@@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.
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 😢😢😢
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.
@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.
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 😂
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
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 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.
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 ❤
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"
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 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 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 😢
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.
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.
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
No chance, the wind on that beach is crazy... it would never run with those winds
Yeah when we went there you couldn’t physically stand straight in the wind you had to lean into it
Exactly. I’ve been to cedar point and ridden TTD. It was regularly shut down due to wind.
@@CoastersThrillsAndAirtimeHillsyea the big one was shut because of high winds
Fake news. Those footers were for a now removed art work.
Could you show me a source for this? I'm not saying you're lying I'm genuinely interested
@@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.
@@shytalkproductions I also live in Blackpool and never knew about this
The footers were for the bigger one but they never built it.
@@Rainbow_clouddoh same
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 watched the demo they just smashed it to bits with a machine but the kart might still be around some were I loved that 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
was my favourite ride there so sad they got rid
I remember it as the neck breaker on them corners hah
Haha
Somebody has really vivid immagination.
Have a look on the sat-view and see how many other "footers" there are along the prom.
No other part of the prom has a triangle like that.
@@SlingsbysBECAUSE IT WAS AN ART INSTALLATION WITH UNIQUE PIECES OMG YOURE SUCH AN IDIOT BUT KEEP TALKING ABOUT TRIANGLES
No Council would give permission to build a roller coaster over a busy main road ! Utter nonsense.
Better look up Silver Star then
I think it's fair to say the pleasure beach makes up a significant portion of that councils economy
The ‘footers’ were actually part of an art installation that was part taken away
The wave 🌊 organs wasn’t it? Now they’re just nothing!
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
@@Slingsbys art installation
They had podiums with little statues on top
I used to ride my bike past it every day 😅
@@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.
“This massive coaster was going to launch riders out of the park”
I do that in planet coaster for shits and giggles
I worked there, no way they could that....
Imagine it breaking down out in the Irish Sea, as it would!
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
That would only be possible if it perfectly balanced on the top hat, and in that freak scenario you'd just have an emergency drive tyre up there.
Yep im sad it isnt a reality however with the windy weather Blackpool gets it would have had ALOT of downtime
Yeah would of been down all the time, even stealth is down quite often
I’m glad it didn’t go through. Traffic on the prom is bad enough without a roller coaster going through it
@@leeeeeee836 How would it effect traffic?
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
It would have been the only reason I would have gone to Blackpool
If you are talking about Blackpool in general then I agree but the pleasure beach is very well maintained
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.
With high winds constantly affecting The Big One, I can see why this never went ahead, saying that, it would've looked ace!
So ambitious that they couldn't be arsed to do it
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 😢😢😢
As a bispham local for just under 20 years, I think you're being overly critical.
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.
wouldn’t it be too windy to build something that tall?
Blackpool is too windy for a coaster like that
As a guy that worked there. No. Those weren’t even related they were art pieces
The ‘plans’ that were going go ahead in UK are staggering !! 🤣🤣🤣
Pleasure beach..... An expensive waste of money
No top hat. It was a reverse freefall design. And those aren't footers!
They are, they’re in the exact spots ttd and kingda ka have them
@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
@@dodecaheathen what are they then 😭
@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.
@@christait8503 oh ok ty 😅
Thorpe park is building the tallest UK rollercoaster currently and it’s gonna be SICKKK🙌🏼😎
No that's in Flamingo Land, you mean Hyperia
Well they need to tidy it up. The place is a dive
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 😂
It is the best ride there 😂 (for me)
Not surprised they didn’t finish it, it’s Blackpool
I always love hearing about this place as I’m about a 10 minute drive away 😂
Same
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.
Would love to be able to see the original plans!
Jeffery died way before them footing went in the ground
I was in Blackpool that who fitted in danger is where I always go for my birthday
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 been on that yesterday omg I never thought I’d see this vid 😂
Damm Irish can we finish something but some great Bar Ideas 😅
Quite glad that they didn't go ahead, imagine if the wind managed to damage the pier, think of the headlines, ambulances, and lawsuits
all my friends keep going there and the last time i went was when i was 2.
