costa425 Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 If I was in germany i would go on this coaster every day.... Seriously!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TGmBrYpZag&eurl=http://gizmodo.com/5013190/insane-water-slide-drops-you-straight-down-through-a-trap-door-flings-you-through-a-loop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krouvi Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Well it is kind of inversion and one that wont break your neck. Pretty cool slide wish I could try it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastersfosho Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Uphill?! thats pretty tight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rct3man777 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Whoa...THAT'S FREAKIN' SWEET! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfmmrules! Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I would go on a looping slide like that! It looks fun. That would be a new credit! I hope a looping slide comes to the USA like at Shlitterbaum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socalMAN123 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 That's pretty awesome. Looks safer than the old one at that Mountainview park. ---Brent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightypotato Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Its not really an "inversion" though. Its more like an overbanked turn. Still looks like crazy fun, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I wouldn't necessarily say looping slide, more of an inclined overbank. But it looks like a better and more thrilling execution of the idea, a lot better than the infamous Action Park slide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goliath513 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Oh what I would give to see something like this come to Denver's Waterworld... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanM Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 That looks like tons of fun! The speedo, however, scares the HELL out of me! Â *Wonders how a waterslide overbank feels* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBru Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Dude... I would TOTALLY ride that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cedarpointfangirl Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Kinda like "Bombay" with a super dee dooper twist to it!! Looks like alot of fun!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaronkv Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Looks crazy, I would ride it. Â It makes me miss the Bombay at Wet n Wild Las Vegas. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazydaveh Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 It reminds me of how SFoG says the awesome (it is awesome) Mindbender is the "first triple looping" coaster. We all know that last inversion is barely an inversion, but a hardcore overbanked helix. Still, I wish this park was open during Oktoberfest! I'd give it a try. Â I guess we'll have to wait for either Wet N Wild or Schliterbahn (spelling?) to bring a similar one here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETapley0687 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 NEAT!!!!!! lol, I love Bomb Bay so I know I have to ride something like this one! Hopefully Wet N Wild will pick one up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennyweird Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 That trap door thing must be terrifying. I know I would be nervous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalepi_Konei Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 That looks like tons of fun! The speedo, however, scares the HELL out of me! Â Â Im with you, thats why I hate foreigners in water parks, especially really overweight men in speedos, I saw this guy one time he was so big you couldnt see the speedo his flab covered it! Not like theres anything wrong with being fat, Im fat too but this guy was just out of proportion. Â Anyways this ride looks so awesome! I wish I could ride it, for a second when the girl went I thought I saw her slip off the slide really quick at the top. Could you imagine falling in this, that would suck big time, I wonder if theyve tested it to withstand everyone or just a select few people who can make it through the loop? Â Anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoodog Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Is it straight down or at an angle, also it would be awesome to have a full vertical instead of a highly banked turn/inclined loop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mechanic Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 That looks like it would be a major rush. I'd ride it for sure. Â On a different note.. It's nice to see that you can still find a hot babe in a bikini here on TPR, even if it isn't in a Big Mike PTR pic. Â And yes, speedos are just plain wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verticalzero Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I'll go on the slide, it's more like a MF 120 degree banked curve than a proper vertical loop, but you have to praise the company to designed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rct3man777 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Is it straight down or at an angle, also it would be awesome to have a full vertical instead of a highly banked turn/inclined loop  Probably straight down but for only like a second before it levels out. [if the trap door was vertical like in the video but the tube itself were at an angle...the trap door would be VERRY painful] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttd rox Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 That is the craziest water slide I've ever seen! It even beats out the looping water slide! I would definatley ride it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitsch transporter Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 This slide is actually not the one in Germany. It recently opened in Slowenia, which is close to the Austrian Border. There is a copyright battle going on at the very moment which is very interesting.  The company that was supposed to build the first ever Looping waterslide for a German park (Austrian slide manufacturer Klarer) filed a patent for a real, almost 90° looping slide. However during testing it became evident that the proposed design was not ridable. Klarer then kept on changing the design until it resembled an overbanked turn.  Meanwhile another Austrian slide manufacturer claims that he was developing this tilted looping slide (the one in the video) long before Klarer changed their full loop to this near identical design.  The Klarer looping slide is supposed to open in Germany later this year. It won´t be the first looping slide anymore, but I think this claim is fishy anyway, since both designs are definately no loops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRapidsNerd Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I like this slide. But... Â Despite the escape hatches, arrows and drains, the thing filling up with water and somebody drowning is unnerving. Â To be fair, I'd have to see more of how it worked, to gladly say "I was wrong" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalepi_Konei Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 As for the whole 90 degree drop thing if you look at the trap door chamber its sort of at a tilt, so i would guess its somewhere around 87.5-89 degrees in tilt, not necassarily 90, but close enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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