March 18, 20214 yr comment_272857 How long before Icon goes down to two train operation during busy times. Never seen that before at PB... oh hang on a minute.
March 18, 20214 yr comment_272861 Seat belts on most coasters exist usually either to reassure guests, or to help with evacuations (it allows staff to control the flow of people who get off the ride, especially if the system opens multiple restraints). Parks rarely add these things on later for the fun of it, so I wonder if it's something their own H&S team have decided to do to assist with evacuations, or if it's a feedback thing from guests? I'd guess (and hope for) it to be the former. Hopefully it doesn't affect throughputs too much.
March 18, 20214 yr comment_272862 7 minutes ago, JoshC. said: Hopefully it doesn't affect throughputs too much. Narrator: it will
March 18, 20214 yr comment_272865 Has anyone else herd that Bradley Beaver and Beaver Creek may return to the Plesure Beach after a decades absence.
March 18, 20214 yr comment_272870 1 hour ago, Theme Park Fanatic said: Has anyone else herd that Bradley Beaver and Beaver Creek may return to the Plesure Beach after a decades absence. I’ve heard that they’re going to be in terror tomb when it reopens at chessington this year!
March 18, 20214 yr comment_272872 Well yes, they probably are then. Along with the return of Bling, The Gold Mine and Log Flume. That’s impossible!
March 19, 20214 yr comment_272873 5 hours ago, MarkC said: I’ve heard that they’re going to be in terror tomb when it reopens at chessington this year! @MarkC I cannot wait to see what the collaboration between Chessington and Blackpool Pleasure Beach looks like when it it opens. Bradley Beaver may be the jewel theif. This will truly be a world’s first for Merlin as I have neaver known another Theme Park to have theming in a ride!! Roll on the 2021 season
April 1, 20214 yr comment_272964 You can hear a snippet of what I guess is a new Pleasure Beach song near the start of this video, I love the tributes to Geoffrey and Doris Thompson.
April 2, 20214 yr comment_272968 Seems everyone will have to scan e-tickets at each ride unlike last year.
April 10, 20214 yr comment_273052 Pleasure Beach have brought back Mr Funshine on the entrance arches! The arches have also been sandblasted and repainted and look much smarter. https://twitter.com/AutoRideCount/status/1380836424350629889?s=20 They've also got flags with Mr Funshine and the 125th anniversary logo on, which I saw on the BBC News report.
April 10, 20214 yr comment_273053 It looks nice. Those arches have needed work for some time. The front of the PB with all the frontages repainted in the last couple of years should look a lot more appealing now.
April 10, 20214 yr comment_273059 Great improvement there, Funshine really adds some character back to these otherwise adequate arch signs. Also yay to more PMBO re-tracking!
April 11, 20214 yr comment_273072 Yeah those signs look really good. I only went to BPB for the first time in 2019 and thought the car park looked really rough. So definitely much better for first impressions now!
April 27, 20214 yr comment_273270 Blackpool Pleasure Beach's new soundtrack is now available on iTunes and has also been uploaded to YouTube; Full version; Pop version; I absolutely adore these soundtracks, it feels like they have had real care and attention put into them with so many PB sounds and quotes from the Thompsons integrated and the singer's vocals are stunning. In particular the full version - just incredible.
