It just didn't hold the magic for me unfortunately. It is a free event but there are several points for donations, which we gave. In some parts there seems to be just strings of bulbs! There doesn't seem to be very many lights anymore that move or change as you go through. There was a big section between the Front and the tabloids which weren't on, which was disappointing. Some weren't even switched on, such as the ones near the tabloids at the end. Some moved and there were lights strung across the road linking the two parallel to each other but there's hardly any of that now. But at least you get to buy a cheap plastic sword worth about 50p at best! for £15, but on the plus side it breaks before you even get half way round so you don't have it cluttering up your house for the next month.except you still do, because kids love broken paces of plastic that they like to leave lying around looking untidy.Īs a child the Illuminations looked like they went on forever and were sparkling bright and twinkling. On the other side of you, you have the slow moving traffic jam with its wall of exhaust fumes and never ending parade of forlorn children's faces, each more disenchanted than the last. On one side you have the "fabulous" Blackpool illuminations, featuring such favourites as inflatable Egyptian mummy that doesn't inflate, light up picture of Basil brush with bulbs missing and my personal favourite 'Stewart from Sooty' a guy I've never heard of from a TV show that was cancelled almost as long ago as Basil brush. The fine people of Blackpool put on their finest tracksuits, grab their kids, a warm can of larger and a vape pen to blow clouds of smoke into your face while you shuffle down a crowded prom, trying to avoid the dog poo and errant children,
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