Looping Waterslides in Europe

Originally posted by Adrenaguy

i never thought about that, i thought that maybe you could use sort of water blasters to push you further round the loop, and a sort of failsafe trapdoor device just in case it fails, foolproof!

The Action Park slide actually had a trap door just for that situation. I wonder if they ever had to use it?

^ yes, they did one time, it says on domainofdeath3.com, someone broke on the way down and didn't make it fully around.

oh yeah...it does say that doesn't it...

[sillyme] I must be going nuts. lol

Dude that is awsome i wish they had those in the U.S.

Ehh that's a wussy loop. It's tilted. And I hate the fact that it is COMPLETELY closed in. I would probably have a convulsive seizure being enclosed and in water.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Well you could fall and seriously get seriously hurt or go around the loop not being able to tell the difference while it's tilted.

Not like any other slides on the planet arn't totally enclosed..

well from an engineering stand point you CAN make it work.

but like Deja Vu, it would be one over-engineered piece of machinery that would require quite a bit of maintenance more so than any other current existing waterslide.

you'd essentially have to have to mechanisms.

one jet/something at the bottom of the valley to take backfill water in case the power of the water from the top would fail to push the rider fully through. the bottom mechanism would take out the water i nthe backfill so that you can 'restart' the system.

If the system was reliable enough, and it can be, the ride can work.

it looks quiet cool

I personally think they should use a funnel tube thing...you know those tires that you sit on in some rides...that way the friction might me a little less...because as some one mentioned earlier people like sit up and stop in the middle of the ride...and to do that here...uhh..I don't think it would ed up pretty...

i cant imagine going on a waterslide that goes upside down thats insane