While we just discovered that an Alien themed area will no longer be coming to the Genting SkyWorlds theme park in Malaysia, we have come across some concept art that shows what could have been at the other planed 20th Century Fox World park in Dubai. This theme park project was put on indefinite hold and if it ever does happen it will be nothing like what was planned.
The excellent Theme Park YouTube channel ReviewTyme recently put out a video going through the history and ideas of the planned and ultimately cancelled park, which you can watch below:
After watching this video I was inspired to do some more digging to see if I could find additional concept art on the project. I was especially curious about the AVP dark ride which ReviewTyme said in their video was not revealed:
“The attraction was a large dark ride, the largest in the park. Though this is one of the least known aspects of the entire Fox park, with no concept art or even story treatments being revealed for the ride.”
Well, I found the concept art showing what the ride experience may have been like!
These concepts are by Studio Pages LLC, which is the site of artist Gabriel Pages. They give us a pretty good idea of what seems to be a dark ride/motion simulator hybrid, similar to the Universal Studios ride system used in Transformers, The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, and the upcoming Jurassic World dark ride at Universal Studios Shanghai.
Unlike the previous concept we saw for AVP at the Malaysia park featuring a pyramid setting, this one looks to have been set within an Aliens-inspired colony, yet also featuring Predators!
Some additional concept art by Justin Martin and Rethink Leisure & Entertainment shows the entrance for the ride as well as the ride vehicles:
Concept art by Justin Martin
Concept art by Justin Martin
From what I can see in the story boards, it looks like guests would have been part of a marine convoy gathered with tanks, APCs, and dropships. The convoy would be attacked with the ride vehicles venturing inside the colony complex and then into a xenomorph hive, where a queen would face off against Predators.
There’s also some additional concept art showing off what would’ve been the Alien themed land, which may have been mixed with other Fox sci-fi properties as we can see the ‘Serenity’ ship from FireFly tv series.
The other attraction in the area would’ve been a much less elaborate power-loader themed ride.
It’s really unfortunate that these great Alien and AVP concepts for both Dubai and Malaysia won’t see the light of day, but here’s hoping Disney might be considering including the franchises in their own parks.
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That could've been such a sweet Aliens or AVP ride... The Indoor SFX Coaster reminds me of the Harry Potter Gringotts ride at Universal Florida, though this one looks like it's more intense.
Here's a video showing the concept by Dynamic Attractions, and thanks ahmad_ for pointing this out: http://dynamicattractions.com/products/coasters/
You're making me sad! I guess this will just be some generic space theme now going along with Andromeda Base.
Might've at one time been a pyramid theme on the inside? Seen in this video: https://vimeo.com/477361801?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=126765552 We know the Dubai one was going to be a colony setting and more of a motion sim / dark ride hybrid: https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2021/02/27/cancelled-dubai-avp-dark-ride-and-land-revealed-with-concept-art/
Just imagine an "Aliens/Predator" land at one of the major parks that was basically a colony compound set in a jungle environment, so you had the Aliens half slowly merging into the Predator half with the appropriate rides and theming in each area. It could be fantastic! A dark ride where you've got to escape an Alien attack, only then Predators show up as well? Other rides too, but I loves me some dark rides, so dark rides!!
But Disney's never going to do a whole area given over to R-rated properties in their parks (we all know how that original Alien/Nostromo pitch turned out, and even then they got rid of The Extra-Terror-Restrial Alien Encounter that it morphed into), and even though it'd literally be money for nothing, I doubt they'd want to licence something that big out to Universal either.
So much potential we'll probably never see fully realised.....
Or at least, it would have...
Also Disney will never bring a rated R attraction to any of their parks.
Side note - nice digging around though! Loved seeing the concept work 👍
Granted it's not like I ever would have flown out to Dubai to ride it even if it had been built, but it sucks that yet again another Alien ride came so close to existing only to be cancelled.
One day.....one day......