Lets talk water parks and their future

[21stamps]

This was our waterpark's new addition for 2016. The top 3 are drop slides, the other ones are raft slides with lights inside of them.
They're really neat..is universal doing any with lights and/or music?

 

[mergatroid]

These tapu tapu bands supposedly vibrate when it's time for you to go on a particular slide according to one well known youtuber. I wonder whether you'll get to pick your times or just get what you're given? Being slightly cynical it would make sense to have your times spread out throughout the day to make you spend longer there and purchase food and drink, anyone know? Also will there be a standby queue or can you only ride when the tapu tapu band tells you?

 

[RSoxNo1]

The slide colors were carefully chosen, and each one the color it is for a reason. You will notice they don't look like this:

Yes, it looks like those with a volcano and other good theming around it. Why were they chosen because they don't look great.

 

[Disneyhead'71]

Yes, it looks like those with a volcano and other good theming around it. Why were they chosen because they don't look great.

The colors were chosen to look like water and lava. And I think the place looks very well themed and very well rounded.

And why these slides? Because they are the most state of the art slides available. And a heck of a lot better than lumpy painful lame concrete slides.

 

[Jon81uk]

Brightly colored slides in an environment like this doesn't seem to fit for Volcano Bay. Universal has a tendency to do this where they get the theming about 80-90% correct. Thankfully Diagon Alley was seemingly exempt from this.

I think once the plants are in the slides won't stand out as badly, the green parts should blend with the trees and the blue parts with the water.

 

[Jon81uk]

The slide colors were carefully chosen, and each one the color it is for a reason. You will notice they don't look like this:

Uhh, that's pretty much exactly what they look like, minus the alternating colors. It almost seems like Universal just plopped a volcano over an existing waterpark, with brightly colored slides and exposed support structures. They can be as careful as they want with the slide colors; that doesn't they look particularly great

Compare those bright colours in the quoted images to Volcano Bay in this pic https://twitter.com/bioreconstruct/status/794319177557430274

The volcano bay slides are mainly dark greens and blues, designed to blend with trees and the island style. The yellow & orange are "lava".

The dark green in the bottom left of that picture will be no more of an eyesore than Crush'n'Gusher at Typhoon Lagoon where the odd beige colour doesn't blend with the surroundings.

 

[andre85]

Compare those bright colours in the quoted images to Volcano Bay in this pic https://twitter.com/bioreconstruct/status/794319177557430274

The volcano bay slides are mainly dark greens and blues, designed to blend with trees and the island style. The yellow & orange are "lava".

The dark green in the bottom left of that picture will be no more of an eyesore than Crush'n'Gusher at Typhoon Lagoon where the odd beige colour doesn't blend with the surroundings.

A comparison to the worst themed part of Typhoon Lagoon isn't particularly compelling.

There's a limit to how much gaudily colored slides can blend into the environment, especially when they're still primarily free-standing and unthemed structures. Look, the volcano's cool, but to me, Universal's dropping the ball when it comes to theming the slides themselves

 

[Jon81uk]

A comparison to the worst themed part of Typhoon Lagoon isn't particularly compelling.

There's a limit to how much gaudily colored slides can blend into the environment, especially when they're still primarily free-standing and unthemed structures. Look, the volcano's cool, but to me, Universal's dropping the ball when it comes to theming the slides themselves

I still don't see green and blue as being gaudy colours. The Disney water parks are pretty much the only ones where almost all the slides are built into the ground and look at the issues they've had with leaks recently at Blizzard Beach. I agree that freestandling slides don't look as good but I'm also willing to wait and see the final product and blues and greens will blend into the planting better than purple and neon colours they used at Wet'nWild.

 

[flynnibus]

There's a limit to how much gaudily colored slides can blend into the environment, especially when they're still primarily free-standing and unthemed structures. Look, the volcano's cool, but to me, Universal's dropping the ball when it comes to theming the slides themselves

Yes, the solution is... don't use gaudily colored slides that are free-standing and unthemed. Do you think Disney bought a off-the-shelf Carsland kit?? Disney reached the level it did because of going the extra effort to integrated and go custom where needed for the desired effect.

 

[Disneyhead'71]

Yes, the solution is... don't use gaudily colored slides that are free-standing and unthemed. Do you think Disney bought a off-the-shelf Carsland kit?? Disney reached the level it did because of going the extra effort to integrated and go custom where needed for the desired effect.

Oh, ok.

 

[flynnibus]

Oh, ok.

Well for one, their master blaster isn't banna yellow like many I didn't say Disney was perfect.. I was responding to the notion they couldn't do more to hide those vibrant colors. Sure there is... don't use those colors

 

[RSoxNo1]

Oh, ok.

That looks better than a brightly colored slide.

 

[felipenor]

While we're on it, is there any chance of a third Disney water park? Realistically speaking.

