Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2023 Discussion

[Rick]

Damn capitalists trying to make money. There's a market for this stuff, why wouldn't you sell it?

Long gone are the days when you had to swap Big One wheels in oily rags for 4 pints of bitter in King Cotton.

 

[Fuct]

That long track section says ‘open to offers’. I dread to think what they expect to get for them

Wonder if it would be worth buying the track section then chopping it to bits and undercutting BPB on the smaller track pieces!

 

[pluk]

A couple of bits sold out already. At those prices that's mental, but god on em really.

I'd be considering those track lengths as the most extravagant runner bean supports my allotment has ever seen if the price was right.

 

[John_P]

If you bought enough track pieces to construct a working rollercoaster would it be classed as a new ride?

(a real triggers broom/ship of theseus question)

 

[Jb85]

Pics of the new track here

 

[John]

PMBO, Grand National and Valhalla will all be closed at the start of the season, the latter will be closed until Summer.

https://www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com/planned-maintenance/

 

[Dipper_Dave]

PMBO, Grand National and Valhalla will all be closed at the start of the season, the latter will be closed until Summer.

https://www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com/planned-maintenance/

The downside of opening until December I guess. Didn’t expect Valhalla reopening to be that late.

@shakey maybe they are taking the square wheels off Nash and putting round ones on

 

[rob666]

Forty quid, when it used to be "cheap rides", but two major coasters shut?
Bit naughty, but nothing new I suppose.
The bars better be open.

And one month to go boys and girls...all excited.

 

[JAperson]

They've had a extra year to work on Valhalla and it's still opening that late suppose that's COVID for you. I thought it would open like easter time. Do we know then ENSO will open yet?

 

[Skyscraper]

They've had a extra year to work on Valhalla and it's still opening that late suppose that's COVID for you. I thought it would open like easter time. Do we know then ENSO will open yet?

Well to be fair, it kind of makes sense for them to open Valhalla in the summer given how wet it is. Wouldn't have thought many people rode it in cold weather, unless of course they had no idea what they were in for.

 

[dazza4783]

They've had a extra year to work on Valhalla and it's still opening that late suppose that's COVID for you. I thought it would open like easter time. Do we know then ENSO will open yet?

I thought Valhalla would open around that time too, guess it must be very extensive work they are doing to it, looking forward to seeing what improvements have been made.

ENSO is just a new car added to the train, I don't see why that couldn't open as soon as the park does. If it isn't open for White Knuckle Weekends you would assume it should be open when the main season starts.

 

[shakey]

I thought Valhalla would open around that time too, guess it must be very extensive work they are doing to it.

Very extensive work or very extensive cost savings.



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[dazza4783]

Very extensive work or very extensive cost savings.



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Yes, that too. Although presumably at least part of the reason for the overhaul was to make it less expensive to run.

 

[Rick]

(Re)launching it in summer seems entirely sensible to me. Get folks in during the first half and get them to come back a second time for a soaking.

There is a risk people hold off their visits until the summer but it's probably a risk worth taking.

 

[D4n]

With all those attractions closed and the price still sky high i would expect attendance to be tragically low in February.

Hard to see how they will be turning a profit.

 

[Dipper_Dave]

With all those attractions closed and the price still sky high i would expect attendance to be tragically low in February.

Hard to see how they will be turning a profit.

3 major rides closed should justify a price drop, especially as these weekends were often half price in the past. Big One closure will bump up the Icon queue, North park will be really dead with no Nash or Valhalla, not to mention a certain piece of sacred ground which once held a classic ride (whoops, I just did)

 

[venny]

I suspect the only summertime return visits they’ll be getting from paying customers who visit in February will be the free return tickets they’ll have to dish out for the sheer amount of closed rides.

 

[rob666]

They dish out free returners for closed rides...news to me!
I saw an awful lot of stone cold refusals last year in the ticket office.
Bring back the 20p early season rides!

 

[Rick]

How much were wristbands on closing weekend? Ride availability was advertised as (and was) even worse than this?

Valhalla, Big One, National, Airbender, Sky Force, Derby Racer + others ?

 

[rob666]

'twas forty quid then, thirty five online if I recall.
Bleed the staycationers dry...for it won't last forever.