Hello, welcome back to Breaking It to the Universal Studios UK
podcast. My name's Lawrence.
I'm from Universally Bedford and today, as always, we have.
My name's Mike and I'm from Universal Studios, Great
Britain. Updates.
I'll mess with. You My name's Andy and I'm a
knob head. Boo.
Well, that wasn't. No, that wasn't.
No, that it went really well so. Your face like so if this is
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We have some construction updates for you today.
We've got plenty of your questions that we will be diving
into later, whilst we're also diving into a few tinnies and
and some snacks as well. We've got some pop dumps and
we've got some nice IKEA biscuits or or something along
those lines. No, these are littles.
They're lit OK, we've got. Linus.
We've got Littles Finest over here.
We've got some IKEA. Wait a minute, what are these
called? We've got some IKEA Kaferet,
which sounds sounds a little bit like a tropical disease.
And then we have a some sweet and sweet and salty butterfly
popcorn. Fantastic.
Buffalo. Buffalo didn't say Buffalo.
Buffalo popcorn. Buffalo Buffalo popcorn.
I love I see butterfly Buffalo. Yeah, Buffalo popcorn.
Butterfly Buffalo Soldier, right?
What's been happening? Well, what has been going on so
well, Well, there's been some stuff.
I, I mean, I've stuff, I, there's been some stuff going on
on the site. We've seen, I mean, what, what
is it called now? Digger, Trump Prime.
Digger Trump Prime Yeah. Trump prime Yeah, I can't keep
up with. Your 40 the. 40 tonnes.
Slowed down on it now. I had some people that
complained. Oh, you're listening to the
haters, Andy. Like one.
I thought you were bigger than that.
That's like you. No, I carried on.
No, you've got Dignatron prime. I haven't named the other ones
there. There's there's a A-40 tonner
that's Dignatron prime. There's a 30 tonner that's a
just a smaller. Version so Dignetron 3 Mama or
something thousand or. And then it's had two little
baby hybrids. What's a?
Hybrid A hybrid. It is a electric diesel, diesel
electric. Oh wow.
OK. Plug them in.
There's a big lung extension lead that goes across the site
and safety Brown so you don't trip over it safety.
Brown on a construction mug. Which is mug.
That makes sense. Yeah, Yeah, it's.
Mugged but forgot where I was going now, right, hybrid,
hybrid. So they they've got lithium ion
batteries in them and they generate electricity with energy
that the diesel engines producing but not using.
So if it's on, I guess if it's on standby or tick over or
whatever, it's charging its batches.
And then when it goes to do the else scoop, yeah, it uses use
the electric, a little bit of electric, yeah.
That's pretty cool. It seems like a bit of over
engineering, but you know, we'll take that.
Yeah, that's basically it'll be fine.
You've got to tick those eco boxes.
Yeah. So what have these enormous
machines been doing on the site? Well, they were scraping the
dirt up by Cemex, so that's kind of central to the call zone, but
against Manor Rd. So it's literally in Universal's
entire plot. It is central to their entire
plot, and it's scraped away a load of stuff up there at the
high point, and then they've cleared off.
Now they've moved into another area of the call zone and the
archaeologists have moved in, never there.
I think they were there when we last recorded.
I can't remember, but they have been busy.
They were there Tuesday. I had to look.
So they were there? Yeah.
They've been there in the last few days.
Well, the archaeologists, yeah. Hands and knees.
Really. And time tamed.
It is disgustingly uncomfortable.
I should, I should think, oh. I bet it's out there slimy and
gross, and yeah, I bet it's all sludgy in that cloud and wet and
horrible. But they have.
They seem to be enjoying it. They're digging hard as well as
both children at the seaside. Yeah, they're.
Oh, so they've been building? Sand castles without building
sand castles, they've been digging trenches.
They might be, which is why castles see I'm.
Not a sand castle. I don't build it could.
Be yeah, I don't build sand castles.
I'm more of AI like to build dams.
Do you know what I'm I'm with you.
I like to build trenches, yeah. Like so that I'm kind of like my
bit of the beach is the first bit to get the tide.
So you annex the beach? Yeah, well, I like to do is find
a. Little stream that's running
down. Across.
Like the river or something. Yeah.
Or or, you know, you know, sort of thing.
I mean, and then I try and damn it and then build an artificial
route. How are we getting on this?
I know. Well.
You're like, it's quite diverting water.
Yeah, this is. Yeah.
OK. Yeah.
Anyway, that's my engineering. Skills.
That's your engineering skills damming up, damming that beach,
damming that that beach. Yeah, right.
OK, So the Diggatron Prime is that is Diggatron prime
basically just taking away the topsoil.
Yes, yeah. They're scraping the topsoil off
all four. Well, when I was there last,
there was 4 diggers, but one was one of the hybrids is in a
compound not being used. It may have only just turned up,
but the other three were very active.
So you've got the two diggatrons, we'll say the diesel
diggatrons, they are both actively doing scrapes and the
hybrid one is sat on top of the pile.
So where the dumpers are. So the diggatrons are filling up
the the dumpers and then the dumpers are taking it to another
area of the field. They're tipping it.
And then the hybrid machines are sat on that pile of dirt, king
in the castle and all that, you know, the Borat thing and
they're, they're just basically scraping the mud up to just make
it neat, really make it compacted into.
A nice little store storage area.
So how, how deep are they building the how deep is a layer
of topsail soil that they removed like because they're
down to the clay, right? So.
How Yeah, yeah. Is it like a foot, 2 feet?
I'd say it's 2. I don't know.
I haven't been that close. I've only been on the drone and
that's so you can only see so far, but I'd estimate 2:00 to
3:00 at the most. It can't be much more than that,
so. It's sort of not too dissimilar,
maybe a little bit deeper than the trenches they dig, they dug
last year. No, I think it's, I think it's
probably less, less than because they cut into the, they cut into
the clay. Yeah, they were just about above
knee height in 2024, I would say.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, it was enough to twist your ankle.
Yeah, you wouldn't want to fall in, no.
But it was honestly, it was great.
You know, we went down there with the kids.
Yeah. Well, I'd say this.
Yeah, we went down there with kids.
It was a yeah, yeah, yeah. There was a couple of trenches
that went right over the football.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we we went down there and you
know, it was great playing hide and seek.
Yeah, I jumped in a few. Yeah, yeah, loved it.
Yeah, as an ex metal detectorist, I didn't take a
metal detector because that is naughty.
But my my eyes were glued looking for surface fire when I
walked across walked across it looking for flints or wherever
do you remember at the time? There was like a couple of
trenches had like a line of stone.
Yes. Going across them right, which I
don't know what that was. But what that was is that
someone in the past have has dug A trench, they've put a clay
pipe in OK. And then you put the, the, the
shingle, the stones, you put that around the pipe.
So because if you if you put the soil against it and the soil
freezes and expands and cracks the pipe.
So what they do is you put you put the stones in, you put your
pipe in more stones in, they still do it today.
And then when the ground freezes it doesn't expand and it just
moves the stones so. How old?
If it's a clear pipe that modern like, it's not a modern pipe.
I have no idea when it was put in, but the 90s you can try to
see why it's been done in the past.
Yeah, well, that makes sense. Was it it this, this clay?
So water just sits on those fields.
