Universal Studios Great Britain - MASTER PLANS FOR UK THEME PARK RESORT 

What types of attractions would fit this park best?

So happy that Universal decided to build this park solely because it means I get to watch Theme Park Stop walk me through another entire construction timeline again!!

Alicia reminding everyone that she broke the news of this whole thing at the beginning of the video is such a deservedly boss move 👑

Universal is building around the globe like crazy, at a stunning pace. And Disney is patting itself on the back for reskinning decades-old rides and opening Communicore. 😂

Universal's momentum right now is insane. I hope this gets the green light!!

Living about 5 minutes away from all this - its a perfect site for Universal.

With the amount of accents I hear from the British Isles at the Orlando parks, this is a great move

Still find it crazy that a major theme park is gonna be less than an hour from where I live.

I’ve been following universal Great Britain channel for a while now. As a local resident, he gives a lot of very good insight. He’s also got a soothing voice. It’s relaxing to watch and listen even as we’re receiving updates. I’m so glad you credited him! ❤

Love seeing all these technical details, it gives the project a lot of credibility. Also reassuring to see just how far along Universal is with the feasibility study and how there don't seem to be any backup options, makes me feel they are pretty committed to this project. Thanks for another great video and to USGB Updates for being the boots on the ground!

Cannot wait for this, it's gonna change the UK theme park industry if it comes to fruition, it's only around 2 hours from me which is closer than Alton Towers

Theme Park Stop on point yet again.

How do you do it? Updates for UK, Epic Universe, Podcasts and a new baby???? You're a champ Stella! ❤❤❤

So excited for all your future updates on this project! You’re so skilled at breaking down these documents in a really engaging way 🙌

Once again, these are very exciting times to be a theme park fan! Can't wait to keep following along with Theme Park Stop

Posting this video while Disneyland Paris is hosting an event announcing new stuff is unintentionally very funny, lol

Awesome update , thank you. As a local resident we are completly buzzing over here. Even thou nothing confirmed. wow jusy wow

Gonna need Bioreconstruct to move to Bedford for this one 😅

Having walked across the site yesterday it is huge and that's only the southern land. They started doing archaeological digging from what I could see

Sure is exciting! I hope it grows into a lovely resort similar to Orlando.

It will be very interesting when Universal officially announces this resort, what Disney does at the Paris resort. Their lack of response towards Epic Universe has been laughable. The size of this resort is similar to Islands of Adventure, which makes what type of attractions and lands they would put even more interesting. Also, the ~370-foot max height of built structures is very interesting. I can see three things that may be that tall; a hotel, an icon, or Hogwarts castle. I have to imagine this will include a premier hotel and maybe one large moderate hotel. The infrastructure improvements being proposed and the fact most of Great Britain is within a three-hour drive may facilitate not as many hotels when the resort first opens. I gotta imagine a summer 2027 announcement and a summer 2030 opening, IF major land reclamation brings by the end of this year.

Sooo awesome! Thorpe Park and Alton Towers there is a new kid in town

Local councillors and MPs now realising that they can head over to Orlando or Japan for a genuine business trip to "assess the quality of the proposal". I live about 90 minutes slow drive away from this location, and am totally stoked about this park. It's something the UK needs, and it'll shake up Legoland, Alton Towers, Paultons - those are okay places, but they do look rather tired. This really will revitalise the UK theme parks.

I am SOOOO excited for this! I was holding out hope for the London Project, as the UK really needs a new Theme Park to challenge Merlin and get interest back in our parks, but having Universal come here would be amazing! I've already looked at house prices in the local area lol. Hopefully this gets the go-ahead and we get an incredible new park.

Damn I feel like the people in Bedford won some sort of lottery of where Universal was going to build their park. I am happy that it will be relatively close to where I live, at least not 700$ for a plane ticket for a visit to Universal!

This is excellent work once again, thank you 🙏

So excited for all the updates you post! Thanks! 🎉

As a British person who hates flying and holidays in general, I am incredibly excited to see Universal Studios Great Britain advancing in development. The UK’s theme park market has been so lacking compared to mainland Europe who have Efteling, Europa Park and of course Disneyland Paris which have all gone unchallenged for too long.

