British experts called in as Dubai plans animatronic Jurassic Park

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Mark Honigsbaum
Saturday August 13, 2005
The Guardian

Move over John Hammond, the dinosaur-obsessed billionaire portrayed by Richard Attenborough in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film adaptation of Jurassic Park.

Two Arab businessmen are planning to create a real life Jurassic Park in Dubai, with more than 100 animatronic dinosaurs, including T-rex, vicious velociraptors and plant-eating triceratops.

The park is the brainchild of Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari, the developers behind the City of Arabia section of Dubailand, a enormous entertainment and leisure "city".

The Galadari brothers are pumping £100m into the 500,000 sq foot theme park - to be known as "Restless Planet" - and aim to make the attraction the centrepiece of the Mall of Arabia, the world's biggest shopping complex.

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1548222,00.html

Hope it's not Abdul-Wahab Galadari who got usted in NYC some years ago in a massive heroin import scam and whose bank the Union Bank of the Middle East made BCCI seem like a bastion of financial probity....