Waterparks
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Pirate Beach T
he first water playground at a Legoland Discovery Center (LDC) opened this summer in Texas, featuring more than 30 interactive gadgets pumping and spraying thousands of gallons of water.
Pirate Beach at LDC Dallas/Forth Worth is themed around a shipwrecked vessel, where kids can navigate through water jets and fountains, squirt cannons and splash downslides. Looming at the top of the 20ft-tall mast is a 50-gallon bucket poised to dump water on guests every few minutes. Throughout Pirate Beach, guests will also encounter over 12 interactive models and a soft play area that include pirates, cannons, treasure chests, palm trees and sandcastles. The 10,000-square-foot attraction was supplied by Vortex of Canada and is one of 12 attractions featured at this particular LDC outlet. Whether others will follows at other Legoland Discovery Centers around the world we will have to wait and see, but the Dallas/Fort Worth facility is unusual in that it has an outdoor section thanks to the local Texas climate. “Pirate Beach has three things we know will are a hit with children:
Verrückt Insane slide launches in Kansas!
Legoland Discovery Center adds water
pirates, Lego bricks and water,” notes LDC regional manager Iain Scouller.
A nice promotion currently running at the attraction, incidentally, is an adult night in the last Monday of every month, where grown-ups can indulge their Lego passion during a two-hour session hosted by a Master Model Builder.
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he world’s tallest waterslide is now thrilling guests at Schlitterbahn Kansas City Waterpark. Designed and built in-house by Schlitterbahn Development Group, it stretches 168ft (51m) into the sky and features a total length of 601 ft (183m). Verrückt combines a breathtaking drop with siganture uphill blast over a 55ft (16m) camelback hump. After climbing 264 steps to reach the top of the slide tower, up to three riders per raft plummet down a drop equivalent tof the fall from a 17-storey building. That’s taller than Niagara Falls or the Statue of Liberty! No single riders; apparently it’s more fun if someone is screaming in your ear. Verrückt, which translates from German as “insane,” was developed by waterpark innovator Jeff Henry. Henry holds numerous patents for ride innovations and has brought inland water surfing, uphill waterslide coasters and endless tube rides to the industry. The Henry family operates four Schlitterbahn parks around the US, and is planning to build smaller versions of Verrückt in other parks.
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