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@PringleKitsune2 ай бұрын
Call it what it is, they're overly hyped TV dinners, and nobody wants overpriced, low quantity, low calorie food.
@Viss_Valdyr2 ай бұрын
@@PringleKitsune they also are bad quality quite often. I tried one of a friend of mine. I eat anything but that was hard. So salty. But I seem not the only one thinking of it. BSF just wants the money. I am pretty sure, he didn't test it.
@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe83072 ай бұрын
chef - a person who prepares food!
@chungkingcansuckit63452 ай бұрын
You wrote use code BSF50 and I thought it was an advertisement for sunscreen.. SPF50 recommended when you visit Dubailand.
@dylanjimenez19522 ай бұрын
Trump organization cancelled projects and casinos
@robswystun27662 ай бұрын
The 2008 economic crisis is easily the biggest villain in the Bright Sun Films universe.
@DavidFB242 ай бұрын
and its thanks to it that he has a job lol😄😄
@nickmoney2 ай бұрын
Only second to Michael Eisner still.
@AxelTheAussie2 ай бұрын
@@nickmoneyEisner is the main villain of Defunctland
@nickmoney2 ай бұрын
@@AxelTheAussie Eisner is the villain of any cancelled or abandoned project series.
@CastorRabbit2 ай бұрын
A park opens his door and gets shot, and you think that's 2008? No. Dubai is the one who knocks!
@elizabethmctaggart66952 ай бұрын
One important fact I've learned from your cancelled videos: it always leads back to 2008 in one way or another.
@AnvilSP2 ай бұрын
The Michael Eisner of Cancelled
@BubblePopping1212 ай бұрын
@@AnvilSPAnd the Michael Eisner of Abandoned.
@susanmiller41592 ай бұрын
2008 was NOT a fun time to be in any business, small or large. Because of 2008 we will never retire.
@charliedalton17782 ай бұрын
So true
@VIPEFFECT2 ай бұрын
Facts
@Ballin1912 ай бұрын
As someone who lived and worked in Dubai for several moths. Outdoor theme parks, let alone outdoor anything, makes no sense. Summer temperatures regularly exceed 110F/43C. Don't even get me started with the overall heat index when you combine the humidity blowing in from the gulf. Even going to the beach provides little relief. Sea temperatures there can reach 96F/35C which is basically bathwater warm.
@doujinflip2 ай бұрын
Winter and spring are pleasant times to drop in, but then everyone would also be competing against the traffic of all the regular schools, trade shows, and other events that happen in the high season. It'd be complete gridlock without a mass transit system and pedestrian avenues that reach everywhere, as opposed to the irregular buses and half-baked pet project that became the Dubai Metro.
@dianapennepacker68542 ай бұрын
Would you say the ocean helps more or less? Either the wind and cooling effect is good. Or the humidity it brings makes it hell, ya know? I can take dry heats okay. Once you add humidity though I am done.
@sagefields2 ай бұрын
@@dianapennepacker6854 As others said, the ocean doesn't help outside the winter peak tourist season. During the summer, the desert heat's combined with the humidity wafting in from the Gulf to create an insufferable bog-like humidity. You can't live without AC for well over 8 months of the year.
@dickcoughlin83382 ай бұрын
What's the laws like there? Do you get Caned with 50 packs for accidentally dropping a gum wrapper on the ground ground?
@zandreblondin88802 ай бұрын
who were these moths you worked for and what was their interest in dubai?
@moteroargentino79442 ай бұрын
One thing that I learned in the Cancelled and Abandoned series, is that it's always preferable to start with a small and functional project, and only invest more if you see that there's demand. Bonus points if the infrastructure you build can be repurposed for various uses or the land is valuable. So worst case scenario you can quickly adapt or recover most of your investments.
@DieNibelungenliad2 ай бұрын
Planting a big tree in the middle of the desert will need lots of watering or else she will wither and fall. Sowing a small seed in fertile earth with regular watering will sprout a humble but fruitful crop
@kellychuang83732 ай бұрын
You really have points there as well and also you can wonder about these businesses and what goes on in the higher ups heads. Really seems like something out of the Simpsons or South Park coming to life along with who knows what else.
@RexGalilae2 ай бұрын
Hindsight is 2020. Back then, while the world economy was booming, every month spent in inaction could contribute to the irrelevancy of Dubai on the stage of world tourism Every country was ramping up construction of megaprojects and Dubai had one shot at truly becoming a Miami in the East by making all of this happen and they took it. Can't blame them at all. Nobody saw this collapse coming
@doujinflip2 ай бұрын
I was wondering how the Dubai Metro was planned to extend into Dubailand, because every tourist having take a taxi or rent a car to the different parks would be disastrous. I'd wager there wasn't serious thought about mass transit, see as how only a couple months ago they finally approved a half-hearted inland Blue Line through Ras Al-Khor and International City, but still not reaching demand centers like Global Village and Dubai Autodrome/Miracle Garden.
@smalltime02 ай бұрын
I don't know why they didn't just offer Disney a 99 year lease on land to build one of their ports (similar to what a few Caribbean countries do). They'd build the park and infrastructure to serve their cruise liners & UAE builds the infrastructure to the airports/cities. Much smaller and realistic, but it also encourages more organic growth of the entertainment/tourist area
@lazersword662 ай бұрын
Dubai Land is the kind of idea school kids come up with during sleepovers. There’ll be dinosaurs, spaceships, and all the cake you can eat! Spiderman will be there too!
@xxdesertstorm2 ай бұрын
their Arabic Muslims they aren't the smrtest the only thing they are smart at is greed, the current inflation was all caused by them cutting oil production, if Biden and Trump had a pair they'd push for a resource war as OPEC+ nations can't survive a long term war
@RayRayWasAGoodBoy2 ай бұрын
Men in dresses can have sleepovers too!
@DieNibelungenliad2 ай бұрын
But that's what people like.
