PLEASURE BEACH RESORT
(Formerly: Blackpool Pleasure Beach)
United Kingdom (Abbreviation: BPB)
 Park and Area Attraction News - (1/13/2026) Blackpool Pleasure Beach is reported as having extended their season for the second year in a row and will now open their Nickelodeon Land for the February half-term holiday (Feb. 14 - Feb 22). The park did a trial run during the 2025 season of extending their season and it was thought to have been successful, thus they are doing it once again.
(11/8/2025) Blackpool Pleasure Beach has announced that a new ice show will be added for 2026 called “Alice, Frozen in a Wonderland of Dreams”. This will be in addition to the already announced new Aviktas ride, with the new ice show serving as a celebration of 90 years of ice shows at Pleasure Beach.
(10/25/2025) Blackpool Pleasure Beach is bringing back their Behind-the-Scenes Tours once again after having a complete sell-out of them earlier this year. You can look into new tours being offered on select dates in November and December that will take you under and inside several attractions into areas that guests are normally never allowed to see. Follow the link for more details.
2026 - Aviktas / Intamin Gyro-Swing - (7/26/2025) Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach Resort has posted a brief teaser video showing off what Aviktas, their new 138ft Gyro Swing ride coming for 2026, will look like once placed within the park.
(5/20/2025) Pleasure Beach Resort in Blackpool has confirmed that their Project MMXXVI (Intamin Giant Swing) is going to be called Aviktas when it opens in 2026.
(3/20/2025) ThemeParks-UK reports that Blackpool Pleasure Beach will open the UK’s Tallest Gyro Swing ride from Intamin 2026. For now they’re just calling it “Project MMXXVI”, but they say that the Gyro Swing will swing up to 40 riders at a time up 120º in either direction, up to a height of 138 feet. For comparison, this new ride will be nearly twice the size as the Maelstrom at Drayton Manor.
They say that the new ride will be placed along the northern side of the park, near the perimeter, likely taking over some of the former Bowl-A-Drome location.
(11/3/2024) According to a new video from Chall Chats, Blackpool Pleasure Beach have closed the the Bowl-A-Drome building and may be preparing to remove the structure itself. If this ends up being true, there are also rumors that the site could be used as the home for a planned Intamin Gyro-Swing ride.
Oh, and the video also reconfrms that the park’s Ice Blast tower ride, which was previously rumored to be removed, is also expected to make a return in 2025 after getting an update and parts from S&S that they were not able to finished in time for the 2024 season.
(3/3/2024) While we previously mentioned that this was likely the last season for Ice Blast, the park opened for the season with it closed, along with The Big One unfortunately. According to a tweet from Amanda Thompson, Ice Blast is awaiting parts needed to open it later this season, but nothing was confirmed as to the long term fate of the S&S tower ride.
(2/25/2024) According to the latest rumors, the Ice Blast (S&S Space Shot) tower ride is rumored to be potentially retired later this year. I’m not sure if they have something else in mind to replace it for 2025, or if the tower ride is just getting old or harder to maintain. Given that there are much older S&S tower rides out there running well without issue, I’m thinking that the park may just want to put in something newer or bigger on the site. Backing up the Ice Blast removal rumors are also claims that various land-survey paint markings have been spotted around the ride area as well.
If anyone knows more, please do let us know.
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