The London Resort Planning Application Submitted & NEW Concept Art
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- The London Resort have submitted their planning application to the UK Government along with revealing some exciting NEW concept art for this huge theme park and resort. In this news update I share all of the latest information about The London Resort that's planned to open in 2024 on a site in Kent. I also take a detailed look at the NEW concept art and share my thoughts on the latest developments!
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i hope it happens
the uk really needs another large park
Indeed, hopefully owned by Merlin so if you have a pass, you can go for free! 👍🏻👍🏻
@@the_deep_sea_explores7154 No, we don't need more major parks owned Merlin. We need Merlin to have competition.
@@ElectriKong- of course we need more competition between parks and the fact that Thorpe park hasn't had anything new in 8 years is quite shocking
wonder how it will affect UKs best park ... THORPE PARK
@@the_deep_sea_explores7154 it has had plenty new stuff, just no *good* new stuff
this would be such a good theme park!
It certainly could be epic!
Just looked online, they’re starting the building next year! Can’t wait till 2024!
Yeah try on coming opening soon 2024
How many years have I been waiting for this !!, this is what’s needed for Thorpe park because in my opinion they have become stale , haven’t invested much or wisely , haven’t had a coaster since 2012, many rides need a paint and a re theme one example being colussus , many flat rides have been taken away , loggers leap still sbno and that site hasn’t been developed so this will get them to pull their finger out hopefully
Yes was just thinking this! ha this might make Merlin actually have to put some effort in to try and compete!
Thanks for listening to my suggestion Shaun! Really hope this plans come to fruition it looks amazing! Very detailed video thanks again
Thank you for watching!
This NEEDS to happen! Merlin have the Monopoly & it would make them have to step up their game. It could have an amazing knock on effect for all the theme parks in the UK 🙌🏼
It could be epic!
IF this happens it would probably be the biggest UK construction project ever since the channel tunnel. I'm a tad sceptical as I can't imagine how many billions it will cost but I hope this happens 🤞😊
And the development of the tube
HS2 is bigger
@@edward6206 True that 👍
Yeah definitely. The figures being quoted for this project are far to low however it is the same figure that been quoted for about ten years so that's probably more the press.
The channel tunnel wasn’t a UK construction project. It was a French-UK construction project.
A uk theme park with 10 coasters yes please lol
Built all at once please
Introducing the new London resort coaster for 2026.....the race to the queen Vic/rovers return
That would be such a good idea
the Great British Bake Off revenge of the soggy bottom
@@CamGold yesss
This is the theme park we need. It’s like having our own UK version of Disneyland!
Even better
I hope you have an amazing year in 2021 I love you and I love your channel so much xx have an wonderful day you always think on the postive side
Thank you so much!
28 days to go over the application, then it’s yay or nay
It’ll be interesting to see what happens!
This would be really interesting. I like the idea of a UK Disney-like park
I’m so excited I live next to where they are planning to build
When you're chocking to death with all the air pollution and stuck in constant traffic I'm sure the novelty of being near a theme park will soon die off
The UK could really do with a heavily themed park/resort. I'm talking universal/Disney standard full of IPs and merch. I hope this happens, but I'm still extremely sceptical.
you know there’s something called thorpe park, right?
@@spreadthetruth90 is Thorpe Park Universal/Disney standard?
It looks so good going down the route of the American and Europe parks like you said i can wait to see it get built and visit it when it 1st opens to experience it
2038 just sounds so far ahead but it’s only 17 years crazy!
The London Resort should really be a Universal Studios London since Europe has yet to build a Universal Studios Theme Park.
I think Universal Russia is the first European one
Universal Port Aventura
My error
The amount of coasters in each area (Should this plan be what we get) will likely be a lot less when it opens. 1 or so per section? Imagine it'll be like the early days of EuroDisney, where the location for Space Mountain was in place etc but openings were staggered out to bring some reoccuring hype.
Basically I think we may well get an amazing theme park here! But I genuinely think it'll take 20+ years from opening before we see something really special.
I definitely think it’ll be done in phases
According to companies house, London Resort Holdings Ltd is owned and funded by Kuwaiti European Holding. This is owned by Al-Humaidi family who are billionaires in Kuwait
It’ll be interesting to see what happens next with this one!
I think they own ebbsfleet football club so seem to have a invested interest in the area.
Corrupt big money at play what a surprise!
I need this channel right now thanks for your hard work
Thanks Ben
Shawn, get your CV to them! They need someone like you to help deliver!
Thanks for your kind words Adam!
With the BBC IP, can only hope for "Antiques Roadshow: The Ride"!
