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Blackpool Pleasure Beach | Icon | Mack Multi-Launch

Some huge Icon supports arriving this morning:

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Icon Construction Update 28/10/2017

*As everyone knows, supports and track are on the car park.
*Cladding on the station, and overall station construction is continuing.
Video by Pleasure Beach Experience.
 
The park have put some kind of tickets on sale to allow you to be amongst the first riders. Not sure how it works but they're £16! :eek:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...pleasure-beach-rollercoaster-tickets-13915623

Also the above article says this:
"The tickets have gone on sale as the construction of ICON picks up pace, with the completion of a cofferdam tunnel, buried six metres underground where a number of high quality special effects will be stored before propelling riders back into daylight, comes to a close."
 
So far as I can tell, is this, alas, just glorified fast track or ERT, whereas I was expecting tickets to be among the first riders when this thing finally opens.

Don't get excited folks, I think this is one for the Blackpool fanboys (unless we've reached the point where park entry + one ride actually comes to more than £16?!)
 
Lol, I always love the audacity of Blackpool. Be the first to ride!....for a price. They're fab. Imagine the uproar if Merlin did something like that XD
 
If 'first to ride' meant 'first to ride' rather than 'first to ride on an abstract date long after the ride has opened that we haven't specified yet' then I can see an argument that it would be worth it (regardless of park operator) - but this, I agree, is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect from Merlin!
 
Yep, I thought it might just be me misinterpreting it, but it does just seem to be a fast-track with a certificate. So no thanks!
 
Don't think its a fast-track at all (either flavour),

The VIP flavour seems to be a "early ride" ticket (before park opening), on selected dates (yet to be announced), the standard ticket was just a entrance ticket + 1 ride ticket at any time in the season (plus certificates etc). Its just a bit of marketing spin, buy it for an Xmas present sort of thing - nothing to get excited by.
 
It's not a fast track. They had these boarding cards on sale at the PB before the season ended. I asked, and they said you still have to queue the normal queue, but you get a certificate afterwards to say you have ridden Icon.
 
Why would anyone pay £17 for one ride when you can get onto everything for about a tenner more? Rich people with time management issues?
 
Fairly sure I paid the same price as this thing for a wristband the other week.

All about the certificate I guess. One for the coaster crate.
 
Hang on then, does that price include entry to the park? If it does then that's not too bad. I thought it was just paying £16 to ride the coaster and get a certificate.
 
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