Legoland Dubailand & a mini Burj Dubai to debut in 2011 in the United Arab Emirates
“In a place where a gallon of gasoline is almost as cheap as a liter of bottled water in the U.S., anything seems possible,” L.A. Times staff writer Susan Spano wrote in a story in January about Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The folks at Legoland must have taken those words to heart because they’ve come up with a 3-million-square-foot amusement park they plan to open in 2011 in this Hong Kong of the Middle East.
Legoland Dubailand (lots of “land” in that name for this tiny emirate barely bigger than Rhode Island) will join four other amusement parks in Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom and, of course, Carlsbad, California.
According to a release from Legoland, it was Legoland California’s model team that built a 17-foot, 9-inch-tall version of the Burj Dubai, slated to be the world’s tallest building.
— Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
[Photo: Master model designer Eric Hunter stands Tuesday with a Lego version of the Burj Dubai building for Legoland Dubailand. Photo courtesy of Legoland]
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May 8th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Legoland Dubailand & a mini Burj Dubai to debut in 2011 in the United Arab Emirates…
In a place where a gallon of gasoline is almost as cheap as a liter of bottled water in the U.S., anything seems possible,” L.A. Times staff writer Susan Spano wrote in a story in January about Dubai in the United Arab Emirates….
May 8th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Actually gas in Dubai is almost as expensive as in the usa, for reasons that I don’t know, but I was told for lack of a local refineries…To compare, in Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabia, gas is about $0.70 ….