Benjsh
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Hi guys... I'm currently on day 3 of our family holiday to Dubai and today we visited IMG Worlds of Adventure.
First of all let me start by saying this park surprised me a lot. I went in with mixed expectations after hearing some positive and truly awful reviews but we had a great day. There must have only been about 400 people there today tops and we got there for opening so for the first hour or so there was legitimately more staff than guests. We had entire rides to ourselves including 3 early rides on the Velociraptor coaster (basically Bluefire) Very cool and also quite strange too. It almost felt like we had the park to ourselves.
The only slight negative about the day was the second major coaster at the park, Predator, was down all day. They did tell us at the ticket office though to be fair to them. However after seeing the layout I wasn't overly bothered as I have done loads of those coasters before so don't feel like I missed much.
As good as the Bluefire clone Velociraptor is as well as the Spiderman Doc Oc coaster (Storm Chaser), the park really excels in the dark ride stakes;
- Avengers: Battle of Ultron is an absolutely world class dark ride. It's basically Spiderman from Universal Studios but for me slightly better. We had 4 goes on it and it really doesn't miss a beat. A truly fantastic dark ride.
- Forbidden Territory is another superb dark ride which wouldn't look out of place in a major Florida Theme Park. They really did a fantastic job with the dinosaurs and the ride does have a very good atmosphere. You really do feel like you're in the jungle somewhere.
- Hulk 3D was another ride we thoroughly enjoyed. The Tagada style ride with the 360 degrees Dome screen was something I wasn't quite sure would work that well going in but oh boy it's a good one. It's very clever how they made that ride. Would love to see that recreated elsewhere with another IP or theme.
Some other highlights:
The Haunted Hotel. I had to do this one alone as my son is only 8 and you have to be 15 to go in. I went in with a group of about 12 and as always I ended up going first as usual. Lots of actors in there and even though these sort of attractions don't really scare me at all it was so funny watching 3 girls who were quite visibly terrified.
Thor Thunder Spin ride (basically Ripsaw) was fun and made me miss old Rippy.
The Gumball shooting target ride was also really good too. All the scenes worked and the guns were actually reliable and accurate. Imagine that (Merlin I'm talking to you).
Final thoughts:
A really solid Theme Park with some absolutely outstanding dark rides and really fun coasters. A water ride that maybe starts off indoors and ventures outside like the Velociraptor coaster would be a good addition for them next. Definitely needed to fill out the lineup.
Something like this in the UK would be so good and would honestly be packed to the rafters. Was a shame to see it so quiet but apparently these parks are quiet an awful lot of the time which is sad really. They really deserve more guests for the quality of attractions they have.
We are going to Motiongate on Thursday. I will report back my review.
First of all let me start by saying this park surprised me a lot. I went in with mixed expectations after hearing some positive and truly awful reviews but we had a great day. There must have only been about 400 people there today tops and we got there for opening so for the first hour or so there was legitimately more staff than guests. We had entire rides to ourselves including 3 early rides on the Velociraptor coaster (basically Bluefire) Very cool and also quite strange too. It almost felt like we had the park to ourselves.
The only slight negative about the day was the second major coaster at the park, Predator, was down all day. They did tell us at the ticket office though to be fair to them. However after seeing the layout I wasn't overly bothered as I have done loads of those coasters before so don't feel like I missed much.
As good as the Bluefire clone Velociraptor is as well as the Spiderman Doc Oc coaster (Storm Chaser), the park really excels in the dark ride stakes;
- Avengers: Battle of Ultron is an absolutely world class dark ride. It's basically Spiderman from Universal Studios but for me slightly better. We had 4 goes on it and it really doesn't miss a beat. A truly fantastic dark ride.
- Forbidden Territory is another superb dark ride which wouldn't look out of place in a major Florida Theme Park. They really did a fantastic job with the dinosaurs and the ride does have a very good atmosphere. You really do feel like you're in the jungle somewhere.
- Hulk 3D was another ride we thoroughly enjoyed. The Tagada style ride with the 360 degrees Dome screen was something I wasn't quite sure would work that well going in but oh boy it's a good one. It's very clever how they made that ride. Would love to see that recreated elsewhere with another IP or theme.
Some other highlights:
The Haunted Hotel. I had to do this one alone as my son is only 8 and you have to be 15 to go in. I went in with a group of about 12 and as always I ended up going first as usual. Lots of actors in there and even though these sort of attractions don't really scare me at all it was so funny watching 3 girls who were quite visibly terrified.
Thor Thunder Spin ride (basically Ripsaw) was fun and made me miss old Rippy.
The Gumball shooting target ride was also really good too. All the scenes worked and the guns were actually reliable and accurate. Imagine that (Merlin I'm talking to you).
Final thoughts:
A really solid Theme Park with some absolutely outstanding dark rides and really fun coasters. A water ride that maybe starts off indoors and ventures outside like the Velociraptor coaster would be a good addition for them next. Definitely needed to fill out the lineup.
Something like this in the UK would be so good and would honestly be packed to the rafters. Was a shame to see it so quiet but apparently these parks are quiet an awful lot of the time which is sad really. They really deserve more guests for the quality of attractions they have.
We are going to Motiongate on Thursday. I will report back my review.