Each week, Ben Hopkinson looks back at what’s happened the past 7 days and what was trending on Twitter with the Maritime Hashtag Minute. This week’s #MaritimeHashtagMinute was #UniversalStudios – the company behind some of the biggest movies are set to bring a new theme park to Bedfordshire, and it was confirmed on Wednesday. View the Tweets below:
A new Universal theme park is coming to the UK.
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) April 9, 2025
We have closed the deal on a multi-billion-pound investment that will make Bedford home to one of Europe's biggest theme parks.
Creating 28,000 jobs, boosting our economy, and driving local and national growth. pic.twitter.com/0brg57M52H
CONFIRMED: A new Universal theme park is coming to the UK – set to be one of the biggest of its kind in Europe.
— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) April 9, 2025
🎢 Creating 28,000 new jobs with more than 80% of employees hired locally
💷 Bringing an estimated £50bn boost to our economy
This is our Plan for Change in action. pic.twitter.com/pG9KTEzYio
It’s official! Universal Studios Great Britain is CONFIRMED with a planned opening of 2031. Here’s a FIRST LOOK at the full concept art for this new resort! This was sent out in the official press release and it looks AMAZING 😍 pic.twitter.com/Wbeu9qKsjO
— Theme Park Worldwide (@ThemeParkWW) April 8, 2025
Never in my life would I think I would see a Universal Studios in my home country but here we are. It is confirmed Universal Studios is coming to England in 2031! pic.twitter.com/O3tRntyBUo
— Expedition Theme Park (@ExpThemePark) April 8, 2025
Universal building a theme park without Nintendo and without Harry Potter is such an absurdly confident mood that I’m both shocked and impressed.
— Wallin Ballin (@wallin_ballin) April 8, 2025
They must realllllllly have confidence in this final product. pic.twitter.com/upgva3Jl4o
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