@@PatrickStaal Well it's obvious that you don't visit that park often then. Although you're right and there is rust and wood rot, that's all things you can't really help considering over time things decay and get older. Big dipper is 100 in 2023 and it's still standing to this day but I was talking more about the park in general and how the maintenance is always kept up to date in things and how they are always replacing broken parts ie.
@@PatrickStaal I worked at Blackpool pleasure Beach for many years. I worked as a ride operator and I worked on maintenance in the winter. The engineers, electricians and joiners are an amazing bunch of men and ladies. Safety is always of paramount importance. Just because its got rust on doesn't mean its not safe and it is the seaside.
I was born and raised in Blackpool and as a child you was allowed to just roam around for free and they used to use old fashioned ticket stubs, many great memories! I was quite annoyed when Infusion replaced the log flume but it's good to see they pay some homage to the old ride, BPB is and will always be amazing! The park itself is super small in comparison to some theme parks out there and as you can see they use up every inch they can with the rides, old or new it all just blends seamlessly and I'm so proud to say I'm a seasider!! 🎢🇬🇧🥰
I really want to visit this park one day. I just love how so many of the coasters crossover and intertwine around each other. Just a big hodgepodge of track, like something from the RCT parks I used to make back when I was a kid (which is funny because BPB was included in the game in one of the old expansion packs).
My parents met @ Blackpool Beach on a coaster named the Black Velvet during WWII. They married soon after and had 4 kids (I was #2). They were married 52 years till death did they part. I visited BPB in 1961 when visiting my grandmother who lived in West Hartlepool on the east coast of England. Thanks for the memories!
There's a very well known pub chain called Wetherspoons opened one of their pub/restaurants next to the Pleasure Beach in 2015. They named it The Velvet Coaster. So despite the roller coaster being a different name now. The Velvet Coaster name still lives on 😊
My aunt is from Blackpool. She and my uncle married there in the 80s. At that time, as I was 7, I don't remember much as far as any rides. Then again, it was also January. It's so cool to see how it is now.
LOVE these park tours. Harkens back to the way back videos cut to music and having a great time! Also, God I love how tight and in each other's way all the attraction are at Blackpool. Bucketlist for sure!!
Enamored. The coasters have been amazing but the use of of land, the park itself and moments of the other rides is astounding. I would love to walk around and watch all the different sections when multiple rides are interwoven. Lastly, I laughed my butt off at "Victory is mine"! Thank you for that one 😆
Amazing thanks for the pov's. I would love to visit that park some day. Also, seeing steeplechase brought me back to my childhood and riding Soapbox Derby at Knott's Berry Farm.
'Avalanche' random factoid: the bends and turns on that ride were named by park-goers in a competition prior to its opening. went on it after it opened and left with a bruised spine. 😛 Steeplechase is my fave ride - but these days, I'm more content with PoV videos. I'm now the 'designated coat holder'.
I live about 20 mins from here. We live on the "other side" near Knott End at the mouth of the Irish Sea. I'm staying glued to this video, as I have not been to this park! I know it's crazy. Thanks as always!
Love this video! I have very very fond memories of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, and the rest of Blackpool too - I used to visit most years as a kid with my parents and grandparents and I still love the place now - there are memories everywhere I turn there and there’s a unique atmosphere at the Pleasure Beach that I just can’t describe. Icon is also an amazing ride and just what the park needed!
Wheee! This video is the new standard of POV, this is amazing!!! Whoo! As far as I know, you invented this and am blown away with this reinvention. I love the stabilized, wide-angle look! I think it looks like how I see with peripherals, all on one screen, as if I were there. Top notch! Wheee! West Coast Bash '22?
As a person who lives 10 minutes away from the park, it is a very special place as there isn’t a ride quite like any of them and it’s a super underrated park
Great video! Did you not get to ride Big One and Grand National this time round to experience the recent re-tracking - those were the only two that were older POVs?
That's correct. They were both closed during our visit. It would have been nice to ride them again, but I've probably taken at least 100 laps on each ride over the years so I wasn't too bothered by missing them, and we will likely be back again next year.
I have ridden rollercoasters all over the world avidly since a kid and the Wild Mouse in BPB is the only one that actually scared me. Am sure it was safe but it just felt like rickety-rackety death trap! having said that back in 1988 we had to be rescued off the old Log Flume as it got stuck on the first ascent going up. We had to climb down ladders we found hilarious but they gave us such big books with tickets for free rides it took us (and friends and family) over 2 years to 'spend' them all!
