The Walt Disney Firm introduced on Wednesday that the seventh Disney theme park can be in Abu Dhabi. This rendering exhibits the plans.
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A spiraling fortress that appears prefer it’s product of crystal is featured on the heart of renderings of a brand new Disney theme park deliberate for Abu Dhabi, the place the brand new vacation spot will be part of a large leisure complicated that already holds a number of different theme parks, together with Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, which opened in 2018. Idea artwork additionally exhibits various waterfront points of interest.
Growth on Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island started lower than 20 years in the past, but it surely’s grown to turn into a worldwide theme park vacation spot, with a few of the most technologically subtle points of interest on this planet. Current parks embody points of interest resembling a 3D movie show, the quickest curler coaster on this planet and the coaster with the very best non-inverted loop. SeaWorld Abu Dhabi additionally holds a Guinness World Document because the planet’s largest indoor marine theme park.
The Walt Disney Firm plans to companion with an organization based mostly within the United Arab Emirates known as Miral, which developed the entire different theme parks on Yas Island.
“This seventh Disney theme park resort will mix Disney’s iconic tales, characters and points of interest with Abu Dhabi’s vibrant tradition, gorgeous shorelines, and breathtaking structure,” Disney mentioned in a press release.
Miral advertises itself as “being progressive” on its residence web page and touts its social duty technique. The worldwide group Human Rights Watch lists various deeply repressive practices within the United Arab Emirates that embody imprisoning teachers, activists and arresting LGBTQ+ folks.
“We did examine the area very rigorously, and we all know we had many alternatives,” Iger mentioned throughout an earnings name on Wednesday. “Clearly, constructing a theme park in a location is a large endorsement of the placement.”
A Disney spokesperson didn’t instantly reply to a request for additional remark.
The Walt Disney Firm has been criticized, together with by its personal staff, for not taking stronger stances in opposition to anti-LGBTQ+ insurance policies in Florida, the house of the large Walt Disney World Resort and the company headquarters of various its ventures, together with Disney Cruises. All are a part of the corporate’s “experiences” sector, that features theme parks and cruises. “Experiences” make up a serious a part of Disney’s enterprise, accounting for 60 p.c of annual revenue even throughout the present period of financial uncertainty, in accordance to an earnings name on Wednesday.
A date for the opening of Disney Abu Dhabi has not but been introduced.
