Hello, welcome back to Breaking It, the Universal Studios UK
podcast. I'm Lawrence from Universally
Bedford and as usual we have. Me I am Mike Universal Studios
Great Britain updates and in front of me is.
Andy from Project Universal, the number one go.
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stay clean and stay on track. Yeah.
So, yeah, you know, there will be absolutely no tangents, of
course, today, but we are going to be covering a few little bits
and pieces because, of course, the SDO became law just two days
ago, 12th of January, momentous occasion.
And of course, since we last recorded, there have been some
announcements, people have been sprucing up their LinkedIn
profiles with some announcements about some new positions that
they may hold. So we'll be talking a little bit
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All right, so where should we kick it off, fellas?
I think we go back a little bit to the future, the beginning.
Oh yeah, Back to the future, the beginning of the year, which is
when the LinkedIn sort of started to come alive with
people saying I've been accepted my, my for jobs, high end jobs
as well, high end jobs, universal creative.
And from what I've seen a lot of them are quite local lads or.
Yeah, it is as well. Yeah, yeah, one person in
particular is Bradley Bradley, Bradley Wynn, Bradley Wynn and.
Merlin, don't hold that against him.
Yeah. Ex Merlin, Yeah, yeah, I believe
he's from politics. Politics.
I mean, it's not very far at all from the site.
It's actually 10/12/20 minutes maybe.
It's kind of mad that a creative lead from Merlin, who, you know,
you know, it's his portfolio, I suppose.
Portfolio pieces, is that what you call it?
Yeah, yeah. The the, the projects that he's
worked on. You know the Wick man.
Yes. Nice, really good, solid
coaster, great theme in great theme.
And that's what we need, isn't it?
We need someone who knows how to theme a ride or two.
Absolutely. And.
You can't go wrong with fire, can you?
You can't fire and wood we discussed it has caught.
Fire in the past hasn't it it? It did, although apparently the
the the Legends has it that was a vape that went onto the track,
so it wasn't a malfunction of the theme.
I know, I know, I, I heard that it was, you know, someone threw
a vape and then, but it was kind of closed for a very, very long
time. It was, which is, you know, just
stick a new bit of wood on it. Yeah, we're just.
Down to the B&Q, yeah, bit 2 by 4.
Exactly. Pop down home base.
Yeah, it's back. And now Hammer.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's, it's sorted, job
done. And then we've but but also
Derren Brown's Ghost Train, which is a little bit more of a.
Divisive attraction Again, though, the theming on Derren
Brown. Have you?
Have you done? Yes.
Have you done Derren Brown? I have no idea what you're
talking. About Derren Brown's Ghost
Train, how would you describe? It's not quite a dark ride.
It's not quite Where is it first Thorpe Park.
OK, yeah, it's not quite dark
ride, not quite a show. It's kind of an amalgamation of
the two, but it used when it opened.
I don't know if it still does VR when.
VR would have avoided it altogether.
I don't want to put anything on my face.
Well the you interestingly you say that they did come and touch
you whilst you had it on that face they ran down.
You were you were sat in a a tube carriage and then with with
AVR set on your face whilst demons were attacking you and
then the staff members ran up and down touching your legs.
Have you done it since they removed Derren Brown's?
Overlay. I didn't even do it when it was
Rise of the Demon. I-11 was more than enough for
me. Right.
Yeah. So I so I did it last year and
it's a weird ride. Haven't they removed the fact
that the train's floating now? Yep.
So what? It's just a train on a.
Yeah, yeah. And it, it, it from memory, it
used to kind of change era as well.
It used to be it just go from a tube train to an older train.
Yeah, maybe the other way around something.
Like that? Yeah, something like that.
But now it's just a tube train. Right, like.
Yeah. I mean, it was a really, I think
it cost. It was money.
Yeah. It this was built by Merlin, who
famously don't or didn't build dark rides.
So they thought, you know what? We're gonna we're gonna have a
stab at building a dark ride. Yeah.
And they didn't pull it off. No.
I think it burned them quite badly.
Yeah. I've gotta be honest, I've I've
till this evening, I don't think I've ever heard of it.
Yeah. It's the big building right in
the middle of the park. It it replaced theatre, an
Amphitheatre I think, where they, you're right, back in the
day there was a Spider Man stunt show there.
Was there? Spider Man, it was, it was,
Yeah, it was, yeah. Was it back when Disney didn't
obviously have the rights and when Universal were a little bit
more lenient of yeah, who could use the, the IP?
But yeah, there was there was a Spider man.
I remember Spider Man swinging or or it was on like a what are
those things called where you you on a rope like a bungee?
No. Trapeze.
Yeah, Yeah. Well, he he.
Like swung over the the audience and then he had to pause for a
while while he clipped his safety harness.
Oh, OK, I called. The Spiderman stunts have to go.
You see, I, I remember there being one of those, you know,
where someone climbs to the top of a tower and then jumps into
it like an impossible, like a paddling pool?
There was one of them and then I, I, I went there again and
they had like the motorbikes going round in the, in the ball.
I remember seeing something like that before, yeah, I don't think
at 4 Park. But yeah, they, they, they got
rid of that and they replaced it with Derren Brown's Ghost Train.
Yeah, we we have gone off on this tangent and it's not to say
that all of his no, no catalog evicts rides is based off of our
opinions, no. No, no, but.
Derren Brown, but like the. What you can say for it is it
was super ambitious. Oh, massively so.
And the theming was absolutely spot on.
It is, it's fantastic. It just relied too much on VR,
which was. Bad, bad.
Sticking like Galactica. Did you do that?
No, I've refused. Wise.
I did it once. That was more than enough.
And it but with Epic Universe, they were going to have a Harry
Potter VR ride allegedly in Epic and yeah, was cancelled.
And thankfully so because they didn't jump on that fad, they
they probably realized it was dying before they got too deep
into it. Well, I'm glad, very.
Well, I I hope nothing like that at all comes to our universal I
don't want to put things on my face that have just been on
someone else 20 someone else's face.
There may be the odd 3D glasses, or there's a epic.
There's Mario Kart, which has augmented.
Reality. Yeah, Yeah.
Yeah, you've got maybe something like that.
Yeah, but. I'm I would have, I'd just go on
something else. You can see the real world
through them at the very least. Yeah they do.
I'm pretty sure they like anti back everything in between wear
ridges. Yeah, OK.
I don't know. You're not convinced you're not
feeling me with stops you're not feeling.
Yeah, well, I was a child. Now I've got a super immune
system. Help me, all children at heart.
Well, that's a that's a beautiful thought, Mike, right.
But I, I do, you know what? I, I think it, it is, it's a
super interesting appointment, but it's, it's I, I'm so glad
that it's a Auka British person that has taken that role.
That's. Even quite a big person as well.
Yeah, I mean, unbelievable, right.
Isn't it like 80% of people they want to hire from around the
immediate area. So that's right.
Yeah, Yeah, that's not in at the top.
Well, and I think a lot of us probably assumed that that 80%
would be mostly, you know, the kind of frontline.
Yeah, Yeah. The, the, the maybe the kind of
the less specialist roles. Yes, yeah, absolutely.
But yeah, I mean, this is, yeah, super exciting.
But I, I don't know if it, I don't know.
Does it give you any thoughts about the direction they might
take things? Do you think it might mean we
get more more of a kind of a, a British feel or, or or or is it
kind of not that big of a thing? It's going to, it's got to
influence it. It's got to like, obviously
you're bringing in American I PS sure.
