Sandman
Giga Poster
Yeah I think this is the case.
Hope they do a few of these short clips as we approach summer. They just need to give us a date to work with.
Valhalla at Blackpool Pleasure Beach to be refurbished for 2023
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Yeah I think this is the case.
Hope they do a few of these short clips as we approach summer. They just need to give us a date to work with.
Howie
Donkey in a hat
I tell you wot - I just played that promo clip through headphones, and the sound design is epic. I urge y'all to do the same, or a decent soundbar or sumat. Mobile phone or laptop speakers will not do it justice.
If it is a teaser of the new Valhalla soundtrack, then it can get in my face! I just hope that when the time comes it's played at full volume through quality gear.
Sandman
Giga Poster
Got the tin cans on
To be fair I'm not that big a fan of The Notable Stranger, but the teaser track is very distinctive and ambient. Good bassy tones, nice binaural effects. And that sort of Terminator-esque steel pang when the 'Valhalla' title comes up. It all works well, which gives me hope for the auditory experience at the very least!
Coaster
Mega Poster
New theming and plans for Valhalla from https://www.facebook.com/blackpoolpleasurebeach
I'm intrigued as to what the plan in that last picture is for!
I'm intrigued as to what the plan in that last picture is for!
mrFacipieri
Roller Poster
When in the opening?
Coaster
Mega Poster
. I suppose the only water rides are the 2 in Nickelodeon Land.
Sandman
Giga Poster
Feel like BPB are all over the place at the min.
They'd be wise to push this back now until 2023. It's clearly not going to be ready for next month either, and people may be holding off on a visit now until it opens.
Need to give people something to work with.
Mandy seems a bit clueless as well; it seems like she often learns details of things from the goons on Twitter and not from personal involvement.
They'd be wise to push this back now until 2023. It's clearly not going to be ready for next month either, and people may be holding off on a visit now until it opens.
Need to give people something to work with.
Mandy seems a bit clueless as well; it seems like she often learns details of things from the goons on Twitter and not from personal involvement.
Robbie
Hyper Poster
Everyone forgets the River Caves
TPoseOnTantrum
Giga Poster
Truth is that they haven’t a clue when they’ll be able to reopen it;
When I visited earlier this year, I had the chance to talk to a couple of the people involved. I got told that they were hoping for a (late) summer opening, so August/September, and also blamed Brexit and Covid.
It's a shame that they are still unable to get around those issues, but it's hard to blame them. The project is (obviously) more ambitious than everyone thought it would be. And with the amount of money sunk into it, they have every interest to open it as soon as they can, to start to recoup the investment.
A good news at the end:
From what I was told, not only every single effect will be updated/renewed, but they would also add additional effects as well.
Thanks to the Liseberg and Europa-Park annual pass, I have 2 free visits to BPB 2022, and I would like to use at least one of them to get back onto Valhalla. And as many flights go from Manchester to Katowice, you can bet that I'll find a reason to make the departure to England again.
It's a shame that they are still unable to get around those issues, but it's hard to blame them. The project is (obviously) more ambitious than everyone thought it would be. And with the amount of money sunk into it, they have every interest to open it as soon as they can, to start to recoup the investment.
A good news at the end:
From what I was told, not only every single effect will be updated/renewed, but they would also add additional effects as well.
Thanks to the Liseberg and Europa-Park annual pass, I have 2 free visits to BPB 2022, and I would like to use at least one of them to get back onto Valhalla. And as many flights go from Manchester to Katowice, you can bet that I'll find a reason to make the departure to England again.
Coasterotter
Roller Poster
When I went last weekend, they have done some work on Valhalla's station and added some dragon heads on the roof. They also put in some metal mesh in the gaps between the wooden pillars, and they have patterns on them as you might be able to see from the picture below.
And for some reason, they had boarded up the façade that opens up where the turntable is.
And for some reason, they had boarded up the façade that opens up where the turntable is.
TPoseOnTantrum
Giga Poster
Mandy's had a bit of a meltdown on Twitter, doesn't sound like there's very stable communication on the project rn;
Wazzupnerds
Mega Poster
Hey can you do some basic- NO I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, STOP ASKING FOR SOME RESPONSIBILITY
Dar
Hyper Poster
Yeah, but not this Brexit! The other Brexit! You know, the one with the millions of pounds for nurses and the sovereignty and stuff.Is Mandy not a keen Conservative supporter who backed Brexit?
I can see people feeding Mands what she wants to hear, rather than the actual truth.
Sandman
Giga Poster
I know some people love Mandy, and it's not that I have anything personal against her, but I really don't think she's the best figurehead for BPB.
Orchestrating her business from a chaise longue atop the White Tower building and airing the dirty laundry across Twitter is very Trumpian.
It's not a very great look for BPB.
What seemed so great about Geoff is that he was down in the trenches, very involved in many areas and at all levels.
I could probably convince Mandy that Oblivion is a ride at BPB given a few weeks and a Twitter account. She seems woefully distant from it all; a bit autopilot if you ask me.
Orchestrating her business from a chaise longue atop the White Tower building and airing the dirty laundry across Twitter is very Trumpian.
It's not a very great look for BPB.
What seemed so great about Geoff is that he was down in the trenches, very involved in many areas and at all levels.
I could probably convince Mandy that Oblivion is a ride at BPB given a few weeks and a Twitter account. She seems woefully distant from it all; a bit autopilot if you ask me.
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