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Blackpool pleasure beach

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Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 21:25

I just visited Blackpool and I Had a nice time going around the beach and activities.

But honestly- Blackpool pleasure beach - what are they thinking! Some of the rides are so old and dangerous, I don't know how they are allowed at all.

It was the first time that I went .

I went on one ride, and it went extremely high. It was like an old fashioned rollrr coaster, but you were sitting on a horse. It's called steeple chase.

. There was the tiniest old fashioned seat belt on the horse, like a car seat belt. Except it was just a horizontal belt. The material of the belt looked old, worn and thin. And it didn't hold you on properly.

You had to grip with your hands onto the handle bars. This ride went extremely high and it was extremely fast and jerky, and i was nearly jerked out of the seat several times. If the ride jerked and you fell out of the seat , you would slip through the seat belt and you would fall a very long way down. I was holding on for dear life. I very nearly came off and fell once.

People were getting off the ride at the end and were crying and looking extremely stressed.

The guy running the ride laughed and said to us "you won't do that ride again in a hurry will you haha". Because he knew it was bad

I saw other rides in the park, where the metal holding the ride up looked completely rusted through.

I don't know how the park is allowed from a health and safety standpoint?

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Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 23:00

PleaseAskSomeoneWhoGivesAFuck · 12/10/2024 22:58

Please go somewhere else for your next holiday, or stop making accusations about lack of health and safety checks when you know fine well that it would not be allowed to operate if it does not have up-to-date certification
Do you really think it is in their best interests to run rides that may kill or injure people giiven the number of vistors they have per annum?

Lol
Do you have shares in Blackpool pleasure beach or something? You've made a lot of posts saying the same thing

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Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:59

Magnastorm · 12/10/2024 22:38

It's at ground level for about 90% of the ride and barely 5m at its highest. I've ridden it countless times, you have a seat belt and, y'know, arms to hold on with. It's perfectly safe.

I don't know why you're making up things.

Did you just pluck that 5 metre figure out of your head.

I looked it up online

It says that the ride is 65 feet (19.8 metres) at its highest point

Not 5 metres high.

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StarSlinger · 12/10/2024 22:59

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:55

Same here!

I was literally holding on for dear life.

My DP was pissing himself laughing, I suspect he knew what it was like 🤣

PleaseAskSomeoneWhoGivesAFuck · 12/10/2024 22:58

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:27

Yeah the aeroplanes were another one that caught my eye as looking very unsafe.

They are hanging from a metal band. And the metal band is rusted all over. It's full of rust.

Please go somewhere else for your next holiday, or stop making accusations about lack of health and safety checks when you know fine well that it would not be allowed to operate if it does not have up-to-date certification
Do you really think it is in their best interests to run rides that may kill or injure people giiven the number of vistors they have per annum?

Magnastorm · 12/10/2024 22:56

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:52

Enjoying it?

You have selective blindness..

Do you not see all the posters on this thread who said they found it terrifying, got bruised, and nearly fell off?

What, all 3 of them?

Compared to all the people who go on it every day?

If you don't like it... don't ride it. Easy. Stick to the kiddy rides while the rest of us have fun.

MargaretThursday · 12/10/2024 22:56

I remember people saying similar about 40 years ago.

I don't think anyone has been injured on it though. However there was a girl a couple of years above me at primary school who broke her leg on the Alice in Wonderland ride there.

Not sure what that says.

Merrilydancing · 12/10/2024 22:56

The steeplechase is legendary! I remember going on it as a child and being terrified as I’m pretty sure there wasn’t even the flimsy seatbelt in those days.

After remembering the terror, I obviously took my big thrill ride loving children on it and they were equally terrified. Job done as the baton has been passed onto the next generation!

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:55

StarSlinger · 12/10/2024 22:41

i went on it once thinking it would be just a pleasant ride around a track. Fucking hell my knuckles were white from hanging on for dear life 🤣

Same here!

I was literally holding on for dear life.

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Franhollywood · 12/10/2024 22:54

dancinfeet · 12/10/2024 22:53

I love Pleasure Beach it’s my favourite UK theme park- and I am not a fan of roller coasters as I hate the feeling of going down a big drop or upside down, so you would never get me on the big dipper, pepsi max or revolution type coasters. Love the steeplechase, it’s a fast fun ride without the big dips (just a couple of small ones), and I first went on it at the age of 9 almost forty years ago, and it’s still a favourite. For some reason I have a strong dislike of Alton Towers, there is something about Alton Towers that makes me feel depressed like a black cloud hanging over the place. I’ve visited twice and on both occasions had the same oppressive feeling as soon as I enter the park.

Same about Alton Towers. Haunted!

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:54

dancinfeet · 12/10/2024 22:53

I love Pleasure Beach it’s my favourite UK theme park- and I am not a fan of roller coasters as I hate the feeling of going down a big drop or upside down, so you would never get me on the big dipper, pepsi max or revolution type coasters. Love the steeplechase, it’s a fast fun ride without the big dips (just a couple of small ones), and I first went on it at the age of 9 almost forty years ago, and it’s still a favourite. For some reason I have a strong dislike of Alton Towers, there is something about Alton Towers that makes me feel depressed like a black cloud hanging over the place. I’ve visited twice and on both occasions had the same oppressive feeling as soon as I enter the park.

I really liked Valhalla at Blackpool pleasure beach. It's really well designed. And safe!

Its won a lot of awards.