Back to the future in Jurassic Park.
So it can't be that we're going to make a British version of
this IP, but it is going to suit our palates more than it might
if you just went to Orlando or Hollywood.
Sure. I that's a really, yeah, I think
that's a good point because I think ultimately the way we,
although we speak the same language as people in America,
we do have slightly different tastes.
I think we are a more cynical bunch over here.
Yes. I think we, we, we are pretty
fast to call out bullshit and and if something's got too much
of a happy ending, it's a it's a no from us.
Oh, we do. Like I think was it one of the
last episodes where we were talking about the dark themes we
seem to cling to at our theme parks?
We love a bit of dystopia. We love a bit of.
Dystopia. And I mean, that's why I am
convinced our Halloween Horror Nights are going to be the best
in the world. Yeah, I, I can't imagine we're
going to get away from the whole conga line situation that they
do. But that's a capacity thing.
But yeah, I mean, that's just kind of operations, isn't it?
I mean, you're not getting the thousands through the door by
batching them like you do at Merlin.
No, but I think we might get some pretty interesting theming,
yeah. Yeah, but that and it's also
like just language as well. Like if you think the Americans
have a very different meaning for the word Fanny than we do.
So if you want to kick someone in the Fanny, that's.
Yeah, very painful. Yes.
Yeah. Don't, don't be doing that.
I mean, to be fair, don't do that either side of the
Atlantic. It's just a good manner.
Yeah, yeah. Should we step away from
fannies? Yeah, yeah, for now, for now.
So there there's been kind of some talk around that we might
get a little bit more information soon.
Have you been here and heard the rumbles?
You've heard the rumbles and potentially even an updated.
Concept that. Would be great, wouldn't it?
An updated concept art? Yeah.
When was this? The last one that we were
talking about in the last episode was April, right?
Yeah, it was revealed at the same time as Yeah It.
It was one of the kind of shaky hands moments.
Yeah, it was Keir Starmer was like.
Here we are. Look.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at this pretty, but it yes.
But it wasn't the the Kimberley College 1.
So he was in Downing St. and he was kind of looking over it like
Churchill over kind of one of those war war tables.
Yeah. You know.
Yeah, yeah. Right.
Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I think you know
what's that? So that's, that's, I mean nine
months it I mean, maybe we're being a bit optimistic.
Yeah, I want. It.
Did that happen with Epic though?
Did did Epic happen? No.
So it was a long time, a double. Epic was a double concept.
Art Epic released their like final concept art, I think like
6 to 12 months before it opened. It was ridiculous.
But Beijing, Beijing did a, they released a second bit of concept
art, you know, four years before it opened.
So I think when I don't know, my feeling is we're going to see
more of a Beijing trajectory on this just because it is, it's
kind of got that it's, it's probably going to be handled by
a lot of the same people, whoever manages their kind of
overseas investments and developments and stuff like
that. But yeah, so I think, yeah, I
don't know. I mean, concept art would be
good. I'm trust just trying to think.
I mean, you know, the sun's been rumbling on still about Harry
Potter. I've.
Been still talking? About that, they're still
jabbering. We shouldn't give them the time
of day. I, you know, I'm mentioning it
out of obligation, so just, you know.
You are flashing the V signs while you say it as.
Well, I am. I am because you know, I'm not
going to say anything. But if you want to sponsor the
pod this time. Exactly, exactly.
You know, you know, we'll accept anyone, even Murdoch, but no,
the IT, it would be just super interesting to see if we get
anything at all, because obviously once it becomes law,
then it's it's go, go, go, right.
Yeah. We don't know how much stuff
we're going to see that we can't physically see like they are
they going to release bits of information?
Probably not. No.
It's all stuff that we're going to be able to obtain through
other means. Oh yeah, I think we're going to
have to reverse engineer the entire crisis, really.
I think you're right. I think, yeah, I think we're
going to have to be, you know, have our detective hats on.
We can have Sherlock Holmes of shit out of this and, and and,
you know, be looking at that, you know, all of those kind of
bits of mud that they're moving around and go, OK, yeah.
Wait till they chop the mud on the road and we can sell it as
well as I know. Yeah.
That's what I do. We shouldn't be saying this
because other people are going to steal our idea.
Yeah. That's it.
If I see someone online selling universal mud, yeah you'd be
saving a letter I could sell. Official near universal mud.
Yeah, that's true. Because just pop out and.
Garden Turn your garden into a literal.
Pit Yeah, yeah, Can you mention that with like, Minecraft?
Fucking great hole in the garden.
So yeah, yeah. Where's where's the project
Universal H key? It's the it's the one right 200
metre deep pit you. See you waving from the bottom
chucking slabs of mud up. Yeah, supposed to sell on eBay.
If you jump into it, you actually end up at Universal
Studios Osaka. It's that deep.
Right let's yeah right stop talking shit lol I'm good at
this. What we let's for because I'm
going to be honest with you, I felt a little bit left out for
the past. 16 Well, I know, I know.
Because you 2 at all? Because I'm not a theme park
nerd. Well, come on then.
And you 2 are theme park nerds, I know.
So talk to us. I felt a little bit left out.
So if we can just hop over to sort of constructiony and what's
been happening on the site this week, I keep that.
Is there a family flying around or is it just my imagination?
I've not seen you. Remember, sorry guys, I'm just
going to remember that fly that was here there.
Was one last yes. Yeah, last time of the time
before that I found it a few days ago, froze solid to the
stainless steel really door that that color there he thought
that. And he's now back.
No, I flicked it outside. Did you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, we're having none of.
That shot flicked it in the pit in the garden.
OK, back onto pressing issues. No.
Tell us what's happening. Concrete slabs.
So I took the drone up today. Well, it wouldn't have been near
you. Had a butcher's.
I had a butcher. 'S from the sky.
And the concrete crusher that was here last.
So have you got any fizzy cola bottles in that?
Yeah. Do you want one?
Yes, please. Sorry, we're just, we're just
loading up. A bag of Harry Bow Tang festicks
here. Which are the most super premium
snack? Are they Tang Festick?
Yeah, do you want one? Though I'm good.
I'm not a big Jelly guy. I probably shouldn't have been
that Jelly. I like a we're about to go off
on. Go on.
I think it's. Now that your teeth are fused
together, tell us you. Kind of got a little bit of like
a Marlon Brando thing going on that is really, it's like, it's
like listening to the. Godfastics are really sweet,
aren't they? Yeah, right.
Concrete slab. Oh God, they're so sour.
The concrete crushes backle the Wazenet. 1000, as I call it on
the Wazenet. 1. 1000, the UK the second best and platform.
Yeah, a lot of people like that name.
Actually they wise the name to 1 because it wazes stuff up.
Yeah, I don't know if that's a thing.
What they were saying. Concrete, and they're making
concrete dust. Concrete dust.
And that's for the landslip, right?
We think it was originally for for Service Rd., but I mean if
they're going to continue, then it's going to be used for lots
of other stuff as well. So there's a lot of concrete.
They had the concrete slab, right?
Yeah, which in my mind and I'm, you know, ill informed about
these things. In my mind I thought, OK, that's
like a perfect like canvas for them to stage stuff ready made.
It's it's perfect, right. But it seems like they are going
chipping away. Yeah, let's just get rid of
that. Well, if you if you look at it
or if you go and look at my videos project University, you
can YouTube. Shameless.
