The Greatest EVER..........Blackpool Pleasure Beach ride.

David Lee's Hair · Post by **David Lee's Hair** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:24 am

Batman wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:Probably gone now, but does anyone remember "The Mouse"

Still there, still as rickety as ever.

Gets my vote. The rickety-ness makes it by far the scariest ride I've ever been on!!

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:37 am

David Lee's Hair wrote:
Batman wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:Probably gone now, but does anyone remember "The Mouse"

Still there, still as rickety as ever.
Gets my vote. The rickety-ness makes it by far the scariest ride I've ever been on!!

I first took the kids on this years ago because I thought it would be less dangerous than its big brothers. They came off it delighted, I staggered of green and highly relieved.

finlayson · Post by **finlayson** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:12 pm

is it not called the 'Wild Mouse'?

whatever it's called it's bloody scary! Right angle corners at about 40mph, and you always think you are going to fly out and onto the roof of the 'River Caves'!

Plus you are only held in by a car seat-belt!

The 'Steeple Chase' is horrible to, it feels like you are going to slip off at any second, and again you are held in by a car lap belt. The worst bit is when you are coming to the end and you crest a hill and there is a big metal bar running across the track about a foot above head level and it always seems you are going to smack your head on it.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:31 pm

Guess that little old "Mouse" is winning the scary stakes race then. Glad it wasn't just me that thought it an evil little barsteward and got the brown undrepants then.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:35 pm

Used to be a fairground ride called The Catterpillar. Went at a fair pace and turned you upside down until your nose was about an inch off the steel rails. I was convinced I wasn't getting off alive.

MC Numpty · Post by **MC Numpty** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:33 am

Valhalla rules. Came for a visit last year and pi$$ed myself laughing at the old folks behind groaning. I know it isn't a ride but from th'old days it used to be the fun house and Noah's Arc.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:57 am

I haven't been on the rides lately, prefer to spend my money on the arcades.

bobo the clown · Post by **bobo the clown** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:35 pm

Wel, mnot necessarily the GREATEST ride I ever had, but definately the scariest pleasure ride I ever had in Blackpool was a big bird from Warrington called Gemma.

Ooohh !! Bad memories.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:57 pm

When i was younger I used to be shit scared of most fairground rides so never managed to 'do' the pleasure beach proper. Though a trip to Busch gardens, disney and alton towers eventually gave me the bug, I will never step foot on a vertical coaster, there's only so much a lad can take. Saw this in Tampa and made me feel dizzy just thinking about it

So to answer your question, er, no

but blackpool tis always a laugh

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:33 pm

pussy

malcd1 · Post by **malcd1** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:11 pm

BUMP

Blackpool Pleasure Beach are to introduce a £5 entry fee to get into into the park. Now personally I cannot stand Blackpool and would pay money NOT to go. That's the illuminations, Pleasure Beach. piers and crappy bed & breakfast's. Everything. Just a cheap, nasty place full of rough arses.

But I think they are shooting themselves in the foot here. Or will it keep the chav's from hanging about on every corner.

Entry charge for pleasure beach
Blackpool Pleasure Beach is to start charging an entrance fee for the first time in its history.

It will cost £5 to get into the theme park, one of Lancashire's most popular tourist attractions, from next year.

Visitors will either have to purchase a pre-pay wristband or a freedom pass which includes admission to five rides.

A spokeswoman for the site said the move would bring them into line with similar parks and enable them to offer an improved experience to visitors.

Millions of people go to the pleasure beach each year and it has had free entry since it opened more than a hundred years ago in 1896.

There are 125 rides at the park which include The Big One, Europe's tallest and fastest rollercoaster.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:16 pm

Isn't BPB Europe's second most popular tourist destination? (I fkn hope so, we've just said so in the mag...

) Won't be for much longer under this here system...

americantrotter · Post by **americantrotter** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:15 pm

Blackpool? Child's play.

Went on the big fast one they had in 05 and was not very impressed.

The US is a country obsessed with these coasters and I myself enjoy a few loops, insane speed, and tall drops.

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