Fact Sheet

The Restless Planet is being developed as the Middle East’s first theme-park with serious scientific foundations. The Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Group (IMGG), in collaboration with the Natural History Museum of London have designed an attraction which will provide excitement for all the family, and at the same time encapsulate accurate details of the rise and fall of the dinosaurs.
Visitors will also be given an introductory experience which will assail all the senses, depict the birth of Planet Earth, and show vast cosmic events like comet strikes, the tearing away of the moon from the earth, volcanoes, the moving of tectonic plates and the formation of the mountains and the seas.

Inside the dinosaur world itself there will be three rides designed to portray the environment in which the dinosaurs lived and the many species that characterized the Triassic and Jurassic periods. Other members of the consortium developing the Restless Planet are Jack Rouse Associates, the theme-park experts; Kokoro of Japan, who construct animatronic dinosaurs; the BBC; and architects Furneax Stewart.
The main adviser is Dr Jack Horner, the well-know palaeontologist from Montana, who is the key dinosaur expert in the making of Stephen Spielberg’s Jurassic Park films.

Not only will the Restless Planet become a key attraction in Dubailand and the region as a whole, the Natural History Museum and IMGG will use the facilities of the theme-park to display exhibits of dinosaur discoveries and to make announcements, for the benefit of the international scientific community, of developments in this fast evolving field.

Developer:                         Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Group
Size of the Theme-Park: 500,000 sq ft (all covered).
Access and Departure: Through the Mall of Arabia
Time to take the Rides
and see the Exhibits:      4 hours