There it goes. It is quite useful to to if you
want to see what we're talking about, that's where you're going
to go. I've never got a lot of trailer
for. I was just giving Mike the
finger there because what if I don't?
He doesn't like it when I say my channel's name because he gives
me the that look. How do I Daddy doesn't look
proof? You if anyway find a photo,
anybody's photo of the concrete slab and you'll see as long as
it's in the last two months or so, you'll see that there is a
Aris fencing going through across the land.
So I think they're going to do a lot of the concrete smashing
from there. So it was in from there and
probably not near the houses or the bats in the guard house.
Right. So we we've discovered this,
discovered we've discussed this before in previous videos, so we
don't really need to touch on it too.
Much the the the waxed up stuff, though the theory is that will
then become some of the hardcore foundation.
Yeah, yeah, for other stuff. Do they need that at this stage
when they're just going to be moving dirt around and creating
berms and digging holes? Yeah, but I think they've
probably got some kind of environmental responsibility or
something to repurpose the the concrete makes sense.
Free. Yeah, exactly.
But but then you have to say, you have to ask the question is,
is it cheaper to have a lorry load of this stuff brought in?
Yeah, Yeah. Or is it cheaper to hire a
concrete crusher? Hire all the diggers, hire all
the guys that are doing it all? I mean, it probably.
It's probably more expensive the way they're doing it to get this
crushed aggregate than to have it shipped in.
But. I guess like if it's got to go
anyway. Exactly.
Yeah, Yeah. But that's what I'm saying.
It's probably an environmental thing rather than a because
ultimately if they didn't use it, they'll have to get rid of
it at some point. They're not going to want that
there all the time. They are going to want to clear
that area because they're going to build a another 2000 odd
hotel rooms on that site. Aren't they in Phase 2?
So, yeah, and. They'll probably want the
flexibility to be able to extend or move around some of those
water bodies and and stuff in the lake.
I keep yeah, I hear people saying are they going to fill
them in, but I haven't seen anything.
I've never mentioned it. Are they are?
They as deep as the likes of Stupy Lake, do you know?
No, I don't think so because Stupy Lake, the technology of
Stupy Lake was is much later and they could dig a a Cliff face if
you like of clay. Whereas the the pits at Kempson
Hardwick are from the night 30s and they are very have a very
shallow slope because they just scraped the edges and they had
to get it back up again. So they didn't have the
infrastructure to to dig. Well, presumably when they build
the lagoon for the park, they could.
Yeah, put that earth to fill the But I thought to myself, you
know the the lakes at Kempton Hardwick, so they're from the
1930s, they're going to be nearly 100 years old.
And surely that that means there's an established wildlife
population there. So you can't just go dumping a
load of dirt into the I, I. I I just don't don't see it.
I don't see them. I.
Don't see them doing it. Now dumping earth into those
lakes, I just think what's the point, especially when that area
is designated as lake zone. Do you know what I mean?
It's like, yeah, it seems like. I mean, otherwise you just call
it like zone B if you're going to fill it in.
But if if you're going to designating it now as lake zone,
but your intention is within six months to fill in all the lakes,
it's a bit of. A yeah, I don't think that's a
bit. Sleepy own the lake land anyway.
Not the big one, No, no. Pretty close.
But they don't own it. I think what's more likely is
when they dig this, the feature lake, I think they'll use the
soil from that to build the boundary hill.
They can have a hill all the way around it, embankment all the
way around the side, sort of, you know, they'll have that and
then a sense up on top of that. Because if you read the there's
a there's a, a PDF about their security and stuff like that.
Yeah. And if you read that, it talks
about how they got a 2 1/2 meter high fence running the whole way
around the park, cameras, sensors, and it'll all be up on
a hill. So you to block out a lot of the
you know you want to see. It's needed like the Stuart B
end of the site, like people's back gardens, people's bedroom
windows, look over what will be the car park.
And, you know, people didn't sign up for that.
So yeah, trying to be good neighbors, they're going to want
to make sure people aren't looking at, you know, 2000 cars
every day and. And that's the thing with the
SDO, you know, a technicality with this SDO is it it's become
law now that we are getting a Universal studio theme park.
It's actually in law that like we have to have that and not
only that, but we have to have it to the specification that
Universal decreed. So if they've said they're going
to be doing this countermeasure to sound and light pollution,
then they absolutely will. There's no kind of, this isn't
like a an ordinary development where they would just go, fuck
it, everyone, you know, no one cares.
They are now legally bound to follow through on that.
So yeah, I, I think, I think it makes sense.
I think that lake is going to just all that saw is going to
find its way around it. Yeah, it makes sense, right?
How deep are they actually going to dig down to actually the
point where they can construct? Because obviously there's a lot
of clay around here, so how much are they going to remove?
Just for. The whole thing for the whole
core zone. They're just going, they're
going to scrape it or. Why would they get?
They don't need to, it's already flat.
I don't know it's going to be. I think they're 18 months of
groundwork. It's very clay, so they'll put
piles down for roller coasters, piles down to the bedrock and
for smaller buildings, just like a house really just floats kind
of floating on the clay floats. Just a huge I would have
thought, but they can easily wax them.
They're not sheet piles, are they?
What are they called? Piles, I guess they're called.
Not the type that hang out your ass, but the.
The. Germanoids.
Smash some piles in the ground and build the buildings on top
of them. Anything super heavy.
Anyway that's what they'll have to do otherwise it will sink
over time. Smaller buildings, size of
houses They they're quite happy just.
But I'm sure underneath me is just clay, so it's.
All around here, isn't it that Hence why there's so many
brickworks around. Yeah, I.
Mean, I think it's so in the next few months we are going to
see stuff going on in the court zone.
Yeah, probably, you know, we might start to be able to see
the outline of some of the things that we can kind of piece
together as being part of the concept.
Art I I no. You don't think so?
I'll tell you one thing, actually, it's funny you should,
you should mention the concept art.
I believe that the concept art has, it doesn't even point in
the right direction. If you look at it, there's a
there's A at the top of the concept art, there's a straight
line that looks like the railway line.
Right? All right.
Do you know what? What?
I know about because this has been breaking my brain and I've,
I've had this conversation before where I'm like, I'm not
sure we're looking at this right.
It doesn't because if you if that concept art, right, Let's
just say that it is 100% accurate, right?
Yeah. Then the gates are at Manor Rd.
Yeah, right. They're completely the wrong
side that honestly, if that is a railway line and it's too
straight to be a road, there's no road to that straight.
No, and if you if that that's that is exactly how I've been
looking at it. So I'm looking I'm and I'm
thinking what? I've always just tried to ignore
it. I know, but.
Every time I look, are you looking at it now, Mike?
I am looking at it now. Can you can you see the line
we're talking about? But if you listen.
Yes. What is Shrek slash?
Yeah, show your slash, Yeah. What is that like a railway
line, doesn't it? Yeah, a twin railway line.
Now if that is the Bedford to Bletchley line, sorry the East
West Rail anyone else is not local, then that means that that
whole concept art is upside down and actually the entrance is on
Manor Rd. But in that case it puts the car
park where Manor Rd. is. Yeah, it puts City Walk on Manor
Rd. as well. And then the park towards
Stewartby, which is goes against what?