Do I plan on going to Great Britain? No. Is there a new Theme Park Stop update that I will still watch to the end? Yep!

I live in Bedford, this is going to be great for the town as its got a great location , it just needs some more money to develop the area. Very exciting.

I love that UK theme park includes planned train stations. In the US, you're lucky if the park have a bus route.

Great video, great news and great music!

Finally, an update on this. Thank you.

6:53 Wow, 40% by rail!? Imagine if Florida and the United States as a whole actually prioritized this method of travel over vehicles. At least Florida is attempting to move in that direction very very slowly.

I'm staying quietly optimistic about this one! Fingers crossed Universal make a statement pretty soon after the public consultations so we can all start getting properly hyped! I live in Birmingham so only an hour and a half away and with how long the project will take to complete my kids will be the perfect age to vist once it's all done!

🤞🤞🤞 My Dream Universal Park in the UK: Hollywood, Jurassic World, Hogsmeade, Nintendo World, Universal Monsters + BTTF, ET & Jaws jammed in there somewhere! I don't ask for much 😅

Great news update Alicia

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This is sounding like it’s actually going to happen and would be a huge win for universal

An area themed on British Children’s Books, such as Wind and the Willows and Beatrix Potter.

I will follow the channel

Thorpe Park will be a ghost town 😄so hope this goes ahead,great for the area👍🏻

I can't wait for this!

We have a few parks in the UK but nothing like or as invested in as the US parks. So pleased this is seriously being considered. Although relying on the rail network would need more consideration as the UK rail network has been heavily underinvested in, is old, tired and unreliable. Even our roads require major investment now so if this injection helps, it’s got to be a good thing, plus we’d get a new theme park 😉 A water park probably wouldn’t work for England, we just don’t get decent weather for long enough to make it viable, unless they make it an indoor one available for all year use. Now that would be good, an indoor volcano bay! For the first time I’d be able to say I’ve got an annual pass for universal, 😅and despite living hundreds of miles away…. I’d make bloody good use of it

Oh we’ve been waiting for this! ❤

hey alicia! been watching your videos for a while now! i remember you reporting on the mario kart rumors, covering hagrids and velocicoaster and ever since it’s honestly been one of my dreams to go to islands of adventure specifically! and last week i did! i went with my girlfriend to all the disney parks and islands of adventure! will continue to keep watching and let’s see how universal great britain turns out!

I've just received my 'Update from Universal Destinations and Experiences' email with attached letter!

Here we go,again this will keep us watching another 5 years of updates

I would find it absolutely hilarious if they did NOT build a Harry Potter themed world at Universal GB. Like "What do you need a Potter world for? You already live in it! Let's have four acres devoted to the Fast and the Furious. International audiences love that stuff."

I’ll be staying on updates on Universal Great Britain Updates and I even subscribe to the other universal Great Britain channels. Overall keep up the good work Alicia

Will be interesting to see how Universal plan on dealing with the poor UK weather.. After all, most brits holiday to Orlando not just for the theme parks but to also get some decent sun!

If they build Lord of the rings area, we will come

So excited for this, its going to teach uk theme parks how its done. And no jetlag for us in the UK.

im so pumped man, i live in bedford and it is so dead here so this will be sick

Universal should hire you as their official hype girl. For the first time in my life i became a patreon member because your videos bring me joy and excitement, so i would love to support you/

Wow. I thought for sure that the next video in the works would be about the two new hotels for Epic Universe that were announced yesterday.

Is Universal still thinking about re-acquiring that park in Spain and weren't they considering building a park in Germany as well?

Does this area also have the ability for future expansions? Doesnt seem like there is much around the area

Hope all those in the UK purchased a house or some property. That value is about to go up!

I live 6 miles from this site 🎉😅

Great Britain would be an AWESOME spot for a Zelda Land.

