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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Icon - 2018 Mack Double Launch Coaster
venny
TS Member
Do we know if the Steeplechase end has seen anything go up yet? In terms of logistics that end is going to be far more difficult to work in than the Tom Sawyer area, so it follows it’s going to take them longer there for track install. I’m guessing the crane is going to work progressively from the station southwards to the Big Blue, so things might slow up a little as they move in that direction.
Dipper_Dave
TS Member
I realise its far from finished (looks great so far) but I will be interested to see what landscaping goes on in the old Tom Sawyer lake area & if any of the area does get filled with water. Would be a shame for the ride to be just dumped onto the concrete space like Smiler.
Been at dusk this evening, building is just being done in the lake site, looked cool in floodlights, still not very vertical, nothing sticking up in the skyline from outside the park yet...but good fun peeping through the fence gaps and gates.
I think the ground will be left dry sadly...maybe sand like the Infusion beach. Would love pink water and a massive fountain and flames though.
I think the ground will be left dry sadly...maybe sand like the Infusion beach. Would love pink water and a massive fountain and flames though.
Dipper_Dave
TS Member
WOW! Awesome pics, thanks. Exciting times 
Dipper_Dave
TS Member
And quite a few new headchoppers for the Pleasure Beach Express too!
Yeah the view from PBE will be sensational. I guess there will be plenty of netting up by the time it opens !
deathproof69
TS Member
Wow!!!! Amazing! Did I read that the Big Dipper is getting a fresh lick of paint?! Sure hope so.
Plastic Person
TS Member
Surreal, exciting and encouraging that this kind of thing is finally happening (again) at PBB. This is the sort of thing I used to draw in my head while crossing the Tom Sawyer Bridge years ago. Can't wait.