The Deluxe Group bring cinematic adventures to life in Dubai’s Hollywood inspired theme park motiongateTM Dubai
The Deluxe Group are helping to bring life to five attractions based on Sony Pictures Studios movies in motiongate™ Dubai, part of the multi themed leisure and entertainment destination resort; Dubai Parks and Resorts. The Northern Ireland based high-end fit-out company’s theming division have been awarded a substantial contract to create amazing sets, props and special effects for action-packed attractions based around Hollywood movies that include Hotel Transylvania, Ghostbusters, The Green Hornet, Underworld and Zombieland.
The designers at Deluxe along with a team of carpenters, sculptors and scenic artists are helping spin the magic of animated hit Hotel Transylvania’s storyline into a frenzied seated ride carrying guests on a monster-filled journey though the castle with Dracula and daughter Mavis.
motiongateTM Dubai will have 27 themed rides and attractions, 21 of which will be indoor, spread across five zones; DreamWorks, Lionsgate, Sony Picture Studios, Smurfs Village and Studio Central the entrance of the park.
There are currently 11,000 workers on the huge construction site at Dubai Parks and Resorts and work is also underway at a Bollywood ParksTM Dubai and LEGOLAND® Dubai.
Managing director Colm O’Farrell who started his career back in the early 1990s helping theme Disneyland Paris said that the company were thrilled to be part of motiongateTM Dubai and that this was another great vote of confidence in the quality of workmanship and productivity from the Northern Ireland workforce following Deluxe’s award winning creation of giant sets for Disney’s latest attraction in Paris, Ratatouille last year.
The Deluxe Group’s Business Development manager Richard Hill said, “We have proven that we can export creative excellence to far away shores and I am enthusiastic that the breath-taking scale of Dubai Parks and Resorts’ motiongateTM Dubai development signals the start of a major growth in the leisure and entertainment sector in the Middle East that will be an important market for The Deluxe Group in the next few years.”
