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As testament to people’s ceaseless obsession with talking rodents to amuse kids and grown-ups, here’s Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal reportedly in talks with investors about opening an $8 billion Disneyland theme park in Bahrain.

Quite “unpredictably,” the said venture will be called [drumroll please] “Disney Bahrain.”

Alwaleed, the world’s eighth-richest man, is talking to investors including Kuwait Finance House, the Gulf’s second-largest Islamic bank by market value, and Bahraini institutions, [Bahrain’s al-Waqt newspaper] said.

Alwaleed indirectly owns 10 percent of Disneyland Paris operator Euro Disney, and his Rotana Audio Visual Co. signed a deal in November to distribute Walt Disney products across the Middle East and North Africa.

A spokeswoman for the prince could not be reached for comment. A spokesman for Kuwait Finance House in Bahrain declined to either confirm or deny the report.

With the rest of the report giving us a rather unclear idea on whether or not the Saudi Prince is really serious about transplanting Disney’s wonderful all-dancing, all-singing rodents and what-have-you, we’ll content ourselves assuming that the usual Disney characters will be given free rein on how best to interpret and put into practice the goat-humping preferences of the region. Maybe this video will help you picture it.

via CNN

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