It's fun brainstorming ideas: This is Universal's opportunity for their first LOTR land. An escape from Gringotts style ride (or something akin to Volcano: the Blast Coaster) that's you helping Frodo & Sam escape from Mount Doom that ends w you soaring w the eagles? Also, put a hotel inside Hogwarts & have 4 wings of rooms themed after each House?

@ThemeParkStop Do you also have information about a possible take over by Universal of PortAventura in Spain, there have been sightings of Universal execs visiting and trademarks being put in place for rollercoasters by Comcast

I wouldn't get too excited about the "Mixed Use" section. Mixed Use, especially in European usage, usually refers to housing mixed with non-housing options. Of course zones like "Entertainment" are included, but I think any possible future theme park area would have to be labeled as such when they start putting this out to the locals. Now this can also mean another CityWalk, with hotels, shops and restaurants, but that would be labeled as RDE. The first thing I saw when I looked at the map, though, was housing. There's no reason to have TWO train stations for just a theme park, especially when the current station IS RIGHT NEXT TO BOTH THESE AREAS! Then there's the Restoration Area. That's not for visitors; that's for locals. So I imagine the plan is to build a hotel at the southern edge - with a back entrance to the park, which could also be used by the East Gateway arrivals - and a lovely little SuburbWalk north of it: shops and dining with apartments on top, here and there some entertainment venues (pubs). It's pretty genius, actually, as they would have a permanent pool of people to patronize their establishments, a problem when building in an area that isn't right next to a large city. They might have bought the whole parcel with a promise to sell the rest to the city so the city can build a suburb here. There has to be some reason Bedford is so on board with everything. Usually locals are all out fighting stuff like this (see Frisco). As for a future park, I'm sure those talks have happened behind the scenes. Methinks they have been given the future option of expanding either west or southwest (maybe in exchange for that Mixed Use parcel???). This would explain why the map has changed to include those Mixed Use zones. It would also explain why the RDE area is only found at the West Gateway Zone, when the obvious placement would have been between the Mixed Use and Theme Park areas, next to the already-existing Kempston Hardwick train station. Any future park would naturally be built next to a Transportation Hub and near the CityWalk. This means expansion will be either westward or southwestward. Possible westward expansion would explain why they bought that little nub next to all the farmland but have not given any plans for zoning it. The little tip of the RDE area linking to it is a major hint as to what it probably will be. I wouldn't expect a park here, probably more of a hotel zone with other CityWalk Entertainment, like mini golf, escape rooms, indoor water park, what have you. And pubs. Things that will interest the locals. Southwest is more interesting, as all the stuff at the West Gateway has suddenly changed to more Mixed Use areas. The area south of here is barren and probably will be forever as there's a highway on one side, with a power station and a waste management company bordering it. I think both are involved in turning waste into fuel/power, so I think this may be a landfill. Doesn't exactly scream "Future Suburb!" Not sure how this works for future use as something other than a landfill, but it looks like they are scraping away the top of it - it's a very tall plateau that doesn't appear to be used for current waste - so maybe there's a window for when this area can be used for something else. It is currently much less of a mound near the railroad tracks. (Oddly - or maybe not - the waste management company was spun off from Vivendi, the company that used to own Universal.) "A minimum of 8.5 million visitors a year" is an insane opening prediction. That's Universal Studios Hollywood numbers. The most-popular park in the UK right now, Legoland Windsor, doesn't even get 2.5 million. Though these numbers undoubtedly are based on CityWalk and not the actual park, it's still probably way over what they will actually get. It does make me wonder if a waterpark is in their opening plans. Indoor waterparks are becoming more and more popular in Europe thanks to their year-round nature - Manchester is building a massive one for 250,000 pounds - so a themed Universal indoor waterpark could probably pull in a million visitors. Putting this in the south of the Mixed Use area makes a lot of sense. I'm all of a sudden weirdly excited by this. I have been planning a trip to Alton Towers after they finish with Nemesis, but I may have to postpone it a few years...

I think Universal UK will be a test run for the european market. I expect that they are aiming to establish themself as the prime themepark of the uk before they are building a themepark in mainland europe. The Uk was often the testground for american companies before they expand into the mainland european market. I think that Universal will have different strategy than Disney for europe. Instead trying to make a huge resort in paris, they will build multiple smaller ones spread throughout europe.

