Blackpool Pleasure Beach | Icon | Mack Multi-Launch

[CrashCoaster]

^Beat you to it mate.

 

[Smithy]

That last image of the support from PBE can also double up as a great entry into the weird shape supports thread.

 

[Pear]

^Beat you to it mate.

Whoops didn't see it earlier! My bad!

 

[sandgrown]

Not really - I think people were more concerned about the failing brake run causing riders to end up in hospital

i remember that after the accident, the ride closed to the public, and an announcement came over the tannoy to anyone working in the park, inviting us for a free ride. They weren't prepared to risk a normal life, but Pleasure Beach workers were obviously not that important to them. The park's candy floss vendors and arcade keymen were deemed appropriate guinea pigs for the reopening of the Big One. Almost everyone said yes, but felt a bit miffed at the same time.

 

[sandgrown]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/963475614345789440

Updated render

Am i being daft or is that missing some tunnel action?

 

[elephant58]

Am i being daft or is that missing some tunnel action?

It is indeed, but it's basically the same as the render from last year, apart from the colours have been updated. So most of the other rides are missing too plus the station.

 

[Robbie]

^ Well I think real controversy causes more uproar than hypothetical situations.

I wasn't being hypothetical! As @sandgrown says, it actually happened soon after The Big One opened. At least twice!

 

[MakoMania]

Last piece of track will be installed today

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/963698776543318016

 

[CrashCoaster]

The circuit is complete!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/963680450161135616

 

[CrashCoaster]

Double post, but Blackpool Gazette livestreamed the whole thing:-

https://www.facebook.com/

 

[Bert2theSpark]

Spoiler: Trigger Warning

Hard to believe that's a genuine comment...

 

[elephant58]

That's far from the worst...

 

[CrashCoaster]

Spoiler: Trigger Warning

Hard to believe that's a genuine comment...

Put your hand up if you hate the GP. :emoji_hand_splayed:

 

[MakoMania]

Here's ICON being featured on BBC News, including an interview with Amanda Thompson:

 

[Sandman]

I'm glad they are pushing the interactions as a selling point rather than speed/intensity. Even though the presenter at the beginning had to say the obligatory "as much g force as a race car" line

 

[davidm]

^^ Scott on TV there!

And some graffiti on the ride already;

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/963887948985982978

 

[Lofty]

Well, they can't exactly push speed or height considering one of the coasters it interacts with is faster and taller...

 

[Scott88]

You can hear from the Thompson's and BPB's techincal director on the subject of Icon here;

 

[vaugc002]

You can hear from the Thompson's and BPB's techincal director on the subject of Icon here;

Ah she's so passionate - I love it! That's what you need from an owner.

 

[Pear]

She's excited because the sooner the track is done the sooner she can start work on the fountain