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ride Avalanche
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- Name
- Avalanche
- Status
- Operating
- Closing
- No
- Park
- Blackpool Pleasure Beach
- Category
- Roller Coaster
- Gforce max
- 2.9
- Description
- A Mack Rides steel bobsled coaster whose trains run freely through a trough-shaped track. Opened on 22 June 1988, it was the first bobsled coaster in the United Kingdom and remains the only one in the country.
- Coaster type
- Steel
- Opening date
- 1988-06-22
- Opening year
- 1988
- Rows per car
- 1
- Seating type
- Sit Down
- Trains count
- 3
- Height
- 58.99 ft (17.98 m)
- Length
- 1160.99 ft (353.87 m)
- Max speed
- 45 mph (72.42 km/h)
- Ride model
- Mack Rides Bobsled Coaster
- Ride sub type
- Bobsled coaster
- Seats per row
- 2
- Cars per train
- 7
- Restraint type
- Lap Bar
- Attraction type
- Ride
- Intensity level
- Thrill
- Manufacturer
- Mack Rides
- Inversions count
- 0
- Closing from park
- No
- Construction cost
- 2500000
- Propulsion method
- Chain Lift, Gravity
- Source unit system
- Imperial
- Height requirement
- 111.81 in (284 cm)
- Ride duration
- 82 s
- Closing date precision
- Exact Date
- Opening date precision
- Exact Date
- Construction cost currency
- British Pound (GBP)