Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Icon - 2018 Mack Double Launch Coaster

[Poisson]

We are riding this thing THIS YEAR!

We are indeed, for this is 2018 and it is expected to open in 2018.

 

[Brad97]

It's cursed now, it'll fall into the sea by March.

 

[MakoMania]

We are indeed, for this is 2018 and it is expected to open in 2018.

There's always one.

 

[monkeyboy]

There's always one.

Large Pepsi?

 

[MakoMania]

Large Pepsi?

 

[Dipper_Dave]

A few Icon pics from today. Look how tiny some of these supports are - must be for Dipper / Steeplechase area, gonna be great flying round that area at so close to ground level !





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[rob666]

Fun outing today dippy...Velvet Coaster times two!
Staff near to south gate said the break run and launch track are now going in.
Just a month now until we can get a proper look.

 

[MakoMania]

Fun outing today dippy...Velvet Coaster times two!
Staff near to south gate said the break run and launch track are now going in.
Just a month now until we can get a proper look.

Wasn't the break run completed ages ago?

 

[DiogoJ42]

Look how tiny some of these supports are

They're just far away.

 

[Matt N]

A few Icon pics from today. Look how tiny some of these supports are - must be for Dipper / Steeplechase area, gonna be great flying round that area at so close to ground level !

Now that, my friends, is exactly why I’ve asked my parents to go here for my birthday! The first photo, that is! I’m not going to see a lorry!

 

[rob666]

Wasn't the break run completed ages ago?

Don't know mate, just passing on what he said.

 

[KingNemesis]

Now that, my friends, is exactly why I’ve asked my parents to go here for my birthday! The first photo, that is! I’m not going to see a lorry!

I mean... I'd still take Florida...

 

[Rob]

Is it me, or does that inversion not fully invert?

I had a look at all the track in the car park myself the other day, it certainly makes for wonderful viewing! Mack goodness!

 

[rob666]

Yes Rob, you are quite right, with the twist I would say you are never actually fully inverted.
Still looks fun though.

And the stumpy supports in dippy's photos are only about a metre long, I imagine they are for round the steeplechase.

 

[Matt N]

I mean... I'd still take Florida...

My family are going to Florida anyway between the 8th and the 18th August @KingNemesis, regardless of whether Blackpool is a possibility or not! I looked online, and Blackpool wristbands are only £19.50 each! I reckon that if Blackpool happens, you could combine that with our confirmed Florida trip in August, a free day at Alton Towers and a free day at Thorpe Park (both using MAPs) for a winning 2018 season!
EDIT: This post makes me sound extremely demanding! We go to Alton Towers once a year anyway, and Thorpe was promised to me because we didn't go in 2017, making it our first visit in 3 years! Anyway, Icon is looking great! How long should it be until Icon's track is completed and the thing starts testing?

 

[Temleh]

Happy to say construction has resumed today, things moving and cranes currently on site.

 

[MakoMania]

Happy to say construction has resumed today, things moving and cranes currently on site.

Wait, when did it stop? For Christmas?

 

[Rick]

Happy to say construction has resumed today, things moving and cranes currently on site.

Weren't they working yesterday? All the lads from RCS were in The Velvet Coaster last night.

 

[Temleh]

It stopped before Christmas and resumed today.

They must have come back from London last night Rick.

 

[DiogoJ42]

Mandy probably slipped the builders a few brown envelopes to knock down Mouse while they were on site.