@kellychuang83732 ай бұрын
That sounds about right on that.
@doctormatthattan2 ай бұрын
Men of culture
@RariettyC2 ай бұрын
As someone who struggles to handle how hot Florida gets, just the climate alone makes the concept of marathoning a bunch of theme parks in Dubai sound unappealing
@splintercell55512 ай бұрын
They probably have out door ac like Qatar
@jaein912 ай бұрын
Most of our theme parks are indoors/covered. Even Dubai Parks, only certain parts were outdoors.
@houstonhilton742 ай бұрын
It's also significantly drier, which can make a difference with passive shading mitigating wet bulb effects. Humid heat, not so much.
@Chata-x2i2 ай бұрын
@@houstonhilton74Dubai is very humid
@nntflow70582 ай бұрын
@@houstonhilton74 Dubai is a beachtown. The humidity from the sea caused them to be very humid. Riyadh on the other hand, less humid since they are inland city.
@nickmoney2 ай бұрын
They still have 3 months to finish their 2025 goal.
@buddysautomotiveSD2 ай бұрын
True that, you never know!
@nickmoney2 ай бұрын
@@buddysautomotiveSD Some aliens could show up to complete in no time or Dubailand has a Wankanda like cloak over it and suddenly be there done and ready. What I was wrong they have 15 months since they just said 2025, not a certain month.
@Farquad76.5472 ай бұрын
A fellow optimist
@nickmoney2 ай бұрын
@@Farquad76.547We for 15 months after all.
@LoCoAde872 ай бұрын
@@Farquad76.547Think of how much migrant slaves, sorry, workers working for pittance could die in those 3 months 😍
@F0rtuneLT2 ай бұрын
I love how every one of these videos has a turning point, a point where you can reliably go "ok, this is where it all went to shit" and every single time its either 2001, 2008, or 2020 or if its prefaced with "then-ceo Michael Eisner"
@RickSanchez_852 ай бұрын
Soon you will be able to add 2025 to that list
@LeanderEve2 ай бұрын
Why 2025?
@kevikiru2 ай бұрын
Michael Eisner did more for Disney that either Bob.
@RickSanchez_852 ай бұрын
@@LeanderEve a lot of people estimate a big crash coming in 2025
@aviduser19612 ай бұрын
Remember, this "series" is made by an amateur.
@tatertots2102 ай бұрын
i have no clue why this idea would fail, whenever ive been to disneyland i have always thought "you know what would make this place better? if they got rid of the alcohol and made it 110 degrees outside" Dubai would have solved both of those issues
@Abdullah-wf5tf2 ай бұрын
dubai is literally muslim. accept the rules or don’t visit
@PeterParker-xv9mo2 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@melovetorun2 ай бұрын
@@Abdullah-wf5tfThey try so hard to look like a Western city but can’t drop their ridiculous rules. Good luck attracting tourists.
@seliamila10052 ай бұрын
@@Abdullah-wf5tfthen they will always fail attracting tourist lol
@Eloraurora2 ай бұрын
Wasn't there an 'economic zone' thing proposed where they'd lighten up on the religious laws in tourist areas?
@Subliminalmessage782 ай бұрын
I used to live out there, and drive by this place every single day. No one wants to visit a park and turn into a baked potato 🥔 simultaneously. 🥵 It gets up to 120°F out there.
@kimbye12 ай бұрын
Yeah it just goes to show how little these leaders are in contact with reality.
@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley2 ай бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking. It's hot as hell there, what tourists would want to visit a sweltering area like that? And that sun will do an absolute number on the rides and attractions as well. For as much as it cost to initially build everything, kt will be a massive task to upkeep it all as well.
@raafmaat2 ай бұрын
Hey with that money they could easily install a bunch of sunroofs etc
@ydne2 ай бұрын
Hot summers and outdoor adventures are not a draw for families.
@nojuanatall32812 ай бұрын
But no humidity. It gets over 100 degrees where I live with 90% humidity. Makes the desert feel cool. My coworker moved from Louisiana and got knocked down by his first summer here in Houston TX.
@joshuadaniel46132 ай бұрын
As a kid who grew up in Dubai, I still remember full page Dubailand newspaper ads with Marvel characters on them, as well reading about the constant delays that the project had. Another memory is seeing the huge bikers and race car statues when driving through the area.
@jijodobbas2 ай бұрын
Same, I was 3 or so when I first saw that biker on the rollercoaster track and I think it took me years to understand what it even was 😅
@Amm17ar2 ай бұрын
Did you also see heat-exhausted migrant workers being held in modern slavery camps dying on the streets because they weren't paid enough, forced to live in slum buildings built to house 5 people but were actually stuffed with 50?
@Tardisntimbits2 ай бұрын
@@Amm17arThey...are recalling memories from childhood. Even if they has been allowed to see such things (and I can't imagine they would have been), they were...children. What part do children have to play in such things?
@Amm17ar2 ай бұрын
@@Tardisntimbits None at all. I was just curious.
@Tardisntimbits2 ай бұрын
@@Amm17ar All good then. I know stuff like that being swept under the rug is a standard rather than an oddity, unfortunately. Maybe one day humanity will collectively slap itself and just be nice to each other...but I sadly doubt it. I wish you well!
@LoyMachedo2 ай бұрын
Having lived in Dubai for 40 years with my parents living there for their entire lives, I've seen Dubai's rise from a Desert to what it is today. Everything was perfect until Sheikh Mohammed decided to make Dubai into some kind of Superlative Ego-Driven Biggest, Largest & Greatest City in the world without thinking of the consequences of sustainability & longevity. Which is why almost all the projects from Palm Island, The World, Dubai District, Falcon City, Dubai Logistics City, Dubai Central, Dubai Floating City everything flopped one by one. And though when I predicted all these would fail, people laughed and criticized me, today, every single prediction came true. Now all Dubai has is its bad habit of predicting the sun, moon and stars and giving bold pronouncements about the future. But nothing comes to fruition other than its temporary hype. Like I've always said - Dubai is a business hub. Just make your money and get out. That's as far as it goes. LM
@sahajp112 ай бұрын
dubai doesnt look like a failure to me...
