Just one year after the launch of the brand new Caribbean themed water park, Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, Six Flags Great America has announced that it will be adding yet another thrilling and unique family water slide experience to its already astonishing collection of water attractions. This spring, the award-winning giant Tornado slide will take the Midwest's most popular water park by storm.
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Having ridden one I can say they are quite fun, there are only 2 problems I have with them however:
1. Capacity - Don't expect the line to go anywhere fast, actual capacity is nowhere near the estimated.
2. Repairs - The lift system to bring the tubes back up always fails. The only way to fix it is to have someone climb up the belt and remove the jammed tube.
I think the best part isn't shown real well in the video, being the initial part where you are in the tube before you drop into the "Tornado" part, its pretty black and you don't know when you will drop out.
The tornado at SFSTL is awesome. Its a great ride, the only problem is capacity. This becomes a serious issue if they allow for two person rafts instead of grouping everyone into four person rafts.
I never heard anything about the raft lift breaking down because there isn't one at SFSTL. You get to lug that damn raft halfway throught the line and all the way up the stairs.
It's the most fun in the park when your laughing in the dark.
Carrying the raft up the stairs makes it so the line looks really long and fills up to the bottom of the stairs creating a much shorter line for the slide, insteed of everyone just standing on the stairs without the tube and there being 3 times and many people jammed into the stairs so ours better make us carry them up. Also I have been on 2 of them and there not that great,
I have ridden one, they are lots of fun, the only thing that I disliked was the water sitting in the middle stopping the raft going up the Tornado more.
Universal Orlando Mechanical Engineer Marathon down, Goofy to go.
well i guess they finally announced it, end of speculations, at least the forums will be less spammed now. It looks ok, but like most have already said, it doesnt look too exciting. I'd still rather get on bull or giant drop.
I'm running to Bull on opening day, anyone gets in my way and they'll get trampled.
yeah, tornadoes are fun.. I rode the funnel of fear at MiA, which is the same thing, and though i was freaked out the first time, I was better afterwards. Cool cool.
RagingBullFan wrote:The lift system to bring the tubes back up always fails. The only way to fix it is to have someone climb up the belt and remove the jammed tube.
I missed the morning half of Convention this morning, so I missed the Great America session (heard they had a great video ) but what I've heard (but did not hear this myself) is that there will not be a lift system.
They look boring to me. I was about to go on the one in St. Louis but decided the line wasn't worth it. But it bothers me none. The more people the go to that will leave some of the other lines less crowded.
That's what I figured. World's tallest, fastest speed slide would be much better. (BTW, the current record-holder is Summit Plummit at Blizzard Beach, it is 120 ft. high and 65 mph. This is a little taller than Batman.)