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All the latest News and Updates about the Universal Studios UK Theme Park Project
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Universal Studios Great Britain August Update
There might be trouble ahead for the project depending on what the government does next. But there is good news too!
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Universal Studios Great Britain July Update
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All the latest news about the Universal UK Theme Park Project. Including: - New job roles posted - More land being bought - Support from local councils - Secret information covered by NDA!
Ranking the Best and Worst UK Theme Parks
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We've been to ten theme parks across the UK - and I'm here to rank a British Theme Park Tier List. This goes some way to show why we're so desperate for a Universal Studios!
ANOTHER Major Theme Park is coming to the UK
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A New Puy du Fou UK Theme Park is in the plans as a major new UK theme park near Bicester. Here's all the details about this exciting new project!
Universal Studios Great Britain June Update
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New information about the Universal UK Project has come out as we get closer to a decision about whether Comcast will really go ahead with the plans! -Halloween Horror Nights -Universal Studios Great Britain Jobs -Universal Studios UK Opening Days more!
What Rides are coming to Universal Studios Great Britain?
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As we get closer to a decision about if Universal Studios UK is going to be made or not, I take a look at the what areas will be in Universal Studios GB! Let me know what you think in the comments!
Universal Studios Great Britain May Update
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All the latest news on the Universal Studios UK project - with the response to the public consultation and a new idea of how likely this park is to go ahead!
Good News for Universal Great Britain!
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The first public consultation meeting for the Universal Studios Great Britain project has happened and the news so far is very positive! All the details and more! Mark Rides Video of the meeting: th-cam.com/video/d6udemcnDnQ/w-d-xo.html
Universal Studios Great Britain April Update
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The Universal Studios Public Consultation has started with loads of Universal Studios Great Britain news including when will Universal Studios UK open, how tall can the rides be and more!
Universal Studios Great Britain March Update
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The latest Universal Studios Great Britain News for March 2024 - Land purchases, concept art and more! Let me know in the comments what you want to see at Universal Studios UK
Biased guy and pepsi max icon r way better than u think
No the gov should say if you want to build a park in the uk you need to pay tax. Us corporrations need to learn if they want business in the second largest English speaking territory they need to pah their way.
How longs does it take to build a park like this?
Hard to tell, we think 5-6 years based on Epic Universe, but I imagine every new project has different obstacles
@@UniversalUKNews Thank you, I'm so excited I really feel the UK deserves something nice like this.
Definitely visit Paultons. It is really well run, and such a unique, family run park.
Pleasurewood Hills is so underrated, in my opinion Merlin should buy it and give it the attention it deserves
Hi There, a nice summary and thank you for sharing your thoughts, it's greatly appreciated. Cheers Peter 🙂
P.S. definitely check out Paultons Park, it's a great, high quality Theme Park.
Interesting Info on the Universal Britain Project oh by the way Jack the clown the Halloween Horror Night Icon from Universal Orlando will be appearing at Universal Studios Beijing Halloween Horror Nights this September 7 until November 3
Thorpe park probably have some of the best operations now! Better than towers at least. And hyperia is probably the best coaster layout wise (outside ride to happiness of course) but it’s more stylised than themed. Kinda like icon in a way.
Maybe I'm naive but all of this sounds normal, none of it sounds like bad news
Usually when they talk about end of year usually is end of the fiscal year we’ll see tho
I could imagine Labour offering to make sure the theatre tax rebates applies to Universal shows for example as well. I think the next big event for this might be in the autumn budget, Reeves does need to squeeze in some good news in there. An announcement the government will set aside a few quid for investment in local infrastructure could well happen.
Alton Towers and Universal Studios would be crazy
The fing is, when you’re telling people what you fink about feem parks, to hold my attention personally, you need to be able to pronounce the ‘TH’ sound.
Dang The Big One and ICON got it hard. I've never seen someone with such harsh opinions on them but i respect it completely.
You may find the July decision was based on some initial promises from the then government, and the change, may have necessitated a renegotiation. The whole 'if you don't give us what we want' scenario is classic big business negotiation, as someone who has done training on this for a large company I can tell you it's part of the playbook 😀 I wouldn't be too concerned, all the other positives outway that one so it's still watch this space but I wouldn't get hung up on that
Deep breaths, they'll make it work. No one does parks like Universal.
I’d say there are other better options than UK
According to Universal there wasn't. They might have realise that they have been a bit to optimistic, and now acting a bit pessimistic to get a better deal.
I loved Puy du Fou when I was on holiday in France with family. I really hope they build it!
Whilst I want the park, it shouldn't be at any cost. USA is already taken over the UK, all cashless transactions go through USA, Morrisons is USA, 5 Premier football clubs are USA, F1 is USA, Cadbury is USA, Deepmind AI is now USA. Might as well bring the flag here and celebrate July 5th "Taken over by USA day". If the incentives need to be better than the other countries that have a park i'd fight back. I think its pretty obvious the UK has a higher taxation than most countries.
Yeah, I’m not worried about that at all. Incentives are just a normal part of huge outside investment like this. They’ll get something out of the Government for sure. It’d be a huge PR/economic boost for Labour.
It’s NOT HAPPENING…
I think flamingoland deserves to be on this list - and high up too
Bedfordshire council said that Wixams station is due to start construction next month and, if Universal agreed to the park, they’d basically have to, to a point, restart the station so basically, they’ve gotta make it clear that the park is happening by December or else the council will have wasted money
The council in a sticky situation as it got to start the station to keep the section 106 money set aside for the station, an yet it might be waste of money as the current station design is inadequate for the park. I don't know what the section 106 agreement says, does it simply state the station to start to be rebuilt by said date or completed, if it start perhaps they can get away with a few minor site prep and drag things out a little. Obviuously in a ideal world the council would hold off any works until Universal came to a decision. October budget may give us further clues, if Reeves set aside pot of money for transportation and release some of it to build a 4 platform station Wixams station. It would send a message to Universal that the government is serious. An it might require fairly small amount of money in the ground scheme of things, I think it was suggest a Universal studio ready station would cost about 100 million, they already have 61 million of that.
