Valhalla (Blackpool Pleasure Beach) Valhalla (Blackpool Pleasure Beach) Valhalla is a large indoor dark ride at Pleasure Beach Blackpool in Lancashire, England. Opened on 14 June 2000 at a cost of £15 million (equivalent to around £24 million in 2017), it is one of the most expensive water rides ever to be built and is the longest indoor dark ride in the world. Both a dark ride and a water ride, Valhalla uses special effects which incorporate fire, water and snow. Valhalla replaced the Fun House, (which burned down in 1991 in its place); Valhalla opened in 2000. Conceived by former park owner Geoffrey
Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach coaster which was present at the Pleasure Beach from 1929 to 1931. In 1929 Pat Collins attended the Paris Colonial Exposition, where the largest attraction was the Scenic Railway. It had been designed by German Herr Erich Heidrich of Hamburg especially for the Exposition, and was operated by showman Hugo Hans. At the close of the Exposition, Pat Collins bought the ride and had the components shipped to England. They arrived in February 1932 and a team of German workmen began constructing the ride on the sands of the Pleasure Beach site. The ride opened to visitors in April 1932.