The Fabbri Mega Drop, on the other hand, was at the Wisconsin State Fair this weekend and blew me away. Definitley the best portable drop tower I have experienced and one of the best overall drops I have been on.
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The risk with the off-the-shelf thrill ride like a freefall is that it disrupts a lot of the park's harmony. It should be pretty obvious that Holiday World would rather put up a ride that a family two hours away would deem worth driving up for over enticing the rebel-rousing teen living a half-hour away.
That's why I don't think the announcement will be about some steel giga-coaster giant or tower ride. It would be subtraction by addition.
Holiday World should treat its thrills like cleavage -- show a little to keep folks coming back for more but don't give it all away for the sake of the lowest common denominator.
So, a mouse works well, though a spinning wild mouse would work better. A Super Saturator would be really good, and with so few out there it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to make a record-holder in that regard for marketing reasons (longest, tallest, fastest, wettest) without having to deal with kiddies holding a kegger in the parking lot on Saturday night because it's not a carny crowd draw.
Surely HW would want something different that parks close by do not already have, this would be far more marketable?
Indiana Beach has Double Shot, and SFKK has Hellevater, plus a (non)Wild Mouse, so they wouldn't be good additions, except a spinning mouse.
A Setpoint Swing Thing would be great but capacity is poor. An Intamin vertical river plunge (e.g. Perilous Plunge) would be very marketable, and a small park in the UK has just added one so it should be affordable - don't know about capacity though.
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