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Blackpool Pleasure Beach · GB · Mack Rides Double Launch Coaster
“Blackpool threads new steel through its splendid old Pleasure Beach.”
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Fast facts
- Icon opened to the public at Blackpool Pleasure Beach on 25 May 2018. blackpoolpleasurebeach.com
- It is a steel double-launch roller coaster manufactured by Mack Rides of Germany. westlakes.co.uk
- The ride reaches a height of 27 metres and a top speed of 85 km/h. ice.org.uk
- Icon includes one inversion. ice.org.uk
- Its track runs for about 1.14 kilometres across the crowded Pleasure Beach site. ice.org.uk
- The layout passes above, below, and between neighbouring rides, with fifteen stated interactions. ice.org.uk
- The ride was planned for a throughput of 1,000 riders per hour. ice.org.uk
The story of Icon
Blackpool Pleasure Beach announced the name Icon in April 2017, presenting its coming Mack Rides coaster as the park’s great new undertaking for spring 2018. For the traveller looking over Ocean Boulevard, it promised fresh German steel laid into one of Britain’s most crowded seaside amusement grounds. blooloop.com
The engineering achievement was not in height alone, but in the fit. Icon was designed to pass above, below, and between established Pleasure Beach rides, requiring modifications nearby and a careful three-dimensional model of track, supports, groundworks, and clearance. ice.org.uk· westlakes.co.uk
At the start of the ride, the launch works demanded a deep cut into the park: about forty metres long, ten metres wide, and six metres deep, so that the two launch lines could run side by side in their passage beneath the midway. ice.org.uk
When Icon opened on 25 May 2018, it brought the Pleasure Beach a modern double-launch coaster without abandoning the old Blackpool habit of close company: rails, piers, buildings, and neighbouring rides all pressed together in the brisk resort air. blackpoolpleasurebeach.com· blooloop.com
Sources
- blackpoolpleasurebeach.com Preferred source
- westlakes.co.uk Acceptable source
- ice.org.uk Acceptable source
- blooloop.com Acceptable source
- blooloop.com Acceptable source