Six Flags Great Adventure Announces New Attractions for 2012

Six Flags Great Adventure, America’s largest regional theme park, today unveiled plans to add both extreme and family thrills to its current lineup for 2012. SkyScreamer, an extreme swing ride, will transform the Fantasy Forest skyline while three additional family rides are introduced to the whimsically-themed section below – bumper cars, scrambler and flying elephants.

Theme park guests will have more to scream about with the introduction of SkyScreamer.
The newest sensation in tower rides, SkyScreamer will take swing rides to the next level and join the park’s already breathtaking lineup of thrills as it whisks guests up, up and away high over the park, feet dangling and hair blowing. Towering 15 stories above the ground, SkyScreamer will reside next to the classic Big Wheel. Thirty-two guests will board the ride and sit two across in open-air swings as they climb to the top of the SkyScreamer tower while spinning round and round. At full swing, guests will soar in a 98-ft. circle at speeds of 40 mph high above the park below.

For those wishing to keep their feet closer to the ground, the park is introducing two new, yet classic, family attractions – bumper cars and a music-themed scrambler. Guests will also be greeted with the return of the popular flying elephants ride, which formerly made its home in
The Golden Kingdom section of the theme park.

“Although we are best known for our record-breaking thrills, families have told us they would like more attractions they can enjoy together. So this season we are introducing four rides sure to deliver fun for all ages,” said park president John Fitzgerald.

At Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, it’s go big, go extreme – with the addition of exciting, new drop boxes guaranteed to ramp up the thrill factor at the slide tower known as “The Falls.” Guests will climb into a clear, fully-enclosed launch capsule and begin the nerve-wracking countdown to the moment when the floor literally disappears beneath them and sends them into a freefall at speeds of up to 32 mph.

“Drop boxes are an innovative, exciting addition to our already thrilling speed slides,” Fitzgerald added. “They are not for the faint of heart. The sheer anticipation of waiting for the floor to drop will have our guests’ adrenaline pumping.”

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Six Flags St. Louis Announces New Water Park Attraction for 2012

Six Flags St. Louis today announced plans to add an extreme body slide, Bonzai Pipeline, to Hurricane Harbor in 2012. Bonzai Pipeline joins the
12-acre water park’s existing lineup of water attractions as the only looping body slide with a launching capsule. Hurricane Harbor opened in 1999 and remains Missouri’s only free water park with theme park admission.

Bonzai Pipeline is the ultimate wipeout experience featuring twin, looping slides that sit side by side and the Proslide Skybox launching capsule. After reaching the top of the 6-story structure, guests will step into the enclosed capsule where the floor drops out beneath them, sending them free-falling down the slide and into a side “super loop.” Riders will surf the 290-ft. slide at up to 40 mph. Bonzai Pipeline’s clear tubes allow spectators below to watch riders as they shoot through the 360˚ loops and splash out into the water below.

“Hurricane Harbor is already a favorite of our guests during their visit to Six Flags St. Louis,” said Dave Roemer, Six Flags St. Louis park president. “The addition of Bonzai Pipeline makes the water park an even greater value while providing a new element of extreme thrill that we think guests are really going to love.”

Bonzai Pipeline, manufactured by Proslide Technology, Inc., is scheduled to open May 2012. The body slide will be located to the west side of the wave pool and will have a 48” height requirement.

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Coming in 2012 – Alpine Freefalls at The Great Escape and Splashwater Kingdom

The Great Escape’s popular outdoor water park, Splashwater Kingdom goes big in 2012! The Great Escape and Splashwater Kingdom today announced plans to add Alpine Freefalls, a two level water slide complex set to open May 2012. The new attraction will boast the park’s first free fall speed slide with Skybox technology and the Northeast’s first of its kind mat racer.

Guests will face their biggest fears when they take on the double black diamond Cliffhanger water slide. Perched six stories high, riders will count to three before the floor drops from below, plunging them at speeds of up to 32 mph down an 80 degree drop into six inches of water. The plummet slide will complement the popular Tornado water slide, offering thrill seekers the ultimate water park adventure.

For those looking for a little competition, Twisted Racer is a four-story, four-lane race through enclosed tunnels, giving guests the chance to compete with friends and family at speeds of over 25 feet per second. Riders will race on mats through pretzel shaped tubes before opening up into a final drop and a straight shot to the finish line where each competitor’s time will be displayed on LED boards.

