Wipeout (Pleasurewood Hills)

Roller coaster in the United Kingdom
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Wipeout
Wipeout in 2012
Pleasurewood Hills
Location Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK
Coordinates 52°30′28″N 1°44′38″E / 52.507687°N 1.743836°E / 52.507687; 1.743836
Status Operating since 28 June 2007
American Adventure Theme Park
Name Missile
Location Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK
Coordinates 52°59′31″N 1°20′31″W / 52.992061°N 1.342050°W / 52.992061; -1.342050
Operated 4 July 1989 to 2004
Glasgow Garden Festival
Name Coca-Cola Roller
Location Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Operated During 1988
Onsite construction Martin & Vleminckx
Statistics
Manufacturer Vekoma
Product Boomerang
Type Steel - Shuttle
Hourly capacity 760
Propulsion Catch car lift hill
Chain lift hill
Area 88 metres × 30 metres
Height 35.5 metres
Top speed 75.6 km/h
Length 285 metres
Inversions 3
Rider inversions 6
Duration 1:48
G-Force 5.2
Rolling stock
Manufacturer Vekoma (2007-present)
Arrow Dynamics (1988-2004)
Riders per train 28
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Wipeout is a steel shuttle roller coaster located at Pleasurewood Hills in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK.

It was one of four Boomerang coasters built in the UK and the only one left in the country.

History

Coca-Cola Roller at the Glasgow Garden Festival
Missile at American Adventure in 1996

The roller coaster first operated at the Glasgow Garden Festival in Scotland, UK during 1988. It was called Coca-Cola Roller. The following year, it opened at American Adventure Theme Park in Derbyshire, England, UK and was called Missile. It closed in 2004.

It reopened at Pleasurewood Hills on 28 June 2007.

Design

Elements

Colour scheme

Currently has light blue track and dark blue supports. It was painted entirely white when operating in Glasgow, keeping that look on its initial relocation to American Adventure, before being repainted grey with blue supports in the mid-1990s.

Trains

Single train with 7 cars. In each car, riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows, for a total of 28 riders per train. The original train from Arrow Dynamics was replaced with a Vekoma train from Speed of Sound at Walibi Holland in the Netherlands as part of the move to Pleasurewood Hills.

External links

  • Wipeout on the Roller Coaster DataBase.