Zoombezi Bay Construction Update

[ntweisen]

Zoombezi Bay is the new water/amusement park going up at the Columbus Zoo on the site of the former Wyandot Lake. Since late fall waterpark towers have been going up left and right. More recently vertical construction has been climbing up over at the dry section between the water park and zoo as well. The log flume lift and turn around is well into the air. Supports for some of the other new dry rides are up as well. One of which we can only guess is for the flying scooters. Enjoy these pictures and video from 3.14.08:

 

http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/bb185/ntweisen/Zoombezi%20Bay%20Construction

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIprxN0U-JU

[andy_e219]

Awesome. How's the Sea Dragon Doing? It is still listed as SBNO on RCDB. Mabye I'll visit there next year.

[ntweisen]

Sea Dragon is supposed to reopen with the rest of the park.

[andy_e219]

Why aren't any of the flat rides or Sea Dragon mentioned on their site? Also, what flat rides will be there?

[ntweisen]

I swung by the zoo the other day and took some construction pictures. There is still a ton of work to do but the good news is it was 6:30pm on a Friday when I stopped by and they were still hard at work. It appears as though all of the major slides are done so the majority of work left to do is the ride side. Rides I could see: wooden coaster, swinging ship ride, flyers, and a log flume. Enjoy the pictures.

 

http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/bb185/ntweisen/Zoombezi%20Bay%20Construction/

 

Looks like there are 10 major slides:

Sea Splash tower complex (7 slides): Slippery Seals 3 body slides (dark blue, aqua, and green all starting from the highest point)

Sea Snakes 2 bowl slides with one or two person rafts (orange and yellow and blue and yellow)

Sea Tubes 2 raft slides loading on same level as bowl slides (green and aqua)

Cyclone is the tornado slide (yellow and blue). Launching from the same tower is Tahitian Twister family raft ride (blue and black).

 

Dolphin Dash is the six person racer. Sounds like a pretty good line-up for a brand new park. Hopefully there will be an animal element in the future like the Dolphin slide at Sea World's Aquatica.

[ntweisen]

14 Rides at Jungle Jack's Landing:

Jungle River Falls - log flume

Sea Dragon - wood coaster

Swinging Gibbons - wave swinger

Condor Craze - bumper cars

Jack's Tea Party- tea cups

Safari Stampede - matterhorn style ride

Golden Frog Hopper - frog hopper

Dust Devil - scrambler

Journey to Zanzibar - swinging ship

Mission Macaw - flyers

Jungle Trek - car ride

Tiny Tusks - dumbo ride

African Express - small train

Whirligigs - tilt-a-whirl

[andy_e219]

Cool, I may head there this summer, but I'm not sure.

[robbalvey]

You may find you'll get a better response if you post some photos here instead of just spamming a link on the fourms.

 

I know I for one would click your link if you at least posted some pics. But without it, sorry, no clicky from me! Especially when many of your posts here have been just to post links. That's REALLY lame, dude.

 

--Robb "Please don't support that spammers..." Alvey

[ntweisen]

Ok. Here are some pictures[/img]

Slides

Map

Sea Dragon, Frog Hopper, and Jungle Trek

Sea Splash tower complex

Journey to Zanzibar swinging ship ride

[Skramp]

Wow!! Looks like they are really putting alot of work and money into it. There really isn't much in the Columbus area for waterparks, you either have to go to KI or CP for that. There's a hotel that opened an enclosed waterpark, but people have said it's not that good. This should be good for the central OH area, as long as Marc Dann doesn't mess it up. (Us Ohioans will get that joke!!)

[Guest]

When does this park open for summer? I am thinking about swinging there on the way back from Kings Island on the 25th of this month. Their website didn't really have many details, I don't care about the waterpark, just the dry rides.

[NINCUB]

Very cool! When I visited my friends in Columbus last summer... we went to the Zoo and all I was able to see was a bunch of dirt. I kinda hope it will be open when I visit this summer! I thought this was one of the best zoo's I have ever been to and it would be even better with this addition.

 

Thanks for posting this! I can't wait to visit!

[Tanks4me05]

Is it just me, or does that drop for their Proslide Tornado look really small? (Meaning it probably won't go that high.)