And also, why isn't there water parks on any other Disney resort? I'd assume there'd be one in Anaheim by now? Is there no demand?

 

[Jon81uk]

While we're on it, is there any chance of a third Disney water park? Realistically speaking.

And also, why isn't there water parks on any other Disney resort? I'd assume there'd be one in Anaheim by now? Is there no demand?

I would guess Anaheim is a space issue, they don't have the room for it really.

Also I wouldn't expect a third water park from Disney, more chance of them building out the existing ones and/or replacing parts of existing parks.

 

[Princess Leia]

Am I the only one who's never done the water park?! I have no good explanation either guys... I guess I'm always so focused on the 4 main parks and hanging out at the resort pool that I never got around to doing it? It's totally on my bucket list.

When my family went to the parks, we'd spend 1/4 or 5 days at a water park. It's a great way to relax. They both have a lot to offer (RIP Shark reef).

 

[wwmmd]

What water park is that? The 6 slides in the background look really cool!

I don't know where these particular slides are but they have the same ones at Zoombezi Bay at the Columbus Zoo, along with that giant cone slide in the picture.

 

[Absimilliard]

Top picture is at Aquatica in Orlando. Two Proslide triple funnel slides were built on top of an existing tube slide complex.

Bottom picture is from Six Flags Great America (near Chicago, IL) Hurricane Harbor. The slide in the front is a Proslide Tornado 60 which is a bigger version of Brain Wash at Wet' n Wild. The back 6 slide tower has two tube slides, two extreme body slides and two tube bowl slides.

I am very curious to see what the new slide at Typhoon Lagoon will come out to, but I feel they missed the boat to truly be innovative. For example, Yas Waterworld in Abu Dhabi and Samsung Caribbean Bay near Seoul introduced slides that combine high capacity 6 passenger rafts, uphill water coaster segments and huge Tornado funnels. Those are rated at over a 1000 guests an hour, making them the highest capacity water slides in the market right now. This is a picture of Dawwama at Yas Waterworld:

Edit: figured out after posting this why Disney did not go for one of those: money. Mammoth at Holiday World with non WDI inflation cost a whopping 10 million dollars in 2012. Imagine if WDI had to "design" one of those... 30-40 million dollars slide?

 

[21stamps]

Top picture is at Aquatica in Orlando. Two Proslide triple funnel slides were built on top of an existing tube slide complex.

Bottom picture is from Six Flags Great America (near Chicago, IL) Hurricane Harbor. The slide in the front is a Proslide Tornado 60 which is a bigger version of Brain Wash at Wet' n Wild. The back 6 slide tower has two tube slides, two extreme body slides and two tube bowl slides.

I am very curious to see what the new slide at Typhoon Lagoon will come out to, but I feel they missed the boat to truly be innovative. For example, Yas Waterworld in Abu Dhabi and Samsung Caribbean Bay near Seoul introduced slides that combine high capacity 6 passenger rafts, uphill water coaster segments and huge Tornado funnels. Those are rated at over a 1000 guests an hour, making them the highest capacity water slides in the market right now. This is a picture of Dawwama at Yas Waterworld:

Edit: figured out after posting this why Disney did not go for one of those: money. Mammoth at Holiday World with non WDI inflation cost a whopping 10 million dollars in 2012. Imagine if WDI had to "design" one of those... 30-40 million dollars slide?

We have the funnel slide that was posted earlier, but the slides behind it were something I've never seen. Maybe I'll have to take a trip to Six Flags.lol

The slide in the photo above looks great. 1000 people an hour would be wonderful.

I read awhile ago that the average coaster is over $20million, I think Everest was close to $100million. I have no idea what waterslides cost...but if theming can more than quadruple the price of waterslides as well, that may be a reason why WDW isn't putting a new one in very often.

 

[Disneyhead'71]

We have the funnel slide that was posted earlier, but the slides behind it were something I've never seen. Maybe I'll have to take a trip to Six Flags.lol

The slide in the photo above looks great. 1000 people an hour would be wonderful.

I read awhile ago that the average coaster is over $20million, I think Everest was close to $100million. I have no idea what waterslides cost...but if theming can more than quadruple the price of waterslides as well, that may be a reason why WDW isn't putting a new one in very often.

Rock work, on a large scale is expensive. But not everything has to be buried in a mountain to be good.

 

[Bocabear]

We have the funnel slide that was posted earlier, but the slides behind it were something I've never seen. Maybe I'll have to take a trip to Six Flags.lol

The slide in the photo above looks great. 1000 people an hour would be wonderful.

I read awhile ago that the average coaster is over $20million, I think Everest was close to $100million. I have no idea what waterslides cost...but if theming can more than quadruple the price of waterslides as well, that may be a reason why WDW isn't putting a new one in very often.

The retheme of Maelstrom was reported at over 120 million...