Holiday World has a video up of the boat dropping down and into the water. Elevator isnt ready yet so they hoisted the boat up with a crane. I have to say, it looks pretty impressive with that size drop and the splash is pretty big.
I've been following Paula on twitter these past couple days...
Like Chitown said, they really just wanted to check out the drop on this. Once they feel satisfied with this round of testing just that, they'll drain the water and make any track adjustments and figure out what the water levels should be for next time.
Looks very impressive though, and I'm very excited to head down there this summer!
Nope, you're right, just a lapbar. It's the same as the newer style Intamin OTSR's but without the vest part, so it is indeed just a lap bar when it's down with nothing at all around your upper body.
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