We grabbed our entrance tickets (roughly $80) and our fast-track “Flash Passes” (an additional $40 to skip the queues) and headed into the Plaza. The park opened on July 25, and I visited with my 10-year-old nephew Mansour on the first Friday after its launch, figuring that he would be closer to the target market than a grumpy 46-year-old. parks in Spain and Australia) and a lot of money (a reported $1 billion investment from Miral - an arm of the Abu Dhabi government). The ingredients for success are all here - wildly popular franchises including Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes and DC Comics previous experience (there are Warner Bros. The latest entrant in the game is the (thankfully) all-indoor Warner Bros. But none of them (with the exception of one or two of the water parks) has yet proved to be the kind of year-round people-magnet that the best parks in the rest of the world are. ‘Surprisingly’ because it’s a region with an abundance of young people with some serious disposable income, and you’d think that theme parks - family friendly, culturally appropriate, fun and exciting - would be a no-brainer. DUBAI: Theme parks, somewhat surprisingly, haven’t had much success in the Gulf so far.
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