It'll easily beat Nemmy for those who prefer lap bars, smooth transitions and airtime. I'm one of those people and Nemmy is nowhere near the top coaster in the country for me. It's like with food, not everyone likes the same thing. Icon is looking like my kinda ride
I also think there is something to be said for the visibility/views you get from a coaster, which is pretty much zero on nemesis unless you are on the front row. It's one ride aspect that most PB coasters do very well at due to the majority of them snaking through the park and around other rides.
Nemesis is a fantastic coaster but it can’t be just me who thinks it is overrated?
Here here. <lights the blue touch paper> I appreciate that saying this on a Towers forum will go down like a lead balloon with some Nemmy fanboys, but personally I've never been a huge fan of it. Before you attempt to burn me at the stake, I do think it is a superb feat of engineering, the way it fits in that terrain, but as
@shakey has said, only the front row gives any kind of view. We all like different things in coasters & other rides, and lets face it the forum would be rather boring if we didn't, I have just never been a fan of inverted coasters. I don't see the point in a ride that has you looking at the back of the seat in front whilst being thrown from pillar to post, hardly being able to see anything. Maybe I'm claustrophobic or something. I like to see views from a coaster, not the back of a seat hanging down before me. Its a good ride, but not a great ride as far as I'm concerned <dons tin hat and ducks for cover>. But then some people hated the Wild Mouse, which was my favourite ride, so each to his own!
Anyway, no point in turning this into a Nemmie bashing thread (not that I 'bashed' it anyway, I'm just not a fan!), for me the interactions with the other rides are what will make Icon a hugely fun ride. I'll wager that some people on here and/or other coaster forums haven't even seen Icon in person, and experienced first hand just how closely it weaves over, under & through other rides to great effect. Towers and other UK parks mostly have rides that just stand in their own footprint, you don't get that kind of isolation as much at BPB which is a big part of why BPB fans love the park so much.
Icon will be (and already is, for those of us who've been during testing) great to watch from other rides such as Steeplechase, The Big One, Big Dipper, Pleasure Beach Express, Grand Prix, Skyforce, etc. For example how cool will it be when the Icon train goes over the airtime hill when The Big One's train goes by on its lift hill, goes over your head near the end of your Steeplechase ride, snakes beneath you after Big Dipper's turnaround, or goes through the immelmann turn as the PBE train passes by?
