Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2024 Discussion

[b2311e]

Chain has broken on Grand National - staff believe Icon will be used for journey to hell instead

Also a new development - outside each ride is a large top trumps style fact sheet with ride stats & history

 

[b2311e]

Apologies for double post - Grand Prix has gained a small scaffold on part of its structure. This is above the path between Bradley & Bella's garden and Watson Rd:




also managed a photo of the missing chain:

 

[pluk]

To borrow a topic of discussion from another thread, Tagadas are a rare example of a ride where the UK HSE specifically required them to be modified to be less fun safer

Taken from a letter from the HSE to inspection bodies, found on the ADIPS website



Basically, a Tagada should not get a DOC unless it has either had suitable restraints fitted or has been physically slowed down/modified to ensure it cannot produce ejection forces.

Full document available on: https://adips.co.uk/safety-information/ (search for Tagada under NAFLIC technical bulletins)

They make them pointless.

A Tagada with restraints isn’t much of a Tagada. There’s not really much point having a Tagada in the UK anymore then…

As always with HSE stuff, they don't really dictate what you must do, they advise what's not acceptable. The ways around that are up to the opperator. The obvious one with a tagada is a higher rung of bars around the ride; not restrained, not slowed, ejection risk mitigated.

I'd still love Thorpe to get one as a life raft to escape the invading Swarm as a support ride to the coaster. Never gonna happen though.

Were the beach the last proper UK park with an operating tagada? I can't think of another more recent one.

 

[Coaster]

Oh Chances of Grand National being open again in 3 weeks?

 

[Poisson]

Keeping my eyes on the queue times. If it's not open I'm not bothering this weekend

 

[owenstreet7]

As always with HSE stuff, they don't really dictate what you must do, they advise what's not acceptable. The ways around that are up to the opperator. The obvious one with a tagada is a higher rung of bars around the ride; not restrained, not slowed, ejection risk mitigated.

I'd still love Thorpe to get one as a life raft to escape the invading Swarm as a support ride to the coaster. Never gonna happen though.

Were the beach the last proper UK park with an operating tagada? I can't think of another more recent one.

Babylon Park in London has opened a modern SBF Tagada. I believe it's a smaller model than the classic models.