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Hello, is this the Qatar water park support line? I’m stuck on level 17 in the north east block. People are piling up behind me. Get us out of here!

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44 points

Thank you, waterpark, for seizing the opportunity. Aquatar is a spectacular name.

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6 points

I’m not sure how I’m supposed to say it. I’m pretty sure the country isn’t pronounced “kwatar”

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6 points

No, but it’s a portmanteau, it’s okay that the first sound is different!

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15 points

Aqua-tar is how I read it

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12 points

To be fair it’s an oil themed water park so tar seems logical

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10 points

This can’t be a real park. How would you even get to the waterslides, what stair system would work with this?

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36 points

it’s real and if it didn’t already look dystopian enough, everything is oil themed for some fucking reason.

I believe it was built for the world cup but wasn’t finished in time, yet another $200+ million wasted in the desert.

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Looks like someone had to skip a shopping vacation. Oh well…

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8 points

Bonkers. I guess if you can dream it you can build it.Still this really is a waste of resources.

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Announced: 04 Oct 2017; Construction Start: 04 May 2019. Timeline matches then I think.

260 Qatari Riyal = 72 USD. Imagine what it’d cost if the victims’ families were properly compensated:

Wiki - Qatar

Also a comment from March on Theme Park Investigator:

The park will never fully open, since the main contractor did not pay the suppliers. All are refusing to return to finish their works. It’s a shame as it would have been an amazing park.

Then there are photos from May alleging various rides are not open.

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How would you even get to the waterslides

Helicopter?

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4 points

I’m curious about the bottom left slide. It kinda looks like some dumbass kid could maybe manoeuvre themself in such a way to grab the edge and hoik theirself over

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It’s called The Tornado. They have them at a bunch of water parks in the states. So far, nobody’s been crazy enough to try that yet.

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Ahh, you’re in a rubber ring. It’s bigger than I realised

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