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Construction Update October 27, 2009
With the opening of the Saadyiat Island Highway and the Yas Island hotels ahead of the Formula 1 race in October 2009, the Ferrari World theme park was suddenly unveiled to the general public of Abu Dhabi and its race-addicted visitors.
Ferrari World is housed under an incredible roof structure resembling a gigantic Manta Ray, from which its two roller coasters protrude. The white launch roller coasters will supposedly be the fastest in the world, the smaller, grey one a dueling coaster featuring Ferrari vehicles. Inside the building will be dark rides, cinemas and rides for kids.
This giant venture is supposed to open in 2010 - most likely towards the end of the year. I am very curious to see how much attention to detail will be evident inside that vast building, which remains, for now, in the middle of nowhere. It's the next bombastic theme park opening after Universal Studios Singapore.
Construction Update May 05, 2009
Incredible what I witnessed here: a massive, red-colored space ship-like structure called ‘Ferrari World Theme Park', due to open in spring 2010. Two huge state-of-the-art roller coaster tracks stick out of it and, inside the mammoth building, work is underway on an impressive amount of creative dark rides. Mack Rides (Europa-Park) and Maurer Soehne (‘Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit’ in Universal Studios Florida) are all on-site.
The atmosphere, created by the mixture of sand, sea, cranes, creatively-crafted experimental buildings and thousands of workers on this monstrosity of a construction site, tops that of Las Vegas’ City Centre.
Yas Island has made incredibly fast progress since I was last here. The Formula1 track close by, to be completed by October 2009, keeps the pressure on deadline-meeting construction. Other developments such as Warner Brothers and WhiteWater water park haven’t started construction yet as far as I could see.
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