Happy New year TPW, this would be excellent for the country and news keeps getting released so all possible and positive to happen, it certainly would rattle merlin cage as they have been the biggest chain as such of parks in UK for years now. I imagine a consortium of companies and a middleeast invester could be behind with all the money that this will cost but we will see what happens. It's exciting for the UK for sure
It could be awesome if we see this getting built!
Let's hope this happens. I'm tired of seeing only houses being built.
You should do a planet coaster build of this. I'd watch that
Yeah, do your theories on it and how you think it will look??
We will get to see new concept art for new theme park later this year. Hopefully they'll add more attractions/rides.
My home park is Alton Towers, but it will be good to see a new future park in the UK!
Looking really exciting. I think something to break the Merlin near monopoly on large theme parks in this country won’t hurt anyone. I’m not ever so happy with the big price hike on the Merlin passes.
Happy New Year to everyone at Theme park worldwide
I hope this goes ahead one of my moms friends live in swanscomb and we used to go there every christmas. We used to go past this site. If this goes ahead ot would be fantastic. Hope it goes ahead because it will be fab for the economy. Hope it opens in 2024.
Would be amazing if it gets built. Got to think that Merlin may close or sell Thorpe Park or Chessington, in order to invest further in the one they keep to try and compete!
It would be amazing if we got a park like this in the UK
Really excited for this. Would love and need a large new park in uk to go with favourites Thorpe park, Alton Towers and Blackpool Pleasure Beach. So good for economy too.
This has been the best news I’ve seen for a long time,something to really look forward to after all the gloom we’ve lived with in the last year,thank you for this news.👍🏻
Nice! I’ll be sure to do construction updates if it happens, it’s only 10 minutes away 😄
Whoah! I think I saw a ‘Thing’ Dark ride there, that would be terrifying!
Wouldn’t it be epic!
I’m so excited!
great news! Really hope its happens!
Merlin: ...
They need a kick up the butt
They’ll need to invest heavily to compete if this does happen!
@@ThemeParkWorldwide i hope it happens because of this!
If the bbc is still involved, I would love to see something doctor who related like a dark ride or a coaster
Edit: the poster on the far right at 12:28 is john carpenter's the thing. As a massive horror fan I'm excited
Been waiting 8 years so far, still feel like it’s never going to happen but with the application being put forward it’s a start I guess
Let’s see!
We'll find out next year for absolutely sure, that's when they'll do the groundbreaking
We’ll hopefully get a 200 ft RMC and maybe a low to the ground intamin Double/triple launch coaster (like taron)
Now that wood be epic!
Such a good idea perfect for the U.K. like our version of Disneyworld or something
Also, the good thing is that its two hours away from Disneyland Paris, so if you via Eurostar like to travel for the day or few nights to Disney. You could, especially after or before both experiences of both resorts??
According to web the holding company for the resort is majority owned by Keh group or Kuwaiti European holdings so from Middle East and China most likely. If you read the gumf on there website there’s been 3 new people added to the project who have experience delivering investment and acquisitions for the Asian market
Another video interesting very excited for the the planing permission. 5:09 wow
Very excited to find out more!
I hope they do disney level theming rather than just cramming in loads of rides and go for a quality over quantity approach by the looks of the concept art it looks promising
Yeah, looks like we're going for an actual theme park instead of the Merlin amusement parks.
I’ve always been in the mindset that this would be amazing if it were to happen, but I just can’t see it happening
I’m really hoping this will happen, would become my new local park
BBC! We need a ride based on Red Dwarf. I think a dark ride, with a short bit of the Rimmer experience. It's another song that will get in your head.
Looked like a Jack and the beanstalk themed part there in the last picture part, but yeah all looks amazing 🤩. Would be amazing to see, a British Music area too, you have so many bands , and Singers that are UK 🇬🇧 Legends. Thank-you for this video.
It certainly does!
Not just 8 years, this is "try 2" of this project that was first attempted in southern Spain, near Murcia - which had all kinds of plans and virtual tours etc. Same problem as you mentioned though, they never got the funding, so it went quiet and they eventually gave up. Fingers crossed though.
Can you imagine if we really get our own Europa Park. I don't expect it to be as good for sure, but if this does ever get built I really hope it includes some unique coasters and most importantly some awesome dark rides. I want a British Symbolica even more than an RMC coaster.
You should check themeparx.com for construction info, the London Resort thread has info on developments and also funding. The majority of people on their seem to think it’s still unlikely to happen (or that the hotels will be built but the park never will be).
So they would build the hotels but not the park, so people can stay next to an empty swamp... great idea!
