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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2023 Discussion

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Mandy's tweet is another example of why she really shouldn't be allowed on twitter !!

Even if she has no clue when Valhalla will open, as the company director you really shouldn't make public critical comments about your own park, even if it is meant to be a joke !!

It's a bit like when the owner of the former Ratner's Jewellers made this comment...
" People say, 'How can you sell this for such a low price?', I say, 'because it's total crap.' "
Killed off the company in one line.

Latest company accounts are due at the end of March, this will largely be for the 2021 season (the year of the staycation), so if they didn't make a profit in 2021 then there really is no hope.
 
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The ninetieth birthday bash was good value and good fun.
Free fairy cakes and prosecco, and Mandy waiting on (very, very briefly).
One of my favourite nights on the Beach.
Edit...exactly the same stuff this time as last time!
Most of the other stuff was walk on, got told off for taking my pint on Infusion.
 
Wandered along the front with the dog before, the park was spookily quiet for the weekend before opening. Perhaps that extra month of preparation has meant that everything is ready and they can just chill ... :rolleyes:

Most but not all of the scaffolding has been removed from the Big One, the painting on the Big Dipper looks great from the road.

The casino frontage has been redone, it's now a scrunched silver foil type appearance ...
 
But the Hot Ice season pass seems such value at a hundred quid.
Noticed the new Hot Ice leaflets in Coral Island at the weekend...glossy, double plastic backed...unsourced quotes of " Fantastic Show" etc.
No Beach leaflets of course.
Hot Ice only runs for ten weeks...
 
Isn't seeing the smile on the faces of the lovely staff in Crevettes worth that alone?
This has been a very long, slow, cold, wet, closed season.
With knobs on.
 
Does Amanda think Valhalla is one of her hot ice shows? “Technical Rehearsals” sounds very strange for saying they’ve had years to rehearse it already 😂 do they expect paying guests to experience it and if it’s naff they can just blame the fact it’s a rehearsal…
 
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Does Amanda think Valhalla is one of her hot ice shows? “Technical Rehearsals” sounds very strange for saying they’ve had years to rehearse it already 😂 do they expect paying guests to experience it and if it’s naff they can just blame the fact it’s a rehearsal…
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Dark rides such as Valhalla or The Curse at Alton Manor will need tweaking once running with guests, checking the lighting and effect timings and that sort of thing. Technical rehearsals is a fancy term for soft opening, Universal Studios used the same language for The Mummy when it reopened last September, that stayed on technical previews for months.
 
Valhalla has been changed, tweaked, welded and gaffer taped every day since it opened.

If the ride system is performing ok, they're half way there - not least because if effects are faulty or not working, no one will know.
 
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How drastic do we reckon the internal changes could be?

Given the 3-year timeframe, I reckon we could be in for something quite special! I’m aware that some of the delays were caused by COVID and Brexit, but I’m led to believe that some of them were caused by issues with the technology being used, so I’m hopeful that we could be in for quite a good ride here!

On a side note, the park has confirmed that £4million has been invested into Valhalla. That’s more than I was expecting!
 
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