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America’s tallest water slide, by Whitewater, opens at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park
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he Rise of Icarus, featuring the tallest water slide in the Americas, has opened for the 2024 summer season.
A collaboration between Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park, the architecture firm Ramaker, and WhiteWater, the Rise of Icarus is a 160-foot-tall slide tower that launches four AquaTubes and a Freefall that, together with vibrant colours, retells the legend of Icarus in the most thrilling way. The breaking height of 145 feet (44 m), through a length of 780 feet (237 m), at speeds of up to 30 mph (48 km/h). family and park as we continually strive to introduce been thrilled by the overwhelmingly positive and Director of Marketing, Fofo Backhaus. launch riders from a height of 57 feet (17 m). family, who has shown time and time again that Mt.
Olympus Water and Theme Park not only pushes boundaries with its attractions but also offers one- Parks at WhiteWater.
A leading destination in Wisconsin Dells, Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park is no stranger
to making headlines. Two years ago, it opened the Western Hemisphere.
Later this summer, the park will open a new also from WhiteWater, with 10 new slides, a host of aquatic play features, and Life Floor.
BoldMove and E&S Rides launch Spinfinity Coaster B
The new Spinfinity Coaster offers a cross-
between kiddy and scary thrill coasters. It emerges as a natural transition from BoldMove's dark ride
storytelling in 360-degree universes. Spinfinity Coaster is the result of a close of BoldMove and the technical engineers of E&S Rides. The teams have all aspects of the process in hand, carefully balancing track layout, movements, media and theming to obtain the right level of
sophistication. Spinfinity Coaster unites the best of two worlds:
with the thrilling movements of a coaster. BoldMove's CEO & Captain of Creative Minds, Benoit Cornet, pioneered interactive theatres and media dark rides for 25 years, recently topped by the multiple awarded Champi'Folies interactive family dark ride in Le PAL, France. "We like to spice up the classical proven ingredients in a special way together, adding a creative topping to finish it off. This way we give our customers a very unique and new flavour without taking any risks. With the Spinfinity Coaster we apply multi-layered dark ride theming and storytelling principles into a new breed of attractions."
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