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The ProSlide SuperLOOP Goes Indoors at Kalahari Resort
ProSlide Brings Innovation and the World's Best Water Rides to IAAPA 2011 in Orlando
Visit ProSlide in Orlando to see the Newest Water Ride Innovations for 2012!
ProSlide's