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Tornado water slide blasts into Wet'n'Wild Las Vegas
By Jak Phillips
The Tornado has won a number of awards, including the Industry Impact Award from the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA)
Thrill-seekers visiting Wet ‘n’ Wild Las Vegas will be able to experience the Tornado – a funnel water slide that simulates a natural storm – when the park opens for its second season on 12 April.
The four-person raft attraction sends riders from 36ft (11m) in the air through a 110ft (33.5m) tunnel before dropping them into the 45ft (13.7m)-wide funnel where they spin back and forth through swirling water before dropping through a centre hole.
As the raft sweeps up the Tornado wall and crosses its centre line, guests experience weightlessness or zero gravity, before eventually descending into the exit pool.
Developed by Canadian-based ProSlide Technology, the Tornado has won a number of awards, including the Industry Impact Award from the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA).
The latest addition to the Wet 'n' Wild theme park – a partnership between majority owner and operator Village Roadshow Theme Parks and Vegas-based private equity fund SPB Partners – takes the number of water slides at the 20-acre park past 25.
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ProSlide Technology, Inc.
ProSlide® designs and manufactures the world’s best water ride attractions for the world’s greatest parks. We lead the industry in water ride engineering and innovation, and are the only company in the world to win the industry’s highest honour – the IAAPA Impact Award – more than once.
ProSlide® helps waterparks tell a compelling and cohesive story, ensuring each fine-tuned element operates at high efficiency and capacity. Since we run our own water park, we understand best practices and smart design. We provide water parks with stairways and queuing areas that eliminate bottlenecks, ride layouts that reduce staffing requirements, raft return and storage that maximizes space, and so much more.
Our planning team consists of expert architects and designers that truly understand the industry, and with over three decades of experience, we have built a comprehensive network of knowledgeable partners from around the world that can provide engineering expertise, operations management, and construction specifications.
ProSlide® helps waterparks tell a compelling and cohesive story, ensuring each fine-tuned element operates at high efficiency and capacity. Since we run our own water park, we understand best practices and smart design. We provide water parks with stairways and queuing areas that eliminate bottlenecks, ride layouts that reduce staffing requirements, raft return and storage that maximizes space, and so much more.
Our planning team consists of expert architects and designers that truly understand the industry, and with over three decades of experience, we have built a comprehensive network of knowledgeable partners from around the world that can provide engineering expertise, operations management, and construction specifications.
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www.proslide.comThrill-seekers visiting Wet ‘n’ Wild Las Vegas will be able to experience the
Tornado – an extreme funnel water slide that simulates a natural storm – when
the park opens for its second season on 12 April.
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