Gizmodo: The World's Tallest and Scariest Waterslide

"We conceived of it around 2012, in October, at a water park show," Schooley told Gizmodo. He and Henry were walking around with people from the Travel Channel, and when they asked Jeff what his next project was, he said he wanted to build the world's tallest and scariest water slide. Henry wasn't joking. He started seriously planning with Schooley almost immediately. The two men have worked together building water parks since the '90s, but this is their most ambitious project to date. They specialize in a park design they call "transportainment," where they design everything in the hopes that park patrons will spend most of their time on communal rides, not in line. That's why making the tallest water slide a group experience was so important to the duo."

 "Basically, we were crazy enough to try anything," Schooley said. "We decided to design something entirely new, because we decided to put a three or four man boat down it, and we wanted not only the fastest and steepest water slide going downhill, but we wanted to take it uphill over a hump, to give people a weightless experience going down the other side." What's fear without a side order of astronaut nausea to go with it? (read the whole thing)

Darrone: Kate Knibbs said...

I'm confused. Maybe this is the old man in me who remembers when phones made calls and cars were driven by people, but what the hell is the point of a water slide if your strapped into a vehicle? Isn't that a less-aggressive roller coaster with a misting spray added? It's basically a log flume right?