Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2025 Discussion

[Hid]

Another ride gone and not replaced by another ride. Add it to the list....

* Reel - Replaced by a theatre
* Vikingar - Replaced by a junk yard
* Space Invader - Replaced by a restaurant
* Wild Mouse - Replaced by a bar (that hardly opens)
* Astro Swirl - Replaced by a room of junk
* Monorail - half still standing
* Noah's Ark - SBNO (possibly permanently)
* Haunted Swing - SBNO
* Trauma Towers - Replaced by astroturf
* Cableway - Replaced by bar at one end and toilets at the other
* Dodgems - SBNO
* Gallopers - Replaced by picnic tables for those picnics you can't bring into the park.
* Skyforce - SBNO
* Eddie Stobbart - SBNO
* Thompsons Carrousel - SBNO
* Alpine Ralley - SBNO
* Valhalla - SBNO half the time !!
* River Caves - SBNO
* The greatest show on earth - Replaced by burger king
* Grand Prix - Replaced by grass

I wish I could add......
* Amanda Thompson - Replaced by anybody that has even the faintest idea what they are doing !

I would like to see you try and run a park like Pleasure Beach I can guarantee it would go bankrupt within months. Operating Parks in the UK ie expensive

 

[shakey]

I would like to see you try and run a park like Pleasure Beach I can guarantee it would go bankrupt within months. Operating Parks in the UK ie expensive

They don't need my help to go bankrupt, they are having a real good go at it themselves !

 

[Hid]

They don't need my help to go bankrupt, they are having a real good go at it themselves !

They are in much better position now then they were in the late 2000's where in 2009 they did nearly go bankrupt

 

[Fuct]

They are in much better position now then they were in the late 2000's where in 2009 they did nearly go bankrupt

Not if your metric is user experience or amount of rides open.

 

[flyingguitar]

I would like to see you try and run a park like Pleasure Beach I can guarantee it would go bankrupt within months. Operating Parks in the UK ie expensive

It may be expensive, however closing down half your park and not creating something new is exaccally how you loose people, it dosn'e happen instantly, however people will notice all of their favourite rides have gone and have been replaced by fountains, or in grand prix case... grass

to make money you have to invest to attract people, one big investment can bring an insane amount of people and put BPB back on the map (PMBO has done that for like 30 years)

it may be possible to save the park, however they need to actually build stuff and put down the sledge hammer.

 

[b2311e]

Worrying to see the late night riding days aren't as busy this year as previous years have been. First of these in a long time where Big One's queue extension wasn't needed at all.

On another note, a change was made to the operation of the ride turnstiles a few weeks back. Staff can no longer manually release. Fine in theory, but if somebody scans their ticket too quickly before the person in front goes through, it won't release again, so there's no option but to go under or over it. The rate at which this is happening would suggest to me the process needs more thought, or at least program the system to detect whether the turnstile has actually rotated or not..
This was causing a lot of grief for the staff today

 

[Fuct]

The rate at which this is happening would suggest to me the process needs more thought, or at least program the system to detect whether the turnstile has actually rotated or not..

I am shocked, shocked!

 

[rob666]

On another note, a change was made to the operation of the ride turnstiles a few weeks back. Staff can no longer manually release. Fine in theory, but if somebody scans their ticket too quickly before the person in front goes through, it won't release again, so there's no option but to go under or over it.

My wankle would stop me going over or under...hardly reasonable access for the less mobile, or lard ridden.
I wondered how long it would be before this happened, or a supervisor had to release...
Back around 1970, my first rides on the Nash, I was often told to squeeze through the turnstile with my sister, which I always did on request, without thought.
Turnstile operator pockets two shillings.

Not much difference with a manual release button, and someone on a nickland/entry ticket, and a small cash tip in reward.
The poorly paid staff have to make a living wage somehow.

 

[shakey]

Surely this is going to slow things up even more and cause more chaos ? Staff are constantly having to release the turnstile when people have trouble scanning.