Half a billion dollar Theme Park to be built in Baghdad

[k_peek_2000]

Two words: Dust Storms

 

It's Baghdad not Tatooine.

 

Oh, I guess we wont have to worry about Tusken Raiders then.

 

Putting a theme park in the middle of a warzone.. now.. this just doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

 

I agree, I think they should at least wait till the daily suicide bombings calm down a bit.

[socalMAN123]

"Also we will have Roller Coasters that will speed past check points with out stopping - keep those arms in and heads down!" he chuckled.

'Nuff said.

---Brent

[FLIPDUDE]

I'm starting to find several of these comments offensive.

Israel can be considered a war zone, but fact is there are parks here that are built in safe places and have been operating just fine for a long time. Therefore, not EVERY place in a city/country that's been named a war zone is, in fact, dangerous. It could be that the area the park is supposed to be built in is one of the safer saner areas. I'd imagine the people who planned this park didn't just pick a random spot and say "We'll build it there!"

 

As for the comment about Dubai - Dubai isn't even CLOSE to a war zone. In fact, it is doing things that are against the rules of many islamic countries. So watch your generalities please.

[ginzo]

I'm starting to find several of these comments offensive.

Israel can be considered a war zone, but fact is there are parks here that are built in safe places and have been operating just fine for a long time. Therefore, not EVERY place in a city/country that's been named a war zone is, in fact, dangerous. It could be that the area the park is supposed to be built in is one of the safer saner areas. I'd imagine the people who planned this park didn't just pick a random spot and say "We'll build it there!"

 

Built in safer neighborhoods or not, this is an obscenely high risk venture. An American-owned amusement park is certainly a high profile target for the Al-Qaeda types operating in Iraq. As others have said, this project is almost guaranteed to never make it past the planning phase.

[DBru]

I say give it a chance. The US will be out of there soon...

[PURE]

^^^I'm sorry if you're offended by my Dubai comment, I didn't mean to make it sound like it's a terrorist target. But what I mean by its "off in the distance" is that it's not much more than 1,000 miles from Baghdad, one of the not so safe places in the world right now.

 

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I never knew of Dubai before too long ago, and I found it by using the exact image above from Google. I zoomed out and saw the surrounding countries and I have to say, I would honestly be on edge while visiting there.

 

Same case as with this park. Everyone else is more than welcome to visit and feel safe and that's fine. But to me, and this may just be me, I'd rather take a trip to another part of the world to visit another country, or find another park. To be honest, I'd just rather have no part in it.

 

So i don't mean to sound like I'm making generalizations. Unless by generalizations you mean "in fear to go to that country", than yes, I'll agree with you. I'm sure its different if you haven't grown up in the US, so I know where you're coming from. I'm just saying how I personally would feel about making a trip to the park.

[FLIPDUDE]

^Alright. I understand and repsect that you would feel that way. However, I would like to make it very clear that from a logical standpoint, even if you ignore the fact that iraqis have no reason to attack Dubai, which is expected to be very important to the arab countires' economy and liesure, 1,000 miles is still way way way more than a safe distance to be from all that mess.

 

Tomi "lives less than 100 miles from where missiles are launched and even less than that from where they land, and actually lives in a place safer than most US cities" Zandshtein.

 

(this is the same scale as the pic you got)

[Coasterlvr_nc]

If they were to build this, I would wait until the U.S. pulls out of the war, just to lower any risks they may be taking as is. Afterall, the zoo near their selected location lost the majority of its animals, some of them being stolen....

[ghost007jas]

I say give it a chance. The US will be out of there soon...

 

I don't find that very re-assuring..

 

Sorry if any of these comments offend you Flipdude, but when guys with bombs wrapped around their chests are running into crowded areas with the sole purpose of destruction.. well.. that doesn't say anything good about the area.

[bgeguy]

IED - The Ride

[ginzo]

Tomi "lives less than 100 miles from where missiles are launched and even less than that from where they land, and actually lives in a place safer than most US cities" Zandshtein.

 

This statement is guilty of the same thing that you keep pointing out. Most US cities have neighborhoods where the vast majority of their crime is concentrated. Because these areas have so many problems they statistically drag down the whole metropolitan area with them. If you live elsewhere, you are probably quite safe. So while your area might be safer than Inglewood, East St. Louis, or South Chicago, it's probably no safer than your average upper middle class neighborhood in the US.

[FLIPDUDE]

^You're right. I was generalizing too, I apologise.

However, what you said also supports my point about Iraq so I hope people don't rule it out just 'cus it's Iraq.

