🎉 Get ready for some magic!
The company behind Mickey Mouse, 🐭 Disney, just said on Wednesday that they've teamed up with a big entertainment company called Miral to build a brand new Disney park and resort. Guess where? 📍 On Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, which is in the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪!

🎢 This is going to be the seventh Disney theme park resort in the world!
Miral will be the ones to build the whole thing, but the super creative people at Disney, the "imagineers" 🎨, will be in charge of how it looks and how it works. Disney isn't putting their own money into building it, but it will get a cut of the money it makes 💵.

💸 Even though Disney is planning to spend a massive $60 billion on their theme parks over the next ten years, this new Abu Dhabi park is extra; it's not part of that big plan.

🗣️ The boss of Disney, Bob Iger, said,
"This is a super exciting time for us! We're planning to build an amazing Disney theme park resort in Abu Dhabi, a place with a lot of love for art 🎭 and being creative. This will be our seventh park, and it's going to be something special, mixing cool modern buildings 🏙️ with the newest technology 💡 to give people an immersive and fun experience 🎮 in new and different ways."

📐 Iger also said that the Disney Imagineers have already started drawing up plans for the park, but he didn't say exactly when it will open 🏗️.

🕰️ "We don't have a date yet," he said.
"Usually, it takes us about 18 months to two years to design everything and then around five years to build it, but we're not promising anything right now."

📊 This big announcement came right after Disney said they made more money than expected in the last few months. Their "experiences" part of the business, which includes the parks 🏰, cruises 🚢, resorts 🏨, and toys 🧸, made 6% more money than the year before. This part of the business made up a big chunk of Disney's total money last year and even more of their profits 📈.

💬 Iger said that even with some worries about the economy 🌍, he's feeling good about how strong and reliable their business is 💪.

🏰 Disney Getting a Foot in the UAE Door

🛍️ Disney has been slowly making its way into the UAE in the last few years, opening shops 🏬 and bringing shows like "The Lion King" 🦁 and "Disney on Ice" ❄️.

🕰️ Iger said that they first thought about building a resort in this area around 2017 or 2018, but things like COVID 😷 and a change in who was in charge of Disney made them wait on expanding into the UAE.

✈️ Disney pointed out that a huge number of people in the world live within a four-hour flight of the UAE, and that about 500 million tourists could potentially visit the area 🌍.

🧑‍💼 The person in charge of Disney's experiences, Josh D’Amaro, said,
"This new resort is going to be something new for theme park building. Our park in Abu Dhabi will be the most advanced and interactive one we have 💻. The location is special, right on the water 🌊, which will let us tell our stories in completely new ways 📖. This project will bring Disney to a whole new group of people around the world, letting more families 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 experience the magic ✨ than ever before."

📍 Yas Island is already a big spot for fun and shopping 🛍️. It's home to other big attractions like:

🎢 Ferrari World Abu Dhabi
🌊 Yas Waterworld
🐬 SeaWorld Abu Dhabi
🎬 Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi
🏎️ Formula 1 race track
🛒 Abu Dhabi’s biggest shopping mall
⛳ A really good golf course

🏨 When the new Disney park is finished, it will have special themed hotels 🛌 and unique places to eat 🍽️ and shop 🛍️, all mixed with Disney's famous storytelling 📚 and Abu Dhabi's modern and cultural vibes 🎭.

🎙️ D’Amaro even teased,
"It’s going to be much bigger than anything that’s there right now!"

Reported by FazTimes Media.

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