be an amusmeent park if you could walk around in it would it? :)

[nezzybaby]

^if it is all connected by monorails etc then it wouldnt be a huge problem, as long as there isn't massive gaps it will be fine.

In terms of the rollercoasters, i've been waiting for dubai to announce the worlds bigggest or fastest rollercoaster, has this happened yet?

[Sukino]

This looks like an ecological and possibly an investment disaster in the making.

[TU 'cane]

It seems as if Dubai is trying to either outdo or get up to the same level as the rest of the world.

[HomeLover]

Does any one know how much commission UAE property developers are paying there sales staff? Or if you know where I can find this info?

[Shezan]

a Vegas in Dubai....not bad :)

[Infrasuper Planet]

It seems as if Dubai is trying to either outdo or get up to the same level as the rest of the world.

:ohno:Actually they are not playing catch up. In fact, Dubai is trying to get ahead of the world by setting new standards, breaking the limits of technology and aiming to be the best city in the world.

[Hed_Kandi]

This looks like an ecological and possibly an investment disaster in the making.

Have you seen pictures of the site?

There's nothing but sand for miles.

After this development is completed there will be thousands of trees where there were none before.

I'd say its an ecological miracle in the making.

[Alle]

Have you seen pictures of the site?

There's nothing but sand for miles.

After this development is completed there will be thousands of trees where there were none before.

I'd say its an ecological miracle in the making.

Agreed, besides it looking much better.

The UAE has helped save a lot of the arabian flora and fauna, like the arabian leopard, oryx and more. They are not ignorant when it comes to the natural resources of the land.

[DrDan]

I see they used footage of the MCG in Melbourne and Aussie Rules for their sport section - not sure if we'll end up seeing that!

[delores]

This looks like an ecological and possibly an investment disaster in the making.

It’s so ugly and ridiculous I really don't understand the need for it? Dubai really should not base its economy on a ridiculously themed place and rather create its own identity, Which in some way it already has. Building a fake Eiffel Tower plus all the other ' copies' of monuments will not make people flock to Dubai because there is naff version of a beautiful building there. Whoever thinks this will be a success is somewhat deluded. I hope it fails because it is an environmentally backwards development and shows the immaturity of the country of Dubai if it thinks theme parks are the only reason people want to go there.

[Monkey9000]

It's an ecological disaster because of all the thousands of gallons of water that is requiired to keep the fauna alive. Consider the amount of energy is required to create this. Also, deserts are actually full of wildlife and plants, go out to any desert near Dubai and you will realise how alive it actually is. Sand does not equate to a lifeless environment.

[LoverOfDubai]

Thank you Monkey9000. As a resident of a desert (Sonoran Desert) I have great respect for all deserts of the world. I hate it when people say that Dubai is smart to develop over the sand dunes to "remove that empty, ugly area." People need to see that the desert near Dubai is an extremely beautiful area.

I feel that the development is harming the area around the city, and I hope Dubai will expand the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve (http://www.ddcr.org/) to preserve this great asset. Hopefully Sheikh Mohammed will realize this before the development completely covers the desert and destroys something that they will never be able to bring back.

[Mulefisk]

The only reason why I think this project is fantastic, is because I cant wait for all the dystopian, run-down Dubai pics i'm gonna be taking in 2030.

I mean seriously, a fake Eiffel-tower? Coupled with replicas of all the worlds most famous monuments? It's like building a museum with nothing but photographs of famous works of art and expect people to pay massive sums to visit.

Another good point is, since Dubai has decided to base its economy on tourism, how many people flock to visit architecture, areas or cities built in the 60's and 70's? Anything built in the period is usually written off as ugly, at least for the time being. In 30 years, people will most likely view Dubai in the same way. A tacky, horrible, plastic, ugly, fake place. Unless, of course, they manage to spend equally massive sums each year upgrading the entire place as they have building it.

Of course, I'm mainly talking about Dubailand and certain other places, but if this trend countues and other developers choose to follow the same path, it might turn out to be true for most of Dubai.

[vari k.]

its strangely cool..and weird...the project

But maybe they should have picked a better name for it.

[malec]

In fairness, only about 1/10th of the stuff in dubailand will be built. The whole thing is completely disorganised. Instead of the massive entertainment complex it was supposed to be, it has now become an excuse for developers to build sprawling developments in the desert.
A lot of you say, an ecological disaster, etc, but hardly any of it will see the light of day I think.

[Sukino]

Thank you Monkey9000. As a resident of a desert (Sonoran Desert) I have great respect for all deserts of the world. I hate it when people say that Dubai is smart to develop over the sand dunes to "remove that empty, ugly area." People need to see that the desert near Dubai is an extremely beautiful area.

I feel that the development is harming the area around the city, and I hope Dubai will expand the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve (http://www.ddcr.org/) to preserve this great asset. Hopefully Sheikh Mohammed will realize this before the development completely covers the desert and destroys something that they will never be able to bring back.
When people hear the word desert they imagine something like this, because that's the image they have been seeing on TV since their childhood.
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Forestation is an important activity, especially given the high rate of desertification and deforestation in the world. However, this project will require enormous amounts of water, energy and will create a lot of pollution and waste.

[skytrax]

oh my GOD!!! are the serious?! :applause:

[Koi]

I think Dubailand is going to be a big financial loss. It is too big for the population (tourists included). All the hyped attractions, if built, will never make money. The government is literally giving away the land for free in return for these developers to come up with the scheme and deliver the construction of the attraction. Yes, Dubai will attract 15m tourists by 2020.....but Paris is already receiving around 40m+ tourists a year and Disneyland Paris is still struggling to make money.

[jpq21]

This is basically America/Hollywood for the Middle East. I bet it will actually take away tourism from America. Six Flags, Dreamworks (what do you think the themes of the kids world and amusement park will be), the entire movie complex, film world, NASA (space world), the aviation world, dinosaur world (I wonder where they got that idea...).

Why were most of the people in that video white?

I call plagiarism from John Williams.

The space hotel looks sweet.

btw, actually going to universal studios in Hollywood would be sooooo much better than going to film world.

[zdaddy233]

Simply the sheer size of this thing is astounding

Problem is, its really really tacky. Add the whole Bawadi complex, and all the other projects in Dubai, and consider where they are going to find the people to even keep these places financially afloat? Its all very very interesting

[waccamatt]

The development looks cool, but Dubai is going to need 100 million visitors a year for all of these projects to be successful - there just isn't enough of a local population to support all of them.

[PD]

I see they used footage of the MCG in Melbourne and Aussie Rules for their sport section - not sure if we'll end up seeing that!

Actually the AFL played a pre-season game in Dubai!

[Khanrak]

Well, tourism and theme-parks never made a city great and world-class, so I hope Dubai has another trick up its sleeve besides real-estate. If only Emiratis could use their bachelors degrees to innovate and come up with new technology, rather than to take up a lazy civil service job or a real estate position - then perhaps Dubai will have a chance of gaining the respect of the real financial powerhouses of the world (of course, if it democratizes itself). Tourism can't sustain high standards of living, only innovation can, but Dubai will need to import that from elsewhere because its own subjects don't innovate. This sort of stuff is impressive, but not worthy of respect. You risk becoming the epitome of Florida-style tackiness in the Middle East if this sort of silly stuff is built.

[The Cebuano Exultor]

^^ I couldn't agree more. :yes: