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Unless it is just fun stuff in the queueline... Ban 'em. Painful for repeat thoosies.

They do crisps on the radio on Saturday mornings on BBC six music. Guess the flavour blind tastings, listener requests etc. Sad old man zone...

It is a complex bunch of individual groups within the company. Profits are taxed, so it doesn't pay to make much money, profits get sunk into new projects, or skaters outfits. The hotels make a profit. The rides and f&b break even. Hot Ice loses a fortune. Recent actuarial audit...allegedly...

Remove the Big One instead of retracking? Rather unlikely. Still the signature ride on the park...by a very long way. Unpopular with thoosies, very popular with the public.

Cheesy bunion.

That and keeping the ice show punters off the rides. They do get free entry to the park with their ticket, pretty sure.

There were an awful lot of staff fiddles in the days of cash and tickets. You did get "stuff" for your tenner, they had added the River Caves onto the entry, along with the train and maze...and mandy fountain and the stunning Bradleys learning garden. Scanning is meant to give feedback for...

They accept cash on the entrance tills, just not in the park. My bar inside takes cash as well! The person in charge only wants to play with the ice show, not the rides attached.

Couldn't agree more that the park is being run poorly, and alternative methods need to be found, but the answer to everything isn't free entry. The gates were needed. School trips would not, and did not happen, when it was an open park, on anything like the scale now. Football was an issue right...

Football, you are going back to pre paid entry...it happened, a lot. Most away fans went to the Beach for a few rides and beers after the match, and it got very rowdy back in the days of free entry, not a family fun atmosphere at all on those evenings. Extra security was put on, and that costs...

Free entry used to mean massive crowds, many not spending a penny, football mob riots, petty thieves and pickpockets. Paid gated entry was much better, a tenner, with a few family rides chucked in, as it used to be, right up to covid.

My wife used to have an entry (diamond) season pass, and would easily spend a couple of hundred quid in the bar over the season, to meet me after the shops. Gave me an extra hour on the coasters, and her a safe place to meet up, with familiar faces behind the bar. She hasn't been on the park now...

Yup, it needs gated entry. My mum wouldn't let me go on a Saturday afternoon until she had checked who, and where, Blackpool were playing. Lots of fun on the Beach after the match. Only place I have ever had my pocket picked as well. Used to be no end of trouble on summer weekend nights.

Nick? He vanished after the Mouse died. Hardly seen him on the park since Icon opened. Everything is down to mandy.

The car parks at the Towers in the late nineties were filled out every day in the summer. Not any more. Attendance has dropped over the years at most parks since then. I can name four locally that closed down, many had had considerable investment...look at Southport before the Thompsons pulled...

I'm not saying the public don't want new rides, though there has been zero public mass interest since '94. Swarm was a flop, like Icon, apparently. The GP don't do theme parks like they used to in this country, again, a simple fact. I'm saying that a shiny new offering does not mean guaranteed...

"On the other hand, are a vast swathe of GP who are always eager for new major investments and will follow where the big new rides go." So why was Icon such a flop? Mandy was expecting attendance to double. It didn't increase at all did it?

Don't forget the Reel.

Personally, I think shutting a similar ride, manufactured by the same company, for checks around the wheel bogies etc, is a plain and simple logical step following a fatal accident. Absolutely nothing to do with a doors and windows tax whatsoever. It also has absolutely nothing to do with why...

Surely the major failure of a full wheel group assembly is evidence of negligent maintenance itself, whatever certification is offered. My books are in order, I did my checks, you can't blame me? I imagine there will be litigation, and the park will settle inside or outside court.