Have you ever wanted to take a trip on a train leaving platform No. 9 and three-quarters? Dreamed of staring a dinosaur in the face? Or perhaps enjoy the company of China’s favorite blockbuster franchise, Transformers?

If you can hang around China for another six years, you’re in luck: Universal Studios plans to open a theme park in the Tongzhou District of Beijing in 2020.

The park, first announced back in 2001, is expected to cost RMB 20 billion and take up 120 hectares of Tongzhou’s cultural tourism zone. There are also plans to build a resort at the site taking up another 400 400 hectares.

The theme park will also apparently include “Chinese elements”. As these have yet to be determined, we’ll have to use our imagination. Perhaps something like:

• Transformers Ride of Harmony: There is Nothing More that Meets the Eye
• The Terminator Non-Time Traveling Killer Robot Show
• Musical: The Blues Brothers Sing Red Songs of Patriotism
• Stage Show: Harry Potter and the Galvanizing Foreign Presence of Evil
• Interactive Exhibit: ET: Phone Home: Sichuan Edition

Photo: China News