@infinitetanner2 ай бұрын
Would you say its safe for women there, American mouthy women?
@infinitetanner2 ай бұрын
@@sahajp11do you read the news?
@LoCoAde872 ай бұрын
I remember travelling to Dhaka via Dubai, and we stayed there for 3 days on our way back home to Ireland in 1999. I would have been 12 years old then. I have good memories of Dubai at that age. We also did that route in 1996, too, but we didn't stay in Dubai then. Every time I go there since, for whatever reason, it just leaves me more numb each time, well, on top of social media posts glorifying it too. Whether it from Western or more local people. It is genuinely sad what it has become over the last two decades. I hope nearby Oman, with their ambitious plans, doesn't lose it's soul in the pursuit of more. It seems the people are at least adamant in not wanting to go the Dubai route. And the plans there are on the more sensible side. Edit - spelling
@MustraOrdo2 ай бұрын
@@LoCoAde87 Oman looks 100 times more authentic than United Business Cities.
@michaelsaxman2 ай бұрын
"Welcome to Ozymandiland, Park of Parks: Look on my rides, ye Marks, and despair!" No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
@rileyrenger27952 ай бұрын
I am become fun, destroyer of boredom.
@darcymoon2109Ай бұрын
This is brilliant!
@aregee712120 күн бұрын
Perfectly described, Michael. With ridiculous amounts of available money, common sense becomes irrelevant.
@TheStupendium18 күн бұрын
Around 2012, when I had freshly graduated from University and was working as a freelance artist I *somehow* landed a short gig doing concept artwork for a 'Formula 1 Themed Attraction' that was to be built in Dubai. The company who offered me the work were goodness-knows how many links down a chain and either couldn't or wouldn't provide me with any details (outside of what I actually needed to draw) other than 'Formula One Attraction in Dubai'. I'd forgotten all about it. It may not be any of the F1 things mentioned in this video but it seems quite likely! I can tell you that if it *was* for one of these ill-fated developments, it would have potentially had a dark-ride about the history of F1 themed like you were in a car going through a track-side garage. I know because I designed concepts for the ride interiors. Sadly I fear those designs are lost to time but as I was a recent graduate I don't think they were very good!
@thatonepersonuh2 ай бұрын
Hey Bright Sun Films, I live currently in Dubai and I am begging for you to cover Global Village Mall. It is expansive and huge but completely…empty.
@BrightSunFilms2 ай бұрын
I’ll take a look!
@VSCPIays2 ай бұрын
@@BrightSunFilms Cityland Mall was used as an substitute as the Global Village mall... [I live in the UAE, but I am in Abu Dhabi]
@Greg.832 ай бұрын
It’s closed in the summer. Open and packed all winter.
@JTA19612 ай бұрын
@@Greg.83all three months of it ?
@AishaKK_2 ай бұрын
@@JTA1961all 6 months of it. The investment there is crazy. My friend rents a small shop every season, they pay 60K AED every season for renting the shop space, but their revenue is usually 4 times the amount.
@RisottoNero-z1w2 ай бұрын
There is little consumers when you dont have a middle class. SHOCKER
@EricPetersen29222 ай бұрын
Middle class is a failure. Was a post war fantasy. Good luck
@VaunShiz2 ай бұрын
Facts
@JTA19612 ай бұрын
An often overlooked reality in the "trickle down" mentality
@Croz89Ай бұрын
To be fair, they kind of do, but it's quite small.
@Muninnnr2 ай бұрын
Ever notice how all the concept art for these desert mega-projects have a lot of foliage and greenery to make them look appealing, yet the "finished" construction always end up looking like a bunch of buildings surrounded by sand and dead grass? It's almost like green plants don't find deserts to be an ideal growing place.
@eily_b2 ай бұрын
Yap, I noticed it. I wondered where they want to get the water for all these massive parks and fountains or whatever that would be. I struggle to water my triny allotement garden in the cityin summer because it gets hotter in Central Europe every year...
@MattBellzminion2 ай бұрын
Just a strikingly colorful, or garish, desert mirage...
@joesharbach38832 ай бұрын
Yep, it would require vast amounts of resources to keep vegetation *that* green.
@XxSniper322 ай бұрын
they always ends up with trees btw
@SirZeck2 ай бұрын
Saudi Arabia is producing decades of contents for this man with their projects.
@Wnick19962 ай бұрын
It's the UAE 🇦🇪
@felixk42752 ай бұрын
I think SirZeck is referring to Saudi Arabias current giga projects. And I must agree.
@bababababababa61242 ай бұрын
@@Wnick1996yeah obviously, but Saudi Arabia is also doing it too
@TheSkcube2 ай бұрын
@@felixk4275 Not really, it will shock you how many people do not know the difference between Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
@raymondmartin67372 ай бұрын
2008 was MAN 👨 MADE. 😅
@donise84062 ай бұрын
Some thing to consider is abandoned Olympic Parks. All were built with the idea it would become housing and sports complexes. I wonder how many are just Abandoned
@cwill21272 ай бұрын
Most lol
@Game_Hero2 ай бұрын
@@cwill2127 surprisingly no
@ZGryphon2 ай бұрын
To be fair, Sarajevo's Winter Olympics facilities weren't abandoned by _choice._
@vitoc84542 ай бұрын
Have heard an idea that there should just be one single Olympic mega-venue that all countries agree on
@Game_Hero2 ай бұрын
@@vitoc8454 ain't gonna happen, would be an immense burden for one city all the time, plus it'd be boring.