[amusing_parks]

If say I would go here do any of you people know how to get bomb suits or something? Thats the only way I go or if I joined the army and went over which is a 5% chance (I give 5 my dad was in the army for years)

Maybe theres somethings that could change it but there have to be amazing rides.

[upside down]

I would really not want to go there, my uncle just came back from peace keeping with a purple heart after his hand was blown off in a road-side bombing. Exept for a few places, the middle east just dosent seem like a very nice place.

[Kennyweird]

I can just imagine the announcement they'd play in the stations:

 

"Attention oncoming riders, please remove all loose articles, including hand grenades, IED's, RPG's, and AK-47's, and place them in the designated bins on the other side of the loading platform, thank you."

[AllenA07]

^Don't be silly, they'll have lockers for those items.

 

In all reality I just don't see this park coming to fruition anytime soon. I do believe that Dubai has a good chance at getting a big park way before Baghdad.

[EvoLee]

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[carolinacaniac]

I say give it a chance. The US will be out of there soon...

 

Not if John McCain has anything to do with it.

 

One of the many reasons that who ever is nominated by the democratic party will be reciving my vote. (I'm sorry, but I don't not feel that this country needs a third-term for Bush)

 

I don't know that it is fair to generalize the whole region as a dangerous area. Sure there is a lot of fighting going on, but look at the circumstances right now, there is a very unpopular military force that carried out the destruction of many people's homes. Don't you think that the same kind of thing could happen anywhere else with the same senario? I would be surprised of people felt that Bahgdad was just as dangerous before the U.S. Military was sent to destroy the place as it is now.

[terrancew_hod]

In all reality I just don't see this park coming to fruition anytime soon. I do believe that Dubai has a good chance at getting a big park way before Baghdad.

 

Dubai is currently working with Busch to create a Seaworld by 2012 (I think) and I believe Busch gardens as well. That area is a big resort destination. As far as some of the generalizations: it's like when a hurricane hits down here, the first place the media goes is the trailer park and gives a sensationalist story. It may just be trees down and some damaged roofs in some areas but you know a trailer can't stand any type of high winds; so it looks worse than what the majority is to get people to watch. Sometimes perception is worse than reality.

 

The same thing may be in Baghdad; just areas where there is violence. I'm sure the area where they want to put this park is well away from where the media focuses.

 

Terry

[Gnome]

this is possibly one of the most racist threads I've ever seen.

 

Shame on you for assuming that insurgents would just automatically use a half billion dollar theme park, which is in the middle of Iraq's most violent city, as a target for ther dirty work.

 

Shame, Shame, Shame...

 

you're just assuming that these people who are about to go blow themselves up dont care about things like children, and morals, and allah, and the such.

[hemmy]

this is possibly one of the most racist threads I've ever seen.

 

Shame on you for assuming that insurgents would just automatically use a half billion dollar theme park, which is in the middle of Iraq's most violent city, as a target for ther dirty work.

 

Shame, Shame, Shame...

 

you're just assuming that these people who are about to go blow themselves up dont care about things like children, and morals, and allah, and the such.

 

Blah blah blah

 

Most things posted are jokingly, get over it

 

And I would rather not go to a theme park anywhere in Iraq.

[Kennyweird]

^ I'd rather not go to Iraq, PERIOD!

 

In all seriousness this idea will probably flounder before it leaves the drawing board; I can't imagine anyone is willing to spend that amount of money on an amusement park in Baghdad.

[Disney Dood]

you're just assuming that these people who are about to go blow themselves up dont care about things like children, and morals, and allah, and the such.

I don't really want to be racist but in reality, they don't care...

[RedLeg21]

Ok I have to chime in and help out the guy from Israel Flipdude. Now I was stationed in Baghdad probably during one of the worst times of violence from 2005-2006 when all the sectarien violence was happening. First I should say for anyone who has never been there, shut up, don't believe everything in the news or everything you read, you haven't been there to see for yourself so you just don't know. Yes there is violence in certain areas, but its not everywhere and there are safe places in baghdad and other parts of iraq. Alot of days I never knew of anything happening on the other part of town and would go months with peace and quiet. The guy made a comment about Dubai and how the middle east is so crazy. Hey Kuwait is right next door and Kuwaitis love Americans because we saved them from Saddam and you can go just about anywhere in Kuwait in civillian clothes. We would take a 4 day pass down to Qatar, visit the beaches and the mall (which had an ice skating rink inside the middle of it) and everything else a great time. So you can't just gerneralize the middle east like that.

[winningfreak]

^ Welcome to TPR.

 

Honistly though, if we bomb them this guy is out of 500 million whoppers!