Spin-Ride-Lover
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Bottom Line I don't think it's resnable to blame PB for it's removel.
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: General Discussion
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Using the slightly-unintuituve-but-easy-enough HSE search, you can see that there hasn't been any notices issued against BPB by HSE in the last few years, which was used to closed the Smiler: http://www.hse.gov.uk/notices/notices/Notice_details.asp?SF=CN&SV=306419423
Spin-Ride-Lover
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Yep! and PB tried and tried and tried to insure it and just could't in the end.
So Its the insurance company that should be getting flack for this not PB.
Stern John
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Wow, sure looks bare! I wouldn't be surprised to see Alice removed next. Would open up a nice area to expand the fountain show!
Martin
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Blackpool allowed it to get in a bad state, and Blackpool chose to demolish it. They've managed to keep Supper going for much longer, even after the crash, they could have saved Mouse. That picture a few days ago of the track having a hole in, that didn't happen over night, and they could if they wanted to replace the track. The decision is on Blackpool, anything else is just making excuses for them.
...And just to be absolutely clear...my customer who just happens to be a retired Lancashire senior H&S inspector, and used to do Camelot inspections, said that he had heard the same gossip as me, via a different set of jungle drums to me, that H&S were happy for the ride to run after the incident reported on tripe advisor at the end of August.
The ride ran through August pretty well I think, closed through September with a plan to reopen, then I heard on Friday 13th October that it was pretty much gone.
It will all be looking nice and tidy by opening day I'm sure, but some of the rides will struggle due to the winter closure, salt and wind.
And people will come on here and grumble about it, cos they can't do it on Scott's site any more.
The ride ran through August pretty well I think, closed through September with a plan to reopen, then I heard on Friday 13th October that it was pretty much gone.
It will all be looking nice and tidy by opening day I'm sure, but some of the rides will struggle due to the winter closure, salt and wind.
And people will come on here and grumble about it, cos they can't do it on Scott's site any more.
Dipper_Dave
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I'm not sure it is still on there. I'm not a fan of TA, in fact just now is probably the second time ever I've looked at that site. Its entertaining in places but after reading some numpty's rant on virtually everything about the park, including, incredibly, the line "The big one is a death trap, far too steep a drop" I wanted to throw the computer through the window.
All this talk about the mouse being un-insurable.
I might be wrong, but I would have thought that the whole park would have one public liability insurance policy to cover the whole park as one as oppose to individually insure each individual attraction?
Dave
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No real idea, I don’t think anything is “uninsurable” but the premiums could become prohibitive and I’m sure the insurers would consider all the rides when deciding a price.
I’m not convinced on the insurance excuse though, seems too convenient.
Dipper_Dave
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Cut them some slack, its not open for a month. I'm sure the area will be presentable by then
MakoMania
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Agreed, hence why I said I can't imagine they'd leave it in this state.
Dipper_Dave
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I agree with Rob's idea of opening a temporary merch shop on the Mouse land, selling mainly parts etc from the ride, presuming some were kept to sell on anyway. I wonder if any actually were kept or if they were so desperate to get shut of it in the end that nothing was spared.
I genuinely believe others will also do the same / visit less than planned this year.
You can see the game stall outlet which was next to Trauma has now had cladding added to the newly exposed side of it to hide the undesirable. It is another month to go but I can’t imagine them putting anything other than tables and chairs there.
Maybe the inflatable stage will go there for this season
Skyscraper
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Well, you might as well wait until Icon opens; that'll cheer you up!
Rick
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I have only seen the contents of one such policy and it was for all attractions in a park, but did have some exceptions on it that were not covered (in this case, a SCAD tower).
I suspect rides could be listed like named drivers or vehicles - there would have to be a scope for the policy or you could (in theory) introduce twice the number of rides doubling the likelihood of a claim.
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