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Manufacturer | Maurer Rides | ||||||||||||
Product | Wilde Maus Classic | ||||||||||||
Designer / calculations | Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH | ||||||||||||
Type | Steel - Wild Mouse | ||||||||||||
Riders per train | 4 | ||||||||||||
Hourly capacity | 900 | ||||||||||||
Propulsion | Chain lift hill | ||||||||||||
Area | 18 metres × 40 metres | ||||||||||||
Height | 15 metres | ||||||||||||
Top speed | 45 km/h | ||||||||||||
Length | 370 metres | ||||||||||||
Inversions | 0 | ||||||||||||
Drop angle | 46° | ||||||||||||
Duration | 1:10 | ||||||||||||
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Marble Madness is a steel wild mouse roller coaster at Pleasurewood Hills in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK. Built by Maurer Rides, the ride opened on 27 June 2014. It previously operated at Flamingo Land from 1997 to 2012.
History
Wild Mouse was built in 1997.[1] The track was painted pink and the supports yellow.
The Wild Mouse received recorded audio announcements (in a squeaky mouse voice) in 2007. The following year, the station building was changed and the ride received a new paint job (blue track with orange supports).
After the 2012 season, the Wild Mouse was dismantled.[2] In July 2013, Hero opened where the Wild Mouse once stood. It is a Volare roller coaster manufactured by Zamperla.
In early 2013, Wild Mouse appeared on Zamperla's used rides website. It was later sold to Pleasurewood Hills. The name was revealed to be Marble Madness on February 5, 2014.[3] The ride was renovated, with the track being repainted orange and the supports purple. Faces were added to the trains. It reopened on June 27, 2014.[4] It is located on the former spot of Fireball, which has been relocated within the park.
In November 2023, the park announced that it would dismantle and refurbish the ride. Marble Madness is expected to reopen in 2024 with a new name and theme.[5]
Design
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Marble Madness features seven switchbacks and a few drops and twists after those. It also has a transfer track which can store some of the cars when not in use.
Trains
Single cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows, for a total of 4 riders per car. As part of its relocation to Pleasurewood Hills, the cars were repainted yellow and model eyes were added to the front.
Images
The following photographs were taken in 2010, while the roller coaster was at Flamingo Land.
References
- ↑ "25 May 1997, page 57 - Sunday Telegraph at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com (in English). Retrieved 2024-04-02.
- ↑ Wild Mouse rollercoaster leaves Flamingo Land - Ride Rater
- ↑ Photo on Pleasurewood Hills Facebook page
- ↑ "Marble Madness Coaster". Themeparks-UK. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ↑ "Theme park announces huge changes to 'family favourite' rollercoaster". Eastern Daily Press (in English). 2023-11-23. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
External links
- Marble Madness on the Roller Coaster DataBase.