The London Resort (Paramount Park London)
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It looks as if this might actually be on the road to resolution one way or the other. From what I read, there is now a deadline (15th March) to submit the bid or a very good reason for deferring until June/July. Meetings at the end of March will decide if their are good reasons to defer until June/July, otherwise future meetings considering the bid will be planned on the basis of whatever has been submitted by that date.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/theme-park-bosses-given-final-deadline-261710/

I’m pretty sure that Paramount’s involvement at this point would just be licensing their IP for a few rides and that’s about it.

Originally Posted by Michael

If in fact Paramount is still involved in this theme park, they're really trying to hide their involvement. Go 19 seconds into this video and you'll see that Paramount has been scrubbed from the gate:

If in fact Paramount is still involved in this theme park, they're really trying to hide their involvement. Go 19 seconds into this video and you'll see that Paramount has been scrubbed from the gate:

Originally Posted by Michael

Wow new concept art just released by The London Resort:



Here's concept art from almost the exact same angle showing an earlier design: https://www.themeparx.com/the-london-resort-paramount-park-london/?p=24226#post24226

Hopefully 2022 will be a progressive year for this project!

Source: https://twitter.com/LondonResort/status/1477066791855656960

I'm still doubtful of this project but also very hopeful. Hopefully this new timescale works out. This year should be full of a lot of news.

They really seem to be dragon their feet getting this park underway.

Wow new concept art just released by The London Resort:



Here's concept art from almost the exact same angle showing an earlier design: https://www.themeparx.com/the-london-resort-paramount-park-london/?p=24226#post24226

Hopefully 2022 will be a progressive year for this project!

Source: https://twitter.com/LondonResort/status/1477066791855656960

London Resort Company Holdings' in-house design division, London Resort Design Group, has launched a dedicated website: http://www.londonresort.design

The new website says "The London Resort is currently finalizing its DCO application in preparation for groundbreaking 2022 and an opening date of 2025." For a long time The London Resort has remained firm on a 2024 opening but this is the first I'm seeing them confirm that it has been pushed to 2025. Even the main official website (https://londonresort.info/the-project/) still says "Provided our DCO application is granted, works will start in 2022, with a view to the London Resort opening in 2024" so hopefully that'll be updated soon.

Source: http://www.londonresort.design/the-project/

New press release saying that work will start in 2022, they don't have the planning premission yet do they? Did I miss something?

It has been confirmed that work on The London Resort, a huge new theme park in the UK, is to begin in 2022.

The £2.5bn project has been likened to Disneyland. It is set to be the largest theme park in Europe since the opening of Disneyland Paris in 1992.

Source: https://interpark.co.uk/work-to-commence-on-the-london-resort-in-2022/

An update to the post prior to this:

Despite London Resort Hotels' "partner agent", Farrbury Capital Partners, removing all mention of "Paramount" from their website (https://www.farrbury.com/), they have now stated the following:

Paramount are still in the current line up of IP partners, including ITV, BBC, Radisson and some very exciting names to be released in the near future.

So if Farrbury is correct, the removal of Paramount's name and logo plus it no longer being involved in the hotel is happening for another reason. Perhaps Paramount wants to distance themselves from this project publicly until it gains more traction.

At the end of my last post, I mentioned concept art for the park's potential Dinotopia area shown in The London Resort's investment brochure on the Farrbury website. Well, here's the investment brochure: https://www.farrbury.com/Brochure/ThemeParkHotels_EquityBrochure.pdf and here's that Dinotopia concept art:



The concept art is unfortunately cropped a little bit but it's another interesting look at what could be an area at The London Resort. Based on Paramount Park Kunming's Environmental Impact Report, the water ride depicted in the concept art will be named 'Thunder Falls' and will believe it or not be manufactured by Premier Rides, but of course everything is subject to change and unofficial.

This is unconfirmed/unofficial and is just speculation: there is a realistic possibility that Paramount is no longer involved in The London Resort.

In 2019 and 2020 The London Resort released layouts/concept art that clearly showed rides and areas that matched plans for future Paramount theme parks in South Korea and China. Throughout 2021 the images being shared have switched to a different layout with generic designs.

For the past few years plans for The London Resort included three on-site hotels. It seemed that all three hotels would be managed/operated by Radisson Hotel Group. The first hotel would be named 'Paramount Hotel', the second would be a Radisson hotel, and the third would be a Radisson Blu.

Regarding the 'Paramount Hotel', people had/have the opportunity to invest in the project through a "private placement equity share" or a "fractional sale". Recently, London Resort Hotels' "partner agent", Farrbury Capital Partners, removed all mention of "Paramount" from their website (https://www.farrbury.com/).

The homepage used to say:

The London Resort will be a Tier One Paramount Studios Theme Park. The Paramount Hotel will be located by the first gate to open. Due to complete in Q2 2024, it will be the newest Tier 1 theme park in the world garnering attention from a global audience.

