Wild Mouse (Botton's Pleasure Beach)

Wild Mouse

Botton's Pleasure Beach
Location	Skegness, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Coordinates	53°08′34″N 0°20′48″E / 53.142878°N 0.346775°E / 53.142878; 0.346775
Status	Defunct
Operated	1962 to 1978
Replaced	Big Dipper
Replaced by	Zyklon

Statistics

Manufacturer

Butlin's

Product

Wild Mouse

Designer / calculations

B. A. Schiff & Associates

Type

Steel - Hybrid - Wild Mouse

Riders per train

2

Propulsion

Chain lift hill

Inversions

0

Wild Mouse was a hybrid wild mouse roller coaster built by Butlin's (under license from B. A. Schiff & Associates) previously located at Botton's Pleasure Beach in Skegness, Lincolnshire, England, UK. It opened for the 1962 season, replacing the park's Big Dipper.^[1] Signs outside the roller coaster referred to it as both Mad Mouse and Wild Mouse.

A photograph dated June 6, 1971 contains this roller coaster.^[2] The spot it stood at was previously occupied by the Scenic Railway.^[3] It was replaced by the Zyklon and was located in the same place that the Rockin Roller is now.

References

External links

Wild Mouse on the Roller Coaster DataBase.

Present

Coasters

Big Apple Queen Bee Rockin Roller Runaway Train

Attractions

Cups & Saucers Dodgems Dumbo Freak Out Freefall Gallopers Ghost Train Giant Wheel Pirate Ship Safari Train Twister Super Waltzer Wild River Yo-Yo

Former

Coasters

Big Dipper Storm Wild Mouse Zyklon

[1] ttps://skegness.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/skegness-amusement-ride-bites-the-dust/

[2] Jack Leeson photograph, Skegness, Pleasure Beach, 1971. - NFCA Digital

[3] Lincolnshire Amusement Parks in the 1970s (Page 1 of 5) - Joyland Books

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