Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2024 Discussion

[Poisson]

The issue with Revolution is if you do remove it is that it really doesn't actually take up much space for a replacement. Could maybe get a Sky Rocket 2 (or the Zamperla version), or maybe a Vekoma super boomerang.

The other issue is Sky Rocket IIs are terrible things.

 

[rob666]

The Beach are opening Nickland for Feb half term next year...for the first time I think.
Half the usual entry price.

 

[Mattie boy]

An apparent repaint has begun on ice blast..

Source your experience guide

 

[Ares]

An apparent repaint has begun on ice blast..

Source your experience guide

They're painting it black with red tentacles and calling it Playstation, or as you call it Iceblast: Reborn

 

[Sam]

Respected architectural campaign The Twentieth Century Society have called for The Big One's station to be listed, alongside nine other buildings from 1994 across the country. They're all now eligible for listing as they're 30 years old. The government often (but not always) follow the advice of the C20 Society when it comes to listing postwar buildings, so there's a chance this might go ahead.

"The tallest and steepest roller coaster in the world at the time of its opening, the Pepsi Max (now known as The Big One) joined the several other architecturally notable structures at Blackpool Pleasure Beach – Joseph Emberton’s Casino (1937-39) and Sir Hiram Maxim’s Captive Flying Machine (1904) among them. Earning the praise of then Sunday Times architecture critic – now C20 Chair – Hugh Pearman, he likened its blue and white latticework structure to ‘some great inverted railway bridge’. Or indeed, a passing resemblance to Grimshaw’s Waterloo Terminal. The ride was engineered by vintage American coaster-designer Ron Toomer, but it was the ingenious station by Philip England that won an RIBA Regional Award. On an extremely constrained site, the station could manage 1,700 passengers per hour, storing and loading the trains vertically (and perhaps appropriately) like the magazine of a gun."​

And here's an amusingly dated-feeling piece from The Independent's architecture critic Jonathan Glancey about the building, from 1996.

 

[b2311e]

Not the best weekend for BPB, Big one out of action with the wind, Icon and Rev closed with technical issues. Avalanche picking up a bit more of a queue but with one train, that's easy

Guest services looked busy last night

Meanwhile, slightly more of Grand Prix has been transformed to rubble