Texas concerned DreamVision theme parks may be ‘tall tale’

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February 12, 2015

DreamVision DreamScape amusement park proposed for Fort Worth, Texas

FORT WORTH, Texas — Alabamians aren’t the only ones mystified by the buzz created by entertainment company DreamVision LLC. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram published an article Monday asking if the whole thing is simply a “tall tale.”

“I don’t know about you. But if DreamVision asked for my help,” the Star-Telegram‘s Bud Kennedy wrote. “I’d show them God’s word in Genesis 1:3. Let there be light.”

Much like after the company’s press conference in Muscle Shoals Wednesday, many in the Fort Worth area were left with more questions than answers.

“This was DreamVision’s third rollout in North Texas, and so far they haven’t shown us anything but fireworks and fake snow,” Kennedy wrote.

Kennedy also expressed concern with the capital group purporting to fund DreamVision’s proposed amusement parks. Provident Global Capital, run by Killen, Alabama resident Bryan Robinson, is by all indications a new group, providing few details on its website. “It’s a big number, but we’re good,” Robinson told audience members at the press conference in Muscle Shoals yesterday.

The Fort Worth park’s renderings are similar to the DreamVision SoundScape park proposed for Muscle Shoals in many ways. Named DreamVision DreamScape Mountain, the park features the same design of a central attraction with “spokes” out to themed attractions. DreamVision is expecting the park to cost $3.5 billion and open in 2020, much like SoundScape.

Also like in Alabama, DreamVision has yet to purchase the land where the parks will be built. Or as Bud Kennedy put it, “never mind that DreamVision doesn’t own land, doesn’t have a hit movie or cartoon character as an attraction, and has never built anything but suspense.”