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Rubyupbeat · 12/10/2024 22:53

I loved steeplechase over 30 years back, but remember how unsafe it was.

dancinfeet · 12/10/2024 22:53

I love Pleasure Beach it’s my favourite UK theme park- and I am not a fan of roller coasters as I hate the feeling of going down a big drop or upside down, so you would never get me on the big dipper, pepsi max or revolution type coasters. Love the steeplechase, it’s a fast fun ride without the big dips (just a couple of small ones), and I first went on it at the age of 9 almost forty years ago, and it’s still a favourite. For some reason I have a strong dislike of Alton Towers, there is something about Alton Towers that makes me feel depressed like a black cloud hanging over the place. I’ve visited twice and on both occasions had the same oppressive feeling as soon as I enter the park.

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:52

Magnastorm · 12/10/2024 22:51

And yet the ride remains open with countless people still riding it and enjoying it. Strange that. Almost as if people have the ability to chose whether to go on it or not, and whether to massively overreact at slight bumps on what is a really tame ride.

Enjoying it?

You have selective blindness..

Do you not see all the posters on this thread who said they found it terrifying, got bruised, and nearly fell off?

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PleaseAskSomeoneWhoGivesAFuck · 12/10/2024 22:52

HundredMilesAnHour · 12/10/2024 22:00

The Wild Mouse at Blackpool was dismantled 6-7 years ago.

Much longer ago than that!

Magnastorm · 12/10/2024 22:51

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:48

Does it matter if nobody has come off steeplechase, if people are bruised and hurt coming off it.

I've been to a lot of theme parks.

I've honestly never seen such bad health and safety anywhere

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And yet the ride remains open with countless people still riding it and enjoying it. Strange that. Almost as if people have the ability to chose whether to go on it or not, and whether to massively overreact at slight bumps on what is a really tame ride.

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:51

PleaseAskSomeoneWhoGivesAFuck · 12/10/2024 22:50

Yes, yes, you've made your point

Yes yes, so have you.

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Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:50

PleaseAskSomeoneWhoGivesAFuck · 12/10/2024 22:43

Oh, do get a grip
The Pleasure Beach has an excellent safety record. You are vastly overstating the 'height' of the steeplechase horse ride. It is an old, non-exciting ride.
There is the racing rollercoaster which is wooden, and yes, rattling and bone-shaking, but great fun. There was the mouse ride, again, rattly and not all bells and whistles, but exciting

Why not research their safety record vs those of other places such as alton towers, etc

Didn't a child fall from a ride at Blackpool pleasure beach and die?

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PleaseAskSomeoneWhoGivesAFuck · 12/10/2024 22:50

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 21:52

I don't know how steeple chase passes through any safety checks.

All of the other rides there had modern safety harnesses.

Steeplechase has a thin material belt that does nothing!

Yes, yes, you've made your point

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:49

PleaseAskSomeoneWhoGivesAFuck · 12/10/2024 22:47

It does not 'go very high'.
Unless you are a v small person, in which case, you wouldn't meet the height requirements

Some people have a bad memory. It's a steeplechase rollercoaster. Of course it goes high.

Look at the video on YouTube. In the second part of the video, steeplechase is very high.

If you fell from that height you would break bones.

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PleaseAskSomeoneWhoGivesAFuck · 12/10/2024 22:49

Squeezetheday · 12/10/2024 21:48

It was like a wooden roller coaster that went quite quick with ridiculously tight corners to try and mimic a mouse running from a cat!

No, thecwooden roller coaster was the grand national
And the ride was not called the cat and mouse, just the mouse. The cars you sat in were painted to look like mice

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:48

Magnastorm · 12/10/2024 22:44

Ultimately nobody is being forced on to any ride and nobody, ever, has come off steeplechase. It's safe.

You don't have to like it, but frankly I've been on scarier railway bridges. Let the rest of us have our fun.

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Does it matter if nobody has come off steeplechase, if people are bruised and hurt coming off it.

I've been to a lot of theme parks.

I've honestly never seen such bad health and safety anywhere

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PleaseAskSomeoneWhoGivesAFuck · 12/10/2024 22:47

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 21:42

It's not so much that it's a scary rollercoaster.

It's the seatbelt. It doesn't hold you in properly.

And when you go up very high, you need a proper seatbelt.

It does not 'go very high'.
Unless you are a v small person, in which case, you wouldn't meet the height requirements

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 22:47

PleaseAskSomeoneWhoGivesAFuck · 12/10/2024 22:46

Did the pear-clutching affect your ability to hold on?

No but when I saw a child crying at the end, and I saw a woman complaining that her legs had been badly bruised when she was thrown violently, it angered me.

Its not good enough in this day and age, that people are being hurt like that.

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PleaseAskSomeoneWhoGivesAFuck · 12/10/2024 22:46

Roundthemoon · 12/10/2024 21:36

It's really bad!

It's the worst ride I've ever been on, health and safety wise.

I remember thinking - I can't believe this is allowed!

Did the pear-clutching affect your ability to hold on?

PleaseAskSomeoneWhoGivesAFuck · 12/10/2024 22:45

HundredMilesAnHour · 12/10/2024 21:35

Is that the one that used to be called The Grand National - (The Steeple Chase?)

No, Grand National is the two rollercoasters that 'race' each other. Steeple Chase is a row of 4 (?) fake horses (like big carousel horses) that you sit on and they 'race' each other.

I love both! I always thought the Steeple Chase was pretty tame. Certainly never seen anyone crying on or off it!

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