Visiting Dubai's Incredible Indoor Theme Park, IMG Worlds of Adventure! Coastin' the Desert Ep. 6
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- This was our first fully fledged 'theme' park of the trip, and it did NOT disappoint! Home to popular intellectual properties such as Marvel and Cartoon Network, this park packs in multiple themed lands with elaborate dark rides and roller coasters! We were super impressed and it got us wishing we had a park like this out in the U.S.!
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A park like this would be perfect for Las Vegas. Here in Las Vegas we need a theme park.
We had one that wasn't to bad and had a few decent rides with MGM Grand Adventures...but they were to stupid to manage it properly...
I still have a map and a few pieces of merch from there when I went in the early 90s...It was a far better park at the time than Universal Hollywood was by far...We went twice
But yeah an indoor park like this would be a good fit for sure
@@demonoid7469 I think I’ve seen a few videos about that in the past. I’ve been living in Vegas for about 7-8 years now. I think an indoor theme park would be a hit.
Seeing a Cartoon Network section is so cool because that channel was literally my entire childhood. I remember staying up past my bed time when I was like 6 watching the old powerpuff girls lol
I’ve never seen an indoor park this big and well themed. I hope it gets bigger crowds during the busy season because it deserves to stay open.
Bigger crowd ? This park in in the middle of the desert. The closet population center to Dubai is Persia and India and for both of these countries the UAE have strict travel policy.
The Arabia peninsula is basically empty, around 40 millions inhabitants for a surface area the size of the European Union.
And to think they just keep building and building. That Six Flags that they are building will be empty, too. If you look at other YT vids, they are pretty much always empty.
How can they afford to pay the bills with so few patrons in attendance? I can only imagine what their electric bill alone is every month!
I was wondering as I was watching the video if this park will have proper upkeep over the years. It looks fantastic now, but it is such a huge space and there is so much details everywhere that making sure everything remains in working order will be a huge undertaking. If crowds and revenues are low, this does not bode well for things to remain looking nice, but most importantly, safe.
@@detroitdiezel7856oil money
Amazing vlog, as always! Really loving this series. The chemistry between y'all is just perfect. Truly wondering how these parks can even stay open, when attendance appears to be this tragic.
Ulala pfp ur cool
@@CoasterGuy95Was that English?
@@detroitdiezel7856 Yes! Ulala is a video game character :) Look up Space Channel 5!
@@CoasterGuy95 Ly 🫶
Maybe the government subsidizes them.
Avengers battle of Ultron and Forbidden Territory are Oceaneering rides. Hulk 3D is Dynamic Attractions but I think the rights to the system are owned by Cavu. Ride of ooo, Dino carousel and the Avengers spinning ride are IE park. Gumball is ETF with the shooting system by Alterface. Velociraptor block zone is 1 metre higher than Bluefire, so it does not have to be trimmed, which makes it flow better. I was Tech director at IMG for the completion of the project and the first year of opening. There were a lot more staff in the early days. There were big visitor numbers for the first 6 months, then nothing. It's a great park, it just does not get the visitors to support the place. The location is not the greatest as it is next to global village, which costs a few dollars to get into.
Thank you for the insight!
@@CoasterStudios Great series by the way. Always good to see feedback on the UAE theme park and ride scene. Hope you enjoyed Yas Island.
This is turning into my favorite trip yet because of just how different everything is. Thanks!
I Love this Series, I wish i could go someday
Yeah same here. But I love getting to watch the videos in this series.
It's sad how their Marvel section has better theming than Avengers Campus at the Disney parks. It's also weird how a Cartoon Network area is located here instead of Warner Brothers World in Abu Dhabi.
But Cartoon Network has no relations to WB ?🤔
@@chumpX2929 Cartoon Network is owned by Warner Brothers Discovery.
An absolute insane park for in 95% being indoors. Those dark rides seem fantastic and hope I can experience them one day.
It is incredibly creative that they used the theming for Spiderman to make the netting under the track essentially be the webbing. Probably the only time I’ve ever seen that actually be incorporated into the theming.
**takes notes**
I love Matt's facial expressions...so animated and sometimes funny! He is cute!!
I’ve been a follower for 5 years, seen almost every video… hearing and seeing this intro makes me cry tears of pure bliss! The intro is chefs kiss as it gives me the chills, but also you guys are internally beautiful. Would love to meet y’all one day!! 💛 Much love from Kentucky!!
Great video! This park was really neat and really cool as well! Im really looking forward to the next video in this series!
Another fantastic CTD episode. Really loved this series. Something I personally would love and maybe other viewers who dream of visiting places like this is maybe a price breakdown video. I would to know where you guys stayed and how much everything cost so maybe myself and others could do this in our futures! Love you guys, thanks
I love Matt's reaction to heights considering he literally works at the park with the world's (current) tallest coaster lol
Y'all are the best in the industry Taylor and company!
that spiderman vehicles looked stunning. possibly one of my fave designs on a cart ever
I like this series. I appreciate you for going to parks not many typically go for giving a cool park like this the attention it deserved
I love watching these especially after a hard week it always cheers me up!