With Paramount Studios, BBC, ITV and Radisson Hotels having already signed long term partnerships, this project will be ranked in the Top 10 theme parks in the world when it opens its gates. The Theme Park is very conveniently located just 17 mins by train from Central London, only a moments’ drive from the Euro tunnel entrance and within 1 hours drive from 4 international airports.

Paramount pictures are the main Intellectual Property Partner for the London Resort, being the resorts flagship hotel this will be the only hotel in the resort to bear their name and enjoy the prestige of being linked to one of the best loved names in Hollywood. Unlike comparable opportunities the Paramount Hotel combines investment with lifestyle. Investors can expect a minimum uncapped yield of 8% NET per annum guaranteed for 3 years with 2 weeks own usage, flexible exit routes and access to the London Resort which can be enjoyed by friends and family.

Now, I am unable to find Paramount anywhere on https://www.farrbury.com/. BBC, ITV and Radisson are all prominently mentioned on the website but of all the partners/IPs, Paramount is gone.

On the London Resort Hotels official website, https://londonresort-hotels.com/, I am unable to find Paramount anywhere. The Radisson and Radisson Blu logos are clearly shown at the top of the website but no Paramount logo.

Global Residential, an international property investment company, has The London Resort's Paramount Hotel listed on their website: https://global-residential.com/properties/london-resort/. A couple weeks ago, that webpage had a link to a Dropbox page: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oacuv92m83m9e5m/AAByh6TQ6E7ZdmXG7Q6t6mHYa/The%20London%20Resort?dl=0. The Dropbox page contains details about investing in this project. In the 'Videos' folder, there is a video (which was uploaded on October 11, 2021) that can be viewed/downloaded called "LR update september.mp4". In the video at 1:26, PY Gerbeau, CEO of The London Resort, explicitly confirms that the Paramount Hotel planned for the project will no longer be branded as Paramount:

...we switched from our main hotel from Paramount to Radisson. It seemed for us essential to have a leading brand in hotel and hospitality industry and be able to tap into their 200 million customer base and use their booking system and the track records. So that's also very exciting and we think this is going to be an extremely fruitful partnership. The second good news in that aspect is our intellectual properties lineup is improving. We just signed two new agreements to extend our IP content into the first gate so that's really exciting and of course we will tell you very soon.

If you don't want to deal with the Dropbox link or the entire video, here's the specific clip of PY making this statement: https://streamable.com/cjy0mt

First of all, I personally don't understand the benefit of switching the branding from Paramount to Radisson. Radisson could still manage/operate a hotel that uses the Paramount name. For example, the new Warner Bros. hotel on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi is operated by Hilton under the Curio Collection brand. Imagine if instead it being named "The WB Abu Dhabi" it was simply named "Curio" or "Hilton". It wouldn't make any sense. Part of the hotel's appeal is the film studio brand, which is more unique.

Secondly, PY's wording when he says "the second good news in that aspect" and then talks about new IP deals for the first theme park gate implies (but does not confirm) that Paramount is also no longer involved in the theme park itself.

Paramount Pictures and The London Resort were both contacted to get confirmation as to whether Paramount is still involved in the theme park specifically and there was no response from either.

Lastly, an area planned for an upcoming Paramount theme park in Kunming, China is Dinotopia. The concept art/layout of Dinotopia in Kunming up until recently matched the design of an area at The London Resort. In April 2021 I shared on themeparX (https://www.themeparx.com/the-london-resort-paramount-park-london/?p=25952#post25952) concept art of the Dinotopia area. The concept art comes from KEH Ventures' website: https://kehventures.com/ventures and is still there as of this post. This Dinotopia area contradicts the design of a generic dinosaur-themed area, Base Camp, that The London Resort revealed later that same month: https://www.themeparx.com/the-london-resort-paramount-park-london/?p=26113#post26113. At the bottom of Farrbury Capital Partners' website (https://www.farrbury.com/web/fractional-sales.html) you will see a preview of The London Resort's investment brochure. The investment brochure displays a daytime version of the same Dinotopia concept art from KEH Ventures' website, yet the Paramount logo is noticeably not shown next to ITV and BBC. Further up though on Farrbury Capital Partners' website is the new Base Camp concept art, so what's the real design and what's placeholder/outdated?

Sources: https://www.farrbury.com/web/fractional-sales.html and https://kehventures.com/ventures and https://global-residential.com/properties/london-resort/ and https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oacuv92m83m9e5m/AAByh6TQ6E7ZdmXG7Q6t6mHYa/The%20London%20Resort?dl=0 and https://londonresort-hotels.com/#contact and https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oacuv92m83m9e5m/AADp1hKeOYe27LNSpxxqYJsna/The%20London%20Resort/Videos?dl=0&preview=LR+update+september.mp4&subfolder_nav_tracking=1