Kent, England | The London Resort | Entertainment Complex

Honestly am impressed at how people can find ways to just piss money down the drain.

 

Amazing, £45 Million and not even a single brick has been laid.

Wow. Like, what do they even do all day?



I’d be grinning too.

 

Is that even a grin?

 

You can tell that they are trying to get this off the ground, and if they try hard enough, then this will happen. I'm optimistic that the investors won't give up until they get rejected planning, if they get rejected. Even if this project is delayed until 2054, I think it will eventually happen. Note the word eventually, though.

 

It's not gonna happen, It would be much more simple to invest in existing infastructure and turn that into a theme park.

 

What existing infastructure? It's currently a marsh.

 

There is a pylon there I believe?

(and yeah, there are tons of places near London with existing infrastructure that could just be magically turned into a theme park, why has no-one ever thought of that before?)

 

I mean as in other places such as other touris attractions could have had some investment instead of this thing.

 

The only thing nearby is Bluewater shopping centre which is limited in space by the fact it's inside a chalk pit.

I would think, anyway, that any new project would want it's own new pitch. It's often cheaper and easier (I'm guessing) to build from scratch and you don't have to pay anyone else along the way.

This isn't happening though. Companies pitch ideas all the time that never happen. This stinks of can't be arsed. If they'd meant business, something would have happened by now. Someone's made a pitch, drummed up some investment, drew up some cheapo plans, purchased a Merc off the back of it and gone nahhh, won't work. It was obvious years ago that it wasn't happening. Welcome to the world of business.

 

This makes me sad because I think you may be right.
From when this project was first announced to present day, the theme/ amusement park industry hasn't exactly been booming so that probably hasn't helped with this project.
If this was pitched five years before the Olympics came to London then maybe the investment could have been more quantifiable...

 

It's kind of embarrassing that this thread even still exists. Ha

 

It's not even timing though. Right off the bat you could see they couldn't be arsed. They didn't even know if they wanted to build a theme park or hotel complex, spa, shopping centre or water park. That means they were disorganised and had done zero market research. My bet is they were just hoping for some government investment because of the area it's in and thought 'we'll worry about the details of what it is we actually want to build later'. Cretins.

 

Is it cancelled yet?

@ATI, You need to look at the date of that article...

 

Yep, someone probably saw "10 March" and thought it was this year. Either way, it's The Sun so it'd be wrong anyway.

 

It says 10th March?

 

Keep going.....

 

I swear there are now more theme park facebook pages than theme parks. All simultaneously regurgitating the same articles that they haven't bothered to read first.