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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2024 Discussion

IDB said:
This is the very last flag from the top of the ride, making it a truly unique collector’s item for any theme park enthusiast or Pleasure Beach fan.

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EXCLUSIVE Ice Blast Ride Flag

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£300. Not even a frame thrown in. Bargain!
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To be fair, they have spent thousands erecting all that scaffolding to retrieve it !

Very last flag ? Hmmmmm
 
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It’s intriguing that the park are advertising the walk around season pass as a limited time offer, almost like it’s not going to be offered as a day ticket option or even available next year.

I’d like to read into it, but let’s face it, there’s not much point.
 
The ocean Boulevard apartments planning application has been updated on the 30th October to show the proposed location of the trees the council want planting. Various locations are shown including steeplechase gardens, avalanche gardens, areas of icon, around front of sky force, around front of ice blast & down side of grand national and quite a lot around adventure golf. But most interesting is 16 will go along the wall immediately behind the bowledrome. Meaning if it is being removed and replaced with the gyro swing/ something else it can only occupy the same footprint as there will be a row of trees. Also interesting that no trees are proposed for the Grand Prix site or learning garden.
 
Mark84 said:
The ocean Boulevard apartments planning application has been updated on the 30th October to show the proposed location of the trees the council want planting. Various locations are shown including steeplechase gardens, avalanche gardens, areas of icon, around front of sky force, around front of ice blast & down side of grand national and quite a lot around adventure golf. But most interesting is 16 will go along the wall immediately behind the bowledrome. Meaning if it is being removed and replaced with the gyro swing/ something else it can only occupy the same footprint as there will be a row of trees. Also interesting that no trees are proposed for the Grand Prix site or learning garden.
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There’s hardly any trees in the rest of Blackpool, Pleasure Beach is private land, so why would the council be telling the park to planet trees? I can assume it’s for some environmental reason, like resilience?
 
James5696 said:
Wouldn’t trees be quite a tricky obstacle for PB to try and build around in future generations?
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No worries mate.
Seaside climate, right by the shore, most of them will be dead within a few months.
Sea air and trees usually don't mix very well "up north".
That is why you see so many trees on the prom between Lytham and Fleetwood.
The trees in the Beach are either half dead or in the East of the park, where they survive, but don't thrive.

Bert2theSpark said:
There’s hardly any trees in the rest of Blackpool, Pleasure Beach is private land, so why would the council be telling the park to planet trees? I can assume it’s for some environmental reason, like resilience?
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Citation needed...slightly inland, Blackpool has many, many thousands of trees, they tend to start about 100 metres inland, at the saltwater limit in the wind.
Take a look around Stanley Park and say there are few trees in Blackpool!
 
Bert2theSpark said:
There’s hardly any trees in the rest of Blackpool, Pleasure Beach is private land, so why would the council be telling the park to planet trees? I can assume it’s for some environmental reason, like resilience?
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Be something like "you're going to stick in x amount of holiday lets which will produce some amount of carbon emissions, you need to plant y amount of trees to make up for it"
 
Blackpool is pushing for more trees in all planning apps, they are short of them overall, they claim there are fewer trees in Blackpool than any comparable town (make it up as you like, tree counters), and spent ten grand each on ten trees inland of the tower, and got grief for it.
 
I can understand the council saying "you have to plant x trees" but it does seem a bit werid for them to say where those trees must be. I suppose it's to stop the park just shoving all of them in the corner out the way to tick the box and then they quickly stuggle for room and die.
 
I would imagine it's them suggesting so the park can't say it can't be done. Then some back and forth and they plant enough trees but where the park wants them
 
The park really need to bring back the WOW weekends in Feb and March. I remember paying £10 tickets roughly 20 years ago and when I last went in 2010 it was still only £15. I know things have gone up in that time but £25 each and the place will be packed again.
 
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