So as we, as they well know and as we've seen from from your
drone footage, there are just ponds everywhere right now in
some on some of those parcels. That it is a quagmire.
Well, I think giggly. I'm Riggity.
Giggity, come on you, you spoke too quick.
I did, I did, I should have. I should have left terrible
comedy time. I should, I should have let that
one hang. But no.
Honestly, I think there is something about the start of
this year being the wettest on record or, or something along
those lines. I think it's rained every day.
Oh dear. Of this year so far.
So it certainly has for the last few weeks.
It feels like it's just. Never constant.
There we go. There's that.
Yeah, it's it's never ending, but no, it's good.
So that soil that they're they're excavating, do you
reckon they're going to be, do you reckon they're ever going to
put that back? Or is it just going to be like,
OK, that's great, now we just do the rest and then they'll use it
just to build that kind of that berm around the.
Outside, I think before we give that answer what we think, I
think someone sent that in as a question didn't.
They, I think they did. Should we?
Should we answer it now? That's where.
We're on, Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
OK, let's let's just dip into the questions.
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We've had one. We've had one here.
We've had one. One more and I haven't got the
lead here to to do it. Oh, OK, I could hold it up to
the mic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do
that. But.
Whilst we're on the. Right.
Mud. It was, was it Brad?
It was Brad. So, Brad, thanks very much for
getting in touch, Brad. Brad asks.
The piles of mud from the scraping archaeological works,
are they being created in areas that have been predetermined and
will not have to be moved again when the site grading works take
place? Great question.
That is a good question, slightly different from the
question that we've just asked ourselves because we said what
they're going to do with it. But this is all about the feeds.
Into it. It's kind of adjacent, isn't it?
I mean, like, because I suppose if, if, like, I suppose if they
were going to have to put that soil back where they found it.
And you know, I think there's, there's enough of a connection.
Yeah, it's a hard one. It's got me.
It's got me think. We're currently they're leaving
it in myself now they're leaving it in a pile, which as far as we
can tell from that, those documents that Wandering
Northern covered in the SDO appendices, it's not going to
have to be moved again during this stage at the very least.
So they're not dumping it somewhere to then have to dump
it somewhere else once the trench gets to that particular
spot. Lawrence, have you got in that
bag yet? No, I just, you know what,
right. It's one of those things.
I was. I was.
I may as well open this bag of biscuits.
Just my hand in this bag of poppadoms and I thought I'm
going to go and grab a load and then I don't have to make too
much rustling noise in the future.
But I made such, I did it in such a cack handed way that the
rustling just went on forever. So if that was, you know,
triggering you, then I'm sorry. No, that's fine.
Not you. But maybe someone listening,
maybe someone listening is just, you know, they're trying to
relax and they just hit suddenly that's crunching and tins
opening and chewing and. Very unprofessional masticating.
But hey, biscuits are biscuits, isn't there?
Yeah. So the mud, what we can do with
the mud? Nobody in any industry likes to
double lift anything. I think we've covered this
before. It costs money.
Those those excavators, they're not cheap to run.
So I I would like to think that they are.
Oh God, it's hard, isn't it? I mean, that's what she said do
do they don't laugh at your own joke.
What are you doing, man? Play off People don't see him
laughing. I, I don't know, at this stage,
I don't know if they're going to use that much.
See, so we'll eventually use the mud for things like the fly over
that that's going to be built. They'll have to build a big pile
of mud there, and there's no better place to get it in the
field. There's going to be a 6 to 8
foot berm around the entire core zone, so, well, I mean, that's
going to have to come from somewhere.
Yeah, I don't know what they're going to do with it.
I would imagine with a mouthful of poppadom that will be, I'd
imagine that they're going to use that, that they weren't like
you say they want to, don't want to move like that.
Makes it makes no sense to dig it up, take it all the way over
there, pile it up, make it into a nice pile, then take it out
that nice pile, put it back in the soil, and then six months
later dig it up again and put it in a different pile.
That doesn't make no sense to me.
Well, as it stands at the moment, they can't get it across
the railway because the place they're going to use most of the
mud is, like we say, is going to be in the fly over.
Yeah. And High Bridge exists at the
moment to do that. So they've got to leave it on
the core zone somewhere. And I'm going to hazard a guess
that they are just just piling it up now out of the way for
temporarily permanent until such time it.
Also depends on the actual grading work itself.
Like, yeah, is that going to be as deep as it is now in these
trenches, or are they going to put some of it back to the level
that it will be once it's graded?
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's it's it's going to
be interesting to see how it kind of shakes out.
So I guess they'll they'll need some mud as well for the bridge
to go over the the railway. Well, they put a temporary
bridge in there. Her point is there, if you're
going to build in a bridge, you may as well build the bridge,
right? You're still going to have to
put apartment on either side of the railway line.
You're still going to have to crane a a bridge.
And bridges. Nowadays they don't make them on
site, they make it all in a they'll, they'll make it
somewhere else and they'll just build the bits either side of it
and then that the top bit, the bridge will come in from the
factory. Yeah.
And they'll just slide it over. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, they don't mess around and they can do railway lines
without shutting the railway line down nowadays.
It's crazy, isn't it? Yeah, no, honestly very
interesting. But thank you, Brad for your
question. We will wait and see, but we
think, yeah, we think, we think they'll probably it doesn't make
much sense then to put that, put that sword back.
I think they might just throw it to each other like a snowball
fight. Yeah, mud fight.
And. They're going have some good
old, like 1930s fun in the field, and then they'll run
around with a hoop on a stick. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, Yeah. And throw some stones at each
other as well. You know that, You know we'll
we'll get all. Give them little bowls, make mud
pies, Yeah. Good old fashioned park, it's.
A family theme park. Exactly.
But you know, they, they always said they want to leverage our
culture. There you go.
What our 1930s culture. We're also going to eat lard on
toast. Oh, yeah.
Oh, do you know what? I've had that before, you know,
have you really? Yeah, but not in this country.
When I was younger, I went to Hungary and.
Was she really hungry? I'm always hungry, man.
That's why I went there. I was like, right, this is the
place for me. So I went there and I've got
chatting to these, these, these Hungarian guys.
And they were like, yeah, come out for a drink with us.
And we, I was like, OK, cool. So we went, we walked like
through, it was like -15 we walked for about like 3 miles
and we went into this like it was like grotto, like a cave.
And have you ever had Hungarian red wine?
It's called Bull's blood. No, it's, it's like thick,
delicious port. Yeah.
But like, it is still wine. OK.
Do you know what I mean? It's it's, it's got really thick
texture, but it's, it's still wine, but there.
Isn't that what Dale Boys told to the church?
Might be it Only fools and horses.
Well, you are the expert. Yeah, that's that's your entire
knowledge. Yes, I know the episode.
I mean, I've finished my biscuits now, so I'm going to
start in the episode where they had the Mary and she was crying.
Oh no, no, that was Romanian Ricelin.
Carry on. Anyway.
Welcome to the. Breaking at University Studios
UK podcast No, but anyway, we were in this cave and it was
like, would you like a slice of toast with that?
I thought that that's a weird thing to have with a glass of
wine. Anyway, it came out and it had,
it looked like cheese on toast, but it was just beef dripping on
a big slab of bread. And The thing is, it's a weird
thing. Something happens to your body
when it's like -15 outside. You look at that and you go,
yes, give it to me is. It not just like Marmite or
something like that. What's it taste like?
