The Flambards Experience

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The Flambards Experience is a family amusement park in Helston, Cornwall.

The Flambards Experience (formally Flambards Village theme park) was founded in 1976 as the "Cornwall Aircraft Park" by Lt Cmdr Douglas Kingsford Hale MBE and his wife Audrey.

Attractions include

The Victorian Village Experience
The Britain in the Blitz Experience
The Memory Lane Experience
The Hands on Experience (commonly known as the exploratorium)

Rides and amusements:

The Hornet Rollercoaster - A Zierer Hornet style coaster
The Canyon River Log Flume - made by Zamperla
The Cyclocopters - made by Zierer
The Balloon Race - made by Zamperla
The Extreme Force - Keith Emmet Skymaster style ride previously owned by Joesph Manning
The Chariot Race - former fairground ride previously called the SuperBob
The Thunderbolt - Superrides International made Superstar ride (SS6) previously owned by Scott Manning as "Wildthing". This ride was used in the millennium celebration on the Mall in London.
Sea Legs Childrens indoor play area
The Coolzone & tots zone indoor play area
The Hags play outdoor play area
Shiver m' timbers (the wobbley bridges)
The Demon Drop Slide (death slide)
The Animal Express (young childrens train ride)
The Cornish Childrens Eye (Ferris wheel)
The Swiss Carosoul (childrens merry go round - about 80 years younger than its decoration says)
The Tea Cups (S.W. amusements made childrens Tea Cups ride)
The Pirate Ship (a childrens pirate ship approx capacity of 12 children)
The Human Cannonball ride

In addition to these there is a Go-Kart track, video games arcade, and an animal show.

The latest additions to the park are

The Kingsford Venue (A theatre tent. Building of this finished in late March 2005 and was initially opened for the "centre stage" shows and later named the Kingsford Venue.)
The Magnum bar

(Formerly the milkcan prize games area which closed at the end of 2004 summer season. This area was used as the jacket potato stand in the 2005 summer season. The building of the Magnum bar started early in the 2006 summer season and opened mid July 2006.)

Trivia:

The Goats for the 2006 summer season are known (at least by the General duties staff) as Frodo Baggins and Mr Tumnus.
The Park made a loss in the 12 months up to the end of Jan 2005 in the region of £350,000 and had an overdraft and other loans totaling in the region of £2million (from accounts submitted and available from Companies house.)

Anticipated changes for the 2007 summer season include: The "war of the robots" being moved from its current location by the drop slide to in front of the sea legs play area in place of the "nice ice" kiosk. No new rides for were anticipated for 2007 due to the Kingsford Venue being so much over budget in its construction. However the West Briton newspaper published on the 18th Jan 2007 suggested that there are to new attractions these are thought to be 3 new rides which will be a Zamperla rocking tug, a medium-large sized carousal and a children drop style ride.