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Blackpool Pleasure beach 22/09/2012 (Photos heavy)

alanm4072

Roller Poster
Who went
Me, Mark

Park opening hours / my time
9:15-21:00 / 10:00-21:10

Ride count

Big dipper x9
PMBO X7
Grand national
Ice Blast
Valhalla x2
PBE x2
Steeplechase

Total rides x23

Highlights

Park was extremely busy right up to close.
There was pretty much no wind all day so all rides were running fantastic!
Dipper was probaly the best rides of the day and was a queue muncher! (Airtime, Airtime, Airtime)
Grand National at night seemed extremely fast.
9PM CLOSE!!!
The atmosphere was amazing.
Getting 23 rides in on the whole day.
Seeing the big one stuck right at the top in the morning lol.
Seeing Ice Blast stop half way up the tower and just seeing it bouncing. (Looked quite fun)
YOOMOO was really nice.
PMBO was flying today.
we queued for 50 mins for the Big One even though the queue line was full (So would like to thank the staff for quick dispatching)

Lowlights

Maybe if they opened at 10:00 instead of 9:15, they might of closed at 22:00 instead of 21:00 but still great though.
Me and Mark went on big dipper 4 times in a row and every time the train stopped on the lift hill for a few seconds. (Suspicious) :p
Seats got stolen on the big one by speedy passes, then to make matters worse, when we got on, the other train had an E-STOP. :-(

Got to the back of the park about 9:50 to find out PMBO was stuck at the top of the lift hill.
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As soon as I got in the park, i notices it was 9:00pm close which was great.
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So I decided to take some general fountain show photos as it was playing to the music from hot Ice.

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These pictures was took around 10:30.
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Queue for Ice Blast around 10:30.
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Then by about 11:50, the park picked up even more,
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Queue for Nick Streak by 11:50.
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Loads of people at 11:50.
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The queue for ghost train about 11:55.
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The queue for Alice around about the same time.
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General photos of the park at the same time. (Not even gone 12 yet)
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We queued this and it was only 15 mins every time it was this big :)
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About 12, this photo was took.
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General PMBO shots.
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Infusion shots.
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Queue about 5 mins later :O
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Valhalla was on 12 boats but never managed to get a massive queue today.
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These next following pictures were took between 12:50-13:00.
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So we went out the park to get something to eat and we got back in about 12:35 and saw the Grand National queue :O
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BUSY BUSY BUSY!!!
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REV!
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queue for Avalanche around 2:25.
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PMBO.
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Rev queue around 14:30.
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Steeple running 3 lanes :)
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Yes PMBO queue was all the way back here at 14:35.
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Can anyone spot Wally?
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YOOMOO!
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Busy park.
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I had to save my battery's for the night time so it wouldn't die.

Still really busy at about 19:30.
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This photo looks like it in the day time but its really not (Around 19:40.
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PMBO.
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The queue for PMBO at 20:40.

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PMBO AGAIN!
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Quite a fair few people.
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Dont know why.
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Still loads of people.
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PMBO again.
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Nash!
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Mark.
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Checking the restraints.
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And there off (Very quickly) :p
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Night time fountain shots to let me entertain you song.
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Flying Machines.
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Final shot of PMBO from the prom.
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Thanks for looking :)
 

owentaylor121

Giga Poster
Sounds like you had a great time, nice to see the park was open until 9, thats a thing what the U.K parks lack is late openings. Nice hear that the Big Dipper was running well.
The park looks stunning at night, can't wait for the PBE event in November.
 
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