Common Studios Nice Britain — Potential Location Revealed for UK Theme Park

Notice: Particulars on this story haven’t been confirmed by NBCUniversal or its dad or mum firm Comcast.

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Common is planning a brand new theme park for the UK. After opening their latest park and resort in Beijing, and now ending up the upcoming Epic Universe theme park in Orlando, it looks like the corporate has set its sights on constructing its subsequent full-scale park in England.

Let’s dig into paperwork exhibiting the place the corporate has bought land for this new park, what forms of properties it’s rumored to comprise, and when it might open, in in the present day’s breaking information replace. See the video model of this story under for extra visuals.

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The newly-branded Common Locations and Experiences division, beneath its dad or mum firm Comcast, has expressed a want to department out and produce new theme parks and themed experiences to new areas world wide. On a small scale, tasks like Common Youngsters Resort in Frisco, Texas and Common Horror Unleashed in Las Vegas, Nevada present simply one of many methods the corporate can be reaching this.

Whereas rumors have surfaced on boards and on social media for the corporate to be bringing a Common park or expertise to Europe, we had not had a lot stable proof as to the place precisely this could possibly be occurring, till now.

Narrowing down the potential location for the corporate’s subsequent large theme park, it does seem that they’ve registered the domains “universalstudiosgreatbritain.com” and “universalgreatbritain.com.”

These domains, together with their “.co.uk” counterparts, seem to have been registered by NBCUniversal, and utilizing the identical registrar as different Common parks’ web site domains.

These URLs have been registered in September of 2023. As we might later discover out, that’s proper after the corporate had seemingly acquired land within the area.

In line with an SEC report launched after Comcast’s third quarter in October 2023, the corporate disclosed that $271 million have been spent, “related to the acquisition of land for potential theme park enlargement alternatives.” We have no idea for sure that this monetary disclosure is said to a park in Nice Britain, however the timing of it’s curious.

Public information do present that Comcast acquired a development and improvement firm, named “Cloud Wing UK Restricted,” in 2023. Paperwork state Comcast took over the corporate on August 31, 2023, however the deal wasn’t finalized till later within the fall, with Comcast now listed as having full management.

With the acquisition of Cloud Wing, Comcast additionally acquired its land belongings, which embody a 240 acre (95 hectare) part of a parcel of land in Bedford, England.

Generally known as the “Kempston Hardwick New Settlement,” this former brickworks land is at present described as for agricultural makes use of, however has had a number of stalled proposals for future industrial use through the years.

The Kempston Hardwick property had beforehand been on the market, however it appears to be like as if its former proprietor might have taken it off the market in the course of 2023.

This specific property could also be just one parcel that Comcast has acquired with the acquisition of the Cloud Wing firm.

In whole, it appears as if the corporate has acquired round 500 acres (or 200 hectares) of whole land in Bedford, England.

A Bedford Enterprise Park proposal from 2020 offers us a have a look at the property define that Common could also be working inside when designing their new theme park. The crimson define on this map reveals most or all of what we consider to be Comcast’s newly acquired property.

Proposals for a Bedford Enterprise Park in 2018 present how this property might have been constructed out if it had been developed for different corporations. This iteration reveals what the doc calls “companies, industrial premises, and warehouses.”

This web site in Bedford, which we consider is the place Comcast can be constructing their new Common Studios Nice Britain, is about 46 miles (74 kilometers) north of London.

In truth, this web site was really one in all 11 totally different areas thought-about for the usually reported on “London Resort.” That challenge scouted this location, noting it had “strategic highway and rail connections.”

Its proximity to close by roads and railway stations, each of which have acquired plans for future enchancment in coming years, might have performed a task in Comcast deciding to buy land on this space.

Curiously, when discussing upcoming upgrades to the borough’s connecting roadways final week, the mayor of Bedford was quoted as saying “it places Bedford within the centre of the universe,” which can be a little bit of foreshadowing for what’s to come back.

In truth, Common might not be the one firm on this up and coming space, as Quartermaster and VERB have introduced plans to convey subsequent technology movie studios to Bedford.

The “Residence of Manufacturing Bedfordshire,” (HOP Studios,) will embody over 1.5 million sq. toes of manufacturing studio house, together with sound levels, manufacturing homes, and a backlot space.

Curiously, these proposed film studio plans are usually not associated to Common Studios, but when they construct it the place they’ve introduced they are going to, the 2 corporations could possibly be close by neighbors.

Stepping into rumor territory, whereas Comcast’s acquisition of the Cloud Wing firm and its land holdings will be confirmed by public information, there are rumors floating round for this potential theme park challenge that can not be so simply confirmed.

It’s price holding in thoughts although, that it’s nonetheless extremely early on this potential challenge’s improvement, and issues are in fact topic to vary. Though there are rumors for a Common Studios Nice Britain, and we’ve got discovered proof of a land sale, that doesn’t imply that the corporate will certainly undergo with it.

That mentioned, rumors do have the timeline for this challenge being accomplished with a brand new theme park prepared and open by 2030. The purpose could also be to end Epic Universe first earlier than main development begins on Common Nice Britain, so the corporate is just ever constructing one new full-scale theme park at a time, to assist unfold out prices.

And that’s the rumor, that this may be the location for a fully-fledged Common Studios theme park—not a smaller park expertise like Common Youngsters Resort in Texas.

Rumors say that the brand new theme park would comprise many indoor rides and experiences. That is how Common Studios Beijing was designed, with native climate issues in thoughts.

That park incorporates some lands which might be completely indoors, just like the Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness and the Minions’ Tremendous Foolish Enjoyable Land space, in addition to new indoor experiences primarily based on properties which might be normally given outside points of interest, just like the Jurassic World Journey darkish experience and enclosed Camp Jurassic play space.

There’s additionally a rumor that this new park is being designed to not open with any cloned points of interest from the Common Orlando Resort. It’s assumed this consideration is being made in order to not cannibalize the corporate’s abroad journey market. As an alternative, this park might debut with new points of interest not present in Orlando to draw its personal guests from different markets, in addition to UK locals.

Now, that doesn’t imply the park wouldn’t comprise cloned points of interest from different Common parks world wide. The aforementioned Jurassic World Journey involves thoughts for instance, one thing that isn’t current on the Orlando parks.

After all, Common can be smart to create this new theme park with some distinctive points of interest and experiences of its personal. That will assist set it aside from different Common locations world wide.

Rumors for potential exterior mental properties the corporate could also be making an attempt to accumulate for this park embody James Bond, Paddington Bear, and The Lord of the Rings.

In line with experiences lately, Common might have already got acquired the theme park rights to The Lord of the Rings. They could be ready for the fitting place to construct its first theme park land at a Common park. And this can be simply the spot.

As was talked about in a BBC article concerning the upcoming visitors adjustments coming to the world over the following few years, Bedford is about to be “much more engaging place for folks to… make investments [in].”

That’s all for now, however make certain subscribe to our information feed or our YouTube Channel, as we’re simply getting began with our protection of Common Studios Nice Britain. Take a look at the video model of this story for extra visible components.

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