English seaside theme park reveals new upgrades on ‘first-of-its-kind' indoor ride
A 'WORLD-FIRST' ride in the UK has revealed some exciting new updates in time for summer.
Blackpool
Pleasure Beach's Wallace & Gromit's Thrill-O-Matic ride has five new additions following the new
Netflix
film
Vengeance Most Fowl.
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The UK's Wallace & Gromit ride is getting an upgrade
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach is home to The Big One rollercoaster
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The ride - the first Wallace & Gromit themed one in the world - is a four-minute Thrill-O-atic indoor ride.
Guests board a giant slipper before travelling through scenes of the iconic films such as A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trouers and A Close Shave.
A Matter of Loaf and Death and The Curse of the Were Rabbit also play a part in the ride.
And new extras in time for the film include favourite characters added to the ride which includes Norbot and Feaths McGraw.
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New updates to the queue as well as exclusive merchandise have been added to the
The park's CEO Amanda Thompson OBE said: "Wallace & Gromit are national treasures and have always been a firm favourite with visitors, but the success of their new film has certainly delivered a renewed excitement for the characters and their stories.
"To be updating this wonderful ride truly reaffirms our commitment to attracting families back to the resort for what we hope will be A Grand Day Out.'
The ride first opened in 2013 and is was the first of its kind when it opened.
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Creator Nick Park said at the time that the reason for the ride location was because he grew up in Preston which is near Blackpool.
He added it felt like a "natural home for Wallace and Gromit".
I was one of the first to try Blackpool Pleasure Beache's 'new' ride
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The ride is the only one based on the films at a theme park
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The ride, which cost £5.25million, was created by both the theme park and
It replaced the Gold Mine Ride, which first opened in 1971 before closing in 2011.
Other new additions to the theme park include the revamped Launch Pad back in May.
Theme park expert Lee Bell went down to try it out -
And the park's River Caves ride is also being revamped, although little else is known about it.
Next
year, new ride Aviktas will open which is a "UK first" with heights of 138ft.
The theme park was named one of the
And the park's Valhalla won
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The park is also opening a new ride next year
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