It tastes it. Do you know what it takes?
It's like if butter and an Oxo cube had children.
That's what it tastes like. It's good though.
I'm I'm not saying I wouldn't try.
Yeah, if we knew someone with a YouTube channel that did food, a
food critical YouTube. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They could do something like that.
Yeah, or like, you know, beef dripping a.
Week on beef yes, yes, like I would know.
If you don't want me in the next episode because I've died of
some sort of heart. Failure.
No, that's the thing, man. Like everyone listening.
This is a public service announcement from Lawrence from
University of Bedford. Don't mess about with margarine
or anything that you think is going to save you.
Save your life, right? Head to the like the heavy
stuff. Head to the lard, head to like
the beef dripping, head to the butter.
Because you know what? Your body can actually deal with
that. I just want to say that I
actually bumped into you in liddles a few weeks.
Is that when? He took the.
And he's not lying. He had about four blocks of
butter. I did.
In the in like 4 blocks of butter, 2 or 4 pint of a milk
and then a couple of other like a broccoli or something.
Yeah. I was like, I don't know what's
going on. Here.
Yeah, Yeah, I know because you were ahead of me at the till.
Yeah. You're like, what, you like
bacon or something? I said no, no, no.
This will just get us through a couple of days.
Yeah, 4 packs of butter in two. I'm not even joking.
It's. Like old school, you know, like
that people who would to put the butter in a little butter dish
and they're. We've got a butter dish.
Yeah, like a like a porcelain one.
Yeah, with a mouse on it. No, no, we've got like, what is
it? It's like a lacrosse 1.
Very. Yeah, Look at that.
So. Do you have your butter on the
side in a butter gist? Oh, you have butter dish.
You can't leave butter in the fridge.
It's not going to spread. It's.
Not going to spread. You've got to let it get nice
and soft, right? And look, I'd love to hear from
people who if, if send us your butter, your butter experiences.
There's there's like some sort of Tom Cruise sort of story in
there. I'm sure like there's something.
I think he had a butter thing but no genuinely butter on
everything. Everything.
Fair enough. My mother-in-law, she enjoys a
butter. Butter.
She likes a Yorkshire pudding with butter and sugar.
What butter and sugar? Butter and sugar, Butter and
sugar Butter. I used to like sugar on toast.
Sugar. Sorry toast, toast and then
butter it and then sprinkle some sugar on it.
It's. Probably an idea at the end of
the time. Yeah, yeah.
I enjoyed that, it was nice. Yeah, but basically Yorkshire
pudding is just pancake batter, isn't it?
It is, yeah. It's.
Versatile, yeah. Should we get back to Universal?
Yeah, we could do, I suppose. Yeah, that was a podcast.
I mean, you know, just. Touch on it a little bit, yeah.
I could talk butter for hours. Yeah.
Where were we even? Are you thought about doing a
butter podcast? Could do?
Can I? Buttering it universally.
Butter. No Butter it.
Bedford. Bedford butter.
I can't believe it's not Bedford.
Yeah, I can't butter it in Bedford Bedford's butter
bollocks. Where's, where's the cricket?
Oh, because there we go. Comedy timing is on point.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, right.
Come on. Come on.
Yeah. What are we talking?
About, we're talking about. Mud.
I haven't mud right? No look, we've covered the cause
zone. Brad asked a great question.
We don't think they're going to double move the mud if they can
avoid it. Is there anything going on on
the? Well, I think they will.
They're going to have to double move the mud.
Oh, but at some point are they going to double move it and put
it back where it was? Triple move it.
Yeah, that's well, he's still only moving it toy getting free
from. Because then you'll have to move
it again. If you put plank of roller
coaster on top of it, that I could do.
Space Mountain. Mud Mountain, Yeah.
The answer is we have not got a. We'll find a.
Pink Clue, we'll find our eyes on it and I'm sure if you watch
Project Universal you'll find out because that fella is always
down there. He's what he does for a job.
No, I'm fascinated to know what he does for a job.
He's always down, he's always there, he's always there.
Can't drag him away. No, he's always there.
Yeah, yeah. Dirty Boy I.
Think we've got a button for Project Universal.
You pressed the wrong one. It should.
Have been Boo. Actually, do you know what?
There is something that I forgot to mention at the very top and
this is like your little hook for staying on to listen to the
end because there's there's a fantastic bit of music that will
play out at the end, I think. You think what we drum and bass?
Yeah, yeah, this is, this is one of.
Well, we'll save it to the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So we'll play a little hook. Where people listen to all this
shit first and then they'll get the really good song at the.
End You get the, you get the excellent.
Bit at the end. Like no right, OK for yourself.
I'm not sure right Corzone tick anything else on the cortisone
or something there's? A bulldozer.
There's a bulldozer. There's a bulldozer bulldozer.
It's bulldozing mud. Unsurprising.
That was a great crunch that was allowed.
If anybody wants the license that crunch, get in touch.
Get in touch. We'll do you good rates.
Do you know what I'll do? I'll do crisp adverts on that.
Go on, I'll see if I can recreate 1.
Go on, you're not listening to any old food.
What? Oh no.
This is you've lost it. M&S Food.
Well, sorry, I've been disgusting.
Yeah, that was a bit sorry. Ladies and gentlemen listening,
he did cram an entire crisp in his mouth.
So that's the major watch there's of all days on site now.
Come on, try and concentrate guys.
This is the serious journalistic endeavour.
It's news night. It's news night, right?
All days are on site. My BBC career is never going to
take. Off.
Right. OK.
All right. So it's moving mud.
Yes, it's pushing mud. It's pushing it.
Where's it pushing it from and to?
From point A to point B at the moment.
That's a good answer. It's not wrong.
It's. A cat.
It's a Caterpillar, and I don't really know what it's doing.
It's probably just I'm not even going to go.
I've got no idea what it's doing.
Actually, I think I do. I think it's pushing the mud
into piles. OK, OK, right.
Does that help? No, not even a little bit.
Is that is that classified as land grading or you know
anything like that to a degree? I don't honestly think you can
really land grade anything at the moment.
It's so wet and sloppy. You could you could do you could
make the flatter surface in the in the the world and it just
takes some tosser digger to drive over it and it'll be
churned up again like my bloody garden.
Yeah. See how bad that is?
I. Have I have.
Yes. So there's a bulldozer.
There's portaloos. Oh.
Portaloo. So the other case.
OK I fly in a drone over the other day and I spotted what
looked like a portaloo walking on its own.
Yeah, what? Portaloo moving by itself.
Yeah, OK. But it was a Tron.
It was on a Portatron, yeah. Someone like got stuck in it.
I haven't settled. On a on a name for the portaloo
yet? OK.
But it it was on a Tele handle that was carrying it and it was
sliding all over the place. Could almost be like bricking it
HQ, couldn't it? Yeah.
What? The portal, Yeah.
Yeah, we should just come that bricking it HQ.
Yeah, yeah, as a fellow who works for me, Yeah.
Because I'm an important person and you're not talking about us
when he. No, no, no.
When he came to work for me, he said, have you got a union?
Of course I haven't got a union. That was so stupid.
He said, well, I want to set up. I said you can set up a union if
you want. You're the only person in it.
And. And he and he was like, OK, then
where's my office? Said you could use the ladies
because no, we're all blokes here.
