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Motiongate Theme Park, Dubai 2019 All Rides – Full 4K Tour

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Dubai built an entire theme park out of movie licenses, and it’s five distinct worlds under one gate.

Motiongate Dubai is the flagship park inside Dubai Parks and Resorts, a Hollywood-themed sprawl on Sheikh Zayed Road that opened its gates on December 16, 2016, with the wider destination officially inaugurated two days later. A new 4K walkthrough video posted in 2019 tracks the park’s full ride roster zone by zone, and it’s a useful reminder of just how much studio real estate is packed into one ticket. Five separate lands, four major film partners, and a climate-controlled indoor zone built specifically because Dubai summers make outdoor queuing miserable.

• Motiongate spans over 1.9 million square feet and is split into five zones tied to specific studios: Studio Central, Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks, The Smurfs Village, and Lionsgate.
• The DreamWorks zone is fully enclosed and climate-controlled, housing four sub-sections — Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, and How to Train Your Dragon — including the Madagascar Mad Pursuit coaster and the Dragon Gliders suspended coaster.
• Lionsgate’s area is built entirely around The Hunger Games, anchored by the Capitol Bullet Train roller coaster and the Panem Aerial Tour motion simulator.

Five Zones, Four Studios, One Gate

Walk in through Studio Central and you’re moving through a recreated Golden Age backlot — New York-style studio facades built as the park’s entrance promenade rather than a themed ride zone itself. From there, the layout branches by studio deal rather than by ride type, which is why Motiongate feels less like a traditional coaster park and more like touring four different production lots in one afternoon.

Columbia Pictures territory covers Sony’s library, with attractions drawing on Ghostbusters, Hotel Transylvania, Underworld, and Zombieland. It’s the zone built for guests who want darker, more adult-skewing IP mixed in alongside the family-friendly stuff elsewhere in the park — a contrast Dubai Parks and Resorts leans on deliberately to give Motiongate a wider age spread than a park built purely for kids.

The DreamWorks Zone’s Climate Control

The DreamWorks section is the park’s most engineered piece of real estate: a fully enclosed, air-conditioned zone divided into four sub-worlds. Kung Fu Panda’s corner features Unstoppable Awesomeness, a multi-sensory simulator ride, while Madagascar hosts the Mad Pursuit roller coaster and How to Train Your Dragon runs the Dragon Gliders, a suspended coaster themed to Berk’s flight sequences. Shrek rounds out the fourth sub-section. Putting an entire indoor zone under climate control is a direct response to Dubai’s outdoor heat — a design choice that shapes queue times and crowd flow across the whole park, since guests naturally migrate there during peak afternoon heat.

Lionsgate and the Hunger Games Bet

Lionsgate’s zone is the park’s biggest single-franchise wager, built almost entirely around The Hunger Games rather than spreading the studio’s catalog across multiple smaller attractions. The Capitol Bullet Train is the zone’s headline coaster — high-speed, Panem-branded, and positioned as Motiongate’s answer to a proper thrill ride. The Panem Aerial Tour motion simulator gives a gentler, seated alternative built around the same IP.

The Capitol Bullet Train and the Panem Aerial Tour turn one movie franchise into an entire themed district — Lionsgate’s whole zone rides on The Hunger Games alone.

Younger Guests and the Wider Resort

The Smurfs Village is Motiongate’s family-and-toddler counterweight to the coasters elsewhere in the park — mushroom-shaped playhouses and gentle rides built around the blue characters, with none of the queue intensity of the Lionsgate or DreamWorks zones. It’s also a reminder that Motiongate doesn’t stand alone. It sits inside the broader Dubai Parks and Resorts footprint alongside Legoland Dubai, Legoland Water Park, Bollywood Parks Dubai, the Polynesian-styled Lapita hotel, and the Riverland dining and retail strip — the kind of multi-park bundling that other Hollywood-branded resorts, including Universal Studios Hollywood, have leaned on for decades to keep guests on-site for multiple days rather than a single afternoon.

For anyone mapping out a Dubai theme park itinerary, Motiongate alone realistically eats a full day given the size of the DreamWorks zone and the separate ticketing structure across the resort’s parks — worth checking the wider theme parks lineup before deciding how many days to budget for Legoland and Bollywood Parks next door.