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Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Blackpool Pleasure Beach is an amusement park situated along the Fylde coast in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. The park was founded in 1896 and has been owned and operated by the Thompson family since its inception. It is the most visited tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, and one of the top twenty most-visited amusement parks in the world, with a peak estimate of 5.5 million visitors in 2007.〔http://www.connectingindustry.com/downloads/pwteaerasupp.pdf〕 In 2014 it was voted as the best theme park in the United Kingdom and the ninth best park in Europe by the Travelers' Choice Awards.
The park holds many records, including the largest number of roller coasters of any park in the United Kingdom with ten, of which five are wooden– the Grand National, Big Dipper, Nickelodeon Streak, Wild Mouse and Blue Flyer.〔http://rcdb.com/4795.htm〕 Many of the roller coasters in the park are record breaking attractions. When it opened in 1994, the Big One was the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world. It was also the steepest, with an incline angle of 65° and one of the longest, measuring . Currently, the ride holds the record as the tallest roller coaster in the United Kingdom, standing at , with a first drop of .〔http://knowledge.apm.org.uk/project/pepsi-max-big-one-ride-case-study〕
The Pleasure Beach is one of only two parks left in the world to operate a traditional wooden Wild Mouse coaster. The ride was built entirely in house, post-World War II and is still in complete working order. The Grand National is one of only three Möbius Loop coasters in existence, where two supposingly seperate tracks interwine and crossover offering a "racing" effect. Pleasure Beach was also the first park in Europe to introduce a fully inverting steel coaster, Revolution〔https://www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com/rides/revolution/〕 and is the last remaining park in the world to operate a Steeplechase roller coaster. The park went on to launch Valhalla
, which was designed by Sarner, a UK based theme park design company. At a cost of £15 million it is the biggest and most expensive dark ride in the world. The park also operates Europe's only Nickelodeon Land, the worlds only ''Wallace & Gromit'' ride and the oldest amusement park ride in Europe, ''Sir Hiram Maxims Captive Flying Machines'' which opened in August 1904. In 2007 the park introducedInfusion which is the world's first suspended looping coaster entirely over water. The latest record is taken by the ''Red Arrows Skyforce'', a Gerstlauer Sky Fly thrill ride costing £2 million which was opened by the Red Arrows on 25 May 2015. It is the first ride of its kind in the United Kingdom.〔http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/what-s-on/red-arrows-to-soar-for-ride-opening-1-7224271〕〔https://www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com/rides/skyforce/?gclid=CMH34u_A3cUCFVHKtAodmEkAfA〕
==History of the Pleasure Beach==
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