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Blackpool Pleasure Beach | Icon | Mack Multi-Launch

streetmagix said:
Someone mentioned that the Pleasure Beach is a bit quieter compared to previous years, presumably because people are waiting for ICON to open. If financials aren't looking too good then they may have to move the opening day forward to get people back into the park. The theming/decoration etc can then be done in the evenings/closed days.
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It'll open when Blackpool want it to open. If it opens for May Half Term then they'll rake in the money for that holiday and get ready for a good busy Summer Holiday season.
 
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MakoMania said:
Indeed, the park has been extremely quiet so far this season. Every coaster walk on with just one train running during the school holidays.
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Don't think we have been on the same park Mako!
On lots of visits this year I have given up on the coasters because the queues were over half an hour.
PMBO was on 2 trains on my last two visits, with the back six seats of one on sandbags, and the queue was still out of the station.
The weather is always a big factor in Blackpool, so the holidays haven't been as busy as normal, but all the coasters have had considerable queues by the time I have left most Sunday lunchtimes, admittedly with most running on one train.
Still say it is about time they got the Revolution running on two.
 
rob666 said:
Don't think we have been on the same park Mako!
On lots of visits this year I have given up on the coasters because the queues were over half an hour.
PMBO was on 2 trains on my last two visits, with the back six seats of one on sandbags, and the queue was still out of the station.
The weather is always a big factor in Blackpool, so the holidays haven't been as busy as normal, but all the coasters have had considerable queues by the time I have left most Sunday lunchtimes, admittedly with most running on one train.
Still say it is about time they got the Revolution running on two.
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To be fair, the weather has been pants on all my visits this year. Thoroughly drenched, and that's before Valhalla.
 
MakoMania said:
Indeed, the park has been extremely quiet so far this season. Every coaster walk on with just one train running during the school holidays.
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Agree with Rob, I went last Weds (still Easter hols for some areas) and though I’ve seen busier holiday days at BPB, it certainly wasn’t ‘extremely quiet.’ PMBO was on two trains with a short queue. Grand National I didn’t even bother with due to queue which is painfully slow at the best of times, one on train. Big Dipper queue was almost to the top of the stairs on one train. Really not sure why it couldn’t have had two on. Anyway I was only there for a couple of hours so chose to do Steeplechase for the Icon views rather than wait for the woodies
 
Unfortunately I couldn't get a good photograph of it using my phone but today I saw these workers on a ladder there installing what looks to me like a camera angled at the first launch? Could this be the on ride photo point? If not what is it?
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They tested with one train a few times today. And at one point were testing the tunnel mist again. Looks very good. Looking forward to riding it some day soon!
 
MakoMania said:
Indeed, the park has been extremely quiet so far this season. Every coaster walk on with just one train running during the school holidays.
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That’s completely untrue because the one visit I was there in the school holidays the park was packed with almost all rides running at full capacity and still having long queues.
 
owentaylor121 said:
That’s completely untrue because the one visit I was there in the school holidays the park was packed with almost all rides running at full capacity and still having long queues.
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I've been 5 times this season, all during weekends or school holidays, dead every day. I can only speak from personal experience given that the park do not have a queue time monitoring system. Granted, the weather hasn't been great, but it was only horrendous on one of the days.

The fact that the park reduced opening hours by one or even two hours for almost the whole of the school holidays also suggests that attendance is not what they were expecting.
 
MakoMania said:
I've been 5 times this season, all during weekends or school holidays, dead every day. I can only speak from personal experience given that the park do not have a queue time monitoring system. Granted, the weather hasn't been great, but it was only horrendous on one of the days.

The fact that the park reduced opening hours by one or even two hours for almost the whole of the school holidays also suggests that attendance is not what they were expecting.
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Five days does not make a fair assessment.
Due to Icon watching, I'm up to about a dozen visits this season.
If it was sunny...the park was busy.
If it was wet...the park was quiet.
If it was in between, the park was steady.
The weather has been poor overall so far this season, so the park has been reasonably quiet.
Same as always.
No change is sexy...to quote jah wobble.
 
rob666 said:
Five days does not make a fair assessment.
Due to Icon watching, I'm up to about a dozen visits this season.
If it was sunny...the park was busy.
If it was wet...the park was quiet.
If it was in between, the park was steady.
The weather has been poor overall so far this season, so the park has been reasonably quiet.
Same as always.
No change is sexy...to quote jah wobble.
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True, 5 days is not a lot, but 14 days of reduced hours is a lot :)
 
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