THE countdown is officially on as Blackpool Pleasure Beach is set to open its brand-new ride next week. The record-breaking, Aviktas, will swing into action on May 21 – and has revealed a ...

Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach Resort is set to launch a brand new £8.72m ride next year, the biggest of its kind in the UK. A new giant swinging pendulum, double the size of other similar gyro swings, ...

An £8.72 million ride has been tested for the first time at Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach Resort. Engineers carried out “controlled testing” of Aviktas, a 40-seater pendulum ride, by activating its ...

It's more than three decades since the arrival of the Pepsi Max Big One caused a whole world of excitement at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Now the resort is getting ready for another milestone after ...

Thrill-seekers will be launched 138 feet into the air if they're brave enough to try the latest adrenaline-pumping gyro swing at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Aviktas has become the tallest ride of its ...

Today marks a day that will go down in history for Blackpool as a brand new £8.72m ride officially launches at the Pleasure Beach Resort. Aviktas will finally swing into action today, launching riders ...

It's set to be the country's tallest gyro swing.

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