Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2025 Discussion

[Enter Valhalla]

Impossible is seriously dated to be honest and needs to be removed in my opinion.

What year did it first open anyway? I know a few of the older rides got renamed, so can’t find much information on it.

 

[Hid]

Impossible is seriously dated to be honest and needs to be removed in my opinion.

What year did it first open anyway? I know a few of the older rides got renamed, so can’t find much information on it.

I kinda like Impossible it a weird and wacky attraction quite unique miss Haunted Swing

 

[GooseOnTheLoose]

Impossible is seriously dated to be honest and needs to be removed in my opinion.

What year did it first open anyway? I know a few of the older rides got renamed, so can’t find much information on it.

According to this post by @shakey, it's either 1954 or 1955 depending on your source. He goes into further detail in the post.

According to a couple of different sources, Haunted Swing opened in either 1954 or 1955 (depending which one you go with) but it isn't mentioned on Ricks map, which could put the map no later than 1954. Or maybe they just didn't bother mentioning it on the map.

 

[rob666]

I rode it back in the late sixties, and it was a bit rickety and clapped out back then.
It may be in the Century of Fun book, will dig it out.

 

[Matty17p]

I kinda like Impossible it a weird and wacky attraction quite unique miss Haunted Swing

To me it's sort of a carbon copy of Ripley's Believe It Or Not.

 

[rob666]

Done my homework, not the century of fun book, the recent, square large paperback one...created by the Beach, so I presume the acceptable source.
The Haunted House opened in 1955.
Impossible...2002.
So there.