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Dubai: World's biggest indoor theme park opens

 

Dubai will debut the world's largest indoor theme park later this week, with last-minute work going on right up to and maybe a little past the opening on Wednesday.

IMG Worlds of Adventure, as big as 28 football fields under a giant roof, will feature four zones with different themes, including one based on Marvel comics, complete with a 3-D ride that combines with 18 Imax projectors; a Cartoon Network zone; a Lost Valley Dinosaur Adventure zone with 70 animatronic dinosaurs and a 100 km/h ride that shoots riders out of the park into the desert and back.

Add to that, IMG Boulevard, which has a creepy Haunted Hotel so gory and sickening it has a 15-year minimum for entering, right next to the dining and retail area. Go figure.

The park has invested heavily in the food end: “We wanted to kill the typical notion of overpriced, bad food that is unfortunately the norm in theme parks around the world. So we’ve created 28 unique concepts, including some linked to the characters, offering more than 13 different types of cuisine,” according to Lennard Otto, CEO.

The park uses advanced technology to keep the crowds moving: cameras and sensors will tell when too many people are waiting in one area and entertainers and information will be sent out to lure them to less-crowded parts.

Dubai's scheduled to get three more big theme parks this year at Dubai Parks and Resorts, a complex that will include a Legoland. Otto told The Telegraph (UK) that by 2019, he expects 8 parks, and says that Dubai is better equipped than Orlando, in terms of hotels and infrastructure, to handle the crowds.

The Telegraph has many more pictures; click HERE

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