Interesting stuff
Yes after we have you, Shawn and I have the vaccine at 04:13. Crystal Maze like area at 05:41 and talking of The Crystal Maze when the experience reopens in Manchester, I will give it a go and have you ever been to any of the experiences? Anyway. The London resort seems to be 10/10 and make sure you and Shawn keep warm and safe.
Hi shawn I'd love this to be built. I feel we really need something like this in this country. Something to be up there with Disney world and universal studio's and all the amazingly themed theme parks in Europe. Let's hope it happens. Thanks love Tracey xx
Suggestion for a channel series: planner coaster let’s play building your ideal London park!
I live about 15 ish minutes from where the park is being planned to be built which is going to be amazing cause before my local park would of been Thorpe which is about an hour away but I am sceptical about how they’re going to get funding and how they’re going to ask people in a certain radius from the park if they’re ok with the park going there cause I was wondering if they were going to do what Alton did by staying at tree level cause of noise. But overall I can’t wait to get on the coasters if this park does happen
Swanscombe is surrounded by industrialisation which is quite an eyesore if you get what I mean
It’ll be interesting to see how they make that work
Would be a great boost for the UK post Covid-19 but there must be a reason for the constant set backs. Hope it happens!
I had no idea that this was a thing!! It so exciting, I love things like this😂😍
I would love to see a great British bake off coaster
I live around 20 minutes away from where it's going to be built. I just hope that it'll actually be built 😂
i think a lot of the funding is comming from paramount
they have always had interest in themeparks (paramount parks)
and i can imagine they want to give it another try
the park has a lot of paramount themes so i think they will do a big part of the money
but ofcourse i can be completely wrong but to me it sounds logical :))
Looks like there's a jack and the beanstalk coaster, wrapped around the beanstalk 😅 it even tapers at the top for forced perspective
It certainly does!
I do have a feeling with the second gate, you could see a French flag on the roof of a circled building (like the British flag on the other one in the concepts), so maybe the initial idea for the second gate is themed to French cinema and TV. But this is amazing and I will be down there in 2024 for the opening day!
That would be the stupidest idea ever. I don’t know if your from America or something but there would be riots if there was a french park in our resort.
@@harpy5677 No I'm British but I don't mean a French park, I mean like a park that celebrates French cinema and welcomes international cinema to the park
I highly doubt that - the majority of the people who will be going to the resort will be from the UK, then a whole host of international tourists who add it onto their trip to London. French TV and film isn’t watched that much outside of France, so the only people they would be attracted with that IP are the people making up less than 5% of the visitors.
It is however very peculiar that there is a French flag there, I can’t think what on Earth they are trying to do with that second park (though they obviously haven’t decided what that second park will be yet, as the concept art is very placeholder).
I think this could be a very high possibility. With Ebbsfleet International train station right next door to this park with direct trains to Paris in just over 3 hours, it would work very well. If you think about the amount of Brits that catch the direct Eurostar train to Disneyland Paris every year, It could very easily work the other way round! Taking into the fact there is plenty of hotels on sight as well, many northern Europeans could easily make it a weekend away, with minimal travel time. If this is as big as it claims, It will be very much a direct competitor to Disneyland Paris, and attracting the European market as well as the British one, with it's ideal location, it could be the make or break factor of this park!
@@lompstem, there’s no chance they would dedicate an entire park to French IPs when the majority of visitors will still not be French.
they should build the world tallest Intamin strata accelerator, that would really put the UK on the map
Great run down!! Here’s hoping it gets built!!
Let’s hope so!
@@ThemeParkWorldwide Yes! I wonder if there are things we could do to help it come to be... in all seriousness?! I don't know but the internet is powerful... I shall ponder. P.S. thanks for the Thorpe Park April vlog, watched it before going today and it was really great to have a refresher of what to expect etc, I used to go all the time as I lived close by but haven't been in 10 years... sadly not much had changed (!) but here's hoping they give the whole thing a lick of paint not just the animal in the bushes you were complimentary of the paint job of! Merci :)x
I really do hope it goes ahead. It will give Thorpe Park some much needed competition. With the 2 other Merlin theme parks close by to Thorpe Park (Legoland and Chessington) Merlin have really not bothered much with Thorpe Park because they know people want to stay close to London so won't normally travel up north to Drayton, Blackpool etc.. Hopefully we'll get a rivalry similar to Six flags Magic Mountain vs Knotts Berry farm over in the Los Angeles area.
I think its a brilliant idea a theme park is being planned in the United kingdom im looking forward to the construction photos when they avengeuly come
Hi, just wondering if you could answer this question - do you think international tourists from mainland Europe and other countries with be the larger population coming to the the park or will it mostly just be used by the British public?
