Wipeout (Pleasurewood Hills)

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Wipeout

Wipeout in 2012
Pleasurewood Hills Location Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK Coordinates 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 52.992061°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 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

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
Catch car lift hill Cobra roll Vertical loop Chain lift hill

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

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  Wipeout on the Roller Coaster DataBase.