Holiday World (HW) Discussion Thread

[tedten]

Go watch the POV on Holiday World's website! I think even the members here who didn't want the watercoaster will be happy with this addition. It looks amazing!

[pianojohn]

It looks AWESOME! Now if someone in Orlando (hint hint Aquatica) would drop some $$$ and build one to rival Crush n Gusher, we would be happy campers down here!

 

I think a HW trip is long overdue for me next summer. Too early to start planning?

[ginzo]

This does look rather nice. Maybe I'll have to hit up HW next year.

[VegasCoaster]

This looks amazing! I've heard good things about the other LIM Rocket slides, and with the location and the layout of this one it looks like it'll be a contender to take down Master Blaster.

[gatorchomp83]

This ride looks AMAZING!

 

What would be even better is if they had it open for night time ERT during Holiwood Nights next year.

[Emiroo]

I'm very excited about this one but can anyone out there comment about the capacity and typical throughput of this type of ride?

 

I have a feeling it's going to load slower than Zinga, Zoombabwe and Bakuli all of which almost always have 30min-1hr+ waits. I think this is a fantastic addition, but the next thing HW puts in the waterpark desperately needs to be a real people eater. (Much like jungle racers is).

 

Splashin' Safari's capacity is growing quite impressively, but so are average wait times...

[Raven Maven]

I wonder how the LIMs with a water coaster tube would work... hmmm....

 

It's my understanding that each 4-person raft will contain a 150-pound slab-o-steel. (So much for magic...we're playing with really big magnets.)

 

Thanks for all your encouraging words.

 

Paula

[Raven Maven]

I'm very excited about this one but can anyone out there comment about the capacity

 

Based on 20-second dispatch and full rafts, 720/hour.

 

Thanks, Paula

[cgodsey]

Paula,

 

Do you know what the weight limit per raft will be? Just curious to see how many adults I will be able to cram into this thing in May!

[Emiroo]

Website says 800lbs.

[cgodsey]

^Thanks, I didnt see it in that tips box!

[PKI Jizzman]

Hm....single rider line? Ya know, to fill all those rafts!

 

I'll be visiting Saturday!

[testtrack321]

Hm....single rider line?

 

That'd be nice, but all the rides I've seen a properly single riders line implimented can be counted on one hand...

[Airtime&Gravity]

Looks like another great addition for the park. I've only heard great things about these rides, and this one looks to be the best yet. I'm not a big water park person, but if I go to Holiday World next year, I just might have to go into Splashin' Safari.

[xcastn0shad0wx]

I never caught on to what Paula was trying to say/hint at with "gnu ride"...any ideas or am I just mentally challenged an it is obvious?

[atem122]

Can you say TAKE THE TUNNELs?

 

That ride looks like another great addition to HW, they really can't seem to do anything wrong these days, too bad I will never have the money to get out there

[DiSab]

Underground tunnels on a water slide?? Hell yes!

 

Seriously, HW knows how to do it. Without a doubt one of the best-run parks around, and one of the most fun to visit. This ride will only make SS better. I can't wait to see it go vertical. Terrain water coaster = awesomely epic.

[thrillerman1]

I didn't get to watch the whole announcement, but is the dry side of the park receiving anything next year?

[CorkscrewFoley]

Holiday World sure knows how to cater to us...with more tunnels...yee-e-ah!

[CoasterLover]

I never caught on to what Paula was trying to say/hint at with "gnu ride"...any ideas or am I just mentally challenged an it is obvious?

 

"Gnu" (procounced like "new") is another name for a Wildebeest...

 

The wildebeest (plural wildebeest, wildebeests or wildebai), also called the gnu, is an antelope of the genus Connochaetes. It is a hooved (ungulate) mammal.

~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildebeest

[ParkTrips]

That'd be nice, but all the rides I've seen a properly single riders line implimented can be counted on one hand...

.. and they are all in Florida...

 

This thing looks cool as hell, *I* would probably go back to the park for this

[testtrack321]

That'd be nice, but all the rides I've seen a properly single riders line implimented can be counted on one hand...

.. and they are all in Florida...

 

This thing looks cool as hell, *I* would probably go back to the park for this

 

And Soaring over California! That one works too!

[traincrossin]

From Holiday World's YouTube page

 

POV

 

Fly Around

[alexinla]

To bad it is fake but I thought for a moment that this was holidayworlds new slide attration...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iHo_xHt_Xg

[Erik Johnson]

Looks great! It kind of looks like a super Deluge.