“Alpine Freefalls will offer our guests an extreme water ride experience combined with friendly competition,” said Don McCoy, President of The Six Flags Great Escape Properties. “We believe this multi-slide attraction will be a great enhancement to the water park and offer guests an attraction that is as fun to watch as it is to ride.” McCoy added, “From our coasters and shows, to our two children’s areas and free water park, there is no other theme park in the area that offers the tremendous amount of thrills we do for one price.”

More information about Alpine Freefalls will be released during a hard hat tour of the attraction’s construction site in the spring of 2012.

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ProSlide Goes HUGE at Beijing Happy Magic Waterpark

The Beijing Happy Magic Waterpark located in the Fengtai District of Beijing, China has recently opened with some of the most unique and innovative water ride complexes in the world which entertains a huge amount of guests daily, up to 35,000! This Waterpark has the largest amount of water rides built in 2011 and has been touted as the World's Largest Waterpark, with all major rides and complexes by ProSlide Technology.

No other Waterpark or Water Ride manufacturer has produced such industry-changing complexes and world firsts. ProSlide provided Beijing Happy Magic Waterpark with 7 major ride complexes, Thirty-five water rides and the World's Largest RideHOUSE active Ride n' Spray structure which boasts 12 slides, over 65 active water play features, a 400GAL dumping bucket and over 150 themed sculptures and features.

Beijing Happy Magic Waterpark has the World's First TornadoWAVE (pictured), the next evolution of ProSlide's thrilling line-up of extreme water rides. With a 45 degree drop in and near vertical hang time there is nothing on the market that comes close to sweeping weightlessness sensation that the TornadoWAVE creates. This complex is even more impressive with the addition of the IAAPA Best New Waterpark Ride and Industry Impact Award winning BehemothBOWL!

In total ProSlide built a triple funnel TantrumALLEY, the iconic TORNADO, a MACH 4 complex, BehemothBOWL, Duelling CannonBOWLs, OctopusRACER, TornadoWAVE, a SpeedZone complex with FreeFALL, Turbo TUNNEL and a MultiBUMP, as well as a KIDZ Zone and a RideHOUSE!

The most iconic and Award-Winning Water Ride in the World, the TORNADO, goes even bigger in Beijing as now it holds the spot as being the world's tallest. At over 20.5m, or 67ft, the TORNADO towers over the park. Sharing in its massive stature is the TantrumALLEY. In doing so it establishes another world first by having these two rides share the same complex.

The MACH 4 complex features four ProSlide PIPEline slides and combine to give guests over 360m, or 1200ft. of rider excitement on board their 2-Man tubes. For even greater speed and slide length the 8-lane OctopusRACER combines to produce over 880m, or close to 2,900ft. of high speed, side-by-side racing!

The rides, innovative complexes and sheer size of the Beijing Happy Magic Waterpark are something that truly needs to be seen to be appreciated. When you combine all these innovative ProSlide water rides and structures with one of the world's largest wave pools, the result is simply one of the most impressive waterparks in the world.

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Mammoth for Holiday World in 2012

Coming in 2012! What’s the largest animal found on the safari? Lion? Gorilla? Elephant? Think back further in time … it was the great and powerful Mammoth. This immense beast once ruled the safari … and now he rules Splashin’ Safari!

Our Wildebeest claimed the title of World’s Longest Water Coaster when it opened in 2010. But Wildebeest bows to the mighty Mammoth and turns over the title. For Mammoth is taller and longer and wider..

Wider?

That’s right. Mammoth boats will be new six-passenger boats. Round boats. Nine feet in diameter, flying up and down hills in the 15-foot-wide slide. That means your thrilling trek on the World’s Longest Water Slide may be facing forward, facing sideways, or facing backwards.
Facing backwards? Yes, and in the dark. There are five enclosed slide sections. And many twists and turns. Plus air-time, that incredible feeling of being lifted off your seat.

What powers these six-passenger boats up the hills? As with Wildebeest, we use Linear Induction Motor (LIM) technology. In total, eight LIMs will magically propel the boats on their way through this 1/3 mile, air-time filled water coaster.

Just as with Wildebeest, the massive Mammoth begins with a conveyor ride up the water coaster’s lifthill. Following the breath-taking five-story drop at a 28-degree angle, LIMs will fly your boats back up hill after air-time-filled hill.
Mammoth will tower seven stories from highest to lowest point and cover more than two acres.

