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more, but at the moment they don’t make anything else that is quite right for us; they are a brilliant company though.
In winter some parks simply turn everything off but we pull everything down, very few things stay up and where possible we sheet it off move it inside. In winter you can’t move inside the Laser Quest for Waltzer cars and Dodgems cars.
This season we added four new attractions, the Astro Storm indoor
coaster, some bumper boats, a mirror maze and Congo Golf. Brean also has a new swimming pool/waterpark, although that’s not ours. Astro
Storm, which was the old Space Invader from Blackpool Pleasure Beach, was a great ride when first opened but I hope that we’ve been able to better the experience and do a bit more with the sound and light effects.
Sooty & Co We normally do four or five Sooty stage shows each year at Brean and we’ve just filmed a new series of The Sooty Show at the park, what a great backdrop! It’s showing this autumn on CITV, however the days of ITV paying you loads of money to make a kids’ TV show are long gone and so the majority of the money came from me and my brother. ITV saw a pilot and loved it, so I think they are turning a blind eye to the fact it is a massive commercial for this place. Depending on how successful it is we’ll build a big Sooty area at the park, we’d be stupid not to. Funnily enough we never bought Sooty purely with a view to the park, but it did open a few doors. It was very difficult to get the money to buy the Log Flume, but then my bank manager at the time said he had seen me on TV and his kids loved it. He asked to see a copy of my television contract, even though we were securing the ride on our business. We virtually got that Log Flume off the back of Sooty! I think we’ve got a long road ahead of us at Fun City. Gradually we will become more like a theme park, our attractions will become more spectacular, but we’ll always have that exciting fairground atmosphere with the lights and the music!
Richard Cadell was talking to Owen Ralph
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Brean Leisure Park
Owned by the House family, Brean Leisure Park is billed as the South West of England’s largest fun park, located in the small town of Brean near Weston-super-Mare. As well as Fun City, the property also includes the Brean Splash Waterpark, a holiday park, golf club and pub. The House family is one of largest providers of caravan and camping accommodation in the region.
David and Richard Cadell took over as sole amusement providers at Fun City in 2006 after years as concessionaires. Admission to the park is free and guests pay for rides with tokens or unliimited ride wristbands. Sooty (pictured) has been a familiar fixture of British television since the 1950s, originally presented by Harry Corbett, and later his son Matthew. Taking over from Matthew Corbett as presenter in 1998, Richard Cadell bought the rights to Sooty in 2008 from HiT Entertainment.
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