{"id":21027,"date":"2018-03-15T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=21027"},"modified":"2024-02-05T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T21:18:08","slug":"the-hulk-stops-the-blackpool-tramway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=21027","title":{"rendered":"The Hulk stops the Blackpool Tramway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As bizarre tram based stories go this one probably tops the list! The Incredible Hulk was spotted in Blackpool on Thursday 15th March stopping <strong>Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood Box 40<\/strong> in its tracks! Of course it wasn\u2019t as it may seem from the photos as it was just a publicity stunt in connection with Madam Tussauds new Marvel Superheroes area which is adding a \u00a31 million 5,501 square foot addition to the attraction on Blackpool Prom.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The scene was at North Pier\/Tower heritage stop with photos &#8220;showing&#8221; <strong>40<\/strong> being partially upended and the tracks ripped through the concrete as the Hulk, well lost his temper a little bit \u2013 maybe he had just been told that there wasn\u2019t a heritage tram service running until the weekend and couldn\u2019t cope?!<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t worry no trams were damaged in this stunt!<\/p>\n<p>For those interested the new Marvel Super Heroes zone will open in March with four new zones at Madam Tussauds. This will include \u201cComic Store\u201d, \u201cThor\u201d, \u201cHulk\u201d and \u201cSpider-Man\u201d zones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As bizarre tram based stories go this one probably tops the list! The Incredible Hulk was spotted in Blackpool on Thursday 15th March stopping Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood Box 40 in its tracks! Of course it wasn\u2019t as it may seem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=21027\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52608,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027\/revisions\/52608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}