Flinched a little at them giving themselves a height restriction and then dis the maths, thats the height of our new tallest coaster Hyperia +60% ... this is going to massively shake up Merlin!

I would suspect Universal wouldnt build a water park in the UK for the obvious weather related issues-our summers are hot but brief, amd our winters long and wet. Unless it was an indoor water park, which could be interesting

Don’t ask me how, but I’ve recently found out that Universal are working on their first dedicated cruise ship, apparently in conjunction with Royal Caribbean. It’s codenamed Orion.

There is a theme park in the UK called Fantasy Island it has got an indoor space and it's very well-themed with good rides too including a Forbidden Journey clone but the theme is a mixture of dragons and wizards and a trackless shooting dark ride with custom content with screens and physical set pieces

If it gets built, I’ll look forward to a trip there in 2035!

this comment is off-topic i know what the mr. krabs animatronic first seen last year at an expo of some kind is for: a brand new spongebob ride in las vegas. mr. krabs is seen near the ticket machine for the ride, saying random stuff quite similarly to mr. potato head in toy story midway mania at disneyland and disney world

The town of Wootton right there next to the plot. Tolkien synergy intensifies.

Will have to get a bioconstruct clone in the UK😊

Surpised they never considered the impact on Luton airport

I heard that the land they have bought is Jurrasic and dinosaur bones were found in the lake. Universal surely has to build a Jurrasic land. They have to go ahead with the build as that is fate they own, Jurrasic Park.

I think they internally have already committed to this project, but just don't say it publicly yet.

There's a row of houses on Manor Road that seem to be within the boundary; have Comcast bought these as well?

Its time for a Toronto Universal Theme Park.

I hope they have an emphasis on British IP’s. In particular Lord of the Rings!

Thank you to Theme Park Worldwide for sharing the presentations from Saturday 13th’s public consultation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EU6WKlS-diY.htmlsi=-sMuQvkZ6lOhkoiB

for new years

This is the uk so expect many many delays we don’t do things simply here

Any Recent News About Epic Universe???

Universal is so open with this stuff, Disney would never 😂

They could easily theme this park on some of Roald Dahls famous books. E.g. Willy Wonka, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 007, Gremlins,Matilda, James & the Giant Peach. Etc.

Apparently in the presentation they kept on having to correct themselves, as they kept on saying they are going to build.

While I think it's cool that we might be getting some unique UK based attractions, I kind of hope they don't over focus on that.

Can they please come to Australia

One thing's for sure: J.K. Rowling's gonna have a BLAST in putting together her area for THIS gorgeous new resort! 😊

Looks like universal is building a British churro stand.

I doubt it will happen, BUT The Wizarding World SHOULD be a part of this park. It is the most popular land worldwide and it comes from the UK - it only makes sense!

Honestly that land looks a mess and they'd be wrong not to let Universal make a park there. It would be extremely popular.

I would be very surprised if they don’t built a Super Nintendo World there as part of the park. After all Mario is popular in most parts of the world aside from places like China which is why one isn’t in the China park.

How is it possible they can have structures as tall as 377 feet??! 🤣 That sounds crazy, I wonder what it would be

So they're only planning one full theme park? I was hoping they would have room for a full second gate in the future. Maybe they will purchase that giant piece of land to the left of the core parcel of land.

Expected 8.5M guests... how did they get to that number? The most popular Theme Park in Britain is Alton Towers which got 2.3M visitors last year. Thats almost 4x the attendance!

tbh, I have more faith in Universal to be able to build stuff in a reasonable amount of time, and I'm pretty sure the "parks and experiences" separation was just a way to *reduce* the amount of red tape

We need bioreconstruct on the case

Universal is going insane right now, but in good way, contrast to Disneys current insane

For this place to be truly successful, it needs to be totally indoors. It's too cold and rainy most of the year there for an outdoor park. And forget about an outdoor water park. That definitely needs to be totally enclosed.