Note that this is not AT ALL like the existing "looping" slides seen at parks around the world, which are either inclined loops (AquaLoop slides), or horizontal loops (SuperLoop slides), but more akin the kind of loop you'd picture in a cartoon, or Sonic the Hedgehog style game.
Action Park opened a ride like this about 30 years ago, only the ride had a shorter, less steep approach, and a perfectly circular loop instead of a teardrop shaped loop, which meant often people didn't make it around the loop, and those who did ended up battered, sometimes with broken noses, and encountering more G-forces than if they went with a teardrop shaped loop. The state shut it down like a week after it was opened, though they kept tweaking it, testing it, trying to make it work, until the original park closed after the 1996 season, and was sold in 1998. This is what the original Cannonball Loop looked like:
LOL. That's really all I can say, and I live within walking distance to this place.
LOL indeed, wow, actually I'm kinda glad they tried it again, shows the original creative spirit that made the rides at the park unique is still there.
... Also, how are you supposed to get up there to the top? I don't see stairs or anything.
Luckily that is probably just because this is the prototype, I hear the actual one is gonna be a bit taller - maybe it is just an illusion, but the drop looks to be about 2/3rds of what it actually will be.
And I bet the water will be sufficiently yellowed and/or browned in short time.
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Note that this is not AT ALL like the existing "looping" slides seen at parks around the world, which are either inclined loops (AquaLoop slides), or horizontal loops (SuperLoop slides), but more akin the kind of loop you'd picture in a cartoon, or Sonic the Hedgehog style game.
Action Park opened a ride like this about 30 years ago, only the ride had a shorter, less steep approach, and a perfectly circular loop instead of a teardrop shaped loop, which meant often people didn't make it around the loop, and those who did ended up battered, sometimes with broken noses, and encountering more G-forces than if they went with a teardrop shaped loop. The state shut it down like a week after it was opened, though they kept tweaking it, testing it, trying to make it work, until the original park closed after the 1996 season, and was sold in 1998.
This is what the original Cannonball Loop looked like:
... Also, how are you supposed to get up there to the top? I don't see stairs or anything.
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LOL indeed, wow, actually I'm kinda glad they tried it again, shows the original creative spirit that made the rides at the park unique is still there.
Luckily that is probably just because this is the prototype, I hear the actual one is gonna be a bit taller - maybe it is just an illusion, but the drop looks to be about 2/3rds of what it actually will be.
And I bet the water will be sufficiently yellowed and/or browned in short time.