New ProSlide Tonado - Tantrum

[PKI Jizzman]

http://www.proslide.com/flvPopup.php?mainRideID=1&rideID=99

Video

 

During the IAAPA show ProSlide announced a new Tornado product called the Tantrum, which appears to essentially be a mini Tornado that can be used as part of an overall enclosed slide experience. If you want to add more than one Tantrum to the same slide, they call it a Tornado Alley. You can see a video of one in action posted to their website, just click on the Tantrum hyperlink under the Tornado section.

 

I love the tornado....so a fully enclosed version would be awesome! And there's more to the slide! Unlike the Tornados where the ride ends after the bowl, the ride continues through a dark tube! I bet these will become very popular in the Indoor and outdoor waterparks.

[thefitness]

Looks cool!

 

I'm glad new water slide designs are popping up!

[AlmereStars]

wouldn't it be cool if the tornado was a part of the whole slide, not just the end. like you go down in the tornado then an other part of slide and then another tornado or something. or am I too stupid for telling an idea that already excists?

[Wes]

^ That's exactly what the topic is about. Go watch the video in the original post, I think you'll see it's exactly what you're asking about.

[AlmereStars]

^ That's exactly what the topic is about. Go watch the video in the original post, I think you'll see it's exactly what you're asking about.

 

yeah I wachted the video with just one eye, and the other one looking away :$ didn't pay real attention.

 

but if thats build anywhere then my next holiday is at that place

 

EDIT: OMFG!! i'm starting to go blind I geuss, the movie starts with an overview of the dream tornadoslide!

[coastercrazed49]

That little hole on the bowl part should be closed up so its pitch black in there. I think that would make it a bit better.

[arrowfanman]

That's a good idea, IMO!

 

 

 

I've always considered Tornado slides to be sort of "one trick ponyies" and have thought, no matter how many little turns and twists they do before the bowl, each slide is the same exact thing. They're great fun and a good slide element, but aren't in and of themselves worthy of much wait.

 

So to see them include the tornado principle into a full-length slide is great! I hope to see these emerge.

 

-Jahan

[Coasterlvr_nc]

^ same here! although my family being GP loved the original tornado, so it might just be us enthusiasts that think it needs to be longer. I also think it would be awesome to have it be pitch black inside the tornado, it would add a neat effect of having no idea whats going on!

[PKI Jizzman]

Anyone know where that slide is being built at? I'll look it up.

 

 

P.S. - http://www.proslide.com/projects.php Awesome pics/update on Siam Park!

[Tanks4me05]

That little hole on the bowl part should be closed up so its pitch black in there. I think that would make it a bit better.

 

That's what Rapids Waterpark did with Black Thunder - but I think they kept in that hole so it would be easier to film inside and actually see what's going on. Although Black Thunder is full sized and fully enclosed, it's post funnel section isn't nearly as large. But why they would have two tornadoes and two raft rides at the park, I don't know. It's like a park with two Intamin Accelerators. The rides are really good, but why have two?

[canadianfreak]

It resembles Space River at Mt. Cascades. The chairlift, the ending and the setting all make me think it's Mt. Cascades.

[PKI Jizzman]

^Yup! You're right! Thanks!

 

-JZ

[canadianfreak]

^ Sweet only 20 minutes away! Have to wait 6-7 months.

[dj snow]

The actual "funnel" part(s) of these slides are substantially smaller than any previous-generation Tornado, which means that the structure to support them can be much less substantial. Note that there's only a ring around the funnel, rather than the full latticework structure completely engulfing all prior Tornado slides.

 

This means a far less costly installation, leaving more money in the budget to spend on more slide length... or more funnel sections! This concept has a lot of promise and I think we'll start seeing a bunch of them.

[DRWP2005]

It resembles Space River at Mt. Cascades. The chairlift, the ending and the setting all make me think it's Mt. Cascades.

 

I don't believe one of these was announced yet...The one is the video I'm pretty sure is at the Pro-Slide testing facility, where they try out all their latest ideas etc... Every person in the video that I saw, I know works for Pro-Slide. So I don't know that I'd get your hopes up.

[dj snow]

The ProSlide testing facility is Mont Cascades. ProSlide owns the place.

[verticalzero]

That looks well cool having a enclosed Tornado and coming out the other end in a tube, you could have one at the start, in the middle and one at the end of the slide, inbetween the Tornado's there could be some mini bunny hops, drops and helix's.

[CoasterCrazy88]

That looks very cool!

 

I'm a fan of the regular Tornados, and I think it would be interesting to have a small one as part of a larger slide. I really like riding the Pacific Spin models on Whirly Wheels, but the Cloverleaves looked better than the Whirly Wheels in the video.

----Antonio"Hope we get a Tornado Alley in California!"G.

[307]

My favourite part of the video is the four minutes of black at the end. Really makes me feel like I'm on the ride!

[Six Flags Addict]

This seems like a really concept. Hopefully one of these things will be put up in the next year or two.

[Adrenaline_Rush]

Thats an awesome concept, I liked when they had the four people tubes come down and fly up the walls and in one of them when exiting the tornado part a guy was almost flung out! I want to see this concept come to bowl slides now, like a Disco H2o with more than just a wimpy drop at the end! Now that would be awesome! Or a full sized Tornado slide with more too it at the end would be even cooler~@!

 

I can also eventually see along the line Tantrum slides to become racing slides, and they call it something like Twin Twisters.

[TheRapidsNerd]

These guys do some really cool work. Humerously, the enclosed slides remind me of hamster habitrail tubes, especially the Tantrum.

 

Adrenaline_Rush: I want to see this concept come to bowl slides now, like a Disco H2o with more than just a wimpy drop at the end! Now that would be awesome! Or a full sized Tornado slide with more too it at the end would be even cooler

 

Good idea! That's going in TPR-Land.

[IceDragon]

What I think would be quite cool is a launched one.

 

I.E. a blast of water is thrown forward with you riding on top. You then enter the bowl at the bottom and get pushed up the side.

 

If that made sense...

[coastercrazy216]

I really don't like how small the funnel is on this one, but I like how it does not end right after the funnel like every other Tornado.