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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Icon - 2018 Mack Double Launch Coaster

It's difficult to see if there's an access point at the rear of the baggage hold to retrieve items from the other side; that would be the crucial hint that there is likely to be a separate onload and offload ala Blue Fire.

If they are only one sided then I would suspect it would be similar to Helix where the onload is also the offload.
 
Icon does not have an off load platform.

The nature of these baggage cages confirm this too.

Furthermore, the track in the on-load is the only track visible to house buzz-rail pins. In technical terms this is the device which opens and closes the restraints. Therefore, the absence of this on the alleged off-load track means this it physically won't unload anything.

:)
 
I’m fairly sure there’s only room for 1 load/offload area. Either way Blue Fire’s bagadge storage works for both single platform and double so the storage system doesn’t really prove anything.

The more important question; Is that transfer track part of the station? That’ll be fun if they need to add or remove a train during the day.
 
Tim said:
I’m fairly sure there’s only room for 1 load/offload area. Either way Blue Fire’s bagadge storage works for both single platform and double so the storage system doesn’t really prove anything.

The more important question; Is that transfer track part of the station? That’ll be fun if they need to add or remove a train during the day.
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There is adequate room for the station building to house 2 ride trains. This is confirmed by the fact that the ride uses 3 trains, and the brake run is evidently 1 block. The alleged/fake offload will be another, along with a separate station block to board.

:)
 
The baggage system (automated cupboards) I believe is a Mack system which they give to all parks that buy their coasters. Parks would usually opt out of having them, say if they had a different baggage system in mind, or didn't feel it was necessary.
 
Prophecy said:
The baggage system (automated cupboards) I believe is a Mack system which they give to all parks that buy their coasters. Parks would usually opt out of having them, say if they had a different baggage system in mind, or didn't feel it was necessary.
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That explains why a Mack engineer was testing them. :)
 
It took them long enough to build a way of getting out of the station, but there's clearly now an exit at the far end of the station on the offload side. That should prove useful.

Presumably this means the two doors on the side nearest Grand Prix will be the main entrance and speedy pass and not entrance and exit. Or they're for staff access. Who knows really, doors could be popping up all over the place.
 
WickerManiac said:
There is adequate room for the station building to house 2 ride trains. This is confirmed by the fact that the ride uses 3 trains, and the brake run is evidently 1 block. The alleged/fake offload will be another, along with a separate station block to board.

:)
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I’m not so sure. By my calculation the second train would stop under the cover of the station, but not in a way that would allow guests to unload. The back row would effectively be outside.
 
I wonder what the throughput of this will be?

Blackpool hardly seem to get good ones... and with ride removals over the years, Speedy pass introductions and operational changes - queues at the park are much longer now than they used to be.

Hopefully it will hit 800+. For Blackpool, that would probably be enough.
 
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