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[20XX] Puy du Fou UK

Locals complaining about investment into local infrastructure is probably one of the reasons why the UK has sat still in development over the last decade.

Any major development will need traffic and environment considerations in place before the council approve it.


Query regarding the actual park though, what do you do between shows? Or is the general setup such that you can go from show to show?
 
Burner said:
Theres always someone in a Barbour jacket on hand to look disgruntled in a field to ruin everyone’s fun.
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Benzin said:
Locals complaining about investment into local infrastructure is probably one of the reasons why the UK has sat still in development over the last decade.

Any major development will need traffic and environment considerations in place before the council approve it.


Query regarding the actual park though, what do you do between shows? Or is the general setup such that you can go from show to show?
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You can go from show to show. There are also walk-throughs which run constantly (within set times) along with gardens, restaurants and the village recreations which have shopping, food and drink.

On paper it’s a fairly unique concept, but if you’re the type of person who can visit Europa Park for a day and enjoy the shows, bars and restaurants, it’s more familiar than you’d think.

Both Puy du Fou parks are excellent days out and this would be a great addition to the UK’s leisure industry. It doesn’t need any rides.
 
I’m never sure if Puy du Fou would be my cup of tea.

I’m not personally big on shows in parks, being more of a rides person myself. But I’ve often heard that the Puy du Fou shows are on a completely different scale to those of any ride-based theme park, so it may still be worth checking out, I guess.

I only live around 1h 50m (less than 100 miles) from the proposed site by road, which is quite close to home in UK theme park terms (only Drayton is really in contention to be as close or closer to me, of the major ones), so the park won’t be too far away from me at all!
 
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I've removed a couple of posts which were repeating information about The Storied Lands.

Please keep this topic for discussion about the new Puy Du Fou park down south. For discussion about Kynren/The Storied Lands which was created in partnership with Puy Du Fou, but is a completely separate attraction owned by a UK charity, please use the dedicated topic.
 
Benzin said:
Locals complaining about investment into local infrastructure is probably one of the reasons why the UK has sat still in development over the last decade.

Any major development will need traffic and environment considerations in place before the council approve it.


Query regarding the actual park though, what do you do between shows? Or is the general setup such that you can go from show to show?
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Just to add to this, a Puy du Fou park offers:

  • Several a-la-carte restaurants, some of which are coupled with live entertainment/stage shows
  • Several walk-through attractions (think of something like a live-action halloween maze, but based on a period of history)
  • Themed villages with craftspeople and shops (think of something like an open-air museum)
  • Bars
  • Lakes, walkways and gardens
  • Animal exhibits
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Benzin said:
Feature a section of Churchill personally punching Hitler to death and how the Royal Family told Harry and Meghan where to go and there'd be a MASSIVE market for it.



Not stopped people buying Hogwarts Legacy, and if you don't want to go to any right-wing based places you're extremely limited (Adventure Island, Mingo and Blackpool at minimum in the UK) to go anywhere with a business model.

Granted this guy is awful though. Alas this is a big problem of the leftist world that you end up counteracting yourself constantly. Saw a thing recently regarding how the Saudis have a minority stake in Nintendo, so no Mario or Zelda if you go that far in not using such things.
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The thing here is the shows they are producing are using these ideologies and ideas and presenting them to help further their agendas. It’s not just where the money is going.

The following video touches on the potential issues here (timestamp from around 22:29)


From: https://youtu.be/HXBfpP2RepM?si=JlsHhjogr2jiOozK


There’s other information you can get from googling too, and I don’t think this should be brushed aside and disregarded when discussing this.

Frankly I really hope this doesn’t come to fruition, and if it does I certainly won’t be going no matter how good the shows are.
 
Now as a good communist thoosie, I had to hang up my own personal political hat around 1978, when I realised my hard earned left wing pennies were going over to right wing mega capitalists every time I played out on the coasters.

That is modern life I'm afraid.

Vote with your feet by all means, but most are in the same boat in this game, wherever you go.
 
This performative ideological stance doesn’t really belong in theme parks. The reality is, it just doesn’t bare up to scrutiny.

The first thing to say is that you often see a lot of people who take a stance specifically against Puy du Fou, who would never have visited anyway because there aren’t any “creds”. It’s very convenient to boycott somewhere if you were never going to visit anyway, and then bag some bonus social points for it by telling everyone.

Furthermore though, I’m quite sure that those saying they won’t be visiting a park they’d no intention of going to anyway, are probably happily visiting Pleasure Beach, Adventure Island, Disney, Europa Park and likely hold a Merlin Annual Pass; all organisations whose investors and owners have been mired in controversy through the years.

It’s just far too convenient to jump on the hate bandwagon.

Puy du Fou (both of them) are fantastic parks to visit. We should be excited for the prospect of one opening in the UK.
 
venny said:
Furthermore though, I’m quite sure that those saying they won’t be visiting a park they’d no intention of going to anyway, are probably happily visiting Pleasure Beach, Adventure Island, Disney, Europa Park and likely hold a Merlin Annual Pass; all organisations whose investors and owners have been mired in controversy through the years.
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There is a nuance between the owner of a park having disagreeable Conservative and capitalist attitudes, and the owner of a park pushing their controversial, inaccurate and ultra-right narrative through the entertainment they provide.
venny said:
This performative ideological stance doesn’t really belong in theme parks. The reality is, it just doesn’t bare up to scrutiny.
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I disagree with you on this one, but I doubt anyone is really surprised about that. I think ideological stances, performative or not, belong everywhere.

The argument that has been made, by some vloggers, that visiting a theme park in Saudi Arabia will encourage a slow march toward the adoption of liberal attitudes and human rights, is laughable. Similar arguments were made when Russia held the FIFA World Cup, but of course it had no lasting impact other than a brief attempt to rehabilitate the nation's image in the world stage, which was quickly undone and is once again in tatters, as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.

Ultimately the proof will be in the pudding. If Puy du Foy brings its trademark ultra-Catholic extreme right revisionist history tales to the UK, and creates a theme park in the image of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's wet dream, I don't think it's performative to boycott it. If the park drops its political stance here, to make it more palatable for British audience, then your argument about ownership comes back into play and, perhaps then, a boycott is performative.
 
I agree with @rob666 and @venny here.

We live in an inherently capitalist world, so I think it’s difficult to be an ethical consumer at all times.

The reality is that most theme park owners, and by extension most owners of large corporations, are likely right wing, so if you let left wing political beliefs govern absolutely everything you do, there’s not an awful lot left for you to do. You certainly can’t fill up your car with petrol, order anything from Amazon, have a smartphone, use social media or drink soft drinks, to name just a few things. The truth of our society is that most large companies are out for their own interests and probably have a few skeletons in the closet (e.g. tax evasion, poor worker’s rights).

I appreciate that there are scales to these things, and I judge no one’s choices on this sort of matter, but I feel that being a truly ethical consumer and letting political beliefs and ideologies be the sole dictator of what you do is nigh on impossible in the world we live in. I’m not saying that’s right per se, but I think it’s just the way things are.
 
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