I quite like that about it, means I get to go through the mazes without stress!

It'll be so good if it all happens, I hope they find a way to make it affordable too

I wouldn’t expect any Universal park to be cheap. It will be considerably more than any other UK park. But at least some people won’t have to shell out on expensive flights/accommodation.

Why would they though? It could be a huge money maker

I can’t see any government dropping this?

They did for the other massive paramount theme park that was planned, and got turned down for environmental issues because of the possible animals living in the swamp on the land it would haved built on 🙄 British beaurocracy is a joke

It’s a golden ticket for labour!So many people are still in the dark about this . Huge money for the country and loads of jobs created.

I doubt it. This is a easy win for the next government. As long as no jumping spiders are found, it should go through planning rather quickly I suspect. The government will obviously have to find at least a couple of billion pounds, which might be tricky.

The London Resort just put that land up for sale, I think that was always an investment scam, I don't think they ever thought they would build anything

I would be shocked, and it's very easy for anyone to claim to be a 'reliable insider'

@@UniversalUKNews There were a lot of different people backing the rumored rule up it seems, it makes sense from a business standpoint. You could add in stuff like the Jurassic World ride from Beijing since that's very inaccessible to both Europe and America, but then avoid attractions from Orlando so that both demographics still want to visit the other's park.

Yeah it'd been interesting. In USJ this year they have a Chainsaw man one which I think is the first anime maze, and they usually have Resident Evil

Jack the Ripper maze incoming.

​@@happymaskedguy1943that would be good my vote would be for Dracula since Whitby is such an inspiration for the story

A house where you go through the wrecked Demeter and then the foggy gaslit streets of Whitby, following Dracula’s bloody trail, possibly with Van Helsing? Hell yeah. Tower of London, ‘The Blitz’ (a kind of horror alternate survival horror) Loch Ness Massacre, (S)laughter House, something to do with the Brickworks(?) Oh man, I could come up with these all day 😂

​@@happymaskedguy1943 the legend of the lost roman legion. A Great Plague house themed around the plague doctors, in that beaked mask. A witch finder general house... That's so much British history & legends you can call on.

It really is, I love doing all these updates! Thanks for watching!

The plan is just to keep going until people don't watch anymore! Should probably try and get monetisation on the site at some point.

Source?

I hope so

@@Mark.Ritchie I remember reading someone saying this - suggesting that HP UK rights are exclusive to WB Studio Tour for quite a few more years so would need deal negotiations as only route.

@@adamskyj69 that is indeed what I have read - in several places. I think that WB have the exclusive rights for a good few years to come.

From the visitor numbers they're talking about they would be way bigger than Merlin, this one park is meant to have more guests than Alton, Chessington and Thorpe combined

@@UniversalUKNews impressive, based on a quick research I would expect 20-40k based on other universal parks. I believe an average weekend may have 10k and weekday 5k for individual Merlin parks. Which would match your statement say a merlin park is 1/3 guests as universal. But universal will have a higher capacity and will only be one park. Merlin had a decent selection including Legoland, and many other attractions around the UK. Individual UK Merlin parks may not beat universal but the full selection is very much comparable. Merlin is currently the second largest theme park company in the world, 1st being Disney. Universal is 4th. Authough is it's possible Opening Universal Studios UK may move them up a few ranks. Merlin is also on their home terf, they have many parks & attractions worldwide but their strongest selection is in the UK. 2nd largest in the UK with just one park and a close 2nd at that would still be very impressive. That's my assessment, I could be wrong but it's hard to say at this stage.

Yeah I think it would be great for the studio tour, lots of new international guests into harry potter would want to do both. Especially when they're so close

Maybe we’ll get a Zelda themed land in our Nintendo World? Pokemon also seems likely.

Any of those would be great. I think the Pokemon rights are super weird because it's not all down to Nintendo, but they did have a Pokemon parade and have a food cart in USJ!

Perhaps a Roku arm system like Harry's Forbidden Journey would work well?

Hah that would be awesome, with the weird little dungeon master

Yeah I know it's different in the US but I think we didn't know what the Epic Universe rides would be until we actually saw them being built

They'll just licence it out. Imagine how many international visitors would be interested in the Studio Tour alongside going to Universal, who wouldn't otherwise bother. It'd be huge for them

@@UniversalUKNews lol why would they licence it out and lose footfall for their own attraction

Thanks!

I doubt it, the Japan park has Harry Potter even though there is a making of Harry Potter in Tokyo

@@anthalliday8208 yes but apparently the exclusivity deal means a new HP attraction has to be X amount of miles away. Tokyo and Osaka are plenty far enough. Universal UK and the HP tour are relatively nearby

That would be a ridiculous miss of opportunity. The UK is home to harry potter, and having the Wizarding world could futher make it the hub of harry potter attractions in Europe. Millions of potter fans will pour into the UK for the true HP experience. I hope they not only include the Wizarding world, but making it the biggest one, or at least on par with Orlando. The UK gov should step in and make a national cultural and tourism strategy.

@@isunlloaoll that may be the case but if there is a contractual issue in using the IP there's not much they can do, unless they come to a deal with Warner Bros. They have plenty of other IP to use and the UK has its fair share of HP shit anyway

Universal would just pay to licence it from WB. It's a win for WB too since guests coming to Universal for Potter are likely to consider going to the studio tour too

Same, feels too good to be true

I think everyone thinks of the first problem! They even mentioned it in the documents, they can just focus on indoor rides and attractions. They did say that the Beijing and Tokyo parks also have issues with rain and they worked around it. Foreigners needing passports isn't a huge barrier, London has a colossal number of tourists every year, far more than the park needs to attract. They all need passports too

There was sega world which was in the trocodero in Leicester Square London many years ago that was absolutely brilliant

Shh it's my alter ego

Shrek would be an interesting one, I wonder how many people are still into Shrek now. They have a great dark ride at the IMG park in Dubai

@@UniversalUKNews considering that the 2020s are the decade for 2000s nostalgia I’d say a lot of people are into Shrek nowadays. Not to mention the recent news of Shrek five being announced.

​@@UniversalUKNewsthey *have* been working on that Shrek 5 movie for ages now, I could see it becoming part of some kids area.

I don't think this will cost the government a lot of money, other than perhaps improving the transport infrastructure, but I assume Universal would be paying for at least some of that.

Don't forget Fable from Lionhead (RIP)/Playground games!

yep

How come?

Why not?

@@UniversalUKNews because it’s just one big Ponzi scheme…. You have Orlando, California, china , Tokyo theme parks then Bedford… give it a rest.. keep having your click bates ..

​@@brianmonkey1697 What's wrong building it in Bedford? If they deemed it the best location they could find to build their first European theme park in Bedford, then that's major. Universal already brought the land and slowly wrapping up their survey/feasibility studies, they won't do all of that for nothing.

@@gunnyo50 HOUSING ESTATE….

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