Dubai to host region's first Casper theme park

Dubai: The first Casper theme park in the Middle East will be opened in Dubai by the first quarter of next year. Construction on the Casper Theme Park, located at Dubai Festival Centre, will begin shortly.

Casper, the cartoon ghost, is already a very lucrative retail brand, worth around $1 billion (Dh3.67 billion).

The park will be 6,340 square metres in size and will include the Middle East's biggest monorail.

The park will also feature a rollercoaster, interactive games, bumper cars, crazy rafts and a drop tower.

Al Futtaim Group Real Estate (Afgre) is working alongside Kuwait-based Future Kid Entertainment and Real Estate Company.

"Festival Centre has always been recognised as a leading entertainment destination and this success, along with a few other exciting concepts we plan to announce shortly, reinforces our belief that Festival Centre is the number one retail and leisure destination in Dubai," said Philip Evans, director of retail leasing, Afgre.