venny
TS Member
I’m not saying it’s a desert island for theme parks, but the shift in Manchester over 20 years has been notable. Whilst Blackpool and Towers are about an hour away, there have been some significant losses in the last couple of decades (as with other parts of the UK), including Granada Studios, Camelot, Frontierland and the significant downsizing of Pleasureland. That’s a lot of theme parks to lose over 20 years, all also within about an hour of the city. It’s perhaps symptomatic of the wider industry’s issues over that time.