With bright yellow, round, six-passenger boats, your whole family will be able to challenge Mammoth together – and watch each other’s delighted faces as you conquer this epic ride together.

Opening May 2012, Mammoth – the World’s Longest Water Coaster – rules!

Ride Facts

• Type: HydroMagnetic Water Coaster
• Height: 69 feet
• Length: 1/3 mile (1,763 feet)
• Highest Drop: 53’ at 45-degree angle
• Drops: 6 drops, totaling 282’
• Linear Induction Motors: 8, including the world’s longest LIM on a water-coaster
• World Record: World’s Longest Water Coaster (Wildebeest is #2)
• Boats: Six-passenger round boats
• Theme: Mammoth, the immense beast which once ruled the safari
• Designer: ProSlide Technology Inc., Ontario, Canada

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Six Flags Great America Starts the Summer Right with Two World-Class ProSlide Custom Complexes!

We are thrilled to announce the opening of yet another World's First ProSlide Complex in a Six Flags Waterpark. Six Flags pride themselves as "The gold standard of regional theme park entertainment. The parks are bigger and bolder than ever, offering cutting-edge, one-of-kind rides and so much more." Since 2003 with the initial installation of one of the first ProSlide TORNADOs™, Six Flags exemplifies the difference that ProSlide quality truly makes.

Riptide Bay, Six Flags Great America's new 2011 summer expansion, demonstrates the continued trend-setting nature of this Corporation.

Plunge from either one of the six-story FreeFALLs™ with 80 degree angle drops, or the unmatched G-forces of the incredible looping SuperLOOPs™. The ProSlide SkyBox™ Launch Systems are designed and refined to produce an absolutely unmatched high speed drop-launch experience. Enter any of the four SkyBoxes™ through the transparent door, if you dare, inspect your fate through the transparent floor panel and take your last breath before being launched down the ride of your life!

The launch angle of the SkyBox™ has been carefully calculated in conjunction with the speed with which the floor drops out to provide the greatest sensation of weightlessness, while providing a very safe and consistent anticipatory launch.

The fun doesn't stop there at Riptide Bay! The installation of North America's First Outdoor TantrumALLEY™ spices up Water Ride entertainment for the whole family. "Wipeout" winds your 4-Person CLOVERleaf™ raft through the tunnel onto two separate funnels, both promising several oscillations before feeding your raft on through the ride.

Our continued partnership and friendship with the Six Flags Corporation has taken the water ride standard and industry to a whole new level, as they now have 14 TORNADO™ Installations accompanied by the largest number of iconic ProSlide attractions in the World.

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ProSlide Debuts the World's First KrakenRACER in Southern Florida

Rapids Water Park in West Palm Beach, FL is now home to the World's first ProSlide KrakenRACER™, which has been met with great accolade from both the park and their guests. The ProSlide KrakenRACER™ is the latest evolution of the Award Winning ProSlide ProRACER™, which since its debut has taken home IAAPA Best New Water Ride and now, has hundreds of racing lanes installed world-wide.

The patented ProSlide KrakenRACER™, with its fast dispatch and high capacity, starts 'racers' head first through enclosed, braided, twisting tunnels where they experience accelerating drops and twists before they speed towards the open racing lanes for one last stomach-dropping plunge and the chance of first place.

"The ProSlide KrakenRACER™ is a great example of ProSlide's relentless dedication to product development and innovation! It shows our commitment to our customers to continuously produce inventive designs and revolutionize what the definition of a 'racer' style Water Ride is," says Rick Hunter, President & CEO of ProSlide Technology.

Rapids Water Park chose the KrakenRACER™ in a 6 lane configuration but it is also available in other multi-lane footprints - 2, 4, 8 and 10 lane configurations. The ProSlide KrakenRACER™ joins Rapids Water Park alongside a wide array of other must-have ProSlide Water Rides including: TORNADO™60, DarkTORNADO™45, CannonBOWL™, ProBOWL™, MAMMOTHBubba™, DarkMAMMOTH™, PIPELINEs™, TWISTERs™ and a KIDZ™ zone!

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Wild Wadi Waterpark Opens the World's First ProSlide BowlingALLEY™ & TantrumALLEY™ Complex

Wild Wadi Waterpark in Dubai opens the Hottest new Water Ride Complex in the World, including the World's First ProSlide BowlingALLEY™ & the World's Longest TantrumALLEY™! The Grand Opening of Wild Wadi's massive expansion was on 11/01/11 at 11am and was packed with people ready to experience the most exciting new water rides in the World! Wild Wadi's "Burj Surj" (ProSlide BowlingALLEY™) & "Tantrum Alley" (ProSlide TantrumALLEY™) are a huge hit!

