SFA 2006??

No, you'd be in front of me backing up! ;)

EWWWWW!

See? And I didn't even mean that like that. You so dirty.

clint, passed on my chance at the credit, b.

On the first page of the thread, I believe Coaster Lover eluded to the fact the park probably wouldn't add a Master Blaster because it's considered to low capacity for the park and that did come from a higher up. I was standing next to him when the conversation took place with the higher up. Of course, this was earlier in the season and things could have changed since then.

TekMoosh... TMI *** Edited 8/3/2005 5:37:31 PM UTC by coasterguts***

Master Blasters are not the only water-coaster type slides available.

Can you point me in the direction of some other companies Moosh?

The company that makes the funnel slide like HW has [Proslide?] makes them. SFNE got one this year but I'm not sure if its from Proslide or some other company.

Do the Proslide master blaster type slides have a better capacity? I can't imagine much of a difference unless the slides are super short.

Since a higher up supposedly said that capacity is the reason they don't want a master blaster, I don't think another company's similar product will get a different response.

Intamin makes them. And not the AquaTrax either, you get in a tube like thingy (but I dont' think it is round), and water blasts into a pocket under it to launch you.

I used to have a pic.

KK on water? Does it have a piece of liner that covers a trough of the launch slide that can suddenly rips off and takes out an inner tube? ;)

I checked the Intamin website and didn't see a Master Blaster type coaster on their site.

Proslide doesn't give capacity stats on their site for the Rockets. White Waterwest's Zip Coaster doesn't mention capacity either.

*** Edited 8/3/2005 7:06:08 PM UTC by coasterguts***

http://www.intaminworldwide.com/i_products_water.htm

I thought it was Aqua Trax coaster like Atlantis in some Asian Country. *** Edited 8/3/2005 7:50:34 PM UTC by Magicmike***

If I'm not mistaken, some of these other types use a fast conveyor belt system instead of sheets of water, no?

I never said the non-Master Blaster offered better capacity.

When I went to Castaway Bay, the other week. I found there Master Blaster to be quite capacity efficiant. It has sensors in certain parts of the ride so you can send more then one tube down at a time. They were sending people down about every 20-30 seconds. Sometimes even less then that.

On the other hand if you look at Intamin's site, it says that the reversing water coaster (Typhoon Sea Coaster model) has a High Capacity...Ha!

-Colin-

*** Edited 8/3/2005 7:55:53 PM UTC by Colin Fisher***

Peabody,

The Whitewater West one says it uses a "Zip Strip". Sounds like a fancy name for conveyor belt if you ask me.

http://www.whitewaterwest.com/Slides/zipcoaster.html

Are all of us talking about the same thing? When I refer to a water coaster, I'm talking about a Master Blaster. SFA already has a "water coaster" with TSC.

cguts - we're talkign about Master Blasters and similiar models, commonly referred to as "water coasters."

Proslide and White Water West both make "Water Coaster" type water slides, though these newer versions do use high speed conveyor belts. Also, like said before, SFNE received one of these conveyor belt type water coasters this year designed by Proslide. The weekend I was there, it was up and down a lot and when I did ride it, I felt that it really didn't have the same effect as the Master Blaster slides that use high speed jets of water. Still fun, just not the same I guess.

Also, as coasterguts said and I will reiterate, at the beginning of the year, while talking to one of the highest up officials at the park, we heard that the park would NOT receive this type of attraction because it had too low of a capicity. This official that we talked to even said that he/she (I'm trying to retain their annominity) had heard this from THEIR boss earlier this year in a conversation. Just the fact that high up officials at SFA are haveing conversations with their bosses (most likely SFI execs) about future additions to the waterpark really makes you think that they are talking about, if not planning, more additions to Hurricane Harbor within the next few years.

The odd part is, if they don't want to add a "water coaster" to SFA because of capacity, or at least that was the opinion earlier this year, why would they add one to SFNE when SFNE pulls in almost 1 million more guests per year than SFA? Maybe SFNE's Hurricane Harbor doesn't get as many people as SFA's? Maybe they feel that SFNE's HH has enough attractions that one low capicity attraction wouldn't hurt the crowds too much? Maybe SFNE's just not as concerned about capacity (Pandimonium was also added this year and that has a pretty low capicity)? Who knows...

Either way, my opinion... three coasters in one year? No way. Two maybe, but if that happened one would be a junior/family coaster on the lines of Poison Ivy at SFNE or Reptar at PKI. Besides, SFA could really use a family coaster or two. A mine train, a Setpoint Swing-Thing Water Coaster, or a Wild Mouse (spinning or standard), all would be EXCELLENT additions to SFA in my opinion.

As for the 500 foot tall coaster at SFA? Unless they're planning on installing a high speed cable car between SFA's coaster and Kingda KA to create some sort of futuristic transport between the two parks, the possibility of a record breaking coaster coming to SFA (at least record breaking for height), seems HIGHLY unlikely. I'd LOVE to be proved wrong, but based on the problems Kingda Ka and TTD have had, I don't know if I'd even want such a coaster if it was even offered to SFA. We have enough problems with Batwing and TSC...

That's what I thought, Moosh just wanted to make sure we're on the same brain wave.

Coaster Lover, if Superman doesn't improve soon, you can add that to your list of troubled rides a t SFA and the further along in the season we go with Krypton Comet being down, the more I have to wonder if it's going to run again this season. *** Edited 8/3/2005 10:39:04 PM UTC by coasterguts***

Moosh,

I know you didn't say that the other manufacturers of Master Blaster type rides had better capacity. C-guts had said he overheard a SFA higher up claim that they wouldn't get a Master Blaster because of low capcity. Your next post said that their was other manufacturers of similar rides. I assumed that you were insinuating that they wouldn't get a Master Blaster TM ride, but they could get a similar product from a different manufacturer. That's why I said what I did, and I still stand by it. That's just the way I read it then, and looking back it still looks that way to me. No big deal. :)

Coasterguts,

When I think of a water coaster several things come to mind. I generally think of something along the lines of Buzzsaw Falls (R.I.P), Journey to Atlantis, Poseidon, Dive to Atlantis, Vonkapatous, Roller Soaker, etc... I don't consider Master Blasters and their kin coasters since they don't have wheels, therefore IMO they can't be water coasters.

On a side note, does anybody know what ride their showing for the Super Splash at:

http://www.intaminworldwide.com/i_products_water.htm

*** Edited 8/3/2005 11:31:40 PM UTC by Incidentalist***

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Magicmike said:
http://www.intaminworldwide.com/i_products_water.htm
I thought it was Aqua Trax coaster like Atlantis in some Asian Country.

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Not what I'm talking about. Intamin mfgs. a Master Blaster type ride. It isn't on their site. But, then, neither is the Ball Coaster.

But it was either in pix at IAAPA or somewhere that I saw.

I undertand Incidentalist. SFA has one of the two Intamin Reversing Boat Rides ever built. When it runs, it doesn't run more than six - eight of a potential sixteen boats. I have to wonder if there is a problem with these kinds of rides and that's the reason why more haven't been built. When it runs, it's a pretty good ride, a little long at 10 minutes but good.