Shame it didn't go ahead
Bs story it is
It was never even thought of this is fake news
With the wind, it would have to have been built like a block of flats to keep running.
I worked there when i was a teenager - no way they'd be able to do that with the wind, genuinely, the amount of times it was dodgey af in the summer
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
Would have been closed half the time because of the weather
And the rest of the time they would charge you £5 just to fart whilst walking past it. Greedy wankers.
Yes❤❤❤
The way am in black pool now 😂😂
go enjoy the rides rather than watching yt videos
@@szymi13_ oh I was just eating breakfast at that time 😋
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.
I'm going to day to Blackpool
I live in Blackpool
I live in blackpool love the pleasure Beach
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?
I’m not sure there would be a point building so far out in to the see. Dragster was always shut down in the tiniest of wind.
I am still scared on the big one lol
I love the theme song for the big one
THATS WHAT THEYRE FOR??? thought it was decoration
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.
I've only been there once, and the big one's queue was like 4 hours long, if the bigger one was ever built, I feel like the queue would be even longer
Legend has it that none of the construction crew were willing to 'step foot in that crap'
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.
@@DrMontgomeryMontgomery point being its pretty dirty
@@pokeybitswam in preston?
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 ❤
That’s what I thought icon would be in like 2016
I live in blackpool
Wish this happened. Would’ve loved to ride this
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.
That would have been a disaster waiting to happen if they actually built it
Hell nah I’m not going any more once I show my mum this 😂
It not a thing
This is like the first time of me seeing my own town on yt short
What was the reason for the pullout
Yh ofc because I literally live 5 mins away from it and i would have loved to see it in the original design
I hope the plan gets revised when Blackpool pleasure beach build its next big roller coaster
And I think it should be called
THE MEGA ONE
the biggest one
@@moredgaming331 im the biggest one
@@Emergency_system_reboot no I’m the biggest
@@chrish1392 im the bigger or shpuld i saay im the Ni-
@@Emergency_system_reboot nah bro I’m obviously bigger cz im a gold digger
Weird that the thumbnail has an Intamin train on a Gerstlauer track...
Now they might do it because they might want to take the uks tallest record back
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"
Hyperia would never have been guilt if they went ahead with it I guess
I can see this go ahead when exodus at thrope park opens (aka the newest tallest coaster in the uk)
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 pleasure beach is amazing
VERY SAD , THEY SHOULD OF DONE IT 👍🏻😎
I never knew that about my home town
Probably issues bcc theres an airport so close to it where they fly those rlly little planes.
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 on that in 2 days 😂
It’s a shame but the skyline would be different icon wouldn’t exist so no it’s not the best idea
Why did the Project never took Part?
Yes
Im very sad i wanted to go on it i kept hearing about it
I’m going Blackpool tonight and tomorrow morning I’m going to the water park
From the videos I've seen, this park already has plenty of good coasters.
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 😢
Horrible family the Thompsons
The Thompson family bottled it too expensive
Wrong. Geoffrey sadly passed away and the banks wouldn’t extend the loans.
How Alton towers ever got rid of the corkscrew I will never know.
They still
Made a red rollercoaster called the big one I went on it last year at pleasure beach and it’s the biggest rollercoaster in england
Damn it, that would’ve been so cool
Haha on the south pier, which is next to the big one the waltzes are the 2nd most fastest in the world and I've been on the bigger one
Blackpool the best
Been cool idea. It a extra pier thus more arcade space. Been nice to of seen
Those "footers" were from an art installation
The Bigger One😂 What’s next? The Biggest One? Small One? Smaller One. Smallest One?
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.
oh wow
I have been in Blackpool it so fun and scary
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.
We really do! Alot of our coasters are well known to american enthusiasts
This dude fluent in capanese🧢
Definitely need one in the uk
It would be closed every day to high wind and I’m not sure a wooden pier would sustain the weight of a 400ft top hat element
Mate I in Blackpool all ready
I would think that it might block the road a bit
i would think the track would go....hear me out....OVER THE ROAD
There are these clever things called Bridges. Or tunnels.. the most ambitious project for a rollercoaster probably wouldn't rule that stuff out 🤔
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