"I’d heard about the first roller coaster to be built over 200ft, that was at a park called Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. The year it opened I went to see it, I sat in the front seat early one morning and I went down the first dip and it was just an amazing experience. It was almost like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. I saw a vision and I knew we must have one at Blackpool Pleasure Beach." ... Geoffrey Thompson OBE, Managing Director 1976 - 2004.
