Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2025 Discussion

[Hid]

Unfortunately the current evidence would point towards a park that is really struggling to stay afloat.

I sincerely hope they can turn things around but I think they need some outside investment . That may or may not require a change of owner but they need something to happen and I am not sure a gyro swing is going to be enough, unless they make a significant change to how the park is being run.

They are making strategic choices. The event they cancelled likely was cancelled due to lack of sales. And the rides they closed earlier this year people rarely rode them

 

[shakey]

They are making strategic choices.

Strategic or Desperate ?

 

[rob666]

I strongly disagree the park has more money than you think, they paid off the loan fir the Gyro Swing quickly and it's survived this long and will continue to do so

How can you possibly know this!
Every last snippet of information passed down from long term reliable sources recently suggests the park is scraping along on its bottom...including entry for twelve pounds fifty, two days a week, in what used to be peak season.
What actual information do you have to suggest the park is happily solvent?

And cancelled events due to a lack of sales...clear evidence of the park failing to sell its own product...announce new events, then pull them because nobody books.

 

[Matty17p]

I genuinely believe most of this nonsense has come about purely due to enthusiast YouTubers / Influencers who will pay stupid money for things that otherwise would never sell, purely to flaunt on their content and recoup costs via said content.

To sell the wrapping for the big one cans for £1500 is absolutely embarrassing in my opinion.

The park is clearly on its **** to be doing things like this, and as usual from events being cancelled and the ever changing prices, inability to check season passes using scanners which show your image on them, and the plethora of other issues just sums it up really.

Nothing other than **** poor, top down management.

Say what you like, but the park won't exist in 5 years. Especially when AVIKTAS flops due to a stupid name that half the YouTubers can't even seem to say correctly, its probably too wild for most, and no doubt they'll botch the marketing campaign and probably take the **** with ticket pricing when it opens charging more.

Please protect your sanity, seems needed as the sale of the can wraps have really wound you up this whole forum is filled with a bunch of Grim Reapers. The park has been in far worse financial situations in the past and made far bigger losses.

 

[Hid]

How can you possibly know this!
Every last snippet of information passed down from long term reliable sources recently suggests the park is scraping along on its bottom...including entry for twelve pounds fifty two days a week in what used to be peak season.
What actual information do you have to suggest the park is happily solvent?

And cancelled events due to a lack of sales...clear evidence of the park failing to sell its own product...announce new events, then pull them because nobody books.

Would the park have brought a Gyro Swing if they were so hard done by or. Made a Garden out of the Grand Prix in or be Putting Accommodation on Ocean Boulevard. Refurbing Grand National or Refurbing Launch Pad

If they were financially screwed they wouldn't be doing all of the above mentioned Would they. They would leave those rides to rot

 

[Fuct]

Would the park have brought a Gyro Swing if they were so hard done by or. Made a Garden out of the Grand Prix in or be Putting Accommodation on Ocean Boulevard. Refurbing Grand National or Refurbing Launch Pad

If they were financially screwed they wouldn't be doing all of the above mentioned Would they. They would leave those rides to rot

Gyro Swing - Hail mary.
Grand Prix Garden - can't afford a replacement ride
Accommodation on Ocean Boulevard - Cheap conversion of existing space.
Refurbing rides - cheaper than a new offering and looks new to the GP

 

[rob666]

Would the park have brought a Gyro Swing if they were so hard done by or. Made a Garden out of the Grand Prix in or be Putting Accommodation on Ocean Boulevard. Refurbing Grand National or Refurbing Launch Pad

If they were financially screwed they wouldn't be doing all of the above mentioned Would they. They would leave those rides to rot

Lots of capital letters there but not much actual expense.
No giroswing this season...nothing new this season...again.
Fixing the National...eventually... so it can run for half a season.
Likewise, fixing playstation/ice blast/whatever...again...after another lengthy closure...and claiming a better experience...when it really isn't.
Fixing broken stuff isn't real progress, neither is closing a dozen rides without replacement.

 

[spotweld]

So what do you suggest they do?

They either keep on pushing or sell out to a foreign company and get squeezed dry like many other historic British entities and wind up dead anyways.

 

[rob666]

Start following the actual advice of the paid, experienced consultants perhaps?

 

[Plastic Person]

So what do you suggest they do?

They either keep on pushing or sell out to a foreign company and get squeezed dry like many other historic British entities and wind up dead anyways.

I don't have the sympathy for BPB that I once maintained. Yes, a foreign company might squeeze them dry, but it's exactly the independent, family ownership of the park that has allowed for such stubborn, poorly considered leadership for two decades now. There have been economic challenges and shifting markets, no doubt. But in response, they have also helped dig what is beginning to resemble their own grave.

 

[rob666]

Bringing back cheap paid entry would be a real, logical, first step back to some sort of sensible business practice.
Allow the return of large numbers of non riders with money in their pockets to spend in the arcades, shops, food stall, cafes and bars.
Again.
Like they used to.
Like they promised to return to.
But mummy knows best, and we thoosies do not have the slightest idea on how to run the seaside funfair that thinks it is a theme park.
So twenty five quid to watch the fountains is fair, and so is half that for a wristband for all the rides if you know where to look.
Great practice.

 

[venny]

The cancelling of nearly all the Friday VIBES events is absolutely textbook. Promote a half-assed event with barely any notice, charge a price which doesn’t make sense, then cancel it almost as quickly as it was announced.

You can perhaps look at it as the park trying new things, but I get the distinct feeling they really weren’t behind it in the first place. Surely to attempt to try a new event and change visitation patterns that for the last decade they’ve shifted in the other direction, you need to invest more effort than a last minute announcement of what appears to be a very poor value proposition.

 

[rob666]

Yup, like the very half hearted (should be arsed but curse you censor) paid entry...make it so expensive that nobody uses it, then pull it because nobody uses it!
Simple.