Glad you enjoyed your time here in Blackpool. Most of you Americans don't even know where Blackpool even is when I go to Orlando and tell them I live there!
It's nice to see the rides again. Gone are the days when you wander round and just ride the rides you wanted. Spend money in the park and have a wander. This is probably the only way I will see them now.
My home town 😊 I’ll be back one day, I rode the Big One before they realigned/changed the first drop. Spin Doctor was the best ride there (not there anymore).
Such a shame you guys didn't get to ride The Wild Mouse. I have ridden rollercoasters all over the world avidly since a kid and the Wild Mouse in BPP is the only one that actually scared me. Am sure it was safe but it just felt like a rickety-rackety death trap! It used to have warnings saying it was the scariest ride too and people would be "yeah.... yeah.... whatever...." I loved seeing their shell-shocked pale faces (sometimes green) as they got off!
Oddly enough, i first heard about Blackpool because a streamer i watch landed there in a game called Geoguessr. It seems quite interesting and this is such a charming park!
I live in Blackpool and have done since I was 17 (I'm 40 now). I came here for the very first time, with my dad, in 1993. The Big one was under construction and I fell in love with the place from that moment. I returned to Blackpool in October 1994, when the big one was brand new. I told dad, back in 93 that one day I would live here. In 96 I came again then in 99, I came for a holiday and never returned home. The rest is history as they say. I immediately started work there and worked there until 03. It is amazing. A fantastic place to work and you really get the feeling that it was a family run business.
Would love to visit here, Thorpe Park, and Alton Towers. That would be a nice UK trip. Can't forget some of the other awesome parks in Europe such as Phantasialand, Energylandia, PortAventura, Walibi Holland, and more that I just cannot think of right now. OMG. I NEED TO GET OUT THERE.
Blackpool Pleasure Beach is awesome It's like somebody was playing Rollercoaster Tycoon - and you get to ride their creations for real! So many rides, in such a small space ... the way they put in Icon is a masterpiece of engineering and planning, twisting through the existing rides, and the fact that it is a brilliant ride as well ... the added spinning seats seems like lots of fun, but you probably pay extra for the privelege, otherwise the queue would be horrendous.
We saw you at Alton Towers the next day (6th of April)! You were behind us to ride Nemesis in the backrow but the moment we boarded they closed off the last row. You had to take the second to last row. I wasn't sure it was you but I'm sure now. Did they explain why the last row suddenly got closed? We went to Blackpool the next day with loads of rides closed. We were told steeplechase was closed for a couple of days because a branch fell on the rails. I'm surprised to see you were still able to ride two days before we went. Such a shame The Big One was closed but it was understandable with that weather. Shame, we were most hyped for that one. Revolution was by far the biggest surprise though, that ride certainly delivered an intense experience that I wasn't expecting.
Oh you should have said hello! Yeah, I think it was due to the disabled riders with the pass. No worries. We ended up getting the back row later and no matter where you sit Nemesis is always a great ride!
What do you use to record? like what camera and then what type of mount to hold the camera in? I really want to start recording my own rides but i dont know if I should use my phone or what type of mount ?
the grand national looked fun from your pov but when i rode on it at the end of july it was a horrible experience despite having over 30 years of experience of the grand national. it was one of my favourite rides but this time when i went on it i thought i almost injured myself as it was the most shakiest of rides i had sat on. it was like the giant version of the now discontinued wild mouse. in my opinion it needs to be dismantled and forgotten about, its had its time. how was it for you ?
I tried to go on a roller coaster at Blackpool about 20 years ago when I visited to watch an FA Cup match. I went to the rollercoaster (probably The Big One) before the match but I was too early. I bought a ticket for the coaster then went to the game. I got back to the Pleasure Beach before they closed for the afternoon, but they wouldn't let me in (presumably people don't enter half an hour before closing). I knocked on the door to try to get the attention of the three women on the entry desk. They pretended to not notice me. All I wanted was one ride, that I'd already paid for. 20 years later, I'm still bitter about it. Never went back. But at least Yeovil won.
What time of the year is best for visiting bpb? I visited back in april 2019 but we purchased a skip-queue pass, based in your footages it looks like some days are much slower than those days we visited in april. what is the secret?
Fun fact about nickelodeon streak: the rides lift hill dates back to an old coaster called the velvet coaster. The ride was torn down but its lift hill was left and was re used on nickelodeon streak
