Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2024 Discussion

[Poisson]

But what would that achieve?

They wouldn't have to figure out how to fix the issues, they'd just support it fully underneath. Bit of minor repair work and they could be good. No need to rebuild all the stuff attached, could even build a proper Hot Ice external entry.

 

[DiogoJ42]

True, but it wouldn't give them any more space to play with.

 

[Fuct]

Perhaps they suspect the bridge will have to go and the removal of the Grand Prix is happening now to spread out the financial outlay.

 

[Poisson]

True, but it wouldn't give them any more space to play with.

Less about space, more about not having to rip the park in half and try and fix it.

 

[rob666]

No, but it's a big jump from ground level to the entrance for Wallace.

I could see them if successful in buying the road (I doubt it) just filling it in.

You can't just buy a road, simple as that.
Private roads are built on land already owned.
Public roads are nothing like as simple, people have a right of way under law...a petition to parliament via your local government, if they agree suitability, and a statement from parliament to stop the road up, costs a bloody fortune, and no guarantee that your request will be accepted.
It only takes half a dozen people in the Lytham Rd area to claim free access to walk their dogs on the prom (the walk around is a good half mile), and they are snookered.
The cost would be much more than a big new attraction, so I imagine more and more patchwork repairs, topped with a new surface.
Again.

Edit...the SABRE website has a lovely page on road ownership...extremely complicated in many cases...so add on the tricky concept of Flying Freehold, and I imagine the park having a legal bill bigger than mandy's prosecco bill.

 

[rob666]

They wouldn't have to figure out how to fix the issues, they'd just support it fully underneath. Bit of minor repair work and they could be good. No need to rebuild all the stuff attached, could even build a proper Hot Ice external entry.

They already have an external entry for the Arena, but they shut it with Covid.
Multi use as well, either, or both park and arena access.

Edit...sorry, self flagellation completed, quoting another post after posting...will he never learn.

 

[rob666]

Triple post whipping frenzy, but fresh...
Season passes £125 until tuesday.
More like it.

 

[Mattie boy]

Appears ice blast is being painted blue... it's quite a nice blue I think , be interesting to see what happens to this ride over the closed season..

Picture source - your experience guide

 

[Poisson]

Hence my caveat of (I doubt it)

At work we clearly have managed to remove several roads from public use, but that might have been offset with replacements built at the end of the large project.

 

[IDB]

Anyone got a spare £350 down the back of the sofa?

 

[Poisson]

Ah that famous accurate measurement, just over a mile.

Does anybody know what the QR links to?

 

[DiogoJ42]

Does anybody know what the QR links to?

Whatever it is, I suspect it will scam you.

A friend has his own email server and sets up a unique address for every site he buys from. He claims he worst spam he receives gets sent to "BPBbookings@[his domain]". Mostly male enhancement pills, apparently.

 

[IDB]

Ah that famous accurate measurement, just over a mile.

I’d like the think on the other side it says “Height:- Pretty Tall”

 

[flyingguitar]

I’d like the think on the other side it says “Height:- Pretty Tall”

Height - about the same as Hyperia

 

[DiogoJ42]

Depends where you put the silver end of the tape measure.

 

[Squiggs]

Depends where you put the silver end of the tape measure.

I think they've inscribed that on the inside of the track ring.

 

[Dipper_Dave]

Anyone got a spare £350 down the back of the sofa?

This is utter madness. Those track pieces sell for about £125, so they are charging about £225 for that ‘trophy’ base. What the hell?

It doesn’t even say Blackpool anywhere on it. Seriously, I’ve passed on a few items in the shops just because they have ‘resort’ on them, rather then Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

 

[Poisson]

This is utter madness. Those track pieces sell for about £125, so they are charging about £225 for that ‘trophy’ base. What the hell?

It doesn’t even say Blackpool anywhere on it. Seriously, I’ve passed on a few items in the shops just because they have ‘resort’ on them, rather then Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

I love when there's 3 items side by side in the shop, each with a different name for the park.

 

[Smiley]

The Big One trophies will prop up the road/bridge. Or Mandy will rename it the "Red Bull Walkway" and open it as a new attraction - a bit like the South Park "line ride".

 

[venny]

Stopping up the road is complicated, but it’s not beyond the whit. I’ll have to remind myself of the exact details, but before the overpass there were discussions around stopping up, due to safety concerns. The overpass was the alternative solution to the Council being otherwise disagreeable to stopping up.

Replacing the thing is going to be hideously expensive, I expect the budget of a large ride. Nowadays the Council are a little more joined up with the park so that might mean the stopping up becomes an option again, if the park otherwise need to spend millions to address whatever issue there may be. If there is an issue I suspect it’s most likely chloride inclusions which will corrode the steel reinforcement. You can adopt a series of remedial works for that including coating the concrete and anodic protection. That would still be expensive but almost certainly cheaper than a full replacement. It may well depend on the condition of the rebar though.