I imagine they’ll be hoping for international visitors!
@@ThemeParkWorldwide thanks for replying - I love your channel btw
I literally live right across the water to where this will be built, I am at Canvey Island so will be interesting if we can actually see it being built.
That would be amazing to watch!
I’m still dubious about these plans but I’m hopeful it happens. I would take a lot of these concept arts with a pinch of salt. The scale is very off.
Lol great view of Gravesend from all the rides
I would love if the woody was the first ground up rmc and I’m also hoping for great new themes, competition and coaster types (fingers crossed the b&m surf coaster.)
That would be epic!
Well it's a good start hopefully it happens we will have to see.
Love the union jack dome 🙏🏻
See, I will be honest and say that I was 100% against that before as I preferred the London Paramount Park Gates to be outside, but thinking about it. Its different and also, it looks different to what I imagined it to look and thought that they would use the main gate idea more for the Studio zone entrance??
Happy New Year :) This 'is' the sort of project you start to believe once the diggers actually arrive on-site and starting digging, however here's hoping! Whilst I can understand why those behind such a project would choose southern England close to major infrastructure links etc, it is nevertheless a shame this isn't being planned for the midlands. I agree with others, the UK could benefit from a truly major park, to date we've never had anything on this scale. We lost out on the Disney project so as I say here's hoping this goes ahead! I'll be in my early 50's when/if it opens, so still young enough to ride ;)
It’ll be very interesting to see what happens next!
I’m so hyped if this happens I live 5 minutes away from where this will be built
It’ll be interesting to see what happens next
This is round the corner from me - I was 13 when I first head about it in like 2008 - nothing official until 2012 - was supposed to be completed in 2020. I’ll be 29 by the time it’s due to be completed - it’s bound to get pushed back again
Another great video as always Shawn mate and what I can tell from the concept art and from what you’ve told us. It definitely looks likely that it will go ahead. 👍🏻
Really hope this eventually gets built and opens. It's been years since a new UK theme park has opened
Let’s hope so!
Happy New Year
Hope it happens 🤞
I can see why it was likened to Disney
The thing is Shawn, if this thing goes ahead, what is going to happen with our original theme parks like alton towers etc?
They’ll have to step up their game!
fingers crossed thats an RMC but if its a ride like Troy, thats just as great :)
Hover cars by 2038 and new rides I hope it goes ahead a boost 4 the UK and theme park a lot of hotel space thanks Shawn 4 sharing
If this does go ahead, hopefully Thorpe park pull up their socks a bit and actually do something
If the BBC and ITV are involved it would be great if they had some attractions based around some of the UK’s biggest TV shows!
Definitely
I believe! I BELIEVE!!! We could finally have a world class park in England! No-one need ever go to D*sney ever again! Getting over excited now, need to go and have a lie down.
It would be epic!
So many UK people travel to France to go to Disneyland Paris, so if this is well done it could definitely pull visitors away from there. It seems like that is the level that the people behind this park want.
One UK Theme Park that will have to drastically pick itself up and invest a lot is Dreamland Margate. Fact. Because I don't think it can compete especially with this type park. Only being honest.
hopefully there will be some world beating coaster
If this resort does happen. What rides could be there? I personally think they need a modern hyper-coaster as the Uk lacks one. Unlike Alton Towers I doubt it will have a height restriction as its in a very open space without many houses/towns nearby.
I’d love to see an air-time beast!
Hey Shaun, I've worked and sold construction materials many years seen plans for big projects. My thoughts are Merlin will probably have a stake in this . As a northerner though , I'm tired of London getting yet more investment. It goes against everything that has recently been talked about levelling the country up. I also suspect there will be Government funding too, to replace the European grants etc. Good for jobs and economy and I suppose vaccine dependant. Rgds Maz
It’ll certainly be interesting to see
Are there any detailed drawings on the planning app or is it just a paliminary planning application?
There’s no detail drawings to see yet unfortunately
Would love to see a intamin blitz in there and a b&m giga
came here after the new video❤️😁
Can’t wait for it!!!! 🥳🥳🥳 The U.K. needs more theme parks. I think Disney should build one too but not a castle park...something new 🤔 Like Disney Sea.
It’ll certainly be interesting to see what happens next
@@ThemeParkWorldwide it coming soon 2024
Would be great to have a world class theme park in England keep up the good work 🙌🏼
Dont you mean another world class 1 we have Thorpe park best in UK
@@rob235ioa1 great park attraction wise but I don’t think the theming is up there with Disney or some of the other European parks so I’d love to see England have a real powerhouse for overall experience not just rides
This needs to happen to make the main companies up there game!
It would be awesome!