May 10, 20214 yr comment_273379 Nice teaser of the Valhalla refurb; https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=499347131434332
June 1, 20214 yr comment_273615 Blackpool Pleasure Beach was atrocious on Sunday. Saturday was an excellent day helped by the 10pm close; we arrived in the morning to find Alice, Ice Blast, Nickelodeon Streak, Avalanche and Revolution on delayed opening, which wrecked our chances of riding the low capacity rides first, but fortunately things picked up later on and the rides ran excellently throughout the day. Icon was unfortunately still running very slowly once up to 3 trains, I waited earlier on 2 and the queue moved faster but some of my group ended up waiting over 90 minutes later on. Sunday however, was the worst day I have ever had at BPB. The park was busier than the Saturday, which I presume was due to the bank holiday, and yet there was no extension to the 6pm closing time. We arrived early again to find Ice Blast, Alice, Derby Racer and the entirety of Nickelodeon Land opening at 11am! Nick Land was completely fenced off until 11, which was utterly useless when you consider that getting on the Streak early is the only way to avoid waiting an eternity for it. The coasters due to open at 10:30am were closer to 11 by the time they actually opened, meaning that for the first hour, the only ride in the entire park open was Flying Machines! The Big One and Icon's operations were woefully slow on the Sunday, I have never seen such slow dispatch times in all my visits to the Pleasure Beach. Icon was stacking for 5 minutes each time, meaning it took us 10 minutes to get off the thing, since we had to wait in two places as the ride was on 3 trains. 450pph was calculated I believe which is just abysmal, also bearing in mind that the Speedy Pass queue was enormous. Icon had major capacity problems with it starting the day on 2 trains both times, at which point it was moving the queue reasonably, but they would then hold it up to add on the third train at around midday (which took them 20 minutes to do on the Sunday), after which operations slowed down to an absolute snail's pace. This caused the queue to overspill the extended queueline; past the entrance gate, all the way down the path next to it and back up, and overflowing out next to the Icon shop. It would then hardly move for the rest of the day making for some utterly horrible wait times. Despite the park being absolutely heaving, Grand National, Ghost Train and River Caves closed an hour early at 5pm due to a private event?! This was absolute madness given how busy the park was, and again, I have never seen anything like it. I've tried to see the good in the Pleasure Beach, but Sunday was an utter shambles and the worst day I've ever spend at BPB.
June 1, 20214 yr comment_273616 Can only echo what was said regarding Sunday there. It really was poor. I ended up leaving at 3pm, as I was fed up. Thinking positively, The Big One itself was on top top form and easily the best rides I have ever had on it. The Saturday post 10pm ride was truly amazing, with no wind, pure speed and even some unusual pops of airtime. One of my all time favourite coaster rides of all time.
June 1, 20214 yr comment_273619 Icon right now is utterly pointless to run three trains on. Endless stacking. I know many blame this on the seatbelt installed on the restraint, this however is not the issue. The issue is that the wristband/E ticket scanner is right at the boarding area to the ride. Which means guests are faffing around getting through the turnstile and being batched into their rows whilst the train in front is hitting the second launch. Icon historically when operated well is dispatching a train just as the train in front is hitting the second launch. So by the time you have got through the scanning turnstile, been sent to your row, had the gates open, placed your belongings in the loose articles area, had the restaint checked and given the all clear, the ride has two trains stacked up behind you. Which in turn takes an eternity to off load riders. Until they move the location of the turnstile, they should NOT be running it on three trains. No ifs no buts and no maybes about it.
September 1, 20213 yr comment_274417 2022 season pass prices are out; New pass - £99 Renewal - £90 Offer runs throughout September. https://www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com/season-pass/
September 1, 20213 yr comment_274419 Great deal. Might actually consider one for next year seeing as I thoroughly enjoyed my visits this year! Great to see that it can all be finally done online. Didn't you have to go to registration days before, which seemed awfully faffy for us southerners?!
September 7, 20213 yr comment_274446 On 9/1/2021 at 8:57 PM, Mattgwise said: Great deal. Might actually consider one for next year seeing as I thoroughly enjoyed my visits this year! Great to see that it can all be finally done online. Didn't you have to go to registration days before, which seemed awfully faffy for us southerners?! Registration days were optional, you could still pick it up on the first visit (as I used to do).
September 10, 20213 yr comment_274456 Good; this poster. Bizarre; Valhalla winning this year's Golden Ticket award when it has; a) been closed for almost 2 years. b) not deserved to win best water ride for at least 5 years. Plus side though - I do really like this promo image.
September 10, 20213 yr comment_274457 Just shows how meaningless - and perhaps farcical - the Golden Ticket Awards are.
September 10, 20213 yr comment_274460 8 hours ago, JoshC. said: Just shows how meaningless - and perhaps farcical - the Golden Ticket Awards are. I know right!! Who on EARTH puts Fury 325 and millie over SteVe for worlds best coaster!!!?? I do find Valhalla continuously getting that award to be a bit off given the condition its been in over the last few years prior to its "revamp"......and surely Chiapas could have won the award at some point!! Goes to show the people picking the awards more likely than not have not ridden Valhalla over the last few years and are solely giving these awards on reputation.
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