WOW 120 MPH and 400 high!..........I would like to stand and have a look first! LOL
I thought this was High, it's at Blackpool " resort" not far from Simon..............
The Big One - Blackpool Pleasure Beach
235ft from the ground on the windswept Irish Sea coast at Blackpool pleasure beach is where you'll find the peak of the Pepsi Max Big One... and it's very high, and very exposed.
This coaster has had it's track modified twice (so far) since it was opened, the first drop has been radically altered, and the main turnaround has been tightened and smoothed out - the original Arrow trains have apparently also been rebuilt by European manufacturer Vekoma - not that there is any visible difference between them.
This is a very violent ride - especially the extremely steep twisted first drop - from anywhere except the very front row you cannot see the track, and it feels like you are falling into nothing as the train twists away under you. This is one of the very few rides of which gives me a true feeling of fear. The rest of the ride is a series of turns and dips, which is improving as changes are made to sections of the ride, but nothing matches that awesomely scary drop.
From the front row, my initial reaction to the first drop was along the lines of "there is no way this train is going to take that..." - the overbanked diving drop just looks impossible - and it's very very scary...
The 235ft lift towering about the Irish sea coast feels very very vunerable as you climb upwards, the wind blowing around you, before that drop...
Hopefully the park will make further modifications to improve the later half of the ride, which, as yet has remained untouched whereas most of the "out" run along the seafront has been considerably modified.
A good ride - certainly worth riding, if only for that amazing drop
Qwerty
The Big One - Blackpool Pleasure Beach
235ft from the ground on the windswept Irish Sea coast at Blackpool pleasure beach is where you'll find the peak of the Pepsi Max Big One... and it's very high, and very exposed.
This coaster has had it's track modified twice (so far) since it was opened, the first drop has been radically altered, and the main turnaround has been tightened and smoothed out - the original Arrow trains have apparently also been rebuilt by European manufacturer Vekoma - not that there is any visible difference between them.
This is a very violent ride - especially the extremely steep twisted first drop - from anywhere except the very front row you cannot see the track, and it feels like you are falling into nothing as the train twists away under you. This is one of the very few rides of which gives me a true feeling of fear. The rest of the ride is a series of turns and dips, which is improving as changes are made to sections of the ride, but nothing matches that awesomely scary drop.
From the front row, my initial reaction to the first drop was along the lines of "there is no way this train is going to take that..." - the overbanked diving drop just looks impossible - and it's very very scary...
The 235ft lift towering about the Irish sea coast feels very very vunerable as you climb upwards, the wind blowing around you, before that drop...
Hopefully the park will make further modifications to improve the later half of the ride, which, as yet has remained untouched whereas most of the "out" run along the seafront has been considerably modified.
A good ride - certainly worth riding, if only for that amazing drop