It was reported by Blackpool Gazette that a power cut hit Blackpool Pleasure Beach on Saturday 16th March forcing part of the park to close. The Southern area of the park which includes Nickelodeon Land, Revolution and The Big One were affected in addition to some 300 residential homes in the area. No visitors required evacuation from any of the rides/attractions and guests were allowed to continue to enjoy ...

Pleasurewood Hills has announced new rides & attractions for the 2013 season with some expected to be brought across from the now closed Camelot Theme Park. However today UK Park News was sent a Twitter message direct from the park which looks to be the start of a new viral campaign to promote a new (yet to be officially announced) attraction. The message includes a link to a website containing a QR cod ...

This season visitors to Drayton Manor Theme Park, can experience the sights and sounds of the sea with “A Fish Story”, the new film for 2013 to be shown at the park’s stunning 4D cinema. The musical underwater adventure, sees Deepo, an orange Garibaldi fish, and Billy, a trainee at the aquarium who magically turns into a fish, travel on a journey to the depths of the ocean, encountering many different sea c ...

It was recently announced via Thorpe Park that the indoor roller coaster "X:\ No Way Out" is to run forwards for the 2013 season. Originally opened in 1996, the now newly renamed "X"was the park's first non-powered roller-coaster. The ride was marketed as the "world's first backwards roller coaster in the dark." Thorpe Park has stated it will be "reprogrammed around light and sound" yet full details of what ...

In an online video by Mushroom Productions, Mark Crane from Flamingo Land confirms that the flying coaster is being added to the Wild Mouse site and that the park will also add a junior family twisting coaster from Zamperla will go into the junior driving site. The three new attractions for the park are from Zamperla Rides, self described as a company who is "constantly moving to stay ahead of the curve in ...

Today Thorpe Park opened it's gates for its Pass Holder Preview day so we decided to take a look at The Swarm Mutated.. James Hardiker Writes: The Swarm backwards: 6/10. We felt the thrill of the ride through the speed but it has made us feel quite nausious. The seats for the back two rows are reversed. You must have a ticket to ride the back rows. Two ways of getting tickets, queue then select back row que ...

With the future of the now decommissioned Battersea coal-burning power station on London's South Bank, developers are now beginning to speculate what mate become of the 90 year old site. Battersea A Power Station was built in the 1930s, with Battersea B Power Station to its east in the 1950s. The two stations were built to an identical design, providing the well known four-chimney layout. As part of the Arc ...

Oakwood Theme Park is enlisting the help of one of the world’s leading theming companies to create their new £4-million family-themed attraction which opens later this year.  The Pembrokeshire park is working with UK-based KD Theming Technologies to help build a series of magical new ride experiences which include a pirate-theme log flume water ride, complete with a gigantic 12-metre-tall sculpted skull.  T ...