The yeah, the master plan, yeah. But then, but if you think kind
of of the longer you know, the longer plan for the site, it
makes sense for the city walk, that circular round development
to be bang in the middle. Yeah, it would make mean the
entrance to the concrete slab Manor Rd. houses to be the the
centre of the hub of the entire park.
Because when all the. Hotels, Lake Zone and everything
else down the other way. Yeah, and it's bang in the
middle between both of the transport hubs.
Yeah, walking distance. You build it the way that that
we think it's going to be built, ignoring the concept art.
Then you wake up in the morning in the Phase 2 Lake Zone hotels.
You've got a long trek to go all the way down.
Alton Towers car park style. You're basically parked at the
back of the park and then you've got to walk all the way around
it to get to the front and then you go in.
Can't see that, Can't see that myself.
I'm going to. Go and.
Respectfully disagree. What so?
So am I? No.
No, I'm not saying that's going to happen at all, but I'm just
saying that you look at that concept.
Oh yeah, there's no. Doubt and look at where that
railway line is. It just does not fit at all.
It does not fit. We've the.
Assumed that was What's the road that road where the?
Broadway No, it's not like it wouldn't be Rd.
Is it? No, it wouldn't be because
there's other fields in between there and there's A and the and
two Rd. stuff. I don't know.
I can't remember what the name of that road is, the one that
goes past the one that goes down to the interchange.
Yeah, the sample Rd. Yeah, but I mean, yeah.
But if you go from the call zone to AMP to Rd. you've got Lake,
Coronation pit, then you've got which they don't own, then
you've got the middle and main line.
It's very true. So and that stuff's not on the
concept art. Or we could just ignore it all
and say, you know, it is concept art at the end of the town.
It doesn't mean Italy squat. Yeah, Yeah, it could.
Like because there was back when the news originally dropped,
there was what people claimed to be a piece of concept art
floating around which showed like the M1 and some Rd. layouts
where Milton Keynes is. It was never.
I mean, I've not. Seen.
No, no, sorry, Mike start again. What?
What the? When the news originally you're
both looking. At me like I'm just.
Spat in your faces. Yeah, what is this guy talking?
What's my name again? Who are you?
Talking man. So yeah, when the news
originally broke and we were all excited, Oh my God, they
universal own land in Kempston, Hardwick.
What the actual F is going on? Right?
Yeah, suddenly news was coming out left, right and centre.
And part of that there was what claimed to be some leaked
concept art. Nice.
And it not massively dissimilar to this.
It it showed like a globe in the centre of the park.
It was around a lake with the globe was in the middle of it.
There was lands around that, islands of adventure esque like
what we've seen in the official concept art.
Yeah. And around that piece of that
park, in the middle was the road layout where the M1 and Junction
13 kind of go towards Milton Keynes.
I believe so. So it was in a although,
although this was the Kempston Hardwick year concept art, they
had dropped it onto junction 13. It was around there.
This is going to mean nothing to people if you're not a local
person, but basically junction 13 on the M1 is the junction you
would come off to come here. But it is about nice.
It's about, but it is about 6-7 miles up a dual carriageway.
Yeah. So why that, why that would be?
I mean, there's obviously the, the obvious is it was just a
load of rubbish and it was fake. It was AI generated.
Yeah, I think that was pulling your plunk.
Yeah, it's not just me that. I mean, that would be nice.
No, it's not just me who, who came up with this.
I I will have to find it. Go on, talk about something that
I don't understand. It's good to you substantiate
your claims. It's.
Difficult on a podcast, but at least you 2 will understand that
I. Do you know what we we could, we
can, you know, I'm sure we can provide supporting documentation
on the Breaking It Pod Facebook page, which you could very
keenly follow. If Mike can find what?
If he can find it, if he can. Google, if he has to do those UK
bullshit and see what we see, what we can come up with and
then we'll post it on the breaking.
It by project universal what the?
Fuck no, you have to. No, no, no.
You don't get that. Hey, listen, I'll tell you
something, right? That.
Go on, what's the Google AI called?
Gemini. Gemini, I love to.
Hear it? You know when you do a Google
search? Oh yeah, yeah, the AI over.
No, I'm thinking of ChatGPT it. Quotes me, do you?
It's it quotes me. Yeah, Sorry.
OK. That's why it's full of
bullshit. We've been training it on our
bullshit. For for years I did have.
We spoke about this before. I don't think we have, but there
was. OK, so there is a game that
we've spoke about before called World of Warcraft, right?
Yeah. And I am an ex big fan of World
of War. I've played it for a few years,
but I used to love it anyway. Dwarf.
Dwarf priest. Yeah.
Dwarf priest. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
From Lightnings Blade and I used to have.
I was talking to my wife the other day.
I used to do a radio station and she said that's why you can talk
shit on a podcast and on flying a drone because there was some
fella and he had we're going totally off of Universal now,
but it's it's all right because my experience.
Just sent it to you so we've got something to talk about after
Andy's bullshit. Go on, Andy did with your
bullshit. There was a guy who did the
radio station. I thought I could do a radio
station better than and this is back in the day when you you
used ice cast, I think it was called and you had to listen on
Winamp. Do you remember Winamp, Winamp,
Winamp, Winamp. Anyway, LB radio it was called
and I had my own radio station and I used to get pissed and I
had fifty slot server and I'd fill it up every week.
Nice. Anyway, what's a 50 slot server?
50 slot servers I like I could have 50 listeners.
This is before YouTube and everything came along.
It was, it was just you would hire an ICE car server with 50
slots on it. I think it was like £2.50 a a
month or something like that. All right, so you've sent to our
WhatsApp group. Yeah.
Have you got it? This can.
You. Can you see?
I Yeah. All right.
Hop over to Yeah, I see that now.
Hop over to everybody. Go to the brick in it, the brick
in it. Sorry, I'm looking at the finger
saying on the brick in it Facebook.
Page yeah yeah I so this is really interesting 'cause I mean
it doesn't I'm getting some severe AAI slot kind of vibes of
this there are some things on this that actually I think yeah
I'd quite quite fancy that like I don't know if anyone's
actually have has anyone read the Jurassic Park book I'll.
Call it bullshit on that. Right.
Jurassic Park. Yeah, it's.
If you thought the film's great, the book is it's.
Very different. Unbelievable.
John Hammond is a different character.
He's a different guy. He's, he's not like, bumbling
and lovely. He's not, he's not a kind old
man. No, he's a.
Bad he's a he's a right Dick. But anyway, in that book there
is a there's a couple of passages.
So one of them wasn't in the movie where the the characters
get onto a boat and they go on a river and they're going down the
river and they're being attacked from all sides by dinosaurs.
Sounds familiar because there's a ride exactly like that, the
Jurassic Park river adventure. But then there's this other bit
where they're in a kind of aviary, this Dome, and it looks
like that made it to this AI nonsense.
Yeah, well, possible AI nonsense, but that aviary is in
the Beijing Park. You're right.
Yeah. And it's got that weird powered
suspended coaster, the Mac. Yeah, which which you know, I
when I saw that I thought, wow, I like that looks.
Great, have you seen a POV? I then looked up APOV and I
thought, this is gone, there's no.
No Arthur at your open path. No, no.
As well as if you look there's like what looks to be a Hulk
clone behind that as well. That that is a whole clone.
Then a bit closer to the logo in the corner is like a Stardust
Racers clone. Yeah.
I mean the thing, yeah, yeah, I mean the thing that gave it away
is complete bullshit is the 200 foot high holographic globe that
is sort of levitating above me above the lake.
