Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2024 Discussion

[John_P]

Launch Pad perfectly ties in with the ride next to it The Flying Machines.

 

[Ukrideman86]

I love This . I would hate if pleasure beach resort went down the themed area route . It just wouldn’t work .

 

[KolonelKlink]

Almost as if they didn't really want to theme it and just went with some stock generic look for it rather than deciding to do anything creative.

See also the promo social video - clearly all AI - and confusingly they’ve gone for this all-American theme but the concept art still shows the really ugly Union Jack signage at the top of the tower.

Amanda, you’ve done it again.

 

[DiogoJ42]

Surely you're not suggesting that colonial rebel flag is better than our own?

 

[John_P]

The dream of Space exploration is shared by people of all nations.

 

[Shaggy_Dog_]

The dream of riding a refurbished S&S shot tower at Pleasure Beach Resort Lancashire Blackpool is shared by people of all nations.

Fixed that for you.

 

[Squiggs]

I believe it was Plato who first extolled the virtues of a refurbished S&S Space Shot

...or Playstation, as he knew it.

 

[b2311e]

I believe it was Plato who first extolled the virtues or a refurbished S&S Space Shot

...or Playstation, as he knew it.

ah yes, shortly before writing the Allegory of the (river) Cave(s)

 

[Quantum]

The River Caves will be the 'new ride' for 2026

 

[dazza4783]

So from the promo images looks like the original style seating rather than the rotating seats, which is a shame. Would have certainly fit the theme as astronauts launch upwards while on their backs facing upwards. Or are they going to have one side of it as the rotating seats as an upcharge?
Seems like a missed opportunity to not convert it to that seat style. Will still be fun to get it back to full power, look at that airtime it had when it first opened.

 

[Davezilla]

I understand Amanda has requested Neil Armstrong be there to open the new ride in 2025, just waiting on a response. Exciting times!

 

[Fuct]

So from the promo images looks like the original style seating rather than the rotating seats, which is a shame. Would have certainly fit the theme as astronauts launch upwards while on their backs facing upwards. Or are they going to have one side of it as the rotating seats as an upcharge?
Seems like a missed opportunity to not convert it to that seat style. Will still be fun to get it back to full power, look at that airtime it had when it first opened.

Oh no, you've spoken it into existence now.

 

[NuttySquirrel]

I understand Amanda has requested Neil Armstrong be there to open the new ride in 2025, just waiting on a response. Exciting times!

She must have contacts on The Other Side then...

 

[Funcone]

It sounds like this project’s going to be more exciting than we initially thought. They’re going down the Butter Beer route, and having a shop next to the ride selling authentic space food. Apparently Amanda Thompson has already ordered £10,000 worth of space cookies from a shop in Amsterdam.

 

[BSwiss]

Moon Pie? What a time to be alive…

 

[QTXAdsy]

See also the promo social video - clearly all AI - and confusingly they’ve gone for this all-American theme but the concept art still shows the really ugly Union Jack signage at the top of the tower.

Amanda, you’ve done it again.

TBH given how the attraction now is painted blue, you might have gone and put up a Scottish Saltire flag on top instead of a Union Jack and theme it to the spaceport thing up in Shetland given that we now have a space theme. Seriously, the damn theme writes itself then and appeals to the Scottish hordes in Blackpool and if Mandy had any sense then she would have done that.

 

[Fuct]

TBH given how the attraction now is painted blue, you might have gone and put up a Scottish Saltire flag on top instead of a Union Jack and theme it to the spaceport thing up in Shetland given that we now have a space theme. Seriously, the damn theme writes itself then and appeals to the Scottish hordes in Blackpool and if Mandy had any sense then she would have done that.

That might have made sense to the 100 people who knew there was a spaceport in Scotland, but I think it'd have most visitors scratching their heads.

 

[DiogoJ42]

Given our country's track record with space flight (going right back to the Black Arrow), I'd wait until they actually manage to successfully launch something before getting too excited.

 

[rob666]

That might have made sense to the 100 people who knew there was a spaceport in Scotland, but I think it'd have most visitors scratching their heads.

Oh but you sound like a right sassenach there Fuct...
The Scottish hordes know the spaceport is in the Shetlands...and they do swarm around the Beach at certain times.

 

[DanJB]

Given our country's track record with space flight (going right back to the Black Arrow), I'd wait until they actually manage to successfully launch something before getting too excited.

Shipped off to Australia, run a couple of times and be scrapped?

To be fair, it made a lot of sense to send things into space from down under - you just need to let go .