@patsysolatzzo29622 ай бұрын
I was supposed to work in Dubai on a project in 2016-2018 and was going to live there. no dates were given from the development company from Dubai and they kept telling us to stand by, despite many people working weren’t in a position to just get up and leave at any moment. The response was increasing the monetary incentive but nobody actually sent any money. A few people including myself were invited to the UAE where they showed us the current state of the projects. even when some places were fairly new, things didn’t seem maintained. I believe my company paid for everything on that trip and I’m not sure if that was supposed to be. In the end I was told that company did a bait and switch on how companies they invited in for projects make money. I believe today that project was broken ground by a different company but the project remains in pieces in the desert
@2000jago2 ай бұрын
"So we want to build something like Disneyland but in Dubai. Any name suggestions?" "Dubailand?" "Genius! Pay that man!" 🤔
@user-bn9pq5wv3oАй бұрын
And?
@AGZhark17 күн бұрын
@@user-bn9pq5wv3oIt’s dumb
@Iliketochopwood2 ай бұрын
All of these mega theme park constructions projects never take into account why Universal and Disney are successful in FL and CA. It is because the US economy supports a middle class. Yes is there is super expensive trips to Disney and universal to be had but the majority of guests are not staying in the 2k a night hotel and eating $500 dollar dinners. It is people who save for a few years and spend 6 to 10k total on a trip. Yes there are people from outside the US that do frequently go but every time I have been to Disney and universal in FL it is primarily people from the US (I have not been to anything in CA so I cannot speak on that one for who goes). To do the same trip to Dubai I would spend an extra 1500 to 2k just on flights then also have a 13 hour plane ride from where I am in the US. So on each side of my vacation it is an entire day of travel that I also have to take work off for. Europe is closer but even in Berlin where there is a strong economy supporting a robust middle class it is an 8 hour flight. Most people will not travel that far to get to those places unless they are a travel vlogger. At this point China which has a large middle class on the eastern side of the country has their own mega theme parks they don't need to go to the middle east for them. Also the flight from Beijing to Dubai is 9 hours. These giant mega projects in the middle of the deserts in the middle east only are for the ultra wealthy but there is not enough people coming to justify the existence. I once saw an interview from a guy who's family got rich selling pillows to hotels and to paraphrase him he said as a rich person I only buy maybe 8 pillows every few years where as 500 people who combined make in a year what I do buy 1 to 2 thousand pillows every few years. Without an healthy and large middle class society you cannot support grand theme park areas and be that far from everyone who can support it. There just isn't the number of middle to lower upper class people who support these places to justify them.
@Hiro_Trevelyan2 ай бұрын
Dubai believed too much in "build it and they will come". It only works if you already have something going on. Just look at Disneyland Paris. Paris is already the #1 tourist destination in the world, yet Disneyland Paris struggled for decades. Imagining Dubai filling all those parks with millions of visitors is, at best day-dreaming, at worst ludicrously stupid. Dubai wanted to become the Orlando of the world, it became Middle East Las Vegas but without casinos and even more tackier (didn't know it was possible but they somehow managed).
@IronDiva19 күн бұрын
You mean you don’t take business advice from motion pictures?
@mrjeremydizon2 ай бұрын
Its because Dubai (and the rest of the GCC Saudi, Qatar etc) are hot deserts who get upwards of 40C temps in the summer so the theme parks would have be indoors or only open in the fall through spring plus the dust! It covers everything, i worked in Doha for a few years and found a lot of high end luxury cars (Lambos, Ferraris, Bentleys etc) parked on the street covered in dust, imagine riding a roller coaster with a huge dust storm coming through you lol. In short the construction and maintenance would he crazy expensive and attendance would be dismal since its hot as fuck.
@dnnythms2 ай бұрын
I can hear the metal on metal screeching starting up a ride every day. A place where metal lubricants simply boils off from just sitting there.
@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley2 ай бұрын
That would be terrifying, being high up on a ride as the winds from a sandstorm batter you around...
@sparthyslaysstuff24052 ай бұрын
Getting sandblasted on a rollercoaster means at least you end the ride polished 😂
@JeanClaudeCOCO2 ай бұрын
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValleyor getting stuck up there due to a malfunction. 100+ F heat and sand.
@chrislongbeard2 ай бұрын
They are forgetting the first rule of real estate. Location, location, location
@LadyLakeMusic2 ай бұрын
Always so interesting Jake!!! Big congrats on the 1.5M 💯🥂🍾🎉🎊🎈
@BrightSunFilms2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@winter_wolf32842 ай бұрын
I feel like they should focus on things outside of tourism. Didn’t Dubai have a bunch of flooding because the infrastructure wasn’t built to handle rain?
@ib75662 ай бұрын
or not using slave labor
@-mayedalshamsi2 ай бұрын
You're talking as if your cities don't get destroyed every year from storms and there are cities that are still flooded from a decade old storm so you're just worse than us with a GDP of 23 trillion (i assume you're from US) oh and i just saw the same thing happen in Moscow, Switzerland and somewhere in italy and they were all worse than dubai
@AL-lh2ht2 ай бұрын
@@ib7566 dudes so racist he thinks 90% of their population are literal slaves.
@AL-lh2ht2 ай бұрын
Dubai does have industries outside of tourrism. A bit of everything, even a tech industry where they make parts for space industry.
@jasonheckenlively11722 ай бұрын
Damn, these little Talibanis get really upset when you suggest thier paper city isnt quite ready for primetime
@kelygrl2 ай бұрын
Wife and Mom who plans the family vacations here 🙋🏽♀️ You could NEVER convince me to take myself or my kids to Dubai. The low attendance isn't really that surprising.
@Jenesaisquoi442 ай бұрын
Yes i must agree and ditto - unless you build it with a Canadian Embassy at the gate I am out.
@eily_b2 ай бұрын
Despite trying to deliver a modern picture, it is a radical muslimic country. I would never go there either
@AndreaC_3034 күн бұрын
Dubai is built on the backs of slaves. I would never support ANY of it.