That's that's the one that that kind of makes it stink a little
bit. There are other bits though,
which are very similar to what we're potentially getting the in
the final product. Like there is the hotel over the
entrance, there's like the city walk area, it's not huge.
And there's what looks to be Lord of the Rings, which is a a
threat to something that we're getting so.
Do you know what this could have been?
You know, used this could this could be the real deal and it
could have been used, you know, in a kind of very early stage
conversation like look, this is the sort of scale of thing that
we want to. It was never meant to see light
of day kind of thing. Exactly.
Yeah, It was kind of like just an illustration.
Maybe it was a slide on a, you know, a pitch deck or some.
PowerPoint on a. PowerPoint Prezzo and but it's
kind of got like a bit of AI don't know why, but like the
aspect ratio or the OR the perspective on it is giving me
kind of the epic concept art vibes a little bit the way it's
kind of off on that kind of a bit of an isometric, but from
the other way. Anyway, that's me kind of going
a little bit down the rabbit hole on that.
But I think I mean it's very interesting.
I mean what's interesting is that this is right Who who did
this video? Is this?
Is this one of? Yours.
I don't know who's what, who, what.
Oh, no, it's it's do you know we're still in the?
Room, Yeah. Coaster studios did a video and
they used that as their dumb now.
Come on, let's move on. Because nobody else can see our
phones. I think we're doing a audio only
apologies. Yeah.
OK, so we apologies, we lost you.
Then come back. Come back.
Honestly, we're going to get back onto it.
What else have you got in this massive document?
Well, Lawrence put a construction village now.
We have. We've done that really, haven't
we? The compound will require some
power grid. They have been doing the UK
Power Networks. I've been busy.
I haven't been up to the top of Manor Rd. for a while.
I normally only got there when I'm on a McDonald's or
something, but they have been doing some traffic lights work
there. They.
Have Yeah. I drove through a few days ago
and there was temporary traffic lights which were terribly
timed, so by the time it went green, the traffic from the
other way was only just coming towards you.
So that was on Manor Rd. Whereabouts on Manor?
Road. Is it just close to the nice
house on the right hand side but just before the S bend?
Going towards before the wedding coming.
Yeah. Before the wedding.
OK, Yeah, yeah, I I know what you mean, Yeah.
There's a couple of houses on the other side which.
So what? So this is kind of if you were
looking at it on Google Maps, this would be if you look at
Kempston Hardwick station and you kind of headed towards
Wixoms, Yes, yeah, maybe 203 hundred.
Meters. Is it past all the unit?
All the waste transfer sites, yeah, just just past there.
Or it was when I went whether it's moved since then?
Now, I saw that stuff wondering Northerner was talking about
some work going on on the other side of the car park at the
wedding venue, because I don't know if you know or not, but you
can. There's a public footpath goes
across the wedding venue's car park and it goes behind their
skip behind the fence and you can walk down there and then
that eventually takes you to where the call zone would be.
And I was wondering if I pretend that it's got the potential.
It depends where the main power conduit is.
I don't know what they call it to get power on the site because
they could potentially use that route digging that public
footpath up and laying a Ruddy great cable under there that
gives them power in the corner. I thought maybe could it have
something to do, but if you with you saying that it's down the
way a little bit, it's probably very unlikely.
But that's still still creates the question.
What are they doing in those bushes?
Why are they digging that up? So I'll have to have a look at
that. I don't generally go up there
because where I go, that's a bit too far off the drone because it
goes out of my it'll go out of my line of sight and that's a
big no no. So might have to take a little
wonder up there and have a little.
Look, so there's there's some activity in the bushes, yeah,
man around, man around. Yeah, we need a sound effect for
innuendos. Or you're doing, I don't know.
What? What?
What sound effects have we got loaded?
Up push a random one didn't work, no.
No, see, it doesn't really work for any innuendos, does it?
No. That's one of your innuendos.
OK, so new signs have appeared on the concrete slab.
Oh yeah, on that Aris fencing. Harris fencing.
Sorry Aris, it's HEIS anyway for Windvic.
Who, who or what is? Windvic, a main contractor or I
couldn't find anything to do with theme parks, but they
certainly do deal with infrastructure and stuff like
that. Now.
There's a good chance that they're only there because
they're the guys running the show for the landslip, right?
And this whole compound that we've got there at the moment
on, on the concrete slab could just be for the Collins boys who
are the diggers, the digger contractors.
They could just all be their compound and, and when the
landslip's done, they could all be taken away.
So we don't know what. We think the the landslip thing,
what's what's going on there? You know the concrete plant on
amp to Rd. so it's way over the lake zone.
You've got the concrete plant and it used to be like that
little sort of churchy ministry type building.
Where? Where?
On Manor Rd. No Ampill Rd. going out towards
the interchange park and there used to be a car sales, dodgy
looking car sales place. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And but at the back of that concrete plant, Supreme Concrete
it's called at the back of that plant there, the land has
slipped into the lake over the over the last sort of 10 or more
years, the land has slowly been slipping in.
So Universal R this is yeah, they're they're making sure it
doesn't going to short out. They're probably going to have a
cheap pile. I would have thought a load of
sheet pile in there to and then backfill it so it can't go
anywhere. How big of a job is that?
Like how long is it going to last potentially?
I think that once they've got the proper access, and This is
why they've got the concrete crusher on there, that this is
what they're building the service Rd. for, but it didn't
quite go all the way yet. It it sort of stops stop short
because Christmas and that got in the way.
Yeah. So I think they'll crush it.
They'll put more of that down. And when they've got the service
and access sorted, I think it won't take them long because
they'll be able to get, if they're doing a sheep arm
machine, I think they'll be able to just drive to get the cranes
down there. Yeah.
And the the sheet wacker, I don't know.
What you call them? Why are we waking sheeps?
Sheet, sheet. So the sheet piles, not piles
like the ones that hang out of your ass.
Different parts with that earlier one, different parts.
These are whack sheets, yeah. OK, fair enough.
Yeah. So anyway, yeah, they're, they
looks like they're just going to continue with that.
Hopefully they'll get that job done.
And then we'll see when that job, when that job's finished,
we'll see if that compound disappears or if it remains
right until then. We don't really know if that is
just a compound set up for them guys.
And we don't know what Windvic are doing there.
They could just be running that show.
So we have to suck it and see, basically.
Yeah, but there could be something bigger than that.
They could be doing the. Roads could be doing the roads.
Because we've got like, that's where they got to start the
roads, yeah. Sure.
And there's a lot of trees around the area as well, isn't
there? So they're just going to start
like uprooting some trees at some point, surely one of the
first things before they can start working on the burns.
And we could try to build a road on top of a tree, but I can't
think of any successful examples.
It's true. Yeah.
They were left to cut trees down.
There's quite a lot of trees on the right hand side, isn't
there? Near quest pit.
Are they going, staying, going What?
Corzone or Corzone Crest pit? Crest pit.
That's Crest pit is doesn't
touch. You'll think you're saying
Coronation Pit. I just, I'm getting my pits
confused. Quest pit is, is the one on the
other side of the railway line at Stuartby.
Coronation Pit is the one on our side or on the theme park side
that's directly next to the call zone.
Yeah, there is a bunch of trees. Yeah, that's coronation.
So are you? Presumably they are going.
I would hope not. I would hope not.
If you go in those trees, interestingly enough, go on.
