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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: General Discussion

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I assume it’s some sort of storage or workshop facility. A quick look at Google Maps and Streetview shows that it’s still there to this day, but it doesn’t really look like anything that’s intended for guests. Also would appear to maybe have been the case back then too, given there’s no number assigned to it on the map.

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Ian said:
Great map! So much that hasn’t changed!

I presume the area labelled “Yellowstone Park” is today buried somewhere in the Big Blue’s foundations? Was this just a bit of a scene that the railway passed through? Would the area beneath Streak and Big One’s final turn be remnants of that today?
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Yellowstone park was simply the crap concrete rockwork the train goes through, was originally western style, then they added dinosaurs and camels from the Pleasureland leftovers.
Lots of rumours that the rockwork is full of old park scrap and junk, useful under cover storage, and overnight accommodation for freaks, geeks and happy clappers.
Allegedly.
Edit...double post...whip me.
 
Pleasure Beach Valhalla said:
Lol! Also can i ask does anyone know a list of Blackpool Pleasure Beach rides or attractions that were planned but were never built (could have just said cancelled by yh)!
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Legend has it that the Pleasure Beach wanted to build a 'Bigger One', that travelled out to sea. This was dependant on Blackpool getting the Supercasino and i suspect it was a variation of an Intamin Strata Coaster. Can anyone confirm this?
 
I think the 'bigger one' was certainly something they'd planned in the early 2000s, been so many different sources regarding that.

Only other things I ever heard was a rapids ride, which made sense as they had the old Tom Sawyer boat ride area. And weirdly one of those King Kong things were he picks up your carriage and shakes it (there's one at Bobbejaanland).

Suppose they must've had other coaster ideas as well as an initial idea for Nickelodeon Land was to supposedly flatten the two coasters as well. I believe the park convinced Nickelodeon that the woodies would fit the area.
 
John_P said:
I think the 'bigger one' was certainly something they'd planned in the early 2000s, been so many different sources regarding that.

Only other things I ever heard was a rapids ride, which made sense as they had the old Tom Sawyer boat ride area. And weirdly one of those King Kong things were he picks up your carriage and shakes it (there's one at Bobbejaanland).

Suppose they must've had other coaster ideas as well as an initial idea for Nickelodeon Land was to supposedly flatten the two coasters as well. I believe the park convinced Nickelodeon that the woodies would fit the area.
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You know its Winter when someone asks about 'The Bigger One'!

I'm glad that Nickelodeon were told in no uncertain terms that the woodies were going nowhere. Even if the park did end up painting one of them bright orange with a lime green train. I actually like the colours to be fair. At least they are not boring grey like Icon.

What is the King Kong thing? Is it similar to the backlot tour at Disney in Florida or something different? Never heard of anything like this relating to BPB. Rapids may have been good. Swamp Buggies is one of those things I'd like to go back in time and ride again, I think I only went on them a couple of times. It is Spring yet? Suck Fanta
 
Ian said:
Don’t get your hopes up too much. It’s probably one of the dullest theme park creations ever built.



I genuinely think I nodded off riding it.
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Still creeped me out when i first saw it! Imagine how many kids start crying when they see that?! I even heard rumours about following on from the Bigger One to the Biggest One!
 
John_P said:
Only other things I ever heard was a rapids ride, which made sense as they had the old Tom Sawyer boat ride area.
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Out of interest, was the Tom Sawyer boat ride that this cancelled rapids ride was mooted to replace on the lake that the former Tom Sawyer Bridge went over, which was later replaced with Icon?

As for the Bigger One, a lot of sources indicated that it would have been an Intamin Accelerator Coaster akin to Top Thrill Dragster or Kingda Ka, had it been built. I’m not sure where on earth it would have gone, however...
 
Matt N said:
As for the Bigger One, a lot of sources indicated that it would have been an Intamin Accelerator Coaster akin to Top Thrill Dragster or Kingda Ka, had it been built. I’m not sure where on earth it would have gone, however...
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I'm sur the rumour was it would go out towards the sea with the hi-hat in the water. But that doesn't seem feasible given wind and rust issues. Maybe it was a made-up crazy rumour. I think there was some kind of cicrular markings in the promenade that someone thought might be spaces left for coaster footers. Which again is a bit stupid really so almost certainly not true.
 
Matt N said:
Out of interest, was the Tom Sawyer boat ride that this cancelled rapids ride was mooted to replace on the lake that the former Tom Sawyer Bridge went over, which was later replaced with Icon?

As for the Bigger One, a lot of sources indicated that it would have been an Intamin Accelerator Coaster akin to Top Thrill Dragster or Kingda Ka, had it been built. I’m not sure where on earth it would have gone, however...
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Yes it was. They were rafts. Great fun going under Log Flume and getting the roof (and your feet) splashed with water from above.

As for a gigantic 400 foot top hat rising out of the Irish Sea, there would be more chance of Geoffrey Thompson rising from the dead, sacking Mandy, and putting @rob666 in charge, whereby he would rebuild Wild Mouse, Log Flume and his beloved Reel
 
Dipper_Dave said:
Yes it was. They were rafts. Great fun going under Log Flume and getting the roof (and your feet) splashed with water from above.

As for a gigantic 400 foot top hat rising out of the Irish Sea, there would be more chance of Geoffrey Thompson rising from the dead, sacking Mandy, and putting @rob666 in charge, whereby he would rebuild Wild Mouse, Log Flume and his beloved Reel
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I can picture that happening now!
 
I believe the idea was it would launch along Watson Road over the road before going up the top hat were the 'supports' can be seen on the prom to this day. It certainly would've been some sight if it had happened.

They used to have a very basic model of a strata coaster in the education centre but whether that was the final plan who knows.
 
John_P said:
I believe the idea was it would launch along Watson Road over the road before going up the top hat were the 'supports' can be seen on the prom to this day. It certainly would've been some sight if it had happened.

They used to have a very basic model of a strata coaster in the education centre but whether that was the final plan who knows.
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As in an actual physical support or markings?
 
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