Blue Flyer
| Blue Flyer | |
|---|---|
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| Blackpool Pleasure Beach | |
| Park section | Nickelodeon Land |
| Coordinates | 53°47′25″N 3°03′14″W / 53.790236°N 3.053884°WCoordinates: 53°47′25″N 3°03′14″W / 53.790236°N 3.053884°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | 1934 as Zipper Dipper, 2011 as Blue Flyer |
| General statistics | |
| Manufacturer | Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters |
| Designer | Charlie Paige |
| Height | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Length | 2,293 ft (699 m) |
| Speed | 25 mph (40 km/h) |
| Inversions | 0 |
| Duration | 1:00 |
| Max vertical angle | 27° |
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Blue Flyer at RCDB Pictures of Blue Flyer at RCDB | |
Blue Flyer (formerly Zipper Dipper and Warburtons Milk Roll-A-Coaster) is a Wooden roller coaster at Nickelodeon Land, Blackpool Pleasure Beach in Blackpool, England. It was built in 1934. It is believed to have been built by Charlie Paige. It is a family coaster.
Blue Flyer operates with one train, which was built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters. The train is made up of 5 cars, each car seats 4 people in 2 rows, each row seating 2 people, making for a total of 20 people in the train.[1]
Blue Flyer is an ACE Coaster Classic.
Pleasure Beach Resort closed Beaver Creek's Children Park in Autumn 2010. Zipper Dipper was rethemed and was transformed into Blue's Flyer with the opening of Nickelodeon Land on 4 May 2011. When Nickelodeon Land opened, the coaster trains were changed to match Blue's Clues. The first coaster train had Blue's name labled. The second coaster train had Steve's name labeled.The third coaster train had Magenta's name labeled. The forth coaster train had Perrywinkle's name labeled. And the fithnone had Sprinkles' name labeled.
The Ride
Blue Flyer begins with a lift hill to the ride's highest height of 25 ft, the ride then travels over two small hills and into a tunnel, located inside the building where Astro Storm was located. The ride exits the tunnel and travels along a slight decline before entering the brakes section and rolling into the station.
Sponsorship
Blue Flyer was briefly sponsored by Warburtons, and was known as the Warburtons Milk Roll-a-coaster, although all signage still read Zipper Dipper for the duration of the sponsorship as that was the ride's name before Nickelodeon Land.
Train on track
Train in station
References
- ↑ Marden, Duane. "Blue Flyer (Pleasure Beach, Blackpool)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 16 August 2014.