@Giblitzky2 ай бұрын
Thank you for all the research and hard work that you put into your videos. All of the information paired with videos and images that you dig up really makes viewing them an educating experience
@BrightSunFilms2 ай бұрын
That means a lot, thank you so much!
@reggiebenes29162 ай бұрын
These ideas were so incredibly stupid, that it's mind boggling. Dubai is located in a place that virtually nobody would live, if they hadn't found oil underneath it. No amount of theme parks will make people want to endure that heat
@ydne2 ай бұрын
No oil in Dubai. It's wealth had historically been made, before the oil regions, from pearl diving. Cultured pearls gaining popularity damaged the Dubai economy. The current building rush started with using Dubai as a home base for USA President Bush Sr's 1990 Desert Storm War against Iraq when Saddam invaded Kuwait. 2003 brought America war contractors back when USA President Bush Jr came back to finish what his father started. 2008 and the election of USA President Obama, even more so than the Financial Crisis that was well underway before the election, may have hurt Dubai's prospects for having the USA stay in the Iraq conflict long. Dubai's wealth, since the decline of pearl diving in the 1980s, has been getting Americans involved in wars with their neighbors over oil. Oil being an industry that doesn't concern them directly.
@Gino_5672 ай бұрын
its kind of tainted with the whole 'slave labour' and "no touching girls" kinda shit. i have zero interest to visit a country like that
@TrangleC2 ай бұрын
I often heard that there is basically nothing to do in Dubai. All the people there do is hang out in air conditioned shopping malls all day, like teens in the 1980s in some backwater city. And like Gino_567 said, the restrictive laws and culture don't help either. I think all those plans of places like Dubai, Saudi Arabia or the other Emirates to transition from being oil producers to being tourism and trading hubs are doomed to fail. There is just no good reason to go to those places unless you are working in the oil industry or being paid to do some other odd job for some oil sheikh. (For example, I once worked for a German company that often sent water pump technicians to the Middle East to install Koi fish ponds and aquariums and stuff like that and I once met a German Faulkner who made most of his money selling hawks/falcons to rich Arabs or training them.) Once the oil dries up, all they will be able to do is invest in stuff outside the Middle East and unless you are some Warren Buffet like genius who is always a step ahead of the market and its crashes, such investments have the tendency to get wiped out sooner or later, meaning over a long enough time the Middle East will probably have to return to how it was before the oil boom.
@refillpan2 ай бұрын
@@ydneit all comes back to 2008 or oil
@eliterun62142 ай бұрын
Dubai is more or less the trade and transit hub for the Middle East. It's the biggest financial center in any direction until you get to Zurich. It will continue to get tons of attention due to its global positioning, not its local geography. As an equivalent, in the USA, plenty of people basically live in the desert in California / Arizona / Texas.
@ziadelhadidi142 ай бұрын
I actually live in Dubai, Sports City to be exact. You got everything perfectly right. Such a disappointment when I saw all these projects slowly get cancelled. Sports City is a heartbreaking reminder of what could have been but ultimately was completed to such a poor standard. Motiongate is by far my favourite park in the area but I admit, it is obvious the park is struggling with little to no queues and constant discounts on tickets. Great video though
@LysiHalkides2 ай бұрын
I disagree completely... We are still getting everything, with lagoons and residential areas and we don't need more theme parks. Also, even in July 2024, motion gate had tons of lines.... I prefer IMG. I live in Al Barari and own a few apartments in Remraam just down from you soooo. Everything will still come, it will just take time and we need more places to live, especially with rents increasing.
@m1lk0meda2 ай бұрын
I met a traveler from a place quite grand Who said: such vast and bulldozed foundations of land Lie out in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered building lies, who’d advertise And promised rides, and endless dreams of profit realized. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read, Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: “DUBAILAND, land of adventure, be our guest!: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and invest!” No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
@_EVANERV_2 ай бұрын
I would wager the same fate awaits Neom line city. Can't wait for a mini doc from BSF when the line city saga sees its end.
@Bustermachine2 ай бұрын
Pretty sure the Line is already seeing it's end. At this point we might get an unusually shaped skyscraper out of it.
@eleghari2 ай бұрын
NEOM is already a complete and utter failure as I predicted the day it was announced. Was a bonkers idea. It's scale has already been reduced from 170 km to a mere 2.5 km and that is still 2.5 km too long. Same will happen to The Cube announced for Riyadh, and every other such project of MBS. He is a nincompoop of the highest order! (Having failed at building a 1 km high tower, what type of ***** announces a 2 km high tower? Only one foolish enough to spent $450 million on a fake painting 🤭)
@Caarajack2 ай бұрын
One example of Gulf countries' megalomaniacal projects that are more akin to a kid playing SimCity with infinite money cheat code until he gets bored and gets distracted by another silly project.
@MattBellzminion2 ай бұрын
And not even the good SimCity editions.
@jaein912 ай бұрын
As someone that grew up and still lives in the UAE, I remember seeing the abandoned sign everytime we passed by it on the highway. Now of course we have theme parks scattered across the country (Atlantis, Dubai Parks, Warner Bros, SeaWorld, IMG, Ferrari, the upcoming Harry Potter World, etc) that do really well but it's crazy to remember life before all of the entertainment and fun.
@ArsonRaboot2 ай бұрын
There's a SeaWorld in Dhabi?! With the heat over there, those Blackfish film makers could have run the whole company out of business with their documentary!!
@jaein912 ай бұрын
@@ArsonRaboot It's in Abu Dhabi and it's fully indoors and temperature controlled and it's fully ministry and ethics controlled. Those animals aren't suffering like the un-supervised American SeaWorlds.
@daemonspudguy2 ай бұрын
Early 2000s? This is gonna go swimmingly. /s
@darrenrunning54152 ай бұрын
Every time I see a model mockup of a mega project, I picture Godzilla tearing through and destroying everything.
