Riders help send off the Giant Slide at Morey's Pier

I must correct myself. The Banana Splits sequences were filmed at Coney and SFOT. But there was a slide shown in one of them.

Sky Slide at Cedar Point was the number one injury-producing ride at the park - more visits to first aid from that ride than any other, usually a friction burn from somebody trying to grip the slide while they were in motion. In later years you could look at the slide from underneath and see the sun shining through where it had worn so thin.

KI's identical model came from Coney and sat where Zephyr (Wave Swinger) is now. When it moved to HB land they painted it and chopped off the top hill, leaving the middle hill with the steeper drop and the bottom hill with less steep of a grade. I guess it took up less room that way, but also made a shorter and milder version for the little ones.

Here's a fun fact. Back in the day Six Flags over Texas had one that you could take from the 50 ft observation level on the Oil Derrick. You could climb the stairs up and slide back down if you wanted. I always thought another great application would be to install one on the exit side of those elevated Arrow shuttle loops, like Screamin' Demon or Lightning Loops. What a great way to get down from there! But, sadly, those rides are now fewer and farther between than the giant slides!

They have one at the Iowa State Fair every year. The one at Puyallup is awesome!