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Lightwater Valley

If done right, the park could absolutely boom. It's Achilles heel is (and I don't know if this has changed), but it relied heavily on non grid power.

I never understood why the flaming area was never built, despite permission, and constantly being told the future of the park depended on it. When the ultimate opened it's attendance was around half a million, and it has settled at about 1/4 million.

I'd imagine done right it could easily hit the half a million to 3/4 million and is much easier to get to than flamingoland or even towers.

But if it was possible, I genuinely wonder why it has never been done. It can't just be down to mismanagement. There must be overriding issues with the place which is a shame.

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Hid said:
Could Lightwater Valley become a Gullivers Park or the owners of Twinlakes, they seem to target a similar audience now so could it fit within their portfolio
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It's not outside the realm of possibility but I'm thinking that any potential buyer will need to hugely invest into the park and bring it back to standard

With Lightwater Valley, there's quite a lot of older ride hardware which may need refreshing.

In addition, I'd say Powder Kegs and potentially Flying Cutlass may not fit into the target market as much as other rides do.
 
The front part of the park would work well as a Gullivers. They'd probably want to sell the back half as it's a lot of land.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
Well they used to have a use for all that land. 😭
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Sadly, they never did.
There were half a dozen large, open landscaped areas, perfect for big new rides, all over the park.
Unused, always, just a nice long walk by woods and open fields to get to t'Ultimate.
Massive waste of development land that was never used...a lovely large park that was never more than half a "real" park.
 
Having been there a few times this year, the park is very clean, visually stunning and fairly busy. The powder kegs ride is the only one that requires a 1.3m height. Flying cutlass is a Huss Pirate ship the same as blade was and actually fits in well.

There is a ton of available space so it’s a pretty good blank canvass to build on with a decent footfall. The sticking point for whoever takes this over is not having the land included, had that been offered as well, then you have the potential.

I think the thing that annoys most of is is the potential this place has, it could be one of the best parks, the foundations are definitely there. However it will likely end up run to the ground further and lost forever in the coming years.

Having looked at the numbers and figures its clearly making a small profit in its current state, perhaps Brighton pier group are looking at the long term and predicting on its current path that profit is under threat, so want rid of it bow whilst the financials atill look good.
 
The Lynch Effect said:
Having been there a few times this year, the park is very clean, visually stunning and fairly busy. The powder kegs ride is the only one that requires a 1.3m height. Flying cutlass is a Huss Pirate ship the same as blade was and actually fits in well.

There is a ton of available space so it’s a pretty good blank canvass to build on with a decent footfall. The sticking point for whoever takes this over is not having the land included, had that been offered as well, then you have the potential.

I think the thing that annoys most of is is the potential this place has, it could be one of the best parks, the foundations are definitely there. However it will likely end up run to the ground further and lost forever in the coming years.

Having looked at the numbers and figures its clearly making a small profit in its current state, perhaps Brighton pier group are looking at the long term and predicting on its current path that profit is under threat, so want rid of it bow whilst the financials atill look good.
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It's highly lighkly the Brighton Pier Group don't have or never possibly had the funds to invest in the park. I'm amazed they spend a load of money demolishing The Ultimate which in hindsight was a total waste of money. It has to be one of the most disastrous acquisitions in UK theme park history.
 
Quantum said:
It's highly lighkly the Brighton Pier Group don't have or never possibly had the funds to invest in the park. I'm amazed they spend a load of money demolishing The Ultimate which in hindsight was a total waste of money. It has to be one of the most disastrous acquisitions in UK theme park history.
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Considering they've got Turbo at Brighton Pier 🤣 probably not as it'd have been better guest experience to replace it with anything else

That coaster is the roughest steel coaster I've ever done. I say that in the same breath as Volare at Prater, Infusion, Viking at Energylandia and Goudurix at Parc Asterix. 🤕

Woodies, that'd be ThunderCoaster at Tusenfryd, Loup Garou at Walibi Belgium and Bandit at Movie Park Germany 🤕
 
Quantum said:
It's highly lighkly the Brighton Pier Group don't have or never possibly had the funds to invest in the park. I'm amazed they spend a load of money demolishing The Ultimate which in hindsight was a total waste of money. It has to be one of the most disastrous acquisitions in UK theme park history.
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They should have gone the Blackpool route and sold bits of the structure in the gift shop. That said surely they must have made the money back in scrap or something, otherwise they would have just left it SBNO.
 
Fuct said:
They should have gone the Blackpool route and sold bits of the structure in the gift shop. That said surely they must have made the money back in scrap or something, otherwise they would have just left it SBNO.
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It was mostly wood so I highly doubt that, demolition is expensive
 
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