$1.5 Billion Star Trek Theme Park Set To Open In Jordan In 2014!

We may all still be waiting for Disney to bring Marvel's range of characters to Disneyland, but it seems Star Trek is a step ahead with an impressive new theme park announced today. Scheduled to open in 2014, it promises to take fans of the popular TV show, movies and comics into the sci-fi world like never before. As long as you can afford the flights that is..! Here are the full details, along with the first designs of the park from The Associated Press:

Fifteen years after "Trekkie" King Abdullah II briefly appeared in an episode of Star Trek, Jordan is planning to construct a $1.5-billion-dollar park themed on the cult American science fiction series. The "Red Sea Astrarium" will be built in the country's sole port of Aqaba, 350 kilometres (217 miles) south of Amman, spanning 184 acres (74.4 hectares), and will include a Star Trek-themed centre.

"Revolving around ancient history with Nabatean, Babylonian, British and Roman influences," the park is scheduled for opening in 2014, according to Jordan's Rubicon Group Holding (RGH), which announced the plan.

Bordering Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Aqaba is a popular tourist centre and close to the ancient rose-red Nabatean city of Petra and Wadi Rum in the desert.
RGH said in a statement the park would include "technologically advanced attractions, five-star accommodation, captivating theatrical productions," and night-time spectacles.

It said RGH, CBS Consumer Products and Paramount Recreation will create the Star Trek centre, which "will deliver a variety of multi-sensory 23rd-century experiences, culminating with a state-of-the art space-flight adventure." According to RGH, the astrarium "will be the world's only place where there is a Star Trek attraction," after a similar facility in Las Vegas closed.