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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Icon - 2018 Mack Double Launch Coaster

There should be no wear on the magnets or launch system as it’s totaly frictionless.
Probably go through more train wheels tho.
The coaster does speed up through the day. Would be nice to see it start off the day at that speed. Then by the end of day would be amazing to ride :)
 
AstroDan said:
What I really dislike about the ride is the meandering. There is too much cornering without enough banking to be thrilling. Neither is there enough speed. It is absolutely one of those coasters that fizzles out by the end. I think perhaps the restrictions of what they could do with all those other rides around the place has meant the layout had to be compromised
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Actually, the only reason the Zero G is there is due to the Big One. The plan was to send it in a straight line (pretty much) from the Steeplechase back into the second launch area but 'Big One 1 is in the way' came up on the designs!
 
MakoMania said:
It's on 3 trains today, currently only a 10 minute queue and the park is fairly busy.
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In comparison Wicker man is currently an hour wait (one of 5 coasters with an hour plus wait time at towers).

I have season passes for PB and AT but there seems little point in visiting towers when the queue times at PB are generally so much shorter.

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I kid you not, hands up on the heartline roll, my fingertips hit either a support or another track segment. Quite painful. Either that or a bird, whatever it was it was hard.

It was track, I just saw someone else's fingertips hit it.
 
I did the same a couple if weeks ago but decided not to post it up.
You were touching the track as it goes up into the helix.
I presume you were in the back left seat?
Done it three times now...the first was completely accidental.
 
rob666 said:
I did the same a couple if weeks ago but decided not to post it up.
You were touching the track as it goes up into the helix.
I presume you were in the back left seat?
Done it three times now...the first was completely accidental.
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Yes, exactly this. The safety envelope seems not to be sufficient.

I'm not going to say anything though, don't think it would cause any sort of injury. Famous last words I know.
 
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You can actually spot the grease stain on the track from all the lard.
You are only doing about ten miles an hour there, it happens more early on before the trains have speeded up, and you have to be six foot three, dangling at arms reach.
I did discreetly tip the staff off.
Robstradamus the tracktoucher.
 
The worst things I had was on the old tunnel of bin bags on the final dip on the Coaster, and the one that really hurt was on the inside track on the Nash, the final 180 turn, as you drop off that their is a wooden support to your right for the higher turn above you, I thought it had ripped my arm off. I sat at FY4 armed with a pint in my right had acting as a cold compress and other in my left to recover from the shock.

About 30 minutes later I was back on 'cause I had a score to settle' and wasn' going to let it beat me! Though I do always put my arms in as I leave that turnaround now!
 
MakoMania said:
I kid you not, hands up on the heartline roll, my fingertips hit either a support or another track segment. Quite painful. Either that or a bird, whatever it was it was hard.

It was track, I just saw someone else's fingertips hit it.
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MakoMania said:
Yes, exactly this. The safety envelope seems not to be sufficient.

I'm not going to say anything though, don't think it would cause any sort of injury. Famous last words I know.
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You don't think it couldn't cause an injury, but a part of you hit it hard and it was quite painful? ;)

Benzin said:
Expect it to be demolished over closed season then...
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Yes, its a death trap ! :p Really though, I can't see how a tall person on one row of a coaster just being able to stretch their hands out and touch some track with their fingertips, when there would never be a coaster train on said track at the time anyway, would be considered a problem by the park.

It is a bit funny though, when people say things like "Wild Mouse would never meet today's rigorous H&S standards" due to clearance envelopes, and here we have a brand new coaster on which you reach out and touch part of the ride. You'd think these days that during ride planning, the clearance envelopes account for the tallest person possible reaching their arms out as far as possible and ensuring they don't touch anything?
 
Well it'll surely have to be demolished if they apply the same logic to it as Mouse!!

Make me a bit angry actually, we lose one of the best rides in the world because it apparrently "isn't fit for purpose" and "has no clearance so is a danger" and then they proceed to build a brand new coaster without clearance?! And throw old bits of Mouse under it as decoration!

Not good.
 
Of course post Smiler Merlin would never run this sort of PR these days but it does remind me of The Swarm PR that the ride was that dangerous test dummies were coming back with loss of limbs (of course dummies were damaged pre ride and it was just marketing guff)

Did BPB run a test like that with dummies?

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When it first happened to me I was not in any way stretching out to reach anything, I just let myself completely relax all my body, as I often do on coasters.
As you flop through the very slow first loop, your fingers sort of whip the track as you drop out of your seat.
No pain, but most amusing to a sad old coaster geek.
The fact that dippy called it a few weeks before in a p.m. made it all the more fun!
 
John said:
To be fair, there's a difference between "you can just about reach something at full stretch" and "if you put your arm out you'll lose it".
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Or if you don't duck you'll decapitate yourself.

Clearance envelopes will also be based around average sizes, a random anomaly will always appear though. Can't imagine it's anything worse than Twister at Grona Lund having one section which if you stretch really hard your fingers brush the plastic protection between it and Jetline.
 
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