After much consideration, I buy a Batman keychain. My colleague buys an interesting Batman cape for her son while I dawdle. With no specific shopping list in mind, I casually stroll around, checking the collections. There are many souvenir stores around the plaza. I sit on a bench in the Central Plaza and watch the humdrum go by. It keeps changing colours, from blue to purple to pink-the shades always hovering in the same quarter of the colour wheel. The sky hanging above me is just a projection. The 1.65 million square feet of the park is divided into multiple sections based on their cartoon and comic universes. In Warner Brothers theme park, I relive my childhood. A set in Warner Brothers Warner Brothers Abu Dhabi: A heady nostalgia of the cartoon world It also houses the world famous Ferrari World Abu Dhabi and the Yas Marina Circuit that every year hosts the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix-a Formula One motorcar race. The island was then developed as an entertainment island. Yas Island used to be an extension of mainland Abu Dhabi before a part of it was dredged and a canal was cut to separate it from the mainland. Midway into my trip, on the third day, just when I was thinking that it couldn’t get any more bizarre, here I am standing, beneath an artificial sky in Warner Brothers World in Yas Island of Abu Dhabi. Building a futuristic city on the fringes of a desert in a country that was formed just a few decades back is no small feat. Since coming to Abu Dhabi I have been stunned a number of times by what human ambition can achieve.
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