Appreciate you taking your time to keep us updated, pal.
By chester..... !
I know an archaeological trench evaluation has already taken place on the site. This is usually a condition of a planning application, I haven't found out who has done it yet or what the results were, but I'll keep asking around!
I have a question . Is this project has things to do with some taxes and the inflation in the UK ??? but I think there will go with a yes because we have informations about it with gouvernemental document of some kind that as been signed and also post on the internet
Best way to view this is that until things are signed and budgeted, it isn’t happening. That way if it does go ahead, it’s a bonus.
You missed a couple of bits (explained in my end of July update). 1- previous government did NOT approve the request of financial support. 2 - MERLIN already said whatever is offered to universal, they want the same 😊
An what is Merlin going to do if they don't get the same?
I wouldnt be discouraged by any of this at all.
So its just haggling right now which is normal for a project of this scale
This park needs to happen for the UK!
Rumors has it USGB will not have Harry potter
That been rumoured from day one through. Apparently Warner Brother might have exclusive rights to Harry Potter theme park attractions in the UK. Lords of the Rings, James Bond or Doctor Who might all be up for the grabs through.
No wonder the confirmation has been delayed indefinitely
Is this a red flag?
With the state of the country at the moment... this government and the way the future looks... I wouldn't blame Universal for pulling the plug.
I think things are looking pretty positive at the moment
I really hope this project goes ahead, it'd be brilliant to have a world class park in the UK - imagine the theming!
Yeah I really think this will be a huge step up from anything we've seen before
I think it will be open by 2026 minimum
I think the plan is 2030 - still a long while to wait!
@@UniversalUKNews 2030, which is almost perfect for Labour, in that most of the park should be in the final construction, well at least phase 1 of the park. So Starner will be able to get a nice photo op of planting a tree, meet some of the apprentices and employees.
This was inevitable, universal will be expecting gov to fund all travel infrastructure upgrades at a minimum. I just hope the government doesnt tie itself in a knot. Tax increases expected in October so the government might be a bit nervous politically about allocating large sums to support a US company to build a theme park. The business case and projected revenues for government should make it a no brainer. Bear in mind the government will be receiving up to 20% of all revenue plus all the other local and national taxes that will be due, not to mention the employees paying tax. Unfortunately this country (alongside other democracies) lacks long term vision or strategy for anything beyond the 5 year election cycle
yeah that's my concern, that they'll think this won't be open until the next general election, so they could shoulder all the cost while the next government gets all the praise for the money it brings in
@@UniversalUKNews But that is the same for all large projects through the Tories never did get much credit for the Elizabeth line or the Olympics, both Labour projects completed under the Tory government. There another side, with all the negative news that the budget will seemingly contain, Reeves being able to announce a package of incentives to bring an world class resort to the UK might be just what Labour needs to generate some positive news, for relatively little money. An with Rayner already scaring councils into signing off projects , that are frankly well overdue for signing off, Reeves can rely on her to push through the planning for the park through in record time. May be they could get Universal to promise they will have a ride or two ready for Starmer to test before the 2029 election or at least a really busy building site to visit.
Wait, are you saying that Universal Studios is not going to build a park in the UK?
No not at all!
It's deffo not happening anyone who fort it would is a muppet yhe country is a mess travel warnings to the whole of the uk . Plus the uk is a crap hole and I live there lol 😂 we never get nada decent and there never gona end up building here I guarantee it
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could you please write this message again English please with correct spelling
Labour government will probably fuck things up.
Definitely sounds like to me they’ve made the internal decision to go ahead and now it’s the game of posturing to get an even better deal, as any business would. If the base internal decision was a no, they surely wouldn’t bother negotiating anything with the government
Definitely, it's just a potential hurdle if the government can't, or won't, give them what they want
There was an article in the Financial Times back in June where they interviewed Page Thompson and he said then that a decision to go ahead would be made by the end of the year, so that hasn’t changed. I think people were being optimistic that an announcement would be made after the consultation with residents. This all seems like normal procedure for a company thinking of investing millions into a theme park. And Labour won’t want to lose this opportunity for the UK, they know the huge benefits of the theme park going ahead. I don’t think we should worry too much.
An this is Labour area, so yeah they will be pushing every leaver they have to get this project going. An Labour and Starmer do need some positive news after the budget.
Where can I find the tenders ?
Sadly I just heard about them from that Coasterforce thread where an engineer said he knew people working on them. You can check the Bedfordshire council tenders fairly easily through a Google Search though, I'm just not sure how you work out which ones are for the site.
I will give it to the end of the year and if nothing is confirmed this project will go ahead and i would say that's it.
unh-uh! Universal Studios UK/GB better still happen, enough of this chain jerking
When the French government were negotiating with Disney I believe there were some tense negotiations before DLP got the go ahead. It’s a little pressure tactics to get the government to offer decent incentives. And they know they are going to have to offer something for it to get built. For example foot the infrastructure bill or most of it.
My home park at number 10 🤣 NO NOT GREAT YARMOUTH PLEASURE BEACH AT NUMBER 9 🤣🤣🤣
Fingers crossed man
yeah, this is the first time I've been a bit worried about it
@@UniversalUKNews same haha