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London Entertainment Resort: All Discussion

I terms of the park getting going id like to know what you think thr main stumbling blocks are. I dont personally think its infrastructure or transport and believe it to be the best location in the uk for numbers to easily travel to (as a kent/sussex guy here i know the area.) So is it just finance? Im not to worried about the ips. We may well actually be better off with it being a non dated studio.
 
I think at the moment is just finance yes. They are pushing ahead with their plans in the hope of finding a large investor; if that does not happen in the next 12 to 18 months then surely we will see the whole project abandoned?

I still think the best hope of this happening is by trying to get Wanda on board.

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I am mildly surprised Universal haven't had a sniff around a UK park (though the high operating and construction costs are likely the reason and then brexit would have exacerbated matters). But the UK has a very strong film heritage, good links to Europe (at the moment) and their strongest theme park IP is based in this country.

I can dream
 
Dave said:
I am mildly surprised Universal haven't had a sniff around a UK park (though the high operating and construction costs are likely the reason and then brexit would have exacerbated matters). But the UK has a very strong film heritage, good links to Europe (at the moment) and their strongest theme park IP is based in this country.

I can dream
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*cough* PA *cough*...Admittedly they were in a different place back then without the likes of Harry Potter. However, with Dubai's park being on hold/cancelled, their new Asia and Russian parks under construction and of course the relentless expansion in the US, I doubt they're willing to put any more money at risk at the moment.
 
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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Dave said:
I am mildly surprised Universal haven't had a sniff around a UK park (though the high operating and construction costs are likely the reason and then brexit would have exacerbated matters). But the UK has a very strong film heritage, good links to Europe (at the moment) and their strongest theme park IP is based in this country.

I can dream
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When I were a lad, I went on a day out to Warwick Castle. My Dad and I got chatting to one of the actors in the Kingmaker exhibition, who transpired to be a Tussauds exec on an initiative to spend time out in the field. Tussauds was on sale that summer (1998, I believe), and he told us that Universal were close to signing on the dotted line to buy the group, with the expressed purpose of getting hold of Alton Towers in particular. Suffice to say, the past twenty years have turned out quite differently.

Also, I know UKIP have a decent support base in Essex, but that logo is excruciatingly bad.
 
I feel like since paramount dropped out they don't have a clue what to do with it but are very reluctant to let it all go due to all the money they've apparently spent so far
 
If you were Paramount would you license your name to this lot? I doubt even Branson would license Virgin brands to them, and he isn't exactly known to be picky over licensees.
 
Project won’t happen without a big name attached to it. The London Resort is a ridiculous name for something of its planned size.
 
London is an international name, they have airports nearly an hour away from the city labelled London for that reason.

Seems that Nick Varney was right to be gloomy about this, even if it appeared wishful thinking at the time. When it was first announced, they said it would open in 2018. That's how far we've come. I hope it happens, but seems a long shot now.
 
It was never going to happen from the moment it was dreamt up. No new major theme park or entertainment resort(note the word major) will be built in this country from scratch in our lifetimes, there simply aren't the right market and legal conditions here for it.
 
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.
 
They were nothing more than figures dreamed up by a marketing team with too much time on their hands, I mean it was going to be something like 150 years before the place become solvent just reading the figures on these press releases alone, and that was before you even looked at the history of their projects. The people behind this were either dreamers or incompetent beyond reason, probably the best decision Viacom ever made cutting ties, and they've made some howlers over the years.
 
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