20 Greatest Roller Coasters In England
5. The Big One - Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Opened: 1994
Manufacturer: Arrow Dynamics
Type: Hyper Coaster
The tallest roller coaster in the UK - yes, even taller than Stealth - and the second-fastest, The Big One certainly lives up to its name. It's very long, very tall, very fast and is just, in general, an absolute beast of a ride that dominates the Blackpool skyline. It's also a stone cold roller coaster classic.
It starts out with arguably the best first drop in the country - a twisting 205 ft plummet towards the seafront - and never lets up from there, delivering one high speed, blisteringly intense hill after another. It's a brutal, powerful, rough yet endlessly wonderful thrill machine that never loses its speed, charm or high fear factor. Chances are you'll be crapping yourself every time you go on it.
To date, The Big One is the only Hyper Coaster in the UK, but luckily it is a truly great one at that and something the country can be very, very proud of indeed.