I am not sure that's completely true. If you look at the last four years of Broome ownership, it's not a bad haul is it ...
- 1987 - Sky Ride
- 1987 - Monorail
- 1987 - Swan Boats
- 1987 - Tea Cups
- 1988 - Alton Beast
- 1988 - Alton Mouse
- 1989 - Gravitron
- 1989 - Britannia Farm
- 1990 - Thunder Looper
- 1990 - Canal Boat Ride
I do think Battersea was a distraction for Broome, but more because it was a passion project that was garnering vast attention from Thatcher and the like. It's definitely fair to say her wanted Battersea to come off, he had made some pretty significant promises and I think that perhaps drove him to make some not particularly smart decisions that he almost certainly regretted later.
Tussauds came along at just the right time and he chose to bet big on the power station.