@@Fishul I live here. There was talk of building a ride out to the sea, but that's all it ever was, talk. These so called footers were from a metal art installation that was removed many years ago, leaving behind the concrete pads where it once stood.
Never mind all this….BRING BACK THE WILD MOUSE!!! The most deceptively terrifying ride ever…..the unique point is….rather than riding round screaming….it made you LOL at how ridiculously dangerous it seemed. You came off that with sore ribs (from laughing) and bruises all over….literally WILD!!!
I think we should start a petition to bring it back, I remember going on that at 8 year old (30+years ago) and I bust my brothers nose when my head flipped back, my brother came off and was sick everywhere with blood dripping down his nose, genuinely a great ride
I remember riding it when I was younger and smacking my head in the bar. Mum thought it was hilarious. The stitches in my nose didn’t. Still a fun af ride tho when it was around
Thats not correct. The wave organ was next to the sandcastle. The geometry of the angles of the footholds allign perfectly to Watson Road which would have been the launch for the ride.
@@Slingsbys do a bit of reasearch in old Blackpool gazette you will find they were part of an art installation, you are correct about the sea organ being by the sandcastle though
@@matthewstrangwood8463 they won't design the concrete structure of the promenade for the convenience of placing statues on. The geometry and alignment of the footers to Watson Road is deliberate.
It wouldn’t because it would be a new coaster, amusement and theme park owners don’t make their own coasters they are made by world renound company’s that design and build base set coasters
I wish they made this 😪. It would have been amazing! Doesnt have to be TTD's level in height or speed but it would still have been incredible! The roads wouldnt necessarily be a problem as the park or council of the area could make the road dip underground like a small tunnel underneath the launch and break run. Shame it never got built
They were planning a launched S&S 4D coaster in the mid 2000s but it got scrapped. The layout would've consisted of a launch, raven turn, fly to lie, followed by a brakerun and an elevator back to the station. The station would've been on the beach so I'm guessing that's what the new pier would've been used for. There was a piece of concept art shown in an old issue of the First Drop Magazine. They were also planning a traditional Intamin hydraulic launch as an alternative.
@harleystubbs6199 they're not footers. For a start, the top hat stands are the other way around to how they are laid out on the prom. Secondly, the prom was renovated way after the plan for the bigger one and those circles are still there. So... yeah...they're definitely not footers
@Harley Stubbs they are just decorative. There is nothing more substantial under them than the rest of the prom. It's one of these things that gets banded around every now and again, but is just a myth.
I am a local who is nearly 50 and lived just feet from the park my whole life. The pleasure beach in my lifetime have spoke of many many projects that would turn out town around, they never happen and our town is fast sinking into utter poverty 😢😢😢
Just got back from Blackpool myself, had a great time. One piece of advice I can give is do not ride the grand national at pleasure beach if you are fragile 😂
In the drawing in the early 2000's the rollercoaster was red and yellow. We used to draw it in school. AdventureMe has a picutre of it on his channel on a video called hidden secrets of blackpool pleasure beach part 2.
I saw the plans for this at BPB, sadly Geoffreys death put an end to this financially and it was one heck of an engineering ask. Back when "top thrill dragsters" were very new.
That would have been a horrible idea.... The salty air from the water would cause massive corrosion along the whole tower and it would be impossible to do maintenance, or well it would be costly and difficult, and it would not have very long before it became a hazard to ride. That being said it would've been a cool experience probably unlike dragster where you get pelted with mosquitoes due to it being over a mosquito breeding ground.
I’ve a good friend who lives there works the doors he tells me there’s an underworld with fighters that keeps the town safe - boxer Matty Ellis , jay baron , wrestler Shaq Kahn, ethrington I’ve met some of these very dangerous individuals but yeah I’ve been there many times used to love staying at the savoye near Gin square
this was always a rumour, but it was never actually a real planned ride. The wind alone coming in from the Irish sea would prevent this ride ever functioning.
It's actually not as dirty as you think. Especially that far South. I even participate in beach cleans, so I've done my fair share of digging. A lot of rubbish from other places with a lot less bins will usually turn up with the morning tides, though.
@@DrMontgomeryMontgomery Fair one. I swam in Blackpool, Fleetwood, Preston as a child in the 80's and early 90's and I'm still pretty normal. I rode the donkeys. Betsy was my favourite. And then the magic shows on the pier. Doves came out my rear, and it did hurt a bit.
Cedar Point (Ohio USA) seems to brand itself as the best overall roller coaster park, although in recent years new interesting coaster designs all over the world are popping up.
Used to Love Blackpool. Great memories as a teen… Pleasure Beach by day, awesome pubs at night. You might be too young to remember the Wild Mouse and the Palace nightclub?
This is close to true, the actual plans were for a launched freefall coaster like Superman The Escape at Six Flags Magic Mountain to blast riders down the tunnel on Watson Road and going vertical before the promenade. The ride then free falls backwards into the station to unload.
They may be doing it I have read they announced something will replace the grand prix (as shown in the video) and "promise to take guests to unprecedented heights"
They have some amazing coasters but defo need something to be a real stand out slap in the face to other theme parks coaster in the next year or 2, something to rival the big ones in the states, put the pleasure Beach properly on the map ❤
I remember when they built the big one I saw the Enormous blue pieces being shipped down the motorway it was like nothing I've ever seen and then the first time I rode it I shat my pants
I am going to Blackpool on Sunday I am going to the Zoo on the day I go, stay in a hotel in Blackpool then the next day I go to Blackpool pleasure beach
Awful video, guy gets almost everything wrong. I’m from Blackpool & this is what I know to be factual from people who work at the park & on the sea front. There was a “bigger one” coaster planned but it wasn’t an intamin launched coaster like Kingda Ka, Top Thrill Dragster, or even Stealth. It was a reverse freefall launch coaster similar to Superman at Magic Mountain. The “footers”, aren’t footers either. They were paving areas for a metal art installation called the Wave Organs that were taken down about 10 years ago. There was never any work started on the project as all it ever was, was talk & speculation. Not to mention the maintenance issues for the tallest rollercoaster in the U.K. to have its highest point out at sea & the issues of having a launched coaster track going over a main public road on the sea front. If anything flies off a rider at those speeds (100mph+) it could seriously injure a member of the public. The council flattened this idea before it even got to the design stage.
I live in Blackpool and the owners mum died not long after the idea was mentioned. Mr Thompson died not long after that. His daughter took over and the plans were scrapped 😢
I am we have some of the best rides in the world in the UK and I met some lovely Americans last year who actually came to ride Nemesis at ATs before the retrack which proves it, atb bud.
And did you know Blackpool pleasure beach wanted to build a cable car service from one end of the funfair were cars coaches and other vehicles parked and take them directly to the pleasure beach and other amenities on the so called golden mile but the council declined the proposal.
“BLACKPOOL” YOU MUST BE JOKING. When I was a child and did not eat all my vegetables my mother would say “if you don’t eat your vegetables I will send you to BLACKPOOL” Those vegetables would disappear in a flash.