@11bornrich2 ай бұрын
The crazy part is, Dubai literally had the blueprint on how to develop this project. The issue is, they wanted to accomplish everything overnight. Dubai wasn't built in just a few years, it took decades to get to where it is. The saying "Rome wasn't built in a day" still applies to today. They say under promise and over deliver. They had no business announcing such a timeline & building all of that at once didn't make sense. They should've slowly built everything out over decades not all at once. You can't force demand. It would've been a ghost town within 5 or so years after the hype.
@Magic-gt4pl2 ай бұрын
Yes it took decades. And lots of actual slave labor.
@AL-lh2ht2 ай бұрын
@@Magic-gt4pl dude so racist he thinks expats, 90% of the population, are literal slaves.
@AL-lh2ht2 ай бұрын
The main failure of the project was due to the global recession.
@MustraOrdo2 ай бұрын
Patience and long term visions are not profitable to majority of current investors unfortunately.
@11bornrich2 ай бұрын
@@Magic-gt4pl But the issue is, they should've slowly built up certain aspects of the project and have people actually moving in and investing before just trying to build EVERYTHING at once and hope people will just rush in. Look at Dubai, I had friends moving there in the development stages in the 2000s and early 2010s, it didn't look anything like it doesn't now but slowly they built that demand. Would it be as successful if they said "wait let's just build everything first and then hope people come rushing in"? It probably doesn't have the same level of success. Things should always be a gradual progression when you're looking to build something on this scale. Not even Vegas main attractions were all built at once.
@nekomarulupin2 ай бұрын
Can't wait for the canceled/abandoned episode on Dubai itself.
@werquantum2 ай бұрын
Given the myriad world options, I can’t see Dubai sustaining interest on any significant scale as a tourist destination.
@CastorRabbit2 ай бұрын
People will go like they... sometimes like to visit Amish country or take pictures of Detroit
@MatecaCorp2 ай бұрын
Dubai has no inherent draw for tourism or any other industry. It exists solely as a playground for the wealthy and the extremely wealthy
@chibifirestorm15 күн бұрын
yet it's statistically one of the most visited countries in the world and has been for the last few years
@michaelc26562 ай бұрын
Fallout 5 Dubai
@johnmilovich21952 ай бұрын
Some of Dubai's many human rights violations : Arbitrary detention, forced labor, restrictions on freedom of expression, restrictions on freedom of movement, restrictions on political participation, restrictions on academic freedom, restrictions on LBGTQ rights, restrictions on women's rights, failure to tackle climate crisis.
@jillhoffman91792 ай бұрын
Yeah fuck that place as a tourist destination. I am constantly aghast at the oppression and virtual of slavery women and literal slavery of immigrants.
@westrim2 ай бұрын
So, how does your condition work? When you see a trigger names and regurgitate some perspective on them, are you aware in that moment that it doesn't actually have anything to do with the context at hand, or is it like a blackout and you don't have any memory of doing so until you see the evidence of your impulsivity?
@airplanegod2 ай бұрын
Oh yeah because the UAE (Dubai is a city like NYC) is so horrible compared to Iran or Afghanistan or Hamas.
@Sashazur2 ай бұрын
@@airplanegodyeah I guess I’ll let this rapist live in my house since at least he’s not a murderer.
@Sashazur2 ай бұрын
@@airplanegodSure those places are worse. But that doesn’t mean we should give less worse - but still bad - places a pass.
@emmanuelfrechette54982 ай бұрын
Jake please do an abandoned episode on Mirabel airport. A significant part of canadian infrastructure history
@ErikTheAndroid2 ай бұрын
Man that Dubailand logo is a real blast from the past. I have gone past that sales building many, many times and I have even been inside it. It was fun to think of all the things that were about to be built, but which never were.
@ald11442 ай бұрын
Why waste millions when you can waste... billions.
@Global_MegaProjectsАй бұрын
That's an interesting observation! It's crazy how many significant events in recent history seem to trace back to 2008. That year was a major turning point for so many industries.
@scottgrieb80952 ай бұрын
The only thing of note to come out of this entire project was that sweet miniature scale model.
@LN_P2 ай бұрын
BSF Feeding on the 2008 Economic Crisis like a vampire
@michaelleslieviola57432 ай бұрын
I’ve been following your channel for years. If I had a complaint, it would be that you don’t post new videos as often as I’d like. Keep u the great work Jake!
@disliked13902 ай бұрын
Dubai thinks it's some destination that the world cannot wait to visit when it's not the case at all and no one that isn't a tech bro cares. It sucks as a vacation destination.
@phoenixfritzinger91852 ай бұрын
Like did they just forget that heat stroke is a thing
@chrisslater95142 ай бұрын
woah woah dont forget arms manufacturers
@nkosijwara29402 ай бұрын
I worked at IMG Worlds of Adventure from pre opening til 2021. The building next to it was used for company accommodation for 2 years and then everyone left for company accommodation somewhere else. I also worked at Dubai parks and resorts as well (for Bollywood parks and motiongate) poor attendance is a real thing . The economy is not strong enough to support the attendance
@aanntthhoonnyy2 ай бұрын
Love your stuff. I’ll rewatch your film on Amazon this weekend
@BrightSunFilms2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@intothevideoverse2 ай бұрын
“If you build it, they will come.” If only it was that easy.
@arribaficationwineho322 ай бұрын
If it is in the right place!
@dylanbrown8472 ай бұрын
The environmental impacts of all this abandoned construction is crazy. Concrete alone is very damaging to the environment so to pour millions of gallons all to be wasted is just insane.
@sarahlevine7762 ай бұрын
I think the money would be better spent as a sovereign wealth fund or something else that's practical.
@HoJSimpson2 ай бұрын
The thing is...who flys to dubai to visit a carbon copy of a themepark that is probably pretty close to you already? Again it's in the fucking desert. People already melt in the Orlando heat...
@DEATHTRUTH2 ай бұрын
Maybe the vast majority of people that don't live in or near to the USA??
