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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2021 Discussion

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DistortAMG said:
Surely it's grade II listed status pretty much confirms it is going to be never. RMC'ing it would mean significant modifications to the structure. Even if they were just adding steel track. Lots of extra supporting would be needed as steel is quite heavy. Can never see Historic England allowing it.
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I was being sarcastic
 
Fingers crossed that icon will have four seats for the spinning car. The one at Dreamland only has two.
 
rob666 said:
Can't see Blackpool squeezing four seats in, four will have to come out, but only two spinners going back.
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Yeah that's what I expect will happen unfortunately. Clearance is probably too tight for four spinning seats. Just means there will be two less seats on those trains. :(
 
Brad97 said:
The two seater spinning cars are designed to have the same clearance as a regular train, so it will be those that are added to Icon.
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Are you sure that's the case? The prototype fitted to Blue Fire for the promo video removed the rear two rows to insert 1 spinning row. I really can't see them having sufficient arm and leg clearance for spinning without taking two rows out.
 
Craig said:
Are you sure that's the case? The prototype fitted to Blue Fire for the promo video removed the rear two rows to insert 1 spinning row. I really can't see them having sufficient arm and leg clearance for spinning without taking two rows out.
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The ones on the prototype are the two seater spinning cars @Brad97 is talking about aren't they? As opposed to the four seater cars on "Time Traveler" and "The Ride To Happiness". Or have I missed something?

The original prototype car for the Extreme spinners had four seats and would possibly have enough clearance for Icon. But I think the ones they have on Steel Taipan are the standard model actually going into production, and it is that one that is shown on the promo image for Enso.
 
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Also worth noting that for that 4 seat spinning car, they took THREE rows of standard seats off the Blue Fire train, so it's still a loss of 2 seats overall.
 
dazza4783 said:
The ones on the prototype are the two seater spinning cars @Brad97 is talking about aren't they? As opposed to the four seater cars on "Time Traveler" and "The Ride To Happiness". Or have I missed something?
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Yup last year's video is the two seat, but what I'm saying is they take up the space of row 10 for the seat themselves, and row 9 is taken out to allow for sufficient clearance.

For the prototype Extreme Spinner car, as John said they had to do the same and remove row 7 to allow for sufficient clearance. So we'll likely be losing 4 seats across two rows on Icon even though there'll only be 2 spinning seats on one row.
 
Craig said:
Yup last year's video is the two seat, but what I'm saying is they take up the space of row 10 for the seat themselves, and row 9 is taken out to allow for sufficient clearance.

For the prototype Extreme Spinner car, as John said they had to do the same and remove row 7 to allow for sufficient clearance. So we'll likely be losing 4 seats across two rows on Icon even though there'll only be 2 spinning seats on one row.
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Yes I got that. I was just wondering why you questioned whether Brad was sure that that was the case? Brad said that it would be those that were added. It confused me, I thought I must have missed something.
 
Great Jolly Boys trip on park today. Nice mix of booze and coasters. Everything we expected to be open or closed was such. Most rides a walk on throughout the day.

After park close (17:00) some of us got the tram up to Tower Headland to try the Star Flyer. Wasn't quite as large as I expected, perhaps not helped by the size of the other tower right across the street. I quite like Star Flyers, enjoyed the larger Six Flags models .... but this one that's in Blackpool wasn't great.

I think it's a Fabbri ride, providing a very odd sensation in which as the seat went into the wind, it started to tilt backwards in a way that felt a bit precarious. For £7.50, I am not sure I would recommend!
 
Yes the star flyer was a bit pricey but never done one before so had to give it a go.

Quality day out and excellent company as always, think I counted 20 rides in total plus the star flyer at the end. Could have easily got more in.

Roll on 2022





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Still no sign of Nickland being ripped out though!
...And none of the staff had heard any such rumour.
Heartbreaking that Crevettes was closed, nothing worse than seeing a grown man cry, while throwing a tantrum and hammering on the shutters.
 
With the Star Flyer at £7.50 per person and I think 3 staff. I wonder how much money they take on a typical day ?

Potentially they could take up to £1200 per hour with 5 full cycles. Obviously they won't get near that but even at £600 per hour that could be £5000 in a day.

Compare that to how much pleasure beach took yesterday. If you take out all the season pass holders I bet there were more staff than paying punters.
 
Good day at Pleasure Beach yesterday. A stark contrast to my experience there earlier in the season.

All rides walk on besides Icon (usually a two train wait due to it being run on one).

7 rides on Big One, 5 Icon, 3 Avalanche, 2 Dipper and the rest of the park once. That's with an hour in Spoons for lunch.

Pretty dead. Still not sure it justifies the £35 entry fee but I know i'd rather go on a day like that than a rammed 10-10.

Night rides on Big One and Icon too.
 
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