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Universal UK
- Thread starter Robbiem
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cjkeating
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Of note this would be a second train station. Wixams is going ahead and being redesigned as a 4 platform station to meet the projected demand. This station is not tied to the opening of Universal UK so may open afterwards.
JoeCamel
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May want to buy a few B&Bs there....
JoeCamel
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Less than a year Donnie..... I wish I had the energy to quote all your posts about how this would take a decade but they are there to be searched if I had the will
LotR......
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I just bought my AP. Can't wait to freeload across the Atlantic!So should be open couple of weeks after Christmas right, right ?
DonniePeverley
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The UK government, the Labour Party have played a blinder here .... they've gone and taken away planning powers away from the local council (which would have held up the project for centuries with way over the top planning nonsense). The Uk government can override the local council for a project for national importance (the other time they did this was for the London Olympic stadium).
Had they not done this, you know full well it would have been held up for centuries. And hell hath fury if they found a spider, bats or some animals. This is the country that spent close to 200 million to build a tunnel for it's doomed 'high speed railway' to protect some bats that were in the area. Ironically those same bats are no longer around anyways.
Nothing ever gets built in the UK. So this is a welcome surprise. I'd advice Comcast still to remain shusssh if they ever find a birds nest lol
JoeCamel
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It's ok to be wrong Donnie, not admitting it is the issue
That's freeloader speak.
Disstevefan1
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Just asking because I have no idea. For the folks who will subtract days at a Disney park to go here, is Disney losing folks from WDW or Disneyland Paris or some from both?
JoeCamel
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Alton Towers
DonniePeverley
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Not at all. I did point out earlier that unless the government took over planning there was no chance this was going ahead. And they did just that, and took over the planning from the local council - something very rare in the UK.
Furthermore may i just add nothing has been built yet, no spades in crowds ... etc etc
If they find a bats nest in the coming weeks it will be all over (c) UK planning laws
Or just admit that this time you were wrong.
Or that comcast's pockets are deep enough to overcome most bats nests.
JoeCamel
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I know of two land surveys so far and I'm pretty sure they did a hazards survey as well so I think a 100 billion dollar company would have done the due diligence and planned the best path to completion for this project. Not to say something would never come up but the bases are covered
Just like Epic Universe was never built, neither will this project!!!
BrianLo
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It won’t have a measurable impact. USJ/TDL and USB/SDL have extremely marginal guest overlap - and those are in the same countries.
Universal and Disney are only really head-to-head competitors in Florida. Otherwise they carve out their own space in each region.
Animaniac93-98
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There's probably overlap between Universal Hollywood and Disneyland, but given the distance, not as much as Orlando
lazyboy97o
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I’m a little worried that Universal doesn’t think there’s serious risk of cannibalising Florida attendance.