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Aug 26, 2019 · Take a ride on Avalanche at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in our newly filmed 4K hypersmooth on-ride POV. Avalanche is a Mack Rides Bobsleigh roller coaster that ...
Join us on a breathtaking journey on The Avalanche at Blackpool Pleasure Beach! The Avalanche, known for its unique bobsled-like design, offers a ride experi...
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- The Ride
- Theming
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Avalanche was officially opened on 22 June 1988 by Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards. It was the first bobsled-type roller coaster to be constructed in the United Kingdom and the third bobsled coaster built by Mack Rides. A visit to Mack-owned Europa Park, where the company's first bobsled product had already been released in 1985, inspired the creation of...
Avalanche starts by passing through the storage room of the trains, then out of the building and onto the lift hill, so far the ride follows a normal ride track, at the top of the lift hill, the ride is released onto the main downhill track, which the ride is not physically held onto, it travels through various bobsled track style curves, picking u...
Avalanche is themed around an Alpine bobsled track, the station building was built to look like an Alpine village lodge. The loading platform room is decorated with emblems of different Swiss regions and various pictures of famous Bobsled teams, there is a predominant picture of the British Bobsleigh team of the Calgary Winter Olympics, 1988 which ...
In 1994, ten people were hospitalised after the train stopped abruptly on the block section outside of the station.In 1997, the train jumped on the brakes, causing it to crash into itself. One boy was taken to hospital with bruised ribs. This incident was shown on the BBC TV documentary about Blackpool Pleasure...Avalanche appears in the video game RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxein the Blackpool Pleasure Beach scenario.
This classic roller coaster has been operational at the Pleasure Beach since 1988, it was manufactured by Mack Rides who were also the manufacturer of ICON at the Pleasure Beach. (Please note this on-ride video was filmed with the permission of the Pleasure Beach's marketing team, and ride operations team, do not attempt to recreate this video ...
Almost as famous as the ride itself, here is the full Avalanche theme tune from Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Enjoy!
Avalanche. / 53.790197; -3.055452. Avalanche is a steel bobsled roller coaster at Pleasure Beach Resort in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. It was built by Mack Rides in 1988 and replaced the Cyclone .
Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Attraction type. Roller coaster. Themed around an Alpine bobsled track, Avalanche was the first Mack Steel Bobsled roller coaster to open in the UK back in 1988. After queuing through a mock Alpine lodge, guests board one of 3 trains, each of which consists of 7 cars. As on Disneyland’s old-style Matterhorn trains ...
