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Potential New Universal UK Park

Adventure Island missed a trick by not themeing the new drop tower to Farages and Brexits disastrous impact on the £.

Anyhow interestingly last week Peter Jackson has announced he'll be producing 2 new Lord of The Rings films. The first one The Hunt For Gollum directed and starring Andy Serkis being due out late 2026 (seems a tight window). So this should certainly re-ignite interest in the original films (and maybe I should reassess The Hobbit films) so maybe a theme park tie in could really help get those cash registers ringing as well.
 
John_P said:
Adventure Island missed a trick by not themeing the new drop tower to Farages and Brexits disastrous impact on the £.

Anyhow interestingly last week Peter Jackson has announced he'll be producing 2 new Lord of The Rings films. The first one The Hunt For Gollum directed and starring Andy Serkis being due out late 2026 (seems a tight window). So this should certainly re-ignite interest in the original films (and maybe I should reassess The Hobbit films) so maybe a theme park tie in could really help get those cash registers ringing as well.
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Let's hope the films don't flop, not because I want them to do well or anything but because the cultural impact of the new films would either help or hinder LOTR in the Park. If they flop bigtime it might taint the public perception of the films too, which after the shitshow that is Rings of Power would severely hurt the allure of LOTR as an IP in the Park.
 
Well, I saw the winner for the most absurd reason this won't go ahead today.

Over on IU a fresh-faced poster has postulated that this won't go ahead because of net zero. Apparently net zero means cars and air travel will be banned, electricity will become scarce and we'll all lose our jobs and be plunged into poverty and thus the Theme Park won't happen. I don't know guys, he may have a point, the country may devolve into a medieval hellscape because of this net zero thing /s.
 
rob666 said:
Collapse of capitalism, world plague, struck by a meteor, any would be more likely than that cobblers.
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I just love how the guy never once tried to think about the consequences for any government that tried to 'ban cars and air travel' and lessen electricity. "Hey, let's basically cripple the country's economy, power-grid, transportation and put the whole country into unemployment, I'm sure everyone will be fine with it."
 
Relife said:
Over on the Universal forums all the chatter seems to be that Universal GB will not have Potter due to rights issues with WB. The source seems to be someone who claims to be in the know
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Funny, I watched a youtube video from a guy who claims he works for the Comcast Group and he stated that the Theme Park rights for Potter are worldwide and not region specific. I believe if that was true Universal made sure they were Worldwide when negotiating for Beijing - makes sense if they had their eyes on europe.

Frankly I think it's all pointless conjecture until we get some actual tangible evidence from Universal e.g Park specific concept art. If Potter is not present then yea it's not happening and if Potter is present, well a whole lot of speculators will have egg on their faces.
 
I mean the obvious thing to do to get around both a) the movie tour and b) the whole not copying experiences from Florida would be to base any UK Potter experiences at Universal GB around the TV series and not the films.

That way then it's suddenly a globally unique attraction and means the new cast would be age appropriate and still under contract for filming any required parts for said rides and experiences.
 
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