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Blackpool Pleasure Beach · Bobsleigh Coaster · 1988
The UK's only bobsleigh coaster. No track, just a trough and a lot of trust.
✏️ Who designed it
Not established — we don't list the manufacturer as the designer.
Confidence: Unknown
🎢 Quick Facts
- Park
- Blackpool Pleasure Beach
- Opened
- 1988
- Manufacturer
- Mack Rides
- Type
- Bobsleigh Coaster
- Height
- Not currently confirmed
- Track Length
- 454 m (1,490 ft) (estimated)
- Top speed
- Not currently confirmed
- Inversions
- 0
- Launch
- No
- Duration
- 1:22
- Minimum height
- Not currently confirmed
- Original build cost
- £2.5m (Known)
- Status
- Operating
Published/reported figure.
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