That's a little sign on the door for him.
Union office. But anyway, that's another
story. I want to get the actual unions
on my case. But it was funny, so the toilet
was moving by itself. It it was on a telly handler and
they were taking it across a really bumpy, wet, sloppy field.
So it looked like a little like a hovering TARDIS across the
Yeah, I don't. Know I wish you could see this
Mike is trying so hard not to crunch on the mic I'm.
Trying to be. Professional, the proper Dom,
the poppadoms like so there it's Walker sensations poppadoms.
What's flavour? Are they mango or something?
Mango and red chili. So like Lawrence just didn't
give a fuck and met him in front of the microphone as you all
heard, but Mike is like leaning off of his chair.
He is. He's, he's basically he's, if
you've been to the circus and you've seen those, those ladies
that can kind of fold themselves in half those ladies, yeah.
That's what we're one of those ladies.
What is that, obviously. Contortionist, Contortionist.
Do you remember? Did you ever remember that viral
video Tazon Day when it's chocolate green and it was.
I breathe. I move away from the mic to
breathe. What?
You don't know chocolate rain. Where were you in 2000 and
whenever? No, no, chocolate rain are.
You sure that you didn't just dream this?
If if you if you know chocolate rain go to breakingitpod.co.uk
sounds like. Yeah.
Sounds like a Prince song. No, no, it's chocolate rain.
It sounds like a chocolate. Rain.
It sounds like a gastrointestinal YEAH issue.
Chocolate rain. OK, chocolate rain.
Chocolate rain. Tay Zonday, yeah.
Chocolate rain. Hey, he's wearing those
headphones that like everyone used to wear.
You know those ones? The ones that like hooked onto
your ears and then went behind your?
Back like bone conductor. No.
Well then, like they weren't. You'll get us copyright strike.
Not not that, not that limited amount.
That's going to be like a really bad pirate movie. 18 years ago,
142 million views. All right.
Exactly. And you would.
You two were not one of them. No, you're right, never heard of
it this day. I know they're going to come
after us now for all of our money on YouTube.
Of which there is none. Anyway, so back to the.
Universal Studios, Yeah, Right. So core zones done.
Yeah, like so it's done. No, no.
No, we'll just go to the Westgateway zone because it's
right next door to the core zone, so, oh, there's nothing
happening there, so. You got me excited.
There was a digger, one of the Collins diggers was over there
the other day and it flattened off a little area and now a
container's turned up. But I've only seen the container
when I've been driving past. So I.
Haven't like by the access. Point by the access point,
Broadmead Rd. Yeah, yeah.
So I don't know what that container is, storage or welfare
unit or whatever. I have no idea.
But I should investigate that at some point.
They've got to start that roundabout soon.
It's got to be soon. Yeah, and and because it hasn't
bloody stopped raining for the last few days, I haven't been
able to get out over there. I know it's been relentless,
isn't it for that, yeah. It's going to continue next week
as well. Yeah, I'd be happy to hear.
Yeah, I honestly look at the weather forecast.
It's just give me a break. Just talk to Mario.
Basically. Lake.
Sorry. Oh, I tell you something that
has happened. Yeah, well, you really want to
hear about. I want to hear about the lake.
Sorry, man. Tell us about that in a.
Minute because we're just moving on to the road between and.
This is a question because I don't I don't know the answer to
this but I noticed some signs up on the road between the the CP
Farm wooden bridge and the mast and mortain saying Rd. closed
overnight right? Woburn Rd.
Yeah, the old a four, two, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So Mike, why was the road closed?
We we went into this last. Design, yeah, but it was only
February the 10th. I think it was closed.
Did. Wasn't it to do with surveys
survey work? Must be, yeah.
Yeah, I'm sure it said surveys. We did go into it.
And wasn't it the survey for the roundabout?
We can assume it was or the fly Over.
Yeah, I mean, they'll probably do.
The 2 are probably connected. They probably won't get done at
the same time. Isn't that going to be two
roundabouts, One that connects to Woburn Road and then one
that's further into the Westgate?
Yeah, yes, yeah, it's going to be Roundabout City.
It's going to be like Milton Keynes.
The one the one that's further in is where the fly over is
going to connect to because it can't go that.
It'd be too, too sharp. It'd be like some crazy.
It'd be the first ride of the. City Skylines Ramp.
Have you ever played City Skylines?
Yeah, Yeah, no, yeah, it's good. It's like, like SIM City.
Yeah, but modern. It's a great game.
OK, now we do the lake. Zone, Finally.
Oh, the lake zone. Thank God.
News from the Lake Zone. Yeah, go on.
What's happening? Nothing.
Has there been anything?
There not not much movement on the concrete.
Slab very. Quiet.
I think there are. They've got their own compounds
over the other side now, so. Is that purely because
everything goes now over straight over to the core zone,
so there's no need for it to necessarily?
Yeah, they've got their own compound there, but I suppose if
there's lots of cars need parking, although they yeah, I
mean they can park up near Cemex, can't they, because
they've got all them platform them Rd. things.
It's not, it's. Not a huge.
Plot of land there it's not so they would walk across maybe,
are we not? Going to start seeing a bunch of
on site officers and stuff at some point.
I would hope so. I think when the archaeologists
did, they said this is going to take a year.
I hope it doesn't take a year because it's so bored.
They did say I mean. I also it's supposed to have
started in May, so it should in theory finish by this May.
That's what the SDO says anyway. Right, the archaeological.
No, no, no, no, You're right. What's my recent video on
Universal Studios Great Britain updates the best and original
channel on YouTube to cover the. Project.
It's definitely the original original.
It's the original, original content.
Where is it that you get your content from?
Some of it I I I I I make myself, but the rest I I've got
it written permission from certain Andy Ritty you in a text
in the form of text. OK.
Although I you know, apparently text messages from and Whatsapps
are not contractually obliging. Did you see this?
No, I didn't. There was this.
There was this woman in London she loved, lived in one of these
expensive houses and then her husband and her were separating
and, and, and basically he like she said in a WhatsApp.
So I guess it's OK for me to keep the house.
And he just went back going like, yeah, whatever.
And she then used that as evidence and went to the court
and go look, see, he gave me the house.
And they're like, it's not really the same as context
matters. It's not really the same as like
going to the Land Registry and getting your name on it.
You know, I think if you put in a text message, I Mr. Smith
gives you 100%, you know, if he wrote that in a whole load.
Of yeah, maybe, but even then, like, you know, you know, we
could write that on each other's phones.
Like, you know, there's no kind of anyway.
That's right, and his phone out of his cold, dead fingers.
We are, we are we. We've gone down out of rabbit
holes. Welcome to the bricking It died
for the Legal advice podcast. Yeah.
Absolutely. We're, we're, we're here for
it's, it's a public service. That's what it is, a public
service. Lake Zone, Come on.
I'm waiting to dying to hear what's happening in the Lake
Zone. Tell us.
Nothing as far as I'm always. Oh, there's a little.
Road a little roadie. That's it.
A roadie thing. Yeah, like they're digging a
little Rd. by lake. I've seen I've seen your
pictures on. Facebook, I know you think they
are. They are just scraping a track.
So the so the borehole guys now these are called Apple something
geotechnic. Apple something?
Is it geotech? Good name.