The bar has been set high with this amazing expansion! Wild Wadi's "Tantrum Alley" is the only one in the World with three funnels, two open & one enclosed, and it spans a record-breaking 820 feet (250m) long. With over 8500 gallons of water per minute pumping through this high intensity water ride, the ProSlide TantrumALLEY™ at Wild Wadi has everyone coming back for more! Riders in 4-Man CLOVERleaf™ tubes experience an overall drop of over 65 feet from top to bottom and feel the exhilaration of the high speed inrun and the heights of the gravity defying funnels three times in a row!

The World's first BowlingALLEY™ at Wild Wadi is setting records of its own! As the only water ride in the World with back-to-back BOWLS™, the "Burj Surj" features two 40 foot diameter BOWLS™ that have riders in 4 to 5-Man Rafts experiencing the thrills of our award- winning BehemothBOWL™ two times at thrilling speeds! The fully enclosed tunnels between BOWLS™ give riders an experience like no other! At over 775 feet (236m) long, the brand-new "Burj Surj" has double the fun & double the thrills for the whole family!

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ProSlide Starts off 2011 with Two World-Class Project Openings!

ProSlide starts the New Year off right with two World-Class waterparks debuting their new ProSlide water rides and attractions! Parque Recreativo Piscilago in Melgar, Colombia opened South America's first ProSlide RideHOUSE™ & The Time Capsule in North Lanarkshire, Scotland debuted Europe's first ProSlide TANTRUM™!

The brand-new ProSlide RideHOUSE™ multi-level family Ride 'n Play structure at Parque Recreativo Piscilago is packed with watery fun, tons of water cannons, active water sprays, and a High Volume Tipping Bucket covers everyone in it's path! The RideHOUSE™ at Parque Recreativo Piscilago also features four exciting RideHOUSE™ versions of our award-winning slides. The two RideHOUSE DECKtops™, RideHOUSE GangSlide™ & RideHOUSE Tunnel TWISTER™ are huge hits with kids of all ages!

The Time Capsule in North Lanarkshire, Scotland has opened their brand-new expansion which includes the high-intensity ProSlide TANTRUM™! The first of its kind in Scotland! From the exhilaration of the high speed in-run, to the heights of the breathtaking funnel, to the 2-Man WhirlyWHEEL™ & 4-Man CLOVERleaf™ face-to-face tubing technology, everything about this ride literally screams family excitement!

To plan your trip to see the new ProSlide RideHOUSE™ at Parque Recreativo Piscilago, go to: www.parquepiscilago.com! Going to Scotland? Check out www.thetimecapsule.info to ride Scotland's only TANTRUM™ at The Time Capsule!

To find out more about the World's Best Water Rides visit ProSlide.com or contact a ProSlide Team Member now!

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Cross Your Arms and Clench Your Cheeks For Australia's First Looping Body Slide at WhiteWater World

Gut wrenching, heart pounding, teeth chattering. That’s the feeling you get when you step inside the launch chamber of WhiteWater World’s newest power slide, The Wedgie, cross your arms behind your head and peer face first over the sissies five-storeys below.

The wildest doom drop of them all, The Wedgie has no nanny mats and no support tubes. As the trap door triggers, it’s simply fast flesh on fibreglass as you plummet feet first down a near vertical descent, barrelling through a human sized helix before smashing into the splash pool down below.

Here the classic Aussie Cossie braking system kicks in and you feel the fast tug on cheeks as your bathing suit once again assumes control, giving “rise” to the slide’s bold name.

The Wedgie is not for the faint hearted, the loose pants brigade, or anyone under 130cm in height. And, it’s only on impact that you realise you’ve been “Wedgied by WhiteWater World”.

Go on. Cross your arms, clench your cheeks and be daring. Only the bravest will do it in Speedos!

Ride Facts:

Super accelerated start hurtles riders into the looping slide at speeds of up to 45kph
• Height: 17.42 m
• Capacity per Hour: 240 persons
• Speed: up to 45kph or 11.7m/s
• Thrill Rating (out of 4): 4 +
• Requirements Riders must be 130cm and 12 years of age
• Cycle time TBC approximately 7 seconds
• Total length 85m

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