HW new waterslide ZINGA
Wes - you haven't ridden Zoombabwe, have you? If so you wouldn't be asking that ;)
Moosh
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Yeah, first time I've ever gotten air on a waterslide. Zoombawe was a highlight last SRM.
I have been on the similar (though a lot smaller and no rafts) "toilet bowls" and they are a lot of fun.
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Jeff-Jeff
I certainly don't think it will be "just another waterslide." I'd imagine it will be a waterslide beginning that heads into a skateboard/rollerblade type vert where you will fly up the walls back and forth which will be an outstanding finale.
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No kidding, Jeff...Zoombabwe scared the crap outta me the first few times I rode it. I expect since some of Zinga is in the dark that I'll feel the same.
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From my SRM trip report last year:
"I boarded my first raft with Tony Milano and Mike Sterling. I realized with horror as we entered the tunnel that I was facing backwards and that I was the heaviest person on the raft. And then it all went black. The tube of this ride is so utterly dark you might as well have your eyes closed. We began picking up serious speed, and then the raft climbed the wall with great force! Around and around we went, faster and faster. I knew we were near the bottom and was watching for the light so I could brace for the water impact, when all of a sudden it felt like we went straight down! This next to last drop is only about 20 feet at approximately a 20 degree angle, but it felt like 50 feet at a 60 degree angle. Truly terrifying. We then went extremely high up on the next curve, and I thought the raft was going to fold over. I was also half expecting us to bend the space/time continuum at this point, as we were near warp speed! We then hit the water with a mighty splash and a hearty "Oh my god, let's do that again!", which we did, to the tune of 4 more rides. This is absolutely the wildest and best water ride I have ever done, and, once again, Holiday World proves that anything worth doing is worth doing right."
If it's being built at Holiday World, it's probably not "just another waterslide". ;-)
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Mamoosh said: Zoombabwe scared the crap outta me the first few times I rode it.
Oh. So that was *you*...
Paula
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Paula Werne
Holiday World PR
www.holidayworld.com/srm
ROFL...good one, Paula!
Moosh - will pack Depends for Zinga ;)
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1)MF 2)Raging Bull 3) Magnum XL-200 4)Rock N' Roller Coaster 5)Raptor
What Gator is reffering to, is there were a few incidents during the SRM ERT on ZoomBabWe that demonstrated the practical load limit on that slide if you don't want guests suffering injuries.
David "Received a black eye and bloody nose" Bowers
That being said, I'm a bit afraid to try it out again, and those newfangled cloverleaf tubes for Zinga, well I haven't quite made up my mind on those yet.
To lighten things up: Tha't an undocumented feature of ZoomBabWe - its the HTM or "Human Taco Mode", which comes from overloading the raft with one light side and three heavy sides such that the raft literally folds up inside the slide. (Unfortunately crashing riders into each other).
To reassure others and to demonstrate the responsiveness of Holiday World, I beleive a new safety rule was in place on the "Z" before the day ended, if not before the ERT ended.
As an aside, it's not the only after-the-fact safety rule I know of, remember the inagural cruise of the Mark Twain at Disneyland came perilously close to capsizing the faux riverboat, causeing a capacity limit to be set that survives to this day..
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*** This post was edited by Coasterville Dave on 1/15/2003. ***
Nice, Paula... always waiting until precisely the right moment to speak up!
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