This is the hedgehog. Was there something more like a
phone? The hedgehog was sorry.
That was Sonic. Oh, Sonic.
Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, that was the cone
penetrating radar, that was the pusher, right?
Yeah, that's got that's long gone now.
These guys are just doing borehole testing.
I think they might be looking for water table levels or
something along them lines. But they're doing pretty much
all around the site at the moment, right.
They were down there. They were on on the call zone as
well, maybe just setting up. But the trouble is it's so wet
and boggy that even if you've got a pickup truck, you can't,
you just can't get across the field.
So they've got a tractor out there, like a proper farmer's
tractor, which they're dragging stuff across the field with.
But again, you just don't want to work in that.
Do you know your boots are going to end up 10 times the weight?
Be starting, yeah. I mean, I, you know, if they've
got deadlines to hit and I'm sure they do, right?
Because, you know, any part of this project slips a tiny bit,
it has a massive knock on effect and gets expensive.
Then, you know, if, if the weather is a disaster like it is
now and it means that they have had to put stuff back, it does
mean that when the weather clears up, we might see a little
bit more like a like a, a big uptick in activity.
But they'll know, they'll know this is not going to be anyone's
first rodeo. So they'll know whether it's,
you know, it's going to be wet in the winter, it's going to be
dry during the summer. They'll they'll know what
they're doing. Universal know what they're
doing. They've got the money to put
behind it as well. Like if you think about all the
government backed construction projects which take years and
give projects like this a bad name where people think it's
never going to happen, it's going to be delayed, blah blah
blah. It this is Universal, who are,
who can tear down a roller coaster and build another roller
coaster in less than two years. Yeah, yeah, this is they're not
mucking about. No, genuinely, it is nuts.
And and when we're saying like tear one down and put one up,
that's like the finished articles.
That's not like just demolishing something and sticking up some
metal. Yeah, so it's the full thing if
you take Jaws and Diagon Alley in Universal that that I think
it was closed in 2012 and Diagonally opened in 2014 and
they're doing it now with Writ Ride Rocket and Fast and the
Furious. Yeah, the the last Fast and
Furious Writ Ride Rocket Riders was, was it August, I think,
Yeah. And I think it's going to be
spring next year when the ride opens.
So the fact that they can do that in that speed, like they,
they if they, they know that if they don't get it open, they're
not going to make money. They've got five years of
spending money and not making any money with this project.
So they want to get it open. What happens to the old roller
coasters? Good question.
So sometimes, sometimes they find new homes.
They do. So like it's actually one of
mine. Like, so there's a fantastic
website and I'm sure a lot of people are familiar with it.
Roller coaster database. Oh yeah, OG, it's my Bible,
right? It is the Bible.
It's been around for like, what, 25 years now?
Yeah. Have you ever played the RCDB
lottery? No, you just click refresh until
you've landed on one that you've ridden.
Right. And whoever gets that first is
the winner. We should play it one day.
That sounds good. Andy will not win.
But you know, it's the lottery. It might.
It just landed throughout Nemesis, Yeah.
Well, yeah, exactly. But they're considering there
are what there must be what 10,000 roller coasters in?
There something like that and it includes like is it going to?
Land on one as well. It could land on it.
But like going back to kind of what we were saying, the really
the, the thing that I love about that is it like you can go on a
ride and it will go and it will have it's full history.
So it was like between like 1986 and 1999.
It was at this, you know, this park in Mexico and then it turns
up in France and then it turns up in Canada.
It's mental. I like I find that.
Crazy. It happens a lot more frequently
with travelling rides, yeah, with like the the base frames
and stuff. Like for example, the Corkscrew
on towers. Do you know that was a like
officially a travelling ride because it was on a base frame,
Yeah. But it was.
I remember that, yeah. Wait a minute was I might be
getting confused here, Was the Corkscrew at Alton Towers
somewhere else for like a year before I.
Don't know. I don't.
Or was it brand new to them? Because like there's there,
there is like this part, there's it might not be that ride, but
there's a ride of a similar stature, different park, maybe.
I think the. Thunderloop has been around a
bit and I think it's now currently in like.
It has. I remember really going on that,
yeah. The Thunderlooper.
You've been on the Thunderlooper.
Yeah, really. When it first opened.
You've got a cred that yeah man is envious to a lot of current
day thesis. Yeah, yeah.
Don't know if theme park. Will still see you still see
exactly where that was. Yeah, you can.
It's it's got, well, it had the the blade in it, but blade's now
gone as well. So it's currently just a big pit
in the middle of Forbidden Valley.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to check that one out.
I've got that, that and the Corkscrew, my first looping
coasters. Are you sure the Cork school was
a travelling one? Because it's pretty big.
It officially is, or unofficially or whatever, but
because it's just on, it's on. I know the one that was in the
in the dark. That was the black hole.
Yeah, that was. That was, yeah, that again, I
think was on a a bait, but that was they had a very similar
model to that that I remember seeing it after.
Do you remember the beast as well?
That was by Thunderlooper. Yeah, probably, yeah.
Yeah. So yeah, I, I, I could see.
So you so can I just clear this up?
You neither. Have you been on the Thundalupa?
I've been on the Thundalupa. I haven't.
It was a great ride. Before I had one up there.
No it. Was a good vibe.
Don't it, it was a drop weight launch.
So it there's this bloody great weight, one of the towers which
then you couldn't see it, but it was within the tower it dropped
and then. Yeah, pulled you up.
Whereas today it's like magnets or to a lesser extent cables.
Cables that shred and get in your eyes.
Yeah, I don't. That's not the bit I enjoy.
What else have we got to look at?
Right. So lake zones all taken care of,
Yeah, yeah. OK.
So. We've oh, they're, they're
planting some trees in the. Are they?
I don't know if we mentioned that last time, but they're
they're busy up in the wildlife section planting business, a lot
of trees a lot. Really.
A lot of them, yeah. Do we know what kind of trees?
No, I haven't been up that end and got that close, but you
there is actually a footpath right next to it so you can and
you can still walk across that footpath.
Ricking it day out. You know, that's not a bad
shout. Yeah.
And we could do that over the weekend or something.
Yeah. We could go down there.
Yeah, you could record. You can park in Woburn Road
industrial state and then, yeah, hop across the railway line on
the little. They've got one of them walkways
across the railway line. Is there a cross in there as
well? Yeah, I can't remember what the
road's called now. It's one that runs all the way
through. I think we should.
It's a dead end. So you just drive to the end to
the bottom. There's a turning circle thing
park up there and then you, there's a little public footpath
slips down the edge of a warehouse and that's the way if
you wanted to walk to the interchange you could.
It comes out you you cross the railway line and a little ditch
and you'd either go left to the interchange or right to
Universal Studios land. I think we should do that.
And you know, when, when the parks reopen, I think we should,
we should do some field. Trips let's yeah we need to film
and we'll record an episode it's somewhere yeah because we need
to teach Andy a thing or two about theme park so we can redo
that I. Don't know how we're going to
carry all this stuff but. Well, no, we use a little DG ice
and we'll be all right. We're going to.
Start a Wicksteed. What?
Wicksteed. Yeah, we'll start a Wicksteed.
Right. Look, that is, you know,
geographically the closest theme park to.
Yeah, but in quality it's an. Important question, Do you need
a beer? Oh, go on.
Then go on. Then go on.
