View Full Version : Alwaleed in talks on $8 bln Gulf Disneyland - Reuters, 2/6/07
Darkbeer 02-06-2007, 09:46 AM http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2007-02-06T130448Z_01_L06770028_RTRIDST_0_DISNEY-BAHRAIN-UPDATE-1.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
QuikQuote: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is in talks with investors to build an $8 billion Disneyland theme park in Bahrain, at the heart of the world's biggest oil exporting region, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The project would be based on Walt Disney Co.'s theme parks and could be called "Disney Bahrain", Bahrain's al-Waqt newspaper said, citing an unnamed source.
bobabooey 02-06-2007, 11:02 AM This is from Reuters:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=industryNews&storyID=2007-02-06T181418Z_01_L06732322_RTRIDST_0_INDUSTRY-DISNEY-BAHRAIN-DC.XML&WTmodLoc=EntNewsIndustry_C2_industryNews-1
olegc 02-06-2007, 12:07 PM no offense - but do the militant factions of the middle east require another source of frustration and disgust over the influence of Western culture?
bobabooey 02-06-2007, 12:28 PM no offense - but do the militant factions of the middle east require another source of frustration and disgust over the influence of Western culture?
I guess equal rights for women and freedom speech can be SO frustrating at times.
olegc 02-06-2007, 01:25 PM I guess equal rights for women and freedom speech can be SO frustrating at times.
it's not that I support their position... but I kind of don't want to escalate violent activities our way. But - I can understand that the King may want his own version of Disneyland.
Opus1guy 02-06-2007, 04:32 PM Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal...
Who has always been affectionately called "Big Al" around Imagineering.
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darph nader 02-06-2007, 08:41 PM Who has always been affectionately called "Big Al" around Imagineering.
:)
Oh jeeze.:eek:
Mark Goldhaber 02-06-2007, 08:59 PM Who has always been affectionately called "Big Al" around Imagineering.
:)
I doubt that Al Bertino would be thrilled....
Opus1guy 02-07-2007, 12:41 AM I doubt that Al Bertino would be thrilled....
Al probably would have cracked up over it! :)
jcruise86 02-07-2007, 07:40 PM I hope they differentiate the castle. How about a 110 to 120 footer with red and gold turret tops instead of the blue cones that top all the others? No more McMagic Kingdoms! ! !
Use this opportunity to be creative and design a Magic Kingdom so wonderful that I want to go back to the Middle East! (And maybe take in The Holy Land again and Dubai while I'm there.) I don't mean to get unrealistically "Small World" on the Middle East, but in a small way Imagineers have might now have an opportunity to be wonderful ambassadors of different freedoms and of the United States.
jcruise86 02-07-2007, 07:43 PM Haunted Mansion idea: you're a woman under the Taliban.
Will women from Saudi Arabia be allowed to drive in Autotopia?
aricbell 02-08-2007, 05:22 PM 8 billion dollars for a magic kingdom? Or are there plans for antoher park (such as DCA, MGM Studios, etc.) Disneyland only cost like $2million? That would be an extremly elaborate theme park huh?:eek:
Mark Goldhaber 02-08-2007, 07:05 PM 8 billion dollars for a magic kingdom? Or are there plans for antoher park (such as DCA, MGM Studios, etc.) Disneyland only cost like $2million? That would be an extremly elaborate theme park huh?:eek:
Well, considering that Hong Kong Disneyland cost $3.5 billion to build, and it's really only half a park, I don't know that $8 billion is a high figure for a full park. Remember, EPCOT Center cost $1 billion to build in 1982.
Disney Vault 02-12-2007, 10:56 PM Well, considering that Hong Kong Disneyland cost $3.5 billion to build, and it's really only half a park, I don't know that $8 billion is a high figure for a full park. Remember, EPCOT Center cost $1 billion to build in 1982.
Wasn't the 3.5 billion for all of the resort construction as well as the land reclamation? There is no way the park would cost that much for what they got.
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