The Prince Charming behind it is Al Mubarak, a graduate of Boston’s Northeastern University and a self-confessed comics and cartoon fanatic. It is throwing its weight behind theme parks and has covered the $1 billion cost of building Warner Bros. In a bid to compensate for its depleting oil reserves Abu Dhabi’s government is diversifying its revenue and banking on boosting tourism. Warner’s parent WarnerMedia is the first Hollywood studio to have its own theme park in the Middle East and it took more than the wave of a magic wand to get there. Entertainment chief executive Kevin Tsujihara and Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of the park’s developer, government-owned Miral Asset Management. It premièred in July with the kind of glitz and glamour you would expect to find on the opening night of a movie.Ĭonfetti rained down and costumed characters of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck looked on as an over-sized red button was pushed by Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, the largest indoor theme park ever built. In just three years they transformed a 153,000 square meter stretch of desert into Warner Bros. So spare a thought for property developers in the city of Abu Dhabi. Sculpting the base is the easy part but it usually collapses like a house of cards when it comes to putting the turrets on top. We all know how hard it is to build sandcastles. This article was originally published on.
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