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London Entertainment Resort: All Discussion

You only got to look at Hard Rock theme park as a example of spending big without much research going into it. I noticed that for the past 10 years it's been a major kids IP that's drawn over 75% of guests to the parks. I'm a season ticket pass holder this season at Drayton manor and all season Thomas land has been busy all day but the rest of the park been quiet( not including school trips and the summer holidays) even at Alton Towers at the end of the summer season C beebies land had queues for most of there attractions 45 to 60 mins now on the other hand the other rides were mainly walk on or 13 had the biggest queue of 30 mins.

Anyway back onto topic been a London resort now I guess the attractions would all have to be linked to this. It's hard to even pick a good uk movie IP that's already taken.
 
Matt N said:
If this park does eventually end up opening, won't a lot of the originally planned ride hardware be quite dated by the time the park opens as the project was initially announced in 2012, and ride technology has moved on quite a bit since then. Also, I think now that Paramount has dropped out, unless they find another major figurehead company, they may have to lower their attendance estimates. They are apparently hoping for 8 to 9 million visitors in opening year and 14 million visitors once the resort has gotten going.
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Ride hardware has never come close to being finalised. They've probably had ideas about what sorts of rides they'd like but I can't imagine they even approached any manufacturers. They claim that they still want to submit an application for a Development Consent Order next year and I suspect they will go ahead with this, at least as a final step to try and find investors.

The frustrating thing is just how much money has been spent so far, it's a hell of a lot for absolutely nothing.

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Rob said:
A little bit of an update from Blooloop, including a look at the new logo:

Somewhat scary to think that is 5 years since this was all first announced and it was initially meant to open next year. A pity that there has been so little real concrete progress.

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Christ. That logo is terrible. What a bunch of Amateurs.
 
Themeparksandy1981 said:
Anyway back onto topic been a London resort now I guess the attractions would all have to be linked to this. It's hard to even pick a good uk movie IP that's already taken.
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I went to see Kingsman The Golden Circle last weekend and thought how perfectly that IP would fit this park. If they could go after popular British franchises like Paddington, Kingsman and Bond etc alongside the deals already in place with Aardman and BBC this could be really promising.
 
I bump this thread to bring bad but not necessarily unexpected news; the Kuwaiti investors backing the project have said that they may be pulling the plug on the project. This means that 5 years after the announcement, this project may finally be done.
 
This hasn't necessarily been confirmed, but if this is true, then I'm really disappointed, because this is one of the few chances we've ever had for a new major park in the UK; one that could finally compete with Orlando and the rest of the world.
RIP Paramount/London Resort/Whatever the heck it's called 2012-2017. An optimistic project that simply couldn't progress at all.

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After reading an article, it turns out that they said they will pull the plug if planning isn't successful in Spring 2018.
 
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Do you think the planning application will include a 500ft roller coaster with loud speakers at the top? And when they don't get planning permission, they can bow out gracefully, having done everything they can to make it work.

I do admire what they're trying to do and even though I feel the chances of this happening are very slim, I truly do hope it pulls through. Such a big park on the doorstep would be incredible. But it boggles the mind that so much money has gone into this with so little to show for it.
 
Nope, they've kept putting of their submission for a development consent order to undertake further consultation.

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If it doesn't go ahead, then it's a rather bleak picture for the UK theme park industry as a whole. Land is scarce and expensive, everywhere is infected by Nimbyism, the industry is very monopolized, and to be quite frank, within our country is a fairly big portion of people that just do not see the positive in anything. I don't know whether it's cultural, or because of the weather, or what, but there's definitely a 'moaning' problem in the country. It's a shame for people like us, that have a huge appreciation when it comes to imagination and theming. Everyone else seems to just settle for mediocrity.
You only have to look at the social media/news comments about the London Resort to see how depressing a lot of people actually are when it comes to this project."Why do we need a theme park in a country that has itself turned into a giant one?" "I don't seem to understand the need for such empty "enjoyment", you soon forget about it within a week or two" These are the comments I'm often coming across (obviously there is enthusiasm from quite a lot of people too so it's not necessarily one sided).
*sigh* I hope I don't sound too depressing. I really want to be optimistic; this project would of injected a nice bit of competition in to the industry and would finally give us a park themed to the likes of Phantasialand
 
When this thread got bumped, I thought it was the news of the project finally being cancelled. I'm optimistic and I have 0 hopes of this happening...
 
Personally, I don't think the UK needs another theme park, it just needs investment in the existing ones. There's enough capacity in the market, just not enough quality.

If there was to be a new park in this country, Ive always thought the bottom of a disused quarry would be perfect. It'd solve almost every planning/NIMBY problem.

I knew this Paramount/LER was never going to happen as soon as I saw the proposed location of it.
 
Yeah, I know what you mean, it seemed very unrealistic, not the point of it being absolutely nonexistent, but just that it wasn't going to deliver on what it appeared like on concept and was overall unlikely to happen.
I still believe my point stands on the new theme park issue. The reason why investment is a problem in the first place in UK theme parks is because of the lack of competition. To increase investment in the Merlin parks, I think we're going to need a large scale well themed park. I've looked up a few disused quarries, they all seem to be nature reserves :L
 
I still have mild optimism for this happening... very mild and gradually waning optimism, but still optimism.
 
Public consultations have been delayed again to April-June 2018... project still on track for a 2023 opening.
 
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