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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2025 Discussion

Aviktas is looking... Something.
To correct my previous post, the pendulum is gold. Supports are dark grey. They look a bit darker than Icons colours, but that might be a difference in years of weathering and UV

You can see it from the promenade if traveling southbound, but not really from the other direction which I found quite surprising (I imagine it'll be easier to see whilst actually running)
 
b2311e said:
Aviktas is looking... Something.
To correct my previous post, the pendulum is gold. Supports are dark grey. They look a bit darker than Icons colours, but that might be a difference in years of weathering and UV

You can see it from the promenade if traveling southbound, but not really from the other direction which I found quite surprising (I imagine it'll be easier to see whilst actually running)
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I still feel that the best option would have been to place the swing where Launch Pad is. Launch Pad actually takes up waaaaaay more space than it needs. It could ahve easily fit in that spot. Would make that entrance area feel more active.

Then ice Blast could have been taken down, refurbished at ground level (save on scaffolding costs), and rebuilt in a smaller space elsewhere in the park.

You'd also then be able to walk 360 degrees around the gyro swing too.
 
rctneil said:
I still feel that the best option would have been to place the swing where Launch Pad is. Launch Pad actually takes up waaaaaay more space than it needs. It could ahve easily fit in that spot. Would make that entrance area feel more active.

Then ice Blast could have been taken down, refurbished at ground level (save on scaffolding costs), and rebuilt in a smaller space elsewhere in the park.

You'd also then be able to walk 360 degrees around the gyro swing too.
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Anywhere sane would have scrapped Ice Blast and built a new tower in the new location.

So not BPB then.
 
From TPWW's construction update, the swing arm is in!
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By the way, I've seen a lot of comments on social media moaning about how "it doesn't look tall"... It's worth noting that 138ft is the height of the gondola at full swing; the structure itself is 88ft.
 
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Skyscraper said:
From TPWW's construction update, the swing arm is in!

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By the way, I've seen a lot of comments on social media moaning about how "it doesn't look tall"... It's worth noting that 138ft is the height of the gondola at full swing; the structure itself is 88ft.
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This looks absolutely stunning, can't wait to see this in it's full glory 😁

Especially after doing Loke earlier this year
 
b2311e said:
Come on then, who's got deep pockets?

£50 to be one of the first on Aviktas before it opens, a further tenner to upgrade to a normal eticket (if you're not a passholder).

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Be one of the first to experience Aviktas

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Sounds one hell of a lot like it won't open on opening day 2026
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Probably better value to go ride it at Liseberg 😛
 
Black friday...season pass 130, last day and fireworks two for fifty quid.
One day left, often big reductions in the shops, especially with dated food stock.

Oh the cheap mr funshine shortbreads I have purchased in bulk in the past!
 
I am just rewatching the bbc 90s documentary series on the park and am really enjoying it as was too young to remember it back then..

Just a quick question what time did the place stay open till? Episode 2 we see the bomb scare and images of the office clock at 10pm then 10.30pm and shots outside of the park rammed full.

Also must have been filmed before the 1997 labour election win too as Amanda was on the phone wanting the local tory councillors who would loose their seat in the general election of 97 in may
 
Mattie boy said:
I am just rewatching the bbc 90s documentary series on the park and am really enjoying it as was too young to remember it back then..

Just a quick question what time did the place stay open till? Episode 2 we see the bomb scare and images of the office clock at 10pm then 10.30pm and shots outside of the park rammed full.

Also must have been filmed before the 1997 labour election win too as Amanda was on the phone wanting the local tory councillors who would loose their seat in the general election of 97 in may
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I did hear once that the park frequently used to open very late, as they used to be fined by the council but didn’t really care because the extra money they made outweighed the fine!
 
They pretty much stayed open while the park remained busy so well into the night on some occasions. I think it was filmed in 1996
 
shakey said:
They pretty much stayed open while the park remained busy so well into the night on some occasions. I think it was filmed in 1996
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That would make sense , as I said I was just trying to work out a time scale, the crowds back then !
 
I've never quite been able to work out the exact filming schedule for the BPB documentary.

Most of it is certainly from 1997 - Playstation is the big new ride and it features prominently but I'm sure there's a few shots showing the Monster which previously occupied the same site, so that footage must have been filmed in 1996 - I can't remember whether or not those shots were purely background shots though. At the other end of the park, one episode features an evac from Tokaydo whilst another has a segment on a new ice rink on the same spot which I'd always assumed must have been from the following year, though I guess the ride could have been removed mid-season (rcdb just states 1997 as the final year)
 
I have ridden the National at 1 am.
There was never an official closing time on busy weekend nights, they simply stayed open until the park got quieter...usually around midnight.

Very short opening hours came in, of course, with wristbands.
 
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