{"id":3037,"date":"2014-12-30T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/doctor-who-to-travel-to-a-bbc-theme-park-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T09:47:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:47:40","slug":"doctor-who-to-travel-to-a-bbc-theme-park-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/doctor-who-to-travel-to-a-bbc-theme-park-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who to Travel to a BBC Theme Park in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #282828; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Are you an Anglophile? Are you obsessed with British programming &#8211; and perhaps even a bit of a nerd when it comes to TV and media? Do you also enjoy amusement parks? Well, the tourist attraction of your dreams may soon, in fact, be a reality!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #282828; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0BBC has recently partnered with Paramount Entertainment in development of The London Paramount Entertainment Resort. The park, will feature not only rides based on Star Trek and Transformers, but also beloved English franchises Top Gear, Sherlock, and the longest-running, possibly most beloved, Doctor Who. Exactly how these titles will be incorporated is still a mystery to the general public, but fans will surely be clamoring to wait in line regardless. Who wouldn\u2019t want a chance to climb into a blue police box and travel throughout time and space?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #282828; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0In a statement, Stephen Davies, director of live events at BBC Worldwide, said, \u201cWe\u2019re always looking for opportunities to extend fans\u2019 enjoyment of their favourite shows and the idea behind the resort is a really exciting way of celebrating the very special place the BBC has in British culture.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The projected cost of the park is \u00a32bn and estimated to bring in 15 million visitors per year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/11284388\/BBC-to-open-theme-park-to-exploit-Doctor-Who-and-Top-Gear-brands.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to The Telegraph<\/a>. It\u2019s scheduled for completion in Kent in 2020. So, you still have a bit of a wait left, but it sounds like it\u2019ll be well worth it. It\u2019s just one more good reason to take a trip across the pond. Besides, if you do get to ride in the TARDIS, you\u2019ll have all the time in the universe to spare!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you an Anglophile? Are you obsessed with British programming &#8211; and perhaps even a bit of a nerd when it comes to TV and media? Do you also enjoy amusement parks? Well, the tourist attraction of your dreams may soon, in fact, be a reality! \u00a0BBC has recently partnered with Paramount Entertainment in development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897021,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/98897021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}