This is not strictly about 2021. But I am curious about the long since planned and canned bigger one at Blackpool. I believe this was possibly one Geoffrey's last involvements before his death. I wonder if the ride would have been build had he not died.
I believe the council went as far as to place the footers for the planned ride into the promenade, is this correct? As seen in the photo below circled in red.
Now, as far as I am aware, the ride was planned to be something similar to Top Thrill Dragster, which was built after Geoffrey's death. I have measured these footers, and dimension wise they are almost identical to the footer placement and distance relative to each other as the footers are on Top Thrill Dragster, almost a perfect match. In fact, they are slightly further apart, indicating a taller tower than TTD. But the crucial thing is. The dimensional ratio is the same relative to the front and back footers. You can see the footer direction is also perfectly aligned to Watson road, indicating this is the route the ride would have taken, probably over the road. This would have from my understanding however, blocked a lot of existing rides. That said, if there is any park that could have pulled this off while keeping existing rides open, it would be Blackpool.
Just curious as to what happened, as from my eyes these 'footers' are clearly more than a decoration for the promenade, especially as they are an almost perfect match for existing coasters of similar type. I guess cost was a big issue in this, just wondering if anything else was. This would have been a great spectacle. Even so, it is a nice little Easter egg. Even today.