You can see where cuz coronation pit you have an old railway that
ran all the way around it. We spoke about this the first
time that we had a beer. Yeah, go on if.
You go in the trees, you can still see the embankment that
the that the railway ran on. Really.
It was a mini railway. Oh.
Did. Was that just for part of the
brickworks or just sort? Of used to go round, fill it up
with clay, take the clay round to the brickworks because the
brickworks themselves was right next door to it.
Was where BCA Car Auctions is now right next door to Chimney
Corner, or the wedding venue as it's called nowadays with the
Chimney Corner. So it wasn't just a little
railway line they could ride on and go, no.
Wasn't the 1st? Attraction, damn it was.
The railway line, yeah, like a week.
Steve Park Railway. Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Oh, I told, I tell you, I told
you once. So I was going to touch on my
go. On touch on it, finish the
sentence. I can't even make you the touch
touch on it when I worked at Gulliver's Land.
Oh yeah, go. On As a child.
I worked at Gut. Not as a child.
As a child, probably child late 1918.
I worked at Gulliver's Land and they had a chimney.
I had to go up the chimney and clean it out.
I was going to ask. Yeah, they'd pay me in coal.
Yeah. Yeah.
No, I was a ride operator and I operated Gulliver's Travels.
Gulliver's. The dark ride.
Yes, it is a. Dark ride, I've never been on it
because you have to have a child to get in.
Because everyone else. You can.
You can come with us one time. Yeah, I would like.
I'll need the. Creds, you need some.
Creds too. You got the coaster in the log
flume. We've got 1/2 decent for the the
fellow who he pretty much he's a I've met the boss before when I
worked Mr. Gulliver. Yeah.
Gully, is it? Isn't he a mouse?
No, I can't remember what his actual name is, but I used to
work at an auction house as I've mentioned before, and we were
doing a clearance for now. What were they did there?
It was a company that did events and shows and stuff like that.
So they were selling off all their, they went sadly went
Buster. They were selling off all their
sort of lighting rings and everything.
Right at the back, there was a load of old wood, right?
And it was old stage sets. Yeah.
So they weren't just literally old shitty bits of wood, but it
was huge painted, cut out bits that would create stage shows
with. And the fella that brought them
all that stuff was the guy that owned Gulliver's Land.
And I was talking to him one day because I was on collections
there. And that's when I just check
off, you know, make sure everyone's taking the right
stuff. And this old fella came in.
I said, yeah, what do you do? And I was talking to.
I said I recognised his name. I said I know your name for
somewhere and he said yeah, I'd work at Colour of the Sand.
I said I used to work at Colour of the Sand in Milton Keynes.
It was luckily I didn't say anything bad.
Bad to say. But and he went, yeah, I, I own
them all. And it turned out he was the top
guy anyway. He I'm pretty sure he was.
Buying buying basically like stuff for a stage show.
He was buying up all their old. Stuff all his, all the old
props. Yeah, in case he could use it,
he could use. It in the.
And I think it all went to Matlock.
I think it went. Yeah, one of their parts.
That's nuts. But yeah, he was a lovely bloke
and I, I worked at Milton Keynes, did Gulliver's Travels
and a lot of the stuff that they built, you know, they handmade
it all. I can believe it.
The the the Crazy River they just dug A trench and and made
out of put the blocks in and rendered the front of them.
Oh, I'm trying to think now that Gulliver's Travels they did,
they're supposed to have a water in it and then we realised it
weren't waterproof in the end. They never did fill it up but.
There's there's like a little wild Westy one that did.
Was that there? There was like a there's a Wild
West dark ride. The wild wet.
Yeah, maybe that's shoot you ride.
Yeah, it's a shoot you ride. Yes, I remember that now.
I don't know if he made it himself.
He probably bought. They probably bought it all in
kit form and did it themselves. Yeah.
Can you buy ride kits? Why have I never bought you
just? Go to an engineering place and
tell them what you want and they make it a.
Flat pack, dark ride, Yeah. But.
I mean, you think about it at the dark rides, it's just, you
know, they're very simple dark rides.
It's just a track on the floor. Yeah.
And they got to buy the cars, haven't they?
And then just make the track to have however it suits you.
You know, without kind of, you know, there's no disrespect
meant by this, but it's effectively like a funfair ghost
train situation. It's it's like a track that's
electrified and a kind of a little buggy that just kind of
bombs around at it faces One Direction, doesn't change speed
until it gets to the end and it bangs through some doors and
then it's like. Yeah, that's yeah, it's really,
really. But it's aimed at small, tiny
jewels. Do you know what I, you know,
we, we went there as a family and, and you know, the kids
loved it. They love it because, you know,
it's, I mean to us, we looked at it and go small, you know, blah.
Blah, blah, blah. It's not for us.
We're not the target. For us, it's.
Not for us. I did the swings as well.
You know the chains, you know the chain swings.
It spins. Around they.
Used to do that one and occasionally the pirate ship.
And there's a fun fact they they were never allowed to the other
side of the park. They had this sort of hat crazy
house and it would go up and spin around and do stuff.
They could never ever turn the pirate ship on.
If the crazy house was working. They both ran on the same ring,
and the power that the pirate ship uses to get going, it would
trip the park's electric that ring at least.
So you could from the from the control thing of the of the
pirate ship, you could see if the crazy house was up.
If it weren't up, you could start the pirate ship, but if it
was up, you'd have to wait. You have to wait until that
finished and then you could start swinging.
It might have changed. This was 25 years ago, so you
might trains might have changed. It's amazing.
Yeah. That's that's the quality of
that. Yeah, it's great.
They got a little roller coaster there.
But anyway, you know, it's a nice little park.
It's I think they're totally safe.
Oh they are. They are totally safe and
they've got a nice little Dino park as well.
I've been in there, they do the every Christmas they do the
lights walk through which I am allowed in without a child.
I heard a safe at Christmas. I've heard, I've heard good
things about that light. It was like, it was like they
did the light Topia stuff at Alton Towers, which but they
went under I think so. Joe it's an interesting one.
It's probably one for another episode, but I think it'd be
really interesting. Not, you know, I think we can
definitely do plenty of conversations about what's going
to happen to Thorpe Park, what's going to happen to Alton Towers,
Blackpool, Pleasure Beach, Chessington, Legoland, all of
those. That would be interesting.
I think almost as interesting is what's going to happen to the
likes of Gulliver's or Wicksteed or, you know, these.
Places, but Safari's only down the road as well.
Safari. You know, because it's not
bloody expensive. Woven Safari Park.
I won't even go there. Strong man.
Yeah, it's just too much. Too much.
On the side though, not Merlin, sorry.
Two Swords were looking at buying Woven Safari Park at one
point. Were they to build a theme park?
Yeah, well, I suppose they were going to turf all the animals
out. Well, or yeah, turn it into the
corner of Chessington. Yeah, protect the Chessington of
the Midwest. Well, and and and you know,
Legoland was Windsor. Safari.
Yeah, it's very true. Yeah, yeah.
Right track record we've got. We've got a lot of questions.
We do have a lot of questions. I'm glad you remember.
Shall we move on to them? Yeah, let's, let's cover some
questions. Who would you like to talk about
first? Who's got a question?
I, I tell you what, I got one from Ronnie.
Yeah, that's exactly the one I'm looking at as.
Well, well, it might not be the same one.
It might not be. Go and try it because.
