Twentieth Century Fox and Genting Unveil Plans for New Malaysian Theme Park Jul 26th 2013, 11:37
The world’s first international Twentieth Century Fox Theme Park will open in 2016 at Malaysia’s Resorts World Genting (RWG) thanks to a new licensing partnership between Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products and RWG. RWG is owned and operated by Genting Malaysia an operator of theme parks, casinos, hotels and more for some 45 years.
Characters and settings from popular Twentieth Century Fox (TCF) animations and films such as Ice Age, Rio, Alien and Night at the Museum will be featured in rides and attractions at the park along with a wide array of Fox properties including action, adventure, animation, family and sci-fi genres. The partnership brings together the world’s largest destination resort operator in RWG and one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of entertainment content in the world in TCF.
RWG is investing some $125 million (RM 400 million) in the 25-acre park. More TCF-based attractions will be announced at a later date. The park will also feature a host of TCF characters in a daily “Dream Parade” of animatronics parade based on all characters and titles represented at the theme park
The Genting Theme Park first opened in 1978 as the Genting Amusement and Recreation Park. In the last two years the park has hosted more than 40 million visitors from both domestic and international markets. The operators hope the new theme park, designed for children and adults, will attract even more visitors from Malaysia and abroad. The existing theme park will close on Sept. 1 in order to begin construction of the new park.
RWG operates six hotels, 200 dining and retail outlets, mega shows, convention facilities, 40 rides. In Malaysia it operates Resorts World Kijal in Terengganu and Resorts World Langkawi in Langkawi for a total of more than 9,000 rooms in Malaysia, but its larger growth is on the international level.
In the U.S., Resorts World Casino New York City opened in 2011 with 5,000 electronic gaming machines, 4,100 slots and 900 electronic table games (ETGs). The New York casino attracted more than 10 million visits last year. The Group also owns a 30-acre waterfront site on Miami’s Biscayne Bay that includes the Omni Center and the Miami Herald building with retail and office space as well as a 527-room Hilton Hotel. Plans for a mixed use development of Resorts World Miami with more hotel, dining and entertainment facilities are under way.
In March, Genting Group Chairman KT Lim in announced plans for Resorts World Las Vegas, Genting's first destination resort in Las Vegas. It will be located at the Echelon site along the Las Vegas Strip. Resorts World Las Vegas will be a destination resort with 3,500 rooms in the first phase and 175,000 square feet of total gaming space across several gaming floors, as well as several luxury dining and retail amenities. The resort will also include additional convention space for Las Vegas trade shows.
Genting UK operates six casinos in London: Crockfords, Maxims Casino Club, The Colony Club, The Palm Beach, London Mint and Genting Casino Chinatown; and 35 regional casinos in the UK provinces under Genting Club and Genting Casino brands. In 2011, the Group received a large casino license to develop a leisure and entertainment complex at the National Exhibition Centre (“NEC”) in Birmingham that will open in mid-2015.
Resorts World Bimini in the Bahamas opened on July 1 as a 750-acre beachfront resort on North Bimini Island with a casino, villas, shopping and dining options as well as the largest marina in the Bahamas. The Group also launched Bimini SuperFast, a 32,000-ton cruise ship that will sail between Miami and Bimini twice daily. Genting Malaysia is also invested (18.4 percent) in Genting Hong Kong Ltd, which operates Star Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Lines and Resorts World Manila.
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