Double Looping Water Slides!

The company that pioneered the first aqualoop water slide, Aquarena, have taken the concept further by doing double-looping water slides! As far as I have learned, there are at least three double-looping slides in the world; each one in Europe.

The first is the most popular for being the first double-looping slide ever built. The L2 at Wörgler Wasserwelt in Wörgl, Austria.

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The second is called Pegasus II and is located at Kristall Palm Beach in Stein, Germany.

(YouTube Link)

The last one, the Hurricane Loop, is located at Miramar in Weinheim, Germany.

(YouTube Link)

They all look pretty intense! Would you dare drop in on any one of these slides?!

Question: Who Made These Slides?

This'll be a fairly short blog post, but I'm attempting to look up the manufacturer for certain water slides I've seen built at many water parks around the world.

 

Photo Source

I have seen in-person, and in photographs and video, this wide-body design in many water slides around the world. Water slides like Edmonton Mall's Nessie's Revenge, Six Flags White Water's Dragon's Tail (pictured below) and Three Slide Body Flume, The Beach water park's The Cliff (pictured above) and Bonzai Blast, and even Beach Park Brazil's Insano all have the same flume design on them; all of which have been operating for the past decade or so. These slides have offered water parks many years of thrills, but I have yet to find information on what or which company manufactured them.

 

If anyone has any possible leads, feel free to email me as I am very curious upon who made them:

waterslidedb@aol.com

-Marcus Dorsey

(Any photographs or images used belong to their respective owners, and were borrowed from the source(s) linked.)

List of the World's Tallest Water Slides

Current list of the tallest water slides on planet earth. This unfinished list will be altered occasionally as new slides are to be entered and categorized from tallest downwards.

• List has migrated onto the official Water Slide Database website.
• Height information states slides that start from their highest point and progress to their lowest point, one way or another.

I think I should clarify how I use my rating system

After visiting a water park, I write a review of it if it is my first time at said park. But if it is a repeat visit, then I write a trip-report I will instead make a generalized review of anything new or already ridden.

In those trip-reports and reviews, I do a rating for each slide ridden and for the water park as a whole. Below is listed how I rate the parks and slides.

Rating System:

10/10 = Amazing

09/10 = Very Exciting

08/10 = Very Fun

07/10 = Enjoyable

06/10 = Decent

05/10 = Rideable

04/10 = Recommend Avoiding

03/10 = Unenjoyable

02/10 = Bad

01/10 = Un-rideable

N/A = Not Available

Luckily, I haven't been on a slide that has hit 1/10! I wouldn't even go on something like that!

So this is what I use every time I rate parks. Slides I can recommend riding at least once will be anywhere above a 7/10 rating.

Anywhere between 5/10 and 6/10 is your choice. If you skip it, you're not missing much.

Anywhere below 5/10, I wouldn't recommend riding.

Plans for Summer?

I thought I'd go ahead and make this post to break the chain of just news blocks that have been posted here.

So, summer is here in the United States, and water parks have either started to let the waters flow, or have already began to open their gates (Some, of course, have already been running for a while). I'm going to place a simple poll in the sidebar to get back into the hang of posting polls again. The question for this time will be, "Do you plan to visit a waterpark this summer?" Simple question, hopefully a lot of people can answer this with no problem!

I certainly plan to visit at least one. I have already bought my tickets to attend the Holiwood Nights coaster enthusiast event at Holiday World this June. While there, I plan to get in as many rides on Mammoth as I can and photograph the slide as well. I also plan to finally video record off-ride shots of as many of the slides as I can.

I will definitely write a report on the Mammoth and the water park when I get back from the event. If you'd like, I can write a report on the entire event and not just the water park. Just say the word, and I can fulfill!

Thanks for reading, and don't forget to vote in the poll!

Water Park of America Photo, Mall of America Trip Report

On my flight out of Minnesota last Friday (4/6/12), I was able to spot Water Park of America from the plane as it took off. I took that chance to snap a distant photo of it.

Zoomed in a little

Just felt like sharing it!

If you'd like to read through my photo trip report of the Mall of America, which was what I was in Minnesota for, then you can click here.

About.com's "Best of Theme Parks 2011" Winners

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It seems About.com has come up with winners for the theme park poll they ran on their website. The poll included polls for best new water park ride of 2011, which was The Falls at Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels, Texas.

Second place was 360 Rush at Spring Valley Beach in Blountsville, Alabama. Third place was the Constrictor at Wet n' Wild Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona.

Click here to visit the poll.

Regarding posts made to this blog

I do not plan to continue only making posts that seem like they're computer generated, like the Photos of the Week or News Block Posts. Those will still go on, but I'm also thinking of ways I can make more 'real' posts like this so I can bring a little variety to this blog.

The first trip report or review I make will probably be made around summer time when I am not busy with school. I plan to revisit Holiday World to ride Mammoth in early June, so you can expect that to come. Sorry that it's two months away, but hopefully it will be worth it in the end.

Tallest Water Slides

I recently did some internet research to try to discover the truth in what is (or was) the tallest water slides on this planet. I think I have come to a conclusion on to what may be what, and this could clear the air for anyone confused.

Tallest freestanding water slide in the United States of America:

People around the world have heard of the infamous ProSlide plummet themed to a ski jump planted in the middle of Florida. Summit Plummet at Blizzard Beach water park within Disney World in Orlando, Florida currently has the record for the tallest and fastest water slide in the United States.

• Drop Height: 120ft. -- 37 meters
• Speed: roughly 55 mph -- 89 km/h

Tallest freestanding water slide in the world:

This slide just might live up to it's name. Insano at Beach Park waterpark in Brazil currently holds the record for the tallest freestanding water slide in the world.

• Drop Height: 41 meters -- 135ft.
• Speed: roughly 105 km/h -- 65 mph

(Source)

This next one is where things get confusing...

World's highest drop on a water slide:

Kilimanjaro freefall slide has the highest drop height on a water slide... but, the structure holding up the platform for where the slide starts is on top of a hill, which means that the structure itself is not 50 meters tall; only the drop is. What I mean by freestanding is that the entire structure would not be getting any assistance from any other naturally raised ground surface under it.

The station is boosted via a hill, which allows the water slide to be safely extended further upwards. The slide itself digs into the side of a hill to extend the flume down far enough to claim the highest drop height.

• Drop Height: 50 meters -- 164ft.
• Speed: roughly 91 km/h -- 57 mph

 

(Source)

For an updated list on the tallest water slides in the world, click here!

Focus of Water Slides Recently

Multiple master blasters at Aquaventure in Dubai

It seems the focus with building certain kinds of water slides have been shifting as time progresses. For a while, the main focus were the water coasters with the Master Blasters, the conveyor launchers (zip coasters), and the Hydromagnetic water coasters. The main differences in these slides are the facts that the master blasters use water to propel riders uphill and do not require specially made inner-tubes or rafts, the hydromagnetic slides use magnets that pull the rafts uphill and the slide surfaces are the smoothest compared to other water coasters, and the conveyor launchers use conveyor belts to carry riders onward and do not require as much water as do the others (correct me if I’m wrong).