No, you're closer. Oh.
Go on BRB, that was. OK, we can talk about him now
because he can't hear us. He hasn't got the headphones on.
Yeah, yeah, talk. Wicksteed Park.
I love Wicksteed man. I love Wicksteed as well I've.
Got like a real special place in my heart for I'd be interested
to know of all the people listening who's been to
Wicksteed Park, because I don't know if it's like a because I
used to, I grew up in Watford, but a lot of my family were up.
Thank you, like St. Neots and around that way.
So but Wicksteed was kind of a nice day out with the family,
you know? Yeah, Wicksteed was lovely.
But yeah, I love it, man, I love that.
Got rid of the best ride in the park, which was the absolutely
massive pirate ship. Yeah, that double wasn't.
It. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was huge. It was great.
Yeah. No, that's gone.
When I was a lad there was a steam train there.
It still is a steam train there. No, there was a steam train in
the play area. Oh.
Oh, you've yeah, yeah, yeah, we've.
We've had this discussion. Like an actual engine.
We had this like. Life in the pub.
It's like they've just craned it in there, OK, just rubbed the
sharp edges down a little bit and then said there you go kids.
And that now, as far as I, I was told by someone, it now lives
with the, the heritage railway guys that are near Northampton
and it has NI, can't remember what it's called, but the
railway line runs from around north Northampton and heads up
north. Anyway, they, I think the train
is there and they've took it on to, to put it back into work in
order. I don't think it's anywhere near
that yet. But what maybe won't it be nice
one day? Because I can say I've been in
the boiler of that train, because you could, because the
boiler was all open, you could crawl.
Through it that's that's brought back a memory.
Do you? Remember it?
I think I do remember it actually.
Almost next to the pirate ships. That's right.
Big, big, big, big play area. Yeah.
Up that way. Yeah.
Yeah, that's Sensational Park. Because weak steed have always
have I aware a manufacturer of plays still are yeah, may still
be. So a lot of the stuff that they
kind of made the prototypes and then put them in the park.
Well, so they're basically the Europa park or playgrounds.
Playgrounds. Yeah, yeah, well, it had a it's
got a massive free park, hasn't it?
That's got, it's just, it's just amazing for a kid, you know,
swings and slides and, and all sorts of crazy shit.
I remember as a kid going on a Wicksteed slide and it was
fucking high. And then at the top of it, he
didn't just go up and then sort of slide down.
It had like this little wooden box at the top of it, right?
And then you'd slide down here, see what they had the wooden box
there if you fell off that thing.
That the game over. See you later, yeah?
Yeah, that was over. That was in Bedford at Jubilee
Park. Was it?
Yeah, it's been song gone now. Yeah, I'm 25 now.
So it was. When I was.
A youngster back in the early 2000s.
Rock paper round was it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They they sort of the water shoot there as.
Well, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like a soup.
Is that the only water shoot left in the UK?
Because there was one also at Light Water Valley, which I
think about a decade ago, yeah. It's definitely the oldest,
isn't it? It's like a. 100 years old I.
Think it was It is the oldest in that's still in operation.
I think it is the second oldest like that ever existed.
It's the second oldest like amusement ride in the country
ever, because there was a prototype for that one and they
they sort of built it up I think in the North East or something
like that. But it, it didn't last too long.
I remember looking it up one day.
But yeah, it's, it's great. It's just it's, I love that.
Place it's. It's all right.
It's all right, but yeah, but like, do you know what?
Like for what it is. Oh shit.
And he's just whacked something out on the deck.
He. Slaps something down on the
table. That's what she.
Said it's rather girthy as well. Look at that, it's red, so.
It's a mug. Just I feel like we should we.
Should clear it up. We've got 3 prototypes.
Yeah, these are prototypes. Oh, thanks.
One each so. So there's a brick in it Mug.
This is insane, I'm going to have to take a picture of this.
On the socials. Yeah, get out of there.
That's. The brick in it that's so good.
It's banging there. Like honestly, yeah, it looks
really good on a mug, doesn't it?
It does anyway. No, Appreciate that.
Exactly. I'm going to put my can inside
the mug and then drink like this.
Look at you, eh? Fans.
You're used to that only down the park with your big butt on
the side. Yeah, yeah.
I just have to put it in a in a porcelain mug anyway.
What were we talking about? So I think we'd take off
Wicksteed. And then I think we should just
sort of like we should slowly sort of escalate from there.
Slowly. Oh, So what would you pitch as
your well? I don't think we need to
actually slowly escalate. We could just move around all
over the place. In fact, do you know what like
because there are obviously there's the obvious contenders,
right? There's not thought pass.
No, no, no, no. So you've got your thoughts,
you've got your your Chessington's, Legoland, Alton
Towers, you've got obviously your Drayton Manors, your Polar.
Beans never been. I've never been to Eva.
Eva. It's a lovely park.
Yeah. Never been to Eva.
Opening a new ride this year as well.
A new area, in fact. Yeah.
And then you've got Blackpool, of course.
Yeah. Walk in, walk past it.
Walk past Blackpool. Yeah, yeah, well, maybe we could
walk into it. Maybe, but I, I think this is a
perfect opportunity for people to let us because like, look, I
want to know places where, you know what, it might not like be
the first place we look to, but there might be something
interesting there and we could go and, and Andy could have an
experience. What would be a good
introduction? Gulliver's Land.
We can't go there without children.
Yeah, not allowed. And whether you ask questions.
That's true. I I do have some children.
Well. There's not enough for one each
though. Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, we can do that. Yeah, we could do that, couldn't
we? Yeah.
We could, I mean, it would be a little bit like it would it
would I? Mean if you couldn't.
You know what I mean? They.
Stand outside of school and offer money for kids.
Yeah, that would, that would definitely work.
But no, I mean I don't. Abide by that.
I was just thinking like. It sounds like the premise for,
like, a really bad 80s movie, Yeah, doesn't it?
It's like these three, these three men wanted to go into a
theme park, but they needed children.
It's like OK. I mean, we'd laugh about this,
but there, what do you remember? There was a Theme Park Worldwide
blog quite a few years ago now and that he went to one of these
Six Flags parks and they wouldn't let him on a coaster
without a child. Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he?
Bribed a child Well, maybe not bribed a child, but said, can I
have your child for a moment because I.
I need the cred. I need the cred.
I do you know why I got it? Vaguely remember that.
And I also like, you know, yeah, I salute Sean because he's the
hardest working man on YouTube. But I, I, the guy doesn't sleep
on convenience. He's incredible.
But like I, I, you know, obviously new, new family and,
and massive congratulations. I love how like he, he did not
waste a single moment. He, he ticked off all those
Gulliver's parks in like less than six months.
He was like, right now I can knock these ones out.
Bang Bang, Bang, Bang Bang. And it was like fair play to you
again, hardest working man on YouTube.
I think it was basically straight from the hospital just
to Gulliver's Matlock, wasn't it?
Probably. Probably with the birth
certificate. See, it is mine.
Yeah. Anyway, so in Matlock there's a
really cool cave. A cave?
Yeah. That you can get in.
It's not, it's not open to the public.
Oh, OK. If you know where it is in the
hillside, it's, it's been bricked up, but they've left a
hole big enough for the bats to come and go.
And you can get in through it. And once you're inside, Yeah.
Is it big? It is huge.