Ronnie's had a couple of questions.
So I'm I'm going to, I'm going to choose this one out here.
I think Ronnie follows us all, doesn't it?
Yeah, Very dedicated to the course.
If you could swap any of the lands we think are there in the
concept art, what would you swap them with for any other
Universal movies? So different Universal IPS.
We've we've made assumptions and we made those assumptions last
week in the episode. I think it's very clear to
everyone that I would scrap Paddington land, but what would
I? Replace Paddington's on the
skip. He's being rehomed.
Dear me, he's been put up for adoption.
Only fools and horses world. Good Lord.
Peckham. Yeah.
Imagine. Yeah.
That'd be pure British, wouldn't it?
Can you imagine? All of the.
I would love it. Like visitors coming, going.
You could have a pub. Yeah.
Mag's Head. Yeah.
You have the jolly boys out in bus.
What would the ride coming? Out the radio what?
Would ride do only fools and horses ride be we are?
Some bumper cars. Bumper cars?
Well, that's true, yeah. They're all reliant.
Yeah, Reliant Robins. Yeah, you could have to.
You could do something. You could have the old mum's
grave painted in aluminous paint.
Yeah, I watch Only Fools and Horses a lot, even today.
I can tell. Even today I've watched probably
half an episode. Well, today actually, just.
Yeah, today. This this actual day.
I watch it most days. Yeah, I'll always have.
Sometimes when I'm working, I like to have something on in the
background. Yeah.
That I know so well. I don't have to look at it.
I can just listen to it. And Only Fools and Horses.
Yeah. Only Fools and Horses is a is so
rewatchable. Oh.
It's funny, I do the same thing at night.
I listen to the same audio books over and over and over again.
And it's just like white noise. It's it's comforting.
Yeah. So only fools and horses.
Yeah, I don't know what the ride would be.
Maybe what? About a chandelier drop ride.
You sit in the chandelier, you've got animatronics, the
Delmoy. And they've got 2.
That's and they're in the middle.
And you don't know which one's going to drop.
Like Subterra? Alton Towers.
I like that. I like that, yeah.
Go on, Mike. OK, there you go.
I'm done. Paddington out.
Only fools and horses in Mike. Yeah.
I know what I'd bring in, but what would I get?
Minions. Turf them out?
OK, sick of sight of them and I would bring in Nintendo.
Specifically Zelda. Yeah, the big the talk of the
town. But I mean, I know it doesn't
exist yet, but the IPS are in the park and we're allegedly
getting Pokémon, aren't we? An island of adventure at some
point in the future. That is the talk where Pokémon's
coming to the honest with adventure and Selda's coming to
epic. Gotta catch them all.
Catch them all. But yeah, whatever kind of
Nintendo it would be, just yeah, give me some of that.
Really. Yeah, it's much.
Harder. It's much harder.
Unions out, Nintendo in. Yeah, so because when you were a
kid, it was either you're either a Nintendo kid or a Sega kid.
Like you couldn't be friends with someone who was a.
Sega guy had a Mega. Job.
I was a Sega kid. He.
Wouldn't have been friends there, sorry.
No, I was. I was a Sega kid, like up until
I, I actually, that's a lie. I had a Game Boy, but I had a
Dreamcast, man. I, I'm like, you know?
Like you know. You were the 1.
But I was, I'll tell you something, I was a Dreamcast.
I so, so here's a story. I would have loved a Dreamcast.
I have a loved 1 today. I, I would love 1 today.
I sometimes go into like computer exchange and see if
they've got them there. So back in what if you go to the
computer museum in Cambridge? So I need to go down there and
do bit there. Yeah.
No. Did die out to you?
You did? Yeah.
You, you were sending, sending us pictures and then everything.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's just a, it's just like
a like a little unit on an industrial estate.
Yeah. Let's go.
It's like £12 or something to go in breaking it down.
You can just play on the, they get everything in there.
Need to get down there. It's great.
No, I, so I remember I, I, I had a Dreamcast and I, I actually
had, so it was a really a, a, a weird situation, but my dad
worked for the news and he got a early release POW version.
Do you remember? It was, you had to be really, it
was like NTSCNTSC or POW and the, on the Dreamcast, the power
one had a blue spiral on it and the NTSC one had an orange
spiral on it, right. So I remember I got this, this
Dreamcast and it came with a few games, but we got it a month
before it came out. So it was in my living room a
month before it came out and, and, and it was, it was, it was
quite surreal because I, I got to play on the games and then I
weirdly got to play on the games on TV while someone was asking
me about how cool consoles were. I was like M12, It's cool.
Life has never that was the highlight of your life.
That was the highlight of my life.
But the the highlight of my life was going into game when I'd
received this Dreamcast game. Sorry mate, Germany Dreamcast
games. I was like, no, I was like,
well. Well, I have.
Fuck you it. Was it was a proper flex?
OK, so we've got we've got Only Fools and Horses coming, we've
got Nintendo coming. It's a really it's a really
tricky 1. Bit of Transformers.
No, what a load of crap. Absolutely not.
Bit of Doctor Seuss. Like I love the like the
complete acid trip that it is, but no, do you know, like
because because of my my well age, I suppose, but like the
original Independence Day movie was just it was just beautiful,
right. So if I would love to see
something that pays homage to the original movie, none, none
of the. The sequels don't exist, right?
Because they. Were Disney owned that movie
isn't it Fox? Men in Black alien attack is at.
Men in black, you said. Independence Day.
Oh did I? Yeah, well I'm talking bullshit
then. I'm getting 2 mixed up.
I need a bullshit but I know I haven't got one at the moment.
It's been a long day. It's been a long day.
Anyway, Independence Day is really good, but I was talking
about men in black. We could, because that's better.
Anyway, that makes more sense. Yeah, sorry, More sense than
Only Fools and Bloody Horses. Any that's the second time I've
done that today. I've been talking about
something. And some of the I've.
Been using the wrong words. Some of the following Men in
Black movies are decent. I know the following.
Ones no the the first one is is the best.
Yeah, of course. The first one I quite like the
the. Second one.
The one where where he meets himself as a.
Oh well. Adrian Brody is Tommy D Jones
was that third one. Yeah, I like him.
He's a good actor. Adrian Brody.
Not Adrian Brody, name the other What's the guy from The Goonies?
Yeah, what's his name? Is he a Brody Thanos?
I don't know. Oh God, played the Big Brother
in the Goonies. I don't know, can't thank.
God, we're all talking about the same guy.
I know, I know. Anyway, not Independence Day,
that was. I was leading you down the
garden path. Men in black, men in black man,
yes, I'd love to see that. Men in Black Alien Attack.
It's a great ride. It's a great.
Ride yeah. I mean, I I, I don't know if I'd
like to see alien attack. I want to see something
modernize it just something, you know, punchy.
But but that IP. Because it's, it's so good, it's
so ludicrous. So which, what would you carve
out for that? What would you?
Oh, what? Would I get rid of?
No, that that's a great point, because I hadn't.
OK, so it's not going to be Back to the Future.
It's not going to be Jurassic Park.
Parting decision? No, not parting to is a national
treasure. I.
Mean, like, we're going to have to just kind of ignore the
Wizarding World Lord of the Rings, you know, Mega Clash,
Because I don't think I'll get rid of either of them.
Yeah, I'll get rid of Paddington that.
Poor bear has suffered. Enough.
He's getting sent back to Peru. I'll send him back first.
