Falls of Fear

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Pleasure Island,
Cleethorpes
Alakazam
The Boomerang
Century 2000
Electric Monorail
Falls of Fear
Hydro Max
Mini Mine Train
Pendulus
Razzle Dazzle
Tommy Tinkaboo's
Sweet Adventure
Whirly Twirl

When I first saw this ride from the main road in Cleethorpes I thought they where doing work to it. Turns out the works been done, and the result is a bit of a bodge job of a ride.

My theory is either Cleethorpes acquired the ride and it was too big for them, or that in some point in the parks past they needed some extra space and did some alterations to the ride. The result is a water slide tower, with one slide closed off, with bits of it missing, and one rideable slide. If your brave enough to try it you'll find the theme continued, as you'll realise half the black paint on the inside of the tubes has been washed off. You then reach the final break, where instead of the normal long friction pad to stop the dingy there's a short wooden channel which gets gradually narrower, forcing the dingy to stop.

 

I could criticise it for it's presentation, but there's a part of me that likes the something built in someone's garden quality this ride has. Not only that, but under the decoration it's a very good water slide. It achieves a fast speed on it's descent and is full of twists and turns, that really disorientates you on the way down.

I think someone is missing a trick here. What they have here is a very good water ride in a very compact space. It's limited rider capacity would exclude it from the more popular parks, but there are loads of smaller parks, especially amusement parks with limited space which this would be a great ride for.

Yes this ride does need improvement aesthetically, but this doesn't detract from what's a great water ride.