Park is steady this afternoon. Absolutely love Pleasure Beach in the sun ! When I past by yesterday there were a ton of coaches, none today - so the park is seemingly not getting group trips as much on a Friday, but non-group guests make up for it to make crowds broadly comparable.
The Valhalla opened at around 2 I think. Queue is probably the best part of 45 mins now, I would estimate. Both the fire dragons at the entrance are now working, it has typically only been one of them, even on media day.
Avalanche is running one train, but it's a different train so it's presumably now got two that are serviceable.
One observation ... The music that is being played around the park is fairly odd. I thought it was a mix with everything else - but seemingly it's now exclusively lounge covers which is quite pleasant when you're sat in Loki's with a Bulmers but creates a slightly strange atmosphere when you're queueing for a high energy ride like the National.
They are currently playing this interesting re-imagining of A-ha's Take on Me.
And now ...
I am reminded of a story I was once told about a very tense meeting with the folks at Kit Kat Radio where WGT and Nick T had a debate about the kind of music that should be played in the park, WGT wanted "seaside classics like I do like to be beside the seaside" and Nick wanted more chart stuff. WGT shut down the meeting by saying "I write the cheques" and the decision was made. Those kind of songs were played for a while, as I recall.