@HoJSimpson2 ай бұрын
@@DEATHTRUTH bro. We have themeparks in Europe too. And guess what. There are even ones in Asia.
@eleghari2 ай бұрын
With much better weather too...
@sportsMike872 ай бұрын
Dubai wanting to be a destination spot is like Utah trying to be a tourist destination. Too many rules and dry places
@WestCoastWheelman2 ай бұрын
Except Utah isn't trying, it IS a huge tourist destination. Something on the order of 30 million per year, 7 million skiers alone. Moab and Bryce are packed with people year round.
@Fay76662 ай бұрын
Yeah, Moab / Zion / Bryce make Utah a legit tourist destination, I'd add in the freeway to Denver as well.
@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley2 ай бұрын
All that MLM/Morman money.
@PrezVeto2 ай бұрын
I see what you attempted to do there. Sorry Utah's tourism industry didn't cooperate. Cheers! 🍻
@WYO_Dirtbag2 ай бұрын
Except Utah has beautiful natural features. Can't be said about UAE or Saudi Arabia
@calvin73302 ай бұрын
Somalia has Somaliland, why can't Dubai make Dubailand work?
@arribaficationwineho322 ай бұрын
Because no one will go there
@Game_Hero2 ай бұрын
lol
@veggieboyultimate2 ай бұрын
This makes me wonder, if the 2008 financial crisis never happened, we could have gotten all the projects that were cancelled.
@DragonPhlegm2 ай бұрын
To have fun in Dubai you either need to be inside or at a water park. An outdoor dry theme park sounds rancid
@amyslowikgrossman8352 ай бұрын
Aww, Jake! I'm so happy that you got sponsored by Factor. That's a genuine score. I'm a subscriber to them already. They are pricey, but quite nice for pre-made lunches. I love their drink variety pack.
@lo2740Ай бұрын
lol, you can't cook a meal? After the corporate drones, the youtube sponsor drones. I guess marketing heavily alters mental faculties;
@AGZhark17 күн бұрын
@@lo2740Factor is also for people who don’t have the time to stop and make a meal. It’s the equivalent of those frozen meals you always see in the grocery store. Not sure why this upset you that much.
@quinnzykir2 ай бұрын
Get the land. But start small. That’s how lost island Waterpark started. Now it’s huge
@RednekGamurz2 ай бұрын
Yeah Dubailand was never going to happen, and if it did, it was going to fail. It was a flawed concept right from the start, and I have no idea why so many major companies even humored the idea.
@recklessgarage33142 ай бұрын
So you have cancelled, abandoned, and bankrupt. But I wonder if there are any interesting success stories. Places that were abandoned, nearly cancelled, but were eventually redeemed.
@thatguywesmaranan2 ай бұрын
an amusement park? in the desert? that's gonna turn out great... 😂😂😂
@Seagaltalk2 ай бұрын
I was working at a design consulting company and my boss brought the pamphlets for all this nonesense from one of his trips. As a company we were very excited by the prospect of working on these. However I remained very very skeptical that anyone would want to come to the middle of the desert for theme parks, alone be built.
@ydne2 ай бұрын
The Dubai Miracle Garden was a good idea for a spot like that. If you can get water too them, plants sure like the heat of the Dubai desert sun.
@spider8266610 күн бұрын
They should rename Dubailand, Goodbye Land!
@bengreedy10882 ай бұрын
When you think about it so much money has been wasted in Dubai on nothing.. Yeah they made money but the developer's got nothing back..
@haplon332 ай бұрын
a bunch of well paid consultants laughing their asses off as they hurry out of town like the simpsons monorail guy
@tcbgarage28452 ай бұрын
If Jake made a live stream where his narrated videos just played on a loop I would be listening all day at work.
@michaelc26562 ай бұрын
Dubai is a joke. A big scam-laden joke. I wouldn’t waste my money or time going there.
@katherinealvarez92162 ай бұрын
They really counted their chickens before they hatched.
@eleghari2 ай бұрын
They forgot their incubators temperature is too high and can't be lowered 🤭
@MoldieAnimations2 ай бұрын
My goat is back with a brand new video 💯 God bless 2008 and private equity firms 🗣️🔥
@Aw3some982 ай бұрын
I used to go to the school next to Dubai land and watched out the window of my classroom as they demolished the remains of it
@traciecombs70302 ай бұрын
Soooo... the people who visit the wealthiest country in the world aren't really interested in theme parks. Shocking...
@lo2740Ай бұрын
Wealthiest country in the world is luxembourg, no dubai, lol. And their "wealth" is just petrol which is running off, fast. Other than that they have nothing, no culture, no technology, no brains, no class, and live on 5 year old kids dreams projects.
@goofyrulez79142 ай бұрын
Dubai is like a one-legged man who wants to become a world-class runner. There's a fundamental problem that they are ignoring. (I can't mention what it is but we all know.)
@simonhayes-uv6ci2 ай бұрын
give us a clue
@ricko23012 ай бұрын
@@simonhayes-uv6ciMuslim
@jedlikestrains75992 ай бұрын
@@simonhayes-uv6cimy guess is the fact that it is hot as fuck there
@CastorRabbit2 ай бұрын
@@simonhayes-uv6ci Allahu Akbar
@naturalcambion37472 ай бұрын
Unfortunately that issue is part and parcel for that region.
@raedwulf612 ай бұрын
The big question about things like this is, to whom are these parks targeted? The Chinese? The Indians? Certainly not the Americans who will not go there due to the distance, the huge jet lag of 9 hours or more, and that, except for a handful of adventurous types, they will not go to the Middle East as it is perceived as scary and filled with scary, even dangerous, people.
