The other day I posted a link to photos showing Entertainment City taken over by mother nature, but I figured it wasn’t very recent since when I passed by the park a couple of weeks back there was some sort of demolition taking place. The video above though is more recent and shows what’s really happening to the park. According to one of the guys in the video, it’s getting completely demolished and the land turned into an empty sand plot as part of the handover process.
This is really sad like all the other landmarks in Kuwait that are getting demolished one by one except maybe this might even be sadder. I’ve been visiting the park from when it first opened in the 80s and kept going even towards the end of the parks life. I really believe the issue with the park was the lack of maintenance and not because the rides weren’t exciting. Towards the end most of the rides were just not working and so people had no reason to go there. I wish they kept the park and just renovated it and expanded it but not completely demolish it like this.
I was told there was a warehouse in Entertainment City where the old arcades from the Ice Skating Rink and Entertainment City were being stored. If anyone knows anything about this let me know. Also if you want to see a video of the park during its better days, watch the video above starting from the 8:34 minute mark.
18 replies on “Entertainment City Getting Completely Demolished”
*Cries in Millenial save my memory of this building petition*
It really does break my heart man..
This is heartbreaking; My parents used to go there as children and I used to go there a child. Glad that my school took us every year till the end! Kinda hoped to take my (future) kids there one day. 🙁
This is really sad to watch and the who whole Kuwait is not happy I dont care about the project they can do it somewhere else we just want the old Og rare entertainment city
Culture against maintenance. That’s what’s really sad. From rich to poor, there seems to be a strong aversion to maintaining buildings/ things in Kuwait. Being scared of a proper maintenance budget is endemic in Kuwait. The richest families I know own once beautiful properties that are now crumbling. The government acts the same way as well. If I took you into the Liberation Tower blindfolded and told you that this building is Kuwait’s pride and joy – then you’d think I was crazy.
Now Entertainment City had become such ann unsafe, partially open eye-sore that I am frankly sad to see it go. It’s like an old WWF wrestler getting back into the ring. No one wants to see that, you’d rather cling to memories.
I’d love to think that corruption is the root of this evil but then privately owned buildings are subject to the same decrepitation. Instead, its this hit and run, make a quick buck before our neighbors eat us, YOLO culture that is the root of this.
/endrant.exe
🙁 those were good times. I remember the school took us on a trip every year. it was the best! no wonder we’re all living in nostalgia-world. there’s nothing to do any more! we don’t even have to discuss options… it’s like ‘which mall should we go to or which coffee shop do you want to sit in?’!
I’m literally heartbroken. They persistently
continue to demolish my childhood and my memories. Is there not enough space? What is there left in Kuwait? Avenues? I’m sure they’ll demolish the Towers one day to built phase 54 there
Been hoping and waiting for the past 5-10 years for the renewal to finish and the place to reopen.. they have literally demolished any hopes now.. heart broken but time to finally move on now.
Literally no place to take kids to now besides malls.
There’s only Magic Planet and Hawally Park.
i went to hawally park 2 years ago thinking it was fun all rides were broken and the arcade too
And marah land and 99 village
It would be great if they got Disney World to come here and set up at the same place.
Yup, it would be incredible. Either Disney, Universal, or Six Flags, and it can definitely be done to get either (even though Disney might be the hardest but not impossible)
The land is 5 time bigger than Hong Kong Disneyland, and 10 times bigger than Universal Studious Singapore
In all honesty I am all for the demolishment, primarily because it did got really outdated, but also because all the rides are off the shelf rides (except for Sinbad that was well done), and you have the opportunity to get really high end, custom rides that can create an amazing theme park, and not just an amusement park
From a purely business point of view I think theme parks are money pits. Most recently Dubai and it’s elite investors witnessed this first hand. Yes the Disney world idea where a smaller Disney is built for the region and caters mostly to Kuwaits locals year round will be a success after this down turn blows over. That’s if it’s built in time for this generations parents and kids within the next 3 years.
Dude, have you seen the theme parks in Dubai? They’re not the fun. The rides are very basic and there is a lot of wasted space. The problem also is the heat and humidity in Dubai which makes going there not very easy
However, go to Abu Dhabi and check out WB World, that park is one that is on the level of I would say at least Universal Studious (in terms of quality, not size) The rides are world class, the theming is incredible, and there are tons of other activities. That park is also doing better than the Dubai parks and its completely in doors
Coming back to Kuwait Entertainment City, there should be a big part of it being in doors but made to look as if you are outside. Like the Avenues Phase 3 and 4 with the glass ceilings and all the natural light
Get a global theme park brand to provide licensing to their IPs, and you are bound to have a hit (think Tokyo Disneyland, the Walt Disney company does not own those parks they only licensed the IP)
This will also create an incredible touristic Hotspot in the region, in time with the new Airport opening too
Sad to see it go. If you were growing up as a kid in the 80s Kuwait, you cannot not have spent several weekends each year at the Entertainment City. The Australian log ride was the tops.
Back then, the segregation between families and singles was more lax and life was much less complicated than now: an altogether better time to be.
Yeah just to turn it into a new rubbish project that will be basic as hell and will be cured and boring
The old one was fun and special and worth the fun like what is Anton Schwarzkopf gonna say about this when he sees his creation that he putted his heart and soul into it demolished. It was out of order and the could have bought the same rides and reopened as it was cuz the new one will just be so flat and basic and will only have children rides so let’s make a sign contract that if it will have over 1000 signatures then the old one will come back and todays kids will enjoy like us