Once you're inside, you can spend a couple of hours in there
just exploring. It's all been mapped out and on
the Internet. I can't even top the end of what
it's called at the moment. But it's probably, a lot of it's
probably under Gulliver's Land. That's why I'm as well.
That's why I'm saying it. But there used to be a Victorian
show cave in Mac Lock, which has been bricked up completely.
Now you can't go there, but Queen Victoria went there and
went down the staircases. But if you go in the other cave,
there's a hole that leads into the show caves.
And once you're in there, you can see where the Victorians
have been in there and created spiral staircases and oh, that's
nice. Hand rails and all sorts of
stuff. It's really cool.
I can't think what the bloody Nah, I can't think of what it's
Cumberland Cavern. That's what the the show caves
called. But to get into Cumberland
Cavern, you need to go via the other old caves.
You have to kind of go. And once you're in there, you
can get in the you can get in the old staircase and walk all
the way up to the entrance, which is bricked up, but it gets
tighter and tighter. A mean about four other people
went up there and then in the end, you, you're on your hands
and knees because you didn't break time.
Amazing. Yeah.
You'd love it. Cumberland Caverns and
something. I can't think of what it's
bloody called. OK, Look it up and do it.
I mean, there's like Derbyshire, there's tons of caves, like I've
done the Castleton Caves and things like around the Peak
District. I tend not to do any that are
open to the public. It costs money to get in.
I'd rather I'd rather go. And you're a gorilla.
He's a gorilla. Pothole just sees the hole,
climbs in. Oh, it is great fun.
I've been there a couple of times actually.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I.
Mean like whopping mine. It's called Whopping mine,
Whopping mine and Cumberland Cabins.
You go in through Whopping mine and you can explore that and
then if you can find where the truck the Troggs used to, they
were their bases in the 1960's. The troll we're getting right
off of. Top of the Troggs.
In the 1960s, a gang called the Troggs went in The Cave and they
defeated it all. And it's all still in there now,
right? Yeah, it's great.
Although here on Breaking It, we don't condone the.
No, no, no, no. Illegal trespass.
Illegal cave. I don't think it's an illegal
trespass. It's not really, Yeah, but.
If it bricked up, they're trying to keep you out.
We haven't bricked it up fully. Have been bricking it.
They have been breaking. Let's get back to don't brick
yourself in right What should we go back to you now we've.
Done the whole site. Really.
Yeah, we've got a few more questions and that would be good
question. Should we do some questions?
And we've obviously got a voice note as well, which we can.
We can, we can bring. To you through the wonders of
modern technology. So this one comes from a Alicia
or Alicia Middleton. Thank you very much for getting
in touch. This person is saying is there a
reason they're doing further archaeological work on the site?
Wasn't this all done before the SDO was submitted?
That's a really good question. I mean, that was the was all
part of the due diligence stuff, wasn't it, To make sure that
they're not sitting on something that is going to really screw
them over, Right. Yeah.
So, so I think they they did the bit that was going to be enough
for them to go, no dramas. But then also in the SDO there's
this whole bit saying we're going to be doing archaeological
work for the next year as well. Yeah.
I think they've just identified a lot of stuff that is of
interest. There's a lot of, a lot of.
Flags in the ground yellow, red and is it white flags I think.
I think are those are like are those utility?
Flags. There's a lot of Google tells me
different things. Oh, we've been.
Good. I don't know what what they that
means. I don't know what the different
colours mean. There must be things of
interest. Some of it is, I think, is it
the yellow one? Red one does mean.
Potentially hazardous. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't. So back on.
Don't stick. You know what would stick you
want? Well, sticking in it.
Anything in it. Don't do any of that.
Don't do that. Nonsense.
Don't do any of that. It might be wet and sloppy, but
you know. I don't know how to get my
Bluetooth working on here to play the voice note.
OK, can we, can we like do it, do it raw?
Yeah, just like through the oh gosh, look, we've got a, we've
got one last written question. Of course.
You can submit those via the website breaking@pod.co.uk And
of course voice notes to O 7440561162, 07440561162 and this
one's from Rick. Rick says what about having the
Winchester pub from Shaun of the Dead in the park?
If we have Auk Zone, this could be our version of Louis or
Flanagan's. Imagine Halloween Horror Nights
at the Winchester. See Shaun of the Dead is is a
universal film as well. I believe so, yeah.
So it's not out the realms of possibility I.
Think it would be amazing. That would be a great.
It would be amazing, yeah. That would be great, Yeah.
I think big tick, big yes from us.
Would love to see it happen. The likelihood, though, and he's
broken and and he's just, and he's just being like a
middle-aged man on his phone. I'm trying to, I'm trying to get
ready with the voice. It's just.
Like a What's he doing now? Let's see if I can get.
Let's see if we can hear it. Come on.
Hey. Lads got another question for?
He's. Gone off.
He's gone off. He's gone off.
I think you. I think he got too close to the
microphone. Try again mate.
Stick stick your bottom. Got another question for you.
It's a Jim. Hello, Jim.
Oh, what, Jim? Technology talk.
Talk amongst yourselves. I'm going to find a lead.
Oh, go on then. Oh God, what?
Well, that's all. Right.
But no, this is great. So what we love, Jim, is we, we
laid down the mantle. We said, look, send us your
voice notes. And Jim has not just once, but
twice risen to the occasion. With both times starting a true
Yorkshire fashion hey up. But is it Yorkshire?
Is it? It's Derbyshire.
I mean, I'm a, I'm a Yorkshireman, I say.
Are you? Are you you Yorkshire man?
From from Doncaster. Originally.
Yeah, Jeremy Clarkson Country. Right.
So, yeah, OK, Hey up. Is that the sort of?
Association that you're looking for?
It depends. As a farmer, yes.
Just as a general human, maybe not.
Well, you know, he does. What I love about Jeremy
Clarkson is for everything. Like, just when I feel like he's
like, really let himself down, he'll do something else that
makes me think, oh, what a great guy.
Like he always manages to like, strike that balance of like
saying something completely awful but then doing something
completely fantastic. He's a twat with a heart.
Aren't we all? Well, yeah.
Yeah, All right. So should we.
See. Should we see if we can get him
back? We getting gym back, Let's try
on gym. Hey, that's got another question
for you. It's a gym.
So obviously Alton Towers and Thorpe Park tend to run in
season. So they don't tend to open
during the winter because obviously the English weather is
bad, cold, etcetera, etcetera. So how do you think Universal
will adapt to this being open all year round?
Obviously big roller coasters outside, fair enough.
But when it actually tips it down or when it's minus
temperatures like it can get in England, do you think Universal
will adapt more for indoor rides and dark rides?
Or do you think they'll just put up with it and build loads of
outdoor ones and just run it all year round, whether it rains or
freezes or whatever? Because like I say, you open
towels and throw parts and shut during the winter.
So I think they will adapt to that.
No, thank. Thank you, Jim.
I think that's a great shout, a really good question.
I don't know. What do you guys think?
Well, just if you look at obviously Orlando, it's a very
different beast. The weather year round, apart
from this year where they've had freezing temperatures, this are
pretty nice most of the year. But if you take it over to to
the European continent, the likes of Efteling, Europa Park,
Fantasia Lands, they operate big coasters.
Yeah, all year. Yeah.