The gumball ride makes my soul happy thank you
Adding Dubai to my Tavel list and that dome ride from the order video really peaked my interest 👏🏾🙌🏾
Great vlog guys ! Such a shame you couldn’t or didn’t get permission to film on the rides, I did in 2019 as I had prior emailed the park and they took me around as a VIP guest, it was AWESOME oh and I got in for free
IMG is like one of the weirdest parks I've been too. It's genuinely a very good park with a good selection of rides, yet there was nothing that I was particularly compelled to ride again, despite the lack of queues.
I'm glad you all liked Hulk, it too is still the stand out ride for me. It was back in 2017 and I'm glad it still holds up in 2024!
Oh and yeah, as Matt said, that queue line music for The Ride of Oooooo is epic 🎉
Looks like a huge impressive money laundry property
If the kid from the twisted Colossus line is here, its me! The guy who asked u abt lightning rod and sat in back row
Phoenix could really use something like this 😓😓 cant wait to visit one day
I’m glad you liked Velociraptor. I thought it was excellent. I marathoned it ten times and, iirc, they did allow re-rides without getting out!
8:09 My best guess is that it's a reference to how birds evolved from dinosaurs.
Park looks amazing! Great video :D
I've been looking forward to you going to this park! Keep it up!
Hulk 3D looked exactly like a planetarium!
That park looks amazing!!!
That's weird how you would get that problem of flying up into the OTSRs because usually that's not even what keeps you in the ride, it's the bottom horizontal part that pushes on your waist.
Yeah, the walls on the Taiga queue (and the queue for Salama, the spinner) are ridiculous at Linnanmäki but it's impossible to avoid since the park is next to a bunch of schools so plenty of kids come in and they'll have their pencil case with them and such. The only way to avoid that would be bag checks for everyone which wouldn't make sense in a free to enter park.
Bummed none of you are fans of Amazing World of Gumball. It looks like they did an awesome job with the theming, and it seems like you barely showed it off at all. Definitely think you should watch it. It's a great show, and given how big of a SpongBob fan you are I think you'll really like it.
Right!? The fact that it has a ride but the movie is still rusting on a shelf somewhere boggles my mind 😮💨 Amazing theming though! Would pay out the nose for a Cartoon Network land in the US 😭
You visited during exam season (which is actually why I wasn't able to take the 5 min drive to meet you guys)
About the park being empty, i personally visit only when there's some kind of academic holiday so in all my visits there was some actually substantial crowds. I remember it was 1 hour for veloci and 1.5 hours for spiderman
Do you know if IMG is busy in the beginning of November ?
@@markdeleeuw8223 it's not
You should go to legoland windsor and experience flight of the sky lion so good, especially for an English attraction
A park for the few not the many
Efteling in the piranha ride had a wall of gum :
MOST Entertaining video YET!😎🤩⭐️
I did the hulk 3d ride when I visited Dubai and I just got so much motion sickness from it. It’s insane. Never got that motion sickness before and after.
The only thing you should know about the amazing world of gumball is that it’s the one of the best kids shows to ever exist, srsly you should give it a try (skip the first 2 seasons tho lol) great video as always too!
Oh yeah, it and Adventure time are both pretty darn great for both kids and adults. And yeah Gumball has like a fairly typical family and school and what not but things just go crazy. Like there's an episode where they run out of money and their whole world falls apart. Literally. All the animation breaks down and glitches out, and degrades until its nothing but crunchy audio and still pictures of post it notes with scribbles on them!
I'll take this over the adventuredome 🤣
A park like that in Europe or East Asia would be so crowded.
I really hope you guys were there at 10am on a Tuesday
Another great, entertaining video 😊
Can you remind us what month you visited? It's pretty great that you did not have to wait in line anywhere, but I'm realizing as I'm watching your video that having minimal crowds is part of a theme park's ambiance. Feels like something is missing in an empty park.
You having to wait for other people to join on the platform before they could dispatch the ride was somethin' - especially knowing that they don't let riders stay on the ride when there are zero people in line. If I had to walk for five straight minutes to exit and walk back in in a deserted ride, I'd probably pull an eye muscle from rolling my eyes so much. 🙄😒
February! I believe January is widely considered the best month to visit.
Amazing video. Keep up the great work!❤
"Largest Theme Park" and "Deserted" really doesn't sound like they go together in the same sentence
Wish you guys would have gone on the topspin! It was giving me KI Tomb Raider vibes. Sad that we’ve lost so many of them in the US. The Spider-Man coaster looked really fun. Is Matt a part of Coaster Studios now? He’s so much fun 😎
Yay!!! Just wish you could have gotten on Formula Rossa 😞
The way Sarah grabbed that stuffed animal was borderline inappropriate lol
I wanna go thereee
Wait can someone explain WHY it’s so empty?!?!?! Wikipedia says it can handle 20k people per day?
Velociraptor🔛🔝🔥🔥🔥🔥
Where did you get that coming up next music? Its awesome.
