Bomb Bay
Where: Wet 'n' Wild -- Orlando, FL
If you ever wanted to know what it feels like to get eaten up and spit out by a waterslide, here's your soul mate. Bomb Bay encapsulates the slider in a flurry of anticipation inside a makeshift bomb encasement, as they helplessly look out across the park and semi-stormy Orlando skies below. Then the trap door disappears, dropping said victim 76 feet down a nearly vertical slide into an unforgiving wall of water. Awesome.
Wedgie Factor: Excruciatingly high.
If you ever wanted to know what it feels like to get eaten up and spit out by a waterslide, here's your soul mate. Bomb Bay encapsulates the slider in a flurry of anticipation inside a makeshift bomb encasement, as they helplessly look out across the park and semi-stormy Orlando skies below. Then the trap door disappears, dropping said victim 76 feet down a nearly vertical slide into an unforgiving wall of water. Awesome.
Wedgie Factor: Excruciatingly high.
The Cliffhanger
Where: Schlitterbahn -- Galveston, TX
Few waterslides have as impressive a profile as the Cliffhanger at Schlitterbahn Galveston Island. In part that's because it has two twisty arteries jetting out from it and a curly fry walkway leading up to its pinnacle. Primarily, though, it's because you start from an impressive perch atop the tall tower at Blastenhoff, before getting plunged down an 81-foot vertical cliff into a narrow puddle of hopes and dreams.
Plunging Posture: Riders must cross their arms and legs. Fingers optional.
Few waterslides have as impressive a profile as the Cliffhanger at Schlitterbahn Galveston Island. In part that's because it has two twisty arteries jetting out from it and a curly fry walkway leading up to its pinnacle. Primarily, though, it's because you start from an impressive perch atop the tall tower at Blastenhoff, before getting plunged down an 81-foot vertical cliff into a narrow puddle of hopes and dreams.
Plunging Posture: Riders must cross their arms and legs. Fingers optional.
Scorpion's Tail
Where: Noah's Ark Family Park -- Wisconsin Dells, WI
They don't call it "America's First Near-Vertical Looping Waterslide" for nothin': 10 stories high, 400 feet long, and a drop that sends you plunging down at a 50-feet-per-second clip. Introducing the new-ish Scorpion Tail, the best way to power rinse your epidermis without stepping anywhere near a shower.
Bottom Line: It's vicious. Exactly what you'd expect from a scorpion's tail.
They don't call it "America's First Near-Vertical Looping Waterslide" for nothin': 10 stories high, 400 feet long, and a drop that sends you plunging down at a 50-feet-per-second clip. Introducing the new-ish Scorpion Tail, the best way to power rinse your epidermis without stepping anywhere near a shower.
Bottom Line: It's vicious. Exactly what you'd expect from a scorpion's tail.
Black Anaconda
Where: Noah's Ark Family Park -- Wisconsin Dells, WI
They don't call it "America's First Near-Vertical Looping Waterslide" for nothin': 10 stories high, 400 feet long, and a drop that sends you plunging down at a 50-feet-per-second clip. Introducing the new-ish Scorpion Tail, the best way to power rinse your epidermis without stepping anywhere near a shower.
Bottom Line: It's vicious. Exactly what you'd expect from a scorpion's tail.
They don't call it "America's First Near-Vertical Looping Waterslide" for nothin': 10 stories high, 400 feet long, and a drop that sends you plunging down at a 50-feet-per-second clip. Introducing the new-ish Scorpion Tail, the best way to power rinse your epidermis without stepping anywhere near a shower.
Bottom Line: It's vicious. Exactly what you'd expect from a scorpion's tail.
Leap of Faith
Where: Leap of Faith -- Paradise Island, The Bahamas
Common sense would typically rule against sliding down a chute into an area filled with swimming sharks, but then again, common sense and thrill rides rarely go hand-in-hand. Enter Leap of Faith at the unique ocean-themed Atlantis, Paradise Island in The Bahamas. It takes place inside a life-size replica of a Mayan Temple, where sliders dare to plunge down a 60-foot perpendicular chute before finishing in a clear acrylic tunnel submerged in a shark-filled lagoon. Yep. True story.
Common sense would typically rule against sliding down a chute into an area filled with swimming sharks, but then again, common sense and thrill rides rarely go hand-in-hand. Enter Leap of Faith at the unique ocean-themed Atlantis, Paradise Island in The Bahamas. It takes place inside a life-size replica of a Mayan Temple, where sliders dare to plunge down a 60-foot perpendicular chute before finishing in a clear acrylic tunnel submerged in a shark-filled lagoon. Yep. True story.