@nuijax2 ай бұрын
maybe the british? though, seeing how they treat the romani, i don't think they'd be interested
@Thatannoyingtgirl2 ай бұрын
they expect the entire world to have enough money to visit them every month or something considering just how much that project costed
@thrillbilly2Ай бұрын
Everything about Dubai reminds me of playing Simcity as a kid - going all out to build wild cities/projects without any care or knowledge about taxes, budgets, constraints, etc. 😅
@JamesLawner2 ай бұрын
I remember seeing ads for Dubailand back in the day and I was really looking forward to the idea of a Marvel theme park at the time. Seeing all these renderings and concept art seems truly outrageous now, like we can’t even get theme parks like this in Europe! 😂
@ilyasboudad2 ай бұрын
As someone who literally passes by this everyday for school, i can confirm literally nothing about it has changed.
@ko-ve7mi2 ай бұрын
2008 really is the cursed year
@martinedwards45222 ай бұрын
one word : obama
@AndreaC_3034 күн бұрын
That’s when I graduated from high school and started college. Yay!
@martinedwards45224 күн бұрын
@@AndreaC_303 i bought brand new truck 2008 and still driving it 😂
@jdizzy902 ай бұрын
I've been living in Dubai for a good part of 18 years now, and remember very well all these theme park ideas that failed. Whats surprising now is to see Saudi attempting the same exact thing, only this time minus the humidity - just the excruciating dry heat of the Riyadh desert.
@Juanxlink2 ай бұрын
you cant have family resorts in non family friendly countries, should be easy to figure out...
@CMillineum2 ай бұрын
And how would uae not be a family friendly country?
@AGZhark17 күн бұрын
@@CMillineumReligion
@simonwaffleman2 ай бұрын
I was in Dubai pre-(virus of unspecified origin). The percentage of empty office and living space was and continues to be absolutely insane. They expanded so fast and with such reckless abandon that the ability to sustain the PEOPLE growth in cooperation with just the sheer amount of building they were doing was just not realistic. I can't imagine that it's getting better right now.
@kolonarulez52222 ай бұрын
Every time I see Dubaj mega projects and tourism attempts I keep thinking "I just wouldn't feel safe traveling there as a woman." Love learning about them though!
@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley2 ай бұрын
Not juat as a woman, I don't support their whole government and wouldn't visit just off of that.
@frefai2 ай бұрын
On the contrary, women are much more protected there. I've been there several times and it's normal to see women and children out in the streets at midnight
@themessageman24632 ай бұрын
Like what are you talking about, the Middle East is the safest place you could be as a woman. It's too safe for women that's what people are complaining about, y'know that they're treated juvenile. But not unsafe in.. y'know that sorta way...
@themessageman24632 ай бұрын
Sorry it's just annoying because you're not making any sense
@infinitetanner2 ай бұрын
Smart woman!!!
@andrewb50042 ай бұрын
I live in Dubai and love it October through early May then it gets hot. There are many theme parks one being entirely indoors for the times when too hot.
@Choralone4222 ай бұрын
Whenever I hear much about Dubai I'm reminded of dialogue from the 2001 Ocean's Eleven movie. Reuben: [to Rusty and Danny present during lunch at Ruben's home] You guys are pros. The best. I'm sure you can make it out of the casino. Of course, lest we forget, once you're out the front door, you're still in the middle of the f*cking desert! Seems that in a number of ways Las Vegas (the setting of Ocean's Eleven) and Dubai have a lot of similarities. Both areas that rely very heavily on tourists and are both in the middle of the freaking desert! lol
@jacobsmithjr2 ай бұрын
You are the best storyteller on KZbin. What sets you apart is hearing your real voice instead of those annoying AI voices.
@AA-db9cb2 ай бұрын
Why don't they build structures for manufacturing? They should be a manufacturing base considering they are very close to the oil.
@Infernal_Elf2 ай бұрын
One of the first things Dubai did back in the 1970's was to make port jebel Ali. Dubai drydocks and Dubai aluminum. Then they started on emirates airlines and Dubai Airport in the 1980's then tourism 1997 onwards and becoming a financial hub.
@Bustermachine2 ай бұрын
Because generally oil is a feedstock for many other processes, but it's also SUPER easy to transport vast distances to other countries that already have very competent and proven manufacturing bases. There's relatively little advantage to setting up shop right next door.
@justint9842 ай бұрын
The one thing that will never be "Cancelled" is my subscription to this channel.
@AgentGodzillaRP1701Ай бұрын
Building a theme park in Dubai is not a good investment. The place is only gonna get hotter and hotter in the coming decades.
@apeters5339Ай бұрын
The cost (financial, environmental, ecological) of having to desalinate the ocean water needed for all these parks would be catastrophic. All those lawns, the water parks, actual drinking water…
@Challechallechalle2 ай бұрын
Thanks Jake. Interesting video. I look forward to each new video. Really enjoy your style.
@BrightSunFilms2 ай бұрын
I appreciate that! Thanks!
@nannerz19942 ай бұрын
Remember when these people tried to make a bunch of little islands in the ocean and there are all like abandoned now?
@Zaabi2 ай бұрын
Not abandoned any more, development has restarted
@eily_b2 ай бұрын
@@Zaabi Of course... 😄
@Zaabi2 ай бұрын
@@eily_b it is
@AvocadoAfficionado2 ай бұрын
Can't wait for the Neom video.
@eleghari2 ай бұрын
NEOM is a one word joke 🤣🤣🤣
@Ckom-Tunes2 ай бұрын
The ancient world gave us wonders like The Hanging Gardens of Babylon! The modern world gives us indoor skiing in the middle of the desert... Brilliant!
@Petzfan101Ай бұрын
What is chuck e chesse doing here 3:52
@paoloibayan7055Ай бұрын
People thought that money is wasted when government cancels projects. Those billions becomes wages for workers / contractors / suppliers. The only wasted here was the potential income it could generate.
@deadpan28662 ай бұрын
All these Arabian oil states remind me of everyone's first unlimited money playthroughs of sims city or cities skylines where you build with only the most expensive roads and place down all the most expensive structures but because its not organically grown there is no demand for anything so you end up with a village of like 300 people with the infrastructure of a small city