Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Icon - 2018 Mack Double Launch Coaster

[TheBolt]

If it is a theme park, the theme is "amusement park".

 

[Temleh]

Pleasure Beach is 100% an amusement park. It just happens to have some qualities of a theme park, such as Valhalla, Nick Land and the high-production shows.

Using the term 'theme park' for marketing is to elevate the status of the park and seem more attractive to the potential guest.

 

[shakey]

Theme Park, Amusement Park. It's all the same to me!

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[Benjsh]

Theme Park, Amusement Park. It's all the same to me!

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Doesn't really change how I feel about the park anyway. It's a sea side park and it just feels normal that it's an Amusement Park to me.

Cedar Point is argubaly an amusement park also and they don't seem to do too bad do they?

 

[Camera-Man]

First ever ride on icon - front or back row?

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[Benjsh]

First ever ride on icon - front or back row?

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Back for me.

 

[Temleh]

Back, that is if you're able to pick your row. The station is very cramped and will most likely have a "Big One style" filter system.

 

[John_P]

Front row.

 

[Benjsh]

Mack megas can feel a bit slow on the front row I think, especially through the inversions.

ICON I feel will all be about the back.

 

[MakoMania]

Credit to PB Experience on Facebook.

 

[Bert2theSpark]

Credit to @ScottPBE

Edit: I saw that cheeky edit to include the pic I posted @MakoMania

 

[Matt N]

Credit to PB Experience on Facebook.

Now that turn looks nice...

 

[Martin]

Ohhh maaate

 

[DiogoJ42]

Ooft! New pants please.

 

[MakoMania]

Credit to @ScottPBE

Edit: I saw that cheeky edit to include the pic I posted @MakoMania

Sorry about that

In my defence, I was basically done adding the second picture when you posted

Also, I think I read somewhere that Mack coasters have to have their trains put on the circuit before the track is complete, anyone know if there is any truth to this?

 

[DiogoJ42]

I doubt that's true. This is why transfer tracks exist.

 

[Katy]

I doubt that's true. This is why transfer tracks exist.

Plus they'd have to take the track apart every closed season to get the trains off for a strip down and rebuild.

 

[Temleh]

Icon’s transfer track being inside the building won’t make it easy.

 

[venny]

The more I see, the more you realise the prevalence of twists in the track. Apart from the first airtime hill there doesn’t appear there’s going to be many moments of airtime. Perhaps a few pops here and there.

It’ll be interesting to see how much variation of elements/experience there actually is. I hope it doesn’t end up feeling like just one twist after another after another, without anything to break it up. The only significant breaks I can see are the launches, first hill, in-line and Immelmann.

 

[MakoMania]

The more I see, the more you realise the prevalence of twists in the track. Apart from the first airtime hill there doesn’t appear there’s going to be many moments of airtime. Perhaps a few pops here and there.

It’ll be interesting to see how much variation of elements/experience there actually is. I hope it doesn’t end up feeling like just one twist after another after another, without anything to break it up. The only significant breaks I can see are the launches, first hill, in-line and Immelmann.

I can see what you mean, but Taron is basically all twisting and that ride is fabulous!

As for airtime, we have the hill after the first launch, the drop down into the 2nd launch, the airtime hill before the helix and the outer banked airtime hill.