Lightwater Valley

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Pleasurewood I think has a lower ceiling. I don't think the park will ever grow much, but it probably doesn't need to do too much to be steady and make a profit. It I think has more in common with a lot of the beach parks where the area is the destination not the park, for better or worse.

Lightwater is the other way around. People might go to Ripon and it's surrounding attractions, but LWV is much more of a destination park, and with that much more scope to grow, especially given the lack of competition and decent access to the A1.

BPG have both done Mellors a favour, but also critically damaged the park. The removal of so many rides was catastrophic but most of those removed were long past their best of hugely expensive to maintain and even the loss of the ultimate probably had to happen some time.

The benefit is that Mellors comes in as the 'good guys' with a blank canvas to grow, and an established base who are used to feeding off scraps. The trouble is in just bringing in the one new ride, they are committing it to being 'the attraction' with the long queues and issues in the case of breakdowns that brings.

I'm surprised there isn't a support ride like a star flyer or something along those lines to take some of the capacity and give the idea of more for older visitors, but ultimately I suppose they have extra rides if they feel there is an issue.

I am surprised that PWH appears to be making the better fist of the social media landscape. The whole fiasco on the logo was a genuine surprise, given the learning curve the park will have had with FI.

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While Brighton Pier Group were directly responsible for the destruction of The Ultimate, most people seem to forget that Livingstone Leisure were basically responsible for all of the major other ride removals such as Black Pearl and Raptor Attack. Not surprising at all given their treatment and handling of Flambards in Cornwall. They were way worse than Brighton Pier Group as they add not anything more than just close stuff off such as the Shopping Village and Twister. At least BPG, despite their asset-stripping, tried to at least revamp the park into something different, LL ran it straight into the ground the whole time they had it.

 

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While Brighton Pier Group were directly responsible for the destruction of The Ultimate, most people seem to forget that Livingstone Leisure were basically responsible for all of the major other ride removals such as Black Pearl and Raptor Attack. Not surprising at all given their treatment and handling of Flambards in Cornwall. They were way worse than Brighton Pier Group as they add not anything more than just close stuff off such as the Shopping Village and Twister. At least BPG, despite their asset-stripping, tried to at least revamp the park into something different, LL ran it straight into the ground the whole time they had it.

This is absolutely fair comment. Although there is an ironic twist. Livingston Leisure was a company with more than a few ties to Queensbury holdings which owned both parks in the mid nineties. It was there that LWV started to very much go off the boil, and it became more reliant on fairground rides and loaned attractions.

Not sure what fate pleasurewood had at the same time, but Queensbury had big plans initially for LWV, bringing the mascot woody along, but gradually seemed to draw back from the park when it had the start of its legal problems due the the accidents.

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