Very easy for incompetent businesses in the industry to blame new government regulations on wages for their own professional mismanagement.
And Mandy is famous for chainsawing "redundant" woodies, not saving them, remember.
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2025 Discussion
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And Mandy is famous for chainsawing "redundant" woodies, not saving them, remember.
venny
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This is potentially massive news, so we should be clear why you believe they’ve been removed.
The shutters were closed on their balcony all weekend and their music was still playing; that’s not unusual for the opening weekends of the season and you’ll often see the shutters come up in weeks ahead.
Are those delightful, musically gifted, fluffballs actually removed or are you just referencing that the shutter was down?
Dipper_Dave
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We should have T-shirts made with this on
They have been spotted in a backstage area. Of course, there's two possibilities here, they could be getting repaired/cleaned up or perhaps they'll be in the shop for several million quid shortly, after the Grand Prix rocks, you never know..!
Those 'crowd' figures from GP's station are still for sale if anyone's interested
Dave
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Like I said, the changes to NI thresholds have a huge impact. Poor Oakwood. Can Mandy buy Megafobia and save it haha.
Oakwood has been dying for years, they are using the NI increase as an excuse. The company have other properties and want to use the closure to get voters to pressure the government.
If it had been running fine and closed suddenly I may have sympathy for the NI argument but it’s been badly managed and destroyed by its owners, not NI.
Companies lie, that shouldn’t be news to you.
Ares
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Really random one, I seem to have this memory of the following tune being played somewhere within pleasurebeach at some point - no idea what. Would've been 2000-2008 some point perhaps. In a more amusement style version though. Might be a false memory or from an amusements arcade.
From: https://youtu.be/kSIMVnPA994?si=qCTeUI3KANt21bng
From: https://youtu.be/kSIMVnPA994?si=qCTeUI3KANt21bng
venny
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You’re right, it was definitely played, if I remember correctly in several places across the park. It was accompanied by a male voice saying, “hurry, hurry, hurry, the greatest show on Earth is about to begin”.
I really can’t place where exactly it came from though. Was it from the arcades?
I really can’t place where exactly it came from though. Was it from the arcades?
Having the music back in the day, it was absolutely flogged to death in every arcade and "space themed" attraction for about two decades.
Oxygene part 4, 1977, I would have guessed a number one hit, but only number four.
Not quite Tubular Bells, but over repeated everywhere at the time, and for decades after.
May well have been used in the hologram display (remember them!) that ran behind the overpass food shops, towards the Camera Obscura and space tower, close to the Black Hole.
The whole album was given away with a sunday paper a few years ago, so I have a fresh copy.
I'm showing my age again aren't I.
Oxygene part 4, 1977, I would have guessed a number one hit, but only number four.
Not quite Tubular Bells, but over repeated everywhere at the time, and for decades after.
May well have been used in the hologram display (remember them!) that ran behind the overpass food shops, towards the Camera Obscura and space tower, close to the Black Hole.
The whole album was given away with a sunday paper a few years ago, so I have a fresh copy.
I'm showing my age again aren't I.
shakey
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It played on the machine that was located outside the entrance to streak until quite recently i think. Not sure if its still there now.
danlouislucy
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Not removed
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Dipper_Dave
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I love the Bears
Skyscraper
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That's beary good news!
owenstreet7
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I'm glad we can enjoy and 
with them for longer 
with them for longer Beat me to it, can confirm false alarm. Suspect they were too busy eating porridge last week or something.
They look freshened up, and slightly less terrifying
danlouislucy
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I have this saved in my photos but I think its originally from another user on here
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rctneil
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Amazing cheers Dan!
I never knew the ride system layout come out infront of where the entry facade is. I guess the bit out front is the load and death scenes and the Wrong Trousers museum scene.