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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: General Discussion

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I’ve got a fun, BPB-related question to ask; as the park has such a rich history of attractions, which BPB attractions that are no longer with us would you have most liked to ride, if you didn’t get the chance to ride it? For me, my two choices would be:
  • Wild Mouse: Whether I would have actually liked it or not is uncertain, as I don’t generally tend to enjoy the steel mouse coasters I’ve ridden very much, but I would have liked to have ridden this simply because it was so unique, and looked to provide a ride experience quite unlike anything else on Earth! What’s more gutting is that I missed this ride by a mere year; its final year of operation was 2017, and my first visit to Blackpool was in 2018!
  • Log Flume: Having watched a POV of it, it just looked great fun; a true classic water ride, with an acceptable amount of wetness! Also, it looks just the right sort of length for me as far as log flumes go; not long enough to feel tedious, but also long enough to pack plenty in! What’s more, it also made some of the Big One’s support structure make far more sense to me; you got crazily close to sections of that track!
But which Blackpool attractions do you regret never getting the chance to experience?
 
I regret never riding the Wild Mouse basically because i wasn't into Pleasure Beach back before it hardly ever opened and probably Gold Mine or Monorail because they actually looked like good ride tbh!
 
shakey said:
Water Chute - I have no idea why but it's a ride I never went on.

I did get to ride the reel once.

If we can go back further in time then probably the scenic railway.
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Are you referring to the original Water Chute from the early 1900s, or the new one built in 1979 which later got renamed to Vikingar when Valhalla opened?
 
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Matt N said:
Are you referring to the original Water Chute from the early 1900s, or the new one built in 1979 which later got renamed to Vikingar when Valhalla opened?
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Both. I had plenty of opportunity to ride the more recent one but for some reason I never did.
 
RicketyCricket said:
I only went on Mouse once and really don't remember much about it tbh. Think I would love it nowadays though.

Interesting reading back to the reaction when the news broke...

https://towersstreet.com/talk/threads/blackpool-pleasure-beach-general-discussion.147/page-119

Edit: omg, forgot about the Hitler video:tearsofjoy:

https://www.captiongenerator.com/848372/Hitler-learns-of-Wild-Mouses-Demolition
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I can feel a Wild Mouse rant coming on.

No, mustn't do it.... It's gone... Leave it.... Leave it................

They rushed into bulldozing it when they could and should have done more to save............. Noooooooo, stop it, stop it now. :rage::rage::rage::rage::weary::weary::weary::weary::sob::sob::sob::sob:

And I thought the therapy sessions were finally starting to work !!
 
Sadly, as much as I would have loved to have experienced Wild Mouse, I think its removal may perhaps have been inevitable due to circumstances outside of the park’s control; from what I’ve heard, the decision was not taken lightly, and the park’s hand was very much forced by external factors.

Despite the work the park conducted at the end of 2017, the ride was reportedly still uninsurable; judging by that, I think anything that would have made it insurable would arguably have ruined the ride for those who loved it. Surely you Mouse fans would rather have the ride gone and your memories of it being happy ones than having to watch it get neutered, and your final memories of it being substantially worse?

While it’s very sad that the ride was removed, and I’m not necessarily sure if the secretive removal method the park took was a good way to handle the ride’s removal (although through a different lens, I can perhaps see why they did it), I think the ride’s removal definitely wasn’t something that Pleasure Beach took lightly by any means.

“Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened” - Dr Seuss
 
I have barely been to the PB since they removed Mouse.

In fact, with the loss of Camelot's Knightmare, trips to the North West today are nowhere near what they once were for me.

Sad, but by removing rides which I loved, the desire to visit wanes.
 
AstroDan said:
I have barely been to the PB since they removed Mouse.

In fact, with the loss of Camelot's Knightmare, trips to the North West today are nowhere near what they once were for me.

Sad, but by removing rides which I loved, the desire to visit wanes.
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Was Icon not something that tempted you back, at least temporarily? Or are you not a huge lover of it in comparison to Wild Mouse?

Also, did you like Knightmare? I’m only wondering because it’s not a ride I’ve ever heard too much about in terms of reviews, despite the attention and notoriety it gained for the 7 years it was SBNO for.
 
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