Blackpool Pleasure Beach is set to reveal a new look after a multi-million pound winter overhaul.

The resort's leading attraction will unveil what has been dubbed Britain's first ever 4D cinema experience, as well as improvements to other areas of the park, when it reopens in February.

The former home of the Black Hole waltzer is to be a 72-seat 'Cineffex' theatre, featuring seven different special effects including water sprays, air blasts, vibrating seats and 'leg ticklers' while watching mini movies through 3D glasses.

The famous old Grand National roller coaster has also received further improvements in the form of a £1.5 million set of four Philadelphia Toboggan trains, replacing four cars destroyed in a fire.

A drive, by Pleasure Beach managing director Amanda Thompson, to improve the appearance of the site is also continuing. A further £500,000 has been spent on the busy Main Avenue walkway, which runs between Noah's Ark and the Wild Mouse which has been laid with more than 1,000 square metres of new paving with state of the art lighting posts.

A further £250,000 has been spent on restoring the Casino Building, home of the White Tower restaurant, to its former glory.

With several rides already dismantled to make way for future developments, another familiar figure is disappearing from the park.

The 'Mr Funshine' logo, in use for more than 20 years, will be retiring to make way for a smart new corporate identity for the park, incorporating new signage and new uniforms for staff.

The new signs will incorporate an exclusive new typeface, named GT in memory of Pleasure Beach managing director, Geoffrey Thompson, who began the overhaul prior to his death in 2004.

But fans of Mr Funshine have been reassured that the traditional favourite, who debuted in 1937 as Ice Drome Jack before being renamed in the 1970s, will not completely disappear from the park.

The park re-opens for weekends on February 18. Daily opening begins on Friday, April 7.