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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Icon - 2018 Mack Double Launch Coaster

I think the pace of the ride is great once it gets going but even I will admit that in the morning it makes me stressed watching it go through that roll. Maybe now they will give it a bit more power on the first launch, if it's stalling in August it's not got a chance in February.
 
Matt N said:
I also rather enjoyed everything else at BPB bar Infusion, Big One, Steeplechase and Nash....

Also, as this is a BPB thread; was Wild Mouse any more brutal than Nash, out of interest?
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If you found Steeplechase painful then I think you would have really struggled with wild mouse.

But many of the rides at PB are better when you have ridden them a few times and you know how to ride them. They can be something of an acquired taste so don't write them off just yet.

Even Infusion isn't that bad when you get used to it but I cannot disagree with you about Nash in its present state.

If I may ask, where did you sit on the big one? The back couple of rows can be quite rough and i try to avoid those but apart from that it's my favourite coaster now mouse is dead. I just love the sheer scale of the ride compared to anything else in the UK. Plus night rides add an extra dimension.

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Only been on Icon near the end of the day and still thought it took some elements slowly, didn't mind the roll speed too much in isolation but the bit running up into it after the Steeplechase bit is so, so boring.

We were told in 2016 that Helix had knocked 2 seconds off its circuit time since it opened so hopefully that happens here too. For every great element on Icon there's a boring one.
 
Slow ride in stalling shocker :rolleyes:

Now it's been a month or so since riding Icon... I'd say it's neck and neck with Stealth at 4th place in my UK top coasters.

The ride is a joke first thing in the morning, if offers very little. It's nice and smooth and floaty but just a bit dull.

Tbf late in the day, that top hat on the back row is possibly the UK's greatest individual coaster moment. The airtime is phenomenal.

I've never known a ride experience to differ so much before.

Reminds me of that Marilyn Monroe quote: ''if you can't handle me at my worst you don't deserve me at my best".;)
 
shakey said:
If you found Steeplechase painful then I think you would have really struggled with wild mouse.

But many of the rides at PB are better when you have ridden them a few times and you know how to ride them. They can be something of an acquired taste so don't write them off just yet.

Even Infusion isn't that bad when you get used to it but I cannot disagree with you about Nash in its present state.

If I may ask, where did you sit on the big one? The back couple of rows can be quite rough and i try to avoid those but apart from that it's my favourite coaster now mouse is dead. I just love the sheer scale of the ride compared to anything else in the UK. Plus night rides add an extra dimension.

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Oh... so I probably wouldn't have liked Wild Mouse. Probably best that I didn't ride it, then!

When we came into the brake run on Nash, my whole family looked rather breathless, and my dad looked at me and said "My god. They don't build them like that any more, do they?". My mum and dad enjoyed it, but I wasn't a fan simply because of how brutal the whole experience was. The thing is, Nash actually has a very good layout; in terms of layout, it would probably be up there with Megafobia and Wicker Man as one of Britain's best woodies! There were a few good airtime moments and the ride maintained a good pace, in my opinion, but I just found it far too rough to enjoy, personally.

I think I sat in the second or third car of the train on Big One (so between row 4 and row 9), so not overly far back.
 
MakoMania said:
I think whoever said that many of BPB's coasters are an acquired taste hit the nail on the head.
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Ah right. Thanks guys! It certainly seems as though people who visit BPB more often seem to like them more than people like myself, who don't often ride those sorts of rides. I must say that I did very much enjoy Streak and Dipper, though; I didn't actually think they were too rough!
 
MakoMania said:
I think whoever said that many of BPB's coasters are an acquired taste hit the nail on the head.
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Maybe, but I'm not sure if that's something to aspire to! I think it's in part down to some of the rides changing and requiring some more defensive riding, like the National. But perhaps moreso because of what people expect of a roller coaster has perhaps shifted due to the number of newer rides over the past three decades.
 
Think icon would maybe have benefited from an extra car to add some inertia and a bit more whip, was surprised at how little acceleration there is after the inclined loop heading into Steeplechase.
 
There’s a few videos which show just how slowly Icon takes that zero-g roll first thing in the morning. It looks like it pretty much stops, so it’s perhaps not shocking to see a stall at some point.

It’s surprising that Mack would design a ride which would be prone to such a thing, which lends some credibility to the slow launch theory.

 
Can I get a word blocker for 'Wild Mouse' on this forum...

Most of the debate around Icon seems to have been about whether or not it's "slow", so it's nice of the ride to respond with a definitive answer.
 
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Plastic Person said:
Can I get a word blocker for 'Wild Mouse' on this forum..
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LOL

Dipper_Dave said:
The Wild Mouse never stalled !
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There use to be a wooden Wild mouse at Louden castle back in the early 2000s.
Me and my dad where there for my 11th birthday, we had quite a few dose on this mouse.

One of the times it stalled and one of the ride opes had to push the car to get it moving back to the station.

All coasters have the can stall from time to time.
 
rob666 said:
Dippy, the mouse stalled, lots.
Sorry, after first drop, on the hairpin, on the last turns...
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Me and my dad stalled on the hairpins one particularly rainy October day years ago. The op didn't look thrilled that they had to trudge all the way up to give us a push, and then a second when we stopped again round the next turn!
 
Danny said:
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Well it's nice to see my Facebook page has finally made itself famous!

It wouldn't shock me if attempts were being made to rescue the train as I type. I imagine the train will be dismantled while the Steeplechase and Big Dipper aren't running so I'd assume it would be a 7am job to get it done without affecting the other ride's, both of whicharge were late opening yesterday for reasons that became clear once I saw that train!

As for the Mouse, yes it stalled, many times.
 
rob666 said:
Dippy, the mouse stalled, lots.
Sorry, after first drop, on the hairpin, on the last turns...
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Wild Mouse stalled but it had anti-rollbacks meaning it could be recovered very easily and reopened the same day on most occasions. Much better than stalling somewhere where there is no evacuation route (in the case of it having guests on, which wasn't the case here) and I'd imagine it'll take much more effort to dissemble the train and reassemble it, as well as much more downtime.

I'd suggest Icon has a flawed design if it allows it to stall in such an inconvenient location. Mouse was fine.
 
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