So we know it can happen. For some reason Merlin and the
other UK parks like to pretend it doesn't and it can't be done.
Yeah, but you need the technology in the like the
station, for example, to keep the trains and the wheels warm
so it's not going to freeze. Universal are going to have the
money to do that. They're going to want to do
that. They're going to want their
headline attractions for the Jurassic Coaster, if that's what
it is. Back to the Future.
They're going to want that open, surely if the.
Drive's running all day the the the wheels and that are warm
anyway. Over the course of the day,
yeah, but a lot of friction stuff I know over this winter.
Baron 1890 Efling AB&M Yeah, dive coaster hasn't didn't
actually open until like the early afternoon on a few days
really because of that of the temperature really interesting.
Allegedly, Efling have been known to run the rides overnight
just to keep it could still open.
Wow, during the day, that's a cool fact.
I love that's. A good idea.
Whether or not Universal would do that, I don't know.
I would hope not. You can't imagine.
Want to listen to that? Yeah.
You have it all night. I mean, you said you've heard
the Diggers recently. So.
Yes, I did mention. Actually, that's a voice note
that you could play do. You have the voice note.
Oh, you. I think you should.
I'm not going to play it, no. If you want to hear.
That we shall we paraphrase. Yeah, No, no, no.
I think we should leave it as a mystery.
But I think also if you want to hear the voice note that Andy
sent us where he could hear the diggers, then it was less.
No, no, no, no, don't, don't, don't break that.
No, because this is. This is an.
Opportunity you're gonna make. You're gonna make this a thing
now? I am.
But but we're not gonna. We're not gonna, you know,
let's, let's leave it. Let's leave it now.
Yeah, what I think here very much like what Mike said.
Look, if if you go online, you can find some amazing videos of,
particularly in Germany, them running coasters first thing in
the morning when they're talking about.
You're talking about Tarrant, aren't you?
Yeah. When it's running, when they,
they've run it after a night of snow and there is like literally
just a plume of it's snow. I don't know, dust, whatever
behind it. It's incredible to watch.
But they do it. I guess they just juice it up a
little bit and then it it makes it around the around the
circuit, You know, in terms of like the mix of what we'll see,
Beijing is actually a really close analogue in terms of
weather. In fact, their weather is worse
than ours in every respect, right?
In every respect. Their winters are colder, their
summers are hotter. They have rainy seasons like
like we have rainy seasons, but no, no, no, there's like they
have like Floridian style rainy seasons.
Like their, their weather is so extreme in every season.
They have totally different seasons and we're talking like
50°C variance between the coldest in winter and the
hottest in summer. It's nuts, right?
It gets like -10 in winter. Now, if they're able to run
attractions there all year round, don't manage it.
Don't manage it. It's just because we, we have
been, like Mike said, conditioned to believe it's not.
It's not possible because and if the 1 theme park operator that
operates like 80% of the theme parks in this country says sorry
guys, it can't be done, then you'll just go, oh, I guess it
can't be done then. But it can.
But what's the reason it can't be done?
Because. Laziness of money.
That's that's where I was going with this.
It's like it's not a, it's not a commercial engineering problem.
It is a, it's not commercially viable.
Yeah, because the fact is. They have to sell like
discounted tickets to get people there on a sunny day, so why is
anyone going to go in February? And if it, like some parks rely
quite heavily on water rides as well.
Like if you look at Thorpe Park, they've got what, 234 water
rides? No one in their right mind is
going to want to go on a water ride.
You don't. Want to get soaked in December?
No, exactly. If we if we look at the
universal concept art, there is no.
There is no water for a water ride Which.
Which is kind of like that. That does make me a little bit
sad, actually. A little bit, yeah.
Oh, we don't know. There won't be like an indoor
water ride, but there's certainly no outdoor ride.
OK, maybe the Paddington Dark ride?
Yeah, it could be. Like a bridge works canal.
Yeah, nice. One thing I did for you.
Get on your narrow boat lad. Is they're not, they're not
going to have any problem with the the building the lake
because it's a clay field, Yeah. So they're not going to have any
problem with drainage issues. Did you see?
Dig. I'll pump it for law.
A job done. Has anyone here watched the
Disneyland? Handcrafted?
Yes. Not yet.
Mate such a good documentary, it's on YouTube.
Because that's exactly what happened with with Disneyland's
lake, didn't it? They filled it up.
They built the rivers of America.
They filled it all up, spent a day pumping water in from I
don't know where, but they pumped water in, filled it all
the way up. Good job guys.
Went home, came back next day empty.
Oh no. Drained away so.
They're not going to get that here because our ground is, you
know, fortproof anyway. They I mean, they probably won't
leave it untreated, will they? Because you can imagine they'll
put like a fountain show of some sort maybe in there as well.
So they're going to, they have to have a fat if you're going
to, they'll put fish in there. So you have to have a fountain
because it aerates the water. Do you think they would put fish
in there as well? You've got a fish in a lake,
haven't you? Yeah, I don't know, Fish.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's going.
To be fish going to pull the fish the air for the the fish
will just sort of like appear anyway.
Yeah, appear. They'll just put animatronic
fish in there and sort of pop out the water occasionally.
Here I just I just have no idea of like for what we could do as
a future episode. We've got a screen in here, you
know, we could watch together like Disney handcrafted or the
epic dock. We could like our own going on
commentary. Yeah, exactly.
And then you just will synchronize it, right?
You press play right now. Maybe that's a Patreon
expressively. Boring.
Would it be boring? Yes.
OK, alright, we've got a patron by the way.
That was a gag. No it.
Happened. No.
We're thinking about just send us cash, no.
Cash through the. Post I mean look we you know
it's something we've talked about but we don't really know
quite how to do it or what to do and and you know I don't think
it's worth doing stuff like that.
You've got a very early day set amount of follow it just.
Pisses people off to it. Yeah.
And we don't, we don't. I mean, at the moment we're
doing it because we just really enjoy doing it.
Yeah. So.
Well, the snacks are getting better as we each week goes by.
And we get you half months now. We've got all the masks.
Yeah. Brilliant.
No sausage rolls, though. No, I promise you get them next
time. Really.
Great. So you know we've got that in
writing. Well, we haven't, but I'll get
it to for you. Text is illegally binding, so.
Well, get me to. Text.
So does that mean you you are legally bound to allow me to use
your pictures? Well, we.
Could try and I could prove it, couldn't I?
I could prove you wrong. Cut the cut the edge off.
Please don't. I like making my.
OK. Yeah, I don't think we've we
have actually covered Universal Studios.
But like we, we, yeah, we've, we've covered the, the
construction update. Yeah, we have.
Yeah, we've done a construction. Update We've spoken about
everything as well as universal we have.
But you know what? That's that's kind of part of
the fun, isn't it? I, you know, we're also time
with the idea of of kind of having little little moments,
little audio idents between some different, different sections of
the, of the pods. So actually we, we're quite near
the end now, aren't we? We are, yeah.
We are quite. I know where this is going.
So we actually have a little treat for you.
This is something, this is Andy's work.
It's handy work. He I wrote it.
Myself. His handy, handy work.
It's handy work. It's handy work.
But no, it's it's, yeah, it was written, produced, recorded,
directed and created. So don't blame us.
All in about 15 seconds with a with a prompt by by Andy of
Project Universal Sensational. Anyway, look, we'll see you all
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