WTF BPB?

[AidanCKY]

Id be gutted if they removed Grand National and it would make me consider not really coming much anymore.

Unless it was a case of removing it all, keeping the lovely station and replacing the coaster with another Möbius loop coaster. Or if they did it the same way Twisted colossus was done, where you do two laps each ride.

Then the spirit of the ride and it's station could be kept and at least that would be something

 

[emoo]

The Grand Nash is my favourite wooden coaster at the park (now, post 2017) mostly because the others run like trash on my few and far between visits. I do actually like it in a special way but needs soring out. My GP friends did not care for the roughness at all and put them off other rides.

Can you RMC a listed structure? Perhaps there's a way but the smaller conversions are my least favourite ones so I'd be looking for the height to be doubled, minimum. The Grander National here we come

 

[toofpikk]

To echo what's been said above - I get the lack of love for the ride. It's old, rough, and frankly a bit crap. But it definitely has a presence in the park that has a large contribution into the overall aesthetic and character of the pleasure beach. I wouldn't mind if it were replaced with a similar type of attraction - be it a complete retrack, reprofile, RMC, but I would be a little disappointed to see it replaced for an outdoor ice rink, or another patch of astro-turf. Whatever it's replaced with, it'd be nice to see the character of Nash and maybe some of its elements retained.

To counter @Nicky Borrill 's 'BPB need to keep adding rides people actually want to ride if they want to keep up' - the park is already littered with SBNO attractions that provide plenty of plots for a range of sized potential future investments. Why get rid of another one of the heritage attractions before these are used?

 

[Will]

Good day to bury bad news was it?

But it's been bordering on unrideable for years. Unpopular opinion perhaps, but zero tears will be shed by this goon when it's finally put to sleep. Blackpool have proved that they don't give a **** about history or nostalgia, so that won't be enough to save it.

All that said, obviously it needs to be replaced by something better. The park has become a cesspool of mediocrity and Valhalla alone is not worth the trip. *cries in Wild Mouse*

 

[Nicky Borrill]

the park is already littered with SBNO attractions that provide plenty of plots for a range of sized potential future investments. Why get rid of another one of the heritage attractions before these are used?

I mean, that's a very fair question. There is a lot of empty patches of land along the spine of the park now.

I wonder if that station is in the way. Remove that and it opens up a huge space there, combined with the currently empty patches. On their own those patches aren't enough for a modern coaster, but combined with Nash's station, and possibly the land that Nash's layout stood on too, and you've suddenly got enough land for something quite special.

 

[Ollie]

I love that Blackpool is like a coaster museum, but you get to ride them!
However, the Nash rides like **** so anything to modernise it I'm in favour for. I understand it's place in history but the Pleasure Beach is also a business that seems to be struggling at the moment and they can't rest on their laurels. I'd rather have an updated version to ride than not at all.