Ccron10 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 http://www.seaparadise.co.jp/pleasureland/attraction/splashute.html Located at the top of the ride info page with assistance of translation: Operation ended on March 31, 2019. Thank you for your many years of patronage. Kind of a bummer though as it really was the last remaining boat chute rides that many US parks used to have back in the 1900's. It wasn't an intense ride, but was something that had to be ridden because of the history behind it. It wouldn't surprise me if it closed due to popularity as it never had a line when I visited and only ran one side. From my 2017 visit. You had to walk up to the top of the stairs and board the boat between the two ramps. Riders would board the boat, tighten their seatbelt, then a roulette board is spun to determined how wet you would get from the water cannons that would shoot off when you splash at the bottom. An attendant would stand on the front of the boat during the drop and then guide the boat to a separate unloading dock with a pole at the bottom. They would then hook the boat up to a towing system and take it back up to the top of the ramp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canobie Coaster Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Aw man. Now I'm even more bummed I missed the last ride of the day by like 5 minutes when I was there last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garet Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 While on the subject of this park, they removed the dolphins from the pedalo boat attraction too for the health and safety of the animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal1br3tto Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 I don't believe I even knew about this (which almost made me question if I've really been to Sea Paradise, but I remember only caring about a couple rides there). Sounds like a neat little water ride; your write-up in particular makes it seem like it was pretty cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoinItForTheFame Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Dang!!! This was always one of those “I can’t wait to ride that when we are there” rides! - I didn’t expect it to close so soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanzomm Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 (edited) http://www.seaparadise.co.jp/pleasureland/attraction/splashute.htmlLocated at the top of the ride info page with assistance of translation: Operation ended on March 31, 2019. Thank you for your many years of patronage. Kind of a bummer though as it really was the last remaining boat chute rides that many US parks used to have back in the 1900's. It wasn't an intense ride, but was something that had to be ridden because of the history behind it hdsex.club/ pornmd.me/ xlxx.club/. It wouldn't surprise me if it closed due to popularity as it never had a line when I visited and only ran one side. Made me feel sad. I haven't even tried to ride it. Too bad it closed so soon. It seemed like a pretty fun ride though. Good read. Edited April 19, 2019 by hanzomm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedimaster1227 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 That definitely is a bummer... This looked like such a neat experience! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Second bummer for many of us. First was when they stopped the 'boat jumpers', and now fully closing the ride. Getting ready... Up in the air! Stories about them in the ride area. Another angle... Look how high he goes!!!! And of course they would then bow to their boat of guests and guide them back to the shore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canobie Coaster Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Were they not boat jumping last year? I just missed the last ride of the night, but the there was a guy riding on the front of the boat when it was returning to the top platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 ^They no longer were allowed to jump from what we heard/saw. They just stood there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Keep in mind this is not the first time they've "closed" this ride. I guess if we see the attraction actually being torn out, then it's gone for good. But this is at least the second, maybe third time it's been closed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SixFlagsAstroworld Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I would really like to see a video of the boat jumpers in action. I’m having a hard time finding any Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canobie Coaster Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 ^They no longer were allowed to jump from what we heard/saw. They just stood there. Oh ok. I was picturing them not even being allowed to stand on the boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I would really like to see a video of the boat jumpers in action. I’m having a hard time finding any Here: https://www.facebook.com/themeparkreview/videos/577527319422599/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SixFlagsAstroworld Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I would really like to see a video of the boat jumpers in action. I’m having a hard time finding any Here: https://www.facebook.com/themeparkreview/videos/577527319422599/ Whoa! That’s even more impressive on video than on photo! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlp94 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 I hate to be this guy but... Blue Fall closed on March 31st. I'm not sure whether to consider this for good or just temporarily, but it is listed as "business closed." http://www.seaparadise.co.jp/28474/index.html EDIT - It's also off the list of attractions so, unfortunately, it might be for good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 ^ I loved Blue Fall. And in 2013 (TPR Japan Tour), I got David to ride it with me... and he loved it, too! Hope it's not closing for good. And, of the three years I visited Sea Paradise (w/TPR in 2007 '11 '13), I believe the SplashChute only operated in 2007. Yep, it was THIS TALL! (TPR 2007 Japan Tour) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garet Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 It was confirmed closed a while ago. The park had a lot of bad press last year from a red panda dying in the new exhibit, the whale shark dying and Surf Coaster having a collision in the station in August 2019. I had assumed Surf Coaster would get the axesince even small collisions are a big deal in Japan but on February 20th Sea Paradise put out a statement about it reopening: http://www.seaparadise.co.jp/file/202002surfcoaster.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Yeah I didn't realize that we didn't confirm this on the forum but I had been following the Blue Fall and Surf Coaster issues for a while now. Blue Fall is totally done for and by some miracle Surf Coaster isn't!!! Japan is a weird country in many ways and this is just one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canobie Coaster Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Is Blue Fall the only Intamin tower with that fake drop thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Finn Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 This park is kind of falling apart, it would seem. There wasn't a TON on offer before from the rides side and now there's even less. Blue fall was a pretty fun ride, for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 ^So many of the Japanese amusement parks are closing up/losing rides/in danger of closing and this virus is not going to help. I really hope they have some kind of renaissance in the next ten years or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBru Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Are we being punished? Why does this world keep robbing us of wonderful Intamin experiences?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 I loved their aquarium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garet Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 This park is kind of falling apart, it would seem. There wasn't a TON on offer before from the rides side and now there's even less. Blue fall was a pretty fun ride, for sure! The aquarium areas are still nice. Honestly, I always felt the main draw was the aquarium and the rides were just a little extra to make it stand out from some of the aquariums in Tokyo. With 3 aquarium areas to visit, I saw a ton of crowds watching the shows and trying to touch the belugas and dolphins in the open area but not really that many people on the rides. I know it's got a great roller-coaster with it's mega-lite but I kind of feel Tobu Zoo is kind of the same. Less than Sea Paradise since Tobu Zoo also has a water park to make it feel more of a complete day out but with Regina now closed and they removed their Intamin drop tower a while ago, it feels like they're winding down their theme park to smaller, less expensive to run/maintain rides too. I remember getting off the subway and the exit towards the zoo had a timeline of rides and they had removed and replaced a ton of rides over the years looking at the pictures and dates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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