Are you guys going to one of the top thrill 2 preview day events?
We cannot, as we did not buy platinum passes through Cedar point
@@CoasterStudios you can go through a coastermania key chain or a gold/summer pass through cedar point!
Where you booked city pass
Chicken didn’t seem upset. Anyway, I agree a park like this would be good for Florida. I wonder why not already. Not as aesthetically pleasing or the AC bill. Idk.
it would be good but i’m already jealous enough of floridas theme parks
@@CorkscrewCoaster fair enough haha
So true
Huh? WTF are you yammering about?
@@detroitdiezel7856 first part is a joke about the dinosaur and the chicken. Second part is an opinion about parks like IMG. Have a good one.
Interesting park, wrong country
I'm surprised that the cartoon network section isn't at warner bros world in abu dhabi considering that cartoon network is owned by warner bros
How the heck does this stay open, they must be running at a loss
Hey guys! Its a moving dark ride! Who would of known!
Gives me Lost Island vibes but costs 500x more.
I have seen multiple vlogs from here...always empty..why?
It’s very expensive to visit. A day ticket is $100. I think that deters people from going
@@CoasterStudios Yeah, and thats on top of other expenses too like simply flying to Dubai, hotels, and either a rental car or taxi to reach the parks since public transit barely exists in the city. So all of that on top of the high ticket prices definitely deter a lot of people. Especially when there's also competition in the area. I myself visited a month ago but I only had a budget for visiting 2 theme park-ish attractions. That ended up being Atlantis and Motiongate. And even then those both cost around twice what parks back home in Denmark do each, despite arguably not being twice as good.
avengers battle of ultron that is new to me
@ 20:38 These cheap, pre-show videos look and sound like they're from a PlayStation 2 video game!
"Woah, that's... concerning" 8:10
You've never seen Adventure Time? You need to fix that
@34:29 I'm with Matt on this one 😅 #teammatt
Nick Boleteri opened an Amusement Park
I feel like no one talks about it because we can't get to Dubai
How’d they get MCU rights? Paramount before they sold it to Disney? Speaking of Paramount, imagine if Cedar Fair had used those licences and used the MCU. And how Disney would’ve responded apon purchase.
Technically it’s based off of the comics, not the movies. The characters don’t look exactly like the movie portrayals are.
This seems like a surprisingly long vlog.
Why its so empty ?
in our opinion, the park is too expensive and the high entry price is keeping people away
@@CoasterStudios understandable
NOOO THEY GOT BLUE😫😭
Is motiongate or IMG better?
We preferred Motiongate
@@CoasterStudios thank you!
Wait, Is the next episode Seaworld or Motiongate?
SeaWorld.
@@CoasterStudiosYay!!
when will you post the yas mall video
We will be posting multiple videos from Yas Island sporadically
Did you go inside the top of the Burj Khalifa
Yes, you can see what our experience is like when you watch Episode 3 from the Dubai Mall!
Would you rank this the best indoor theme park?
we think the ones coming later are even better!
You've never seen adventure time, gumball, or Powerpuff girls...how!?
I grew up watching Nickelodeon, not Cartoon Network!
8:20 😳🫣🐔
25:25 that's so stupid of them lmao, just let people re ride... or run on half full trains
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The villain in Hulk 3D is The Leader.
Thanks, Captain Obvious!
Awesome all indoor park! ? No videos of rides? meh...
We’re not always able to show you the ride experience. We do it when we can but we’re very dependent on what the parks allow us to do.
You all said 'like' 100+ times in the last 5 minutes
They seem to not give a crap about western forms of entertainment in the mideast. Makes no sense. Do they even recognize cartoon network? Thats kind of a deep cut. Im more of a Paul Bunyan's Log Chute guy myself.
I live in the uae and I think you’re holding a few misconceptions. Western media is very much prominent here and I actually grew up with Cartoon Network, it’s one of the most popular tv channels here. Local media is actually in the minority of what is consumed here
Hmmm personally I thought this place sucked. Ranked number 26 out of 26 theme parks I've been too....
I hope this is sarcastic lil bro
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man. And you should know what they say about opinions...
The biggest villain in the marvel cinematic universe is sadly, the marvel cinematic universe. They've destroyed themselves.
Don't be so stupid 🙄 😒
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the reason IMG is so empty is because its Ramadan and most people who are fasting wont come because if they are coming to IMG then they want to spent the whole day there but they cant because the people who are fasting cant eat and will get exhausted when riding the rides. soo.... your welcome! (this park is ussualy really crowded)
This was filmed way before Ramadan.
Literally never crowded
Can't be. They visited in February, before the Ramadan. I myself followed their trip on twitter and instagram and took to Dubai myself around 2 weeks later, and that was also still around 2 weeks before the Ramadan.
@@shawnokeefe1580 bro Ive went there a whole lot of times and its always crowded and I also went there a few days ago and it was completely empty for further prrof you can google and it says that during weekends its really crowded
@@CoasterStudios oh... ok mb
Are you going to Seaworld Abu dhabi next?
Yes!