Class. So you're posting him in a box?
At least give him some air holes.
Go. Paddington, fuck off.
Good grief. Right.
Any more questions? Actually, I've got a good one
from David. In terms of construction, what
is the first standing structure you'd expect to see on the old
drones? Says David.
Oh, that's in the WhatsApp group.
Your University Bedford Ultimate, ultimate membership.
So ultimate members head over to University Bedford.
What went up first? What kind of building first went
up at Epic? Can we remember?
Probably toilet. Yeah, it's.
A toilet block? Yeah, structure workers need to
poop. Some, I mean, it's, it's gonna
be, it will be. Something, I think it'll be the
two of the utilities, right. That's exactly where I was gonna
go. I think it's something that
holds power. Networks.
We like stuff. Substation.
Yeah. Thing.
Yep. It's a really boring answer.
But it's it's it even the question.
But it does mean they will be able to ride more than one
rider. They'll be able to.
Run a roller coaster without. Electricity, it's not going.
To be a Gulliver's situation where it's like, oh shit, we
can't, we can't run Back to the Future because the teacups are
running. Because the kettle's plugged.
In Yeah, right, OK, Yeah, we've got another probable clear it
note. Let's no, we've done that one.
We've done that one, yeah. Good looking, sorry.
I tell you, like everyone keeps on going on about Wetherspoons
in Citywalk or Wetherspoons just outside Citywalk.
Did you see this? I can't remember.
I can't remember who said it, someone who mentioned it.
I don't think there'd be a Wetherspoons on the park at all,
but I think there probably will be one in a hotel nearby.
Yeah, a third party hotel. Yeah, yeah, they they won't miss
the opportunity. Or Randall's Farm, which is
owned by the same people around Coronation Lake, is.
That that's the one that's just kind of.
The old dish used education Centre right on whatever that
road's called, I forget the name of it, they own where the
building is, but on the other side, the trees on the transport
hub, you've got that little bit them trees that they don't own,
universals don't own. That's owned by Bedford Council.
So I could certainly see some kind of pub or hotel or
something going. On but the Wetherspoons.
I mean, Bedford Council aren't going to run their own pub are
they? They're going to build it and
then the highest bidder. To know Wetherspoons tend to be
in built up areas aren't they not?
You're telling me that that the that's not going to be a built
up area that's going to be some probably busy at?
Some point, yeah. Yeah.
I mean it would be, it makes sense if it were kind of tagged
on to like Premier Inn type thing.
But they they would tend to be like Brewers Fair and Harvester
types, right. But I don't know, I feel like.
It makes sense for there to be 1 nearby, but at the same time
where? And you've got all that land sat
next to the Wootton roundabout where you go up and over the
bridge. And at the moment it's just two
ways. It's got a third way that goes
nowhere. All that land was meant to be a
school education plot. It's not going to be now they're
building a car, charging. Right in.
The corner, isn't it? Yeah.
You would have thought, but those fields that go, sorry,
those films that go behind CP Farm, which is where those
lorries you, you know as CP farmers could, you would have
walked past it in your latest video on your second class
YouTube channel. Unbelievable.
Yeah, those fields you walked across to, to the public
footpath, up to the railway line before you hit universal land
that is all owned by. The same people that own
Coronation Lake, Right. So it's all up for grabs.
Yeah. You would expect Universal to
have some sort of deal in place, to have first refusal.
I would be very surprised if there wasn't something like
that. Yeah, but it's not owned by the
same people they bought the land off.
It's not by someone else. They might have some sort of
they. They must have.
I think they might be able to afford to outbid most, yes.
Unless they're they're going to ask for ridiculous money now.
Oh yeah, bit of land is worth twice what it was.
This time three years ago, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, but then,
you know, if we kind of look at the West Gateway zone, the
transport hub that that one that's going to be kind of off
the a 421. We know there's going to be like
a mini services there. Yeah.
And, you know, might be a Wetherspoons, yeah.
But that's what I'm saying. All that land, yeah, all that
land that runs. Yeah.
From the transport hub down to CP Farm, Yeah, that could all
become a entertainment estate, yeah, couldn't it?
Oh, I I could see that. Have a cinema built, a view, a
Wetherspoons, a bowling, all you.
Know all these things that kind of spring up just to kind of
like feed off the scraps? They certainly will, because
they've the Wootton roundabouts. Few budget hotels.
There'll be loads of hotels. Yeah.
No, that's yeah. Spoons do hotels, don't they?
They do. Yeah.
Don't let dogs though, unfortunately.
Do they not? No.
Well I've got the Stadium 1 and normally you have to leave the
dogs and then just go to Spoons. I thought you were saying you
were a dog. No, you're a dog.
Right, what's next? What is next?
We have a one last bit groundbreaking ceremony.
Yeah, we, we've spoke about this.
We're. Going, We're going to have to do
this right, Yeah. But we're waiting for the SDO to
become active. Well, it is active now, yeah.
It was on Monday. Have you lost track of time?
Yeah, it's the Christmas, Christmas, Christmas.
Is active now, so we we are now. Well, it's January 2025.
No, it's 26 now, man. That was a.
Niche. That was a reference.
That was a little nod. Andy was referencing the best
channel on YouTube. Oh right, so little nod to UK
studios. Oh, no, go on, go on.
I missed it. Go on, he.
Started his video saying it's January 2025 and then realised
did you correct myself? Did you correct yourself?
I really. Shot it but I left it in because
people like bloopers. When we're talking about it, so
it's. Exactly, Yeah.
It's a note work. It's it's, you know, content
gold like you've. Forgotten the bloody SDO was.
Made legal on Monday. Yeah.
But This is why we're going to travel back in time.
It was. It was.
It did. I know.
Well, you know, got got your DeLorean parked out the front.
Yeah. But I think we we need to get
down. Surely we've already done it.
Well, I've already went to the park.
It was great. Yeah.
Yeah, no keys. Yeah, I, I, I.
Think we need to what? Time Did you go in that last
video? What time it was about it was
about 8:30 in the morning hey, because.
That's the sun's coming. What?
Why did you what, mate? I mean what?
Possessed. You've got to be.
I'm busy. Go there at 8:30 in the morning.
Busy. That's it.
It's very critic. Aren't it?
Yeah, it's my clothes. It's shady.
Did you walk there? I did.
No, I I'm lazy best. It's about a 40 ish minute walk.
I. Think 40 ish minute walk.
That's that's nothing, man. That 5.
Ten, 558108 or 10 minutes from here, Yeah.
And if you go get a long way around as a crow flies, you
could do it much. I know when I was when I was
driving down here because just like I can get 99% of the way
here by memory. Don't dox me.
I'm not going to, but it's the the last, the last, I don't
know, half a mile. It's like it's a it's to throw
the fans off. It does, yeah.
I mean, it's it's. Labyrinthian, mate.
Yeah, but no, I was, I was, I was kind of.
But because of the way it's laid out, 10 minutes before I arrived
I was about 50 meters away. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You just sort of go round and. Round in circles, yeah, anyway.
Anyway, so Andy lives at #4. I think we're pretty much done.
Aren't we? We checked all of now.
There are some very, very exciting episodes coming up.
And you know, I'm not going to spoil the surprise, but it's
going to be a bit of a ride. We are lining.
Guests up is all we can say. We're lining guests up and you,
you're really not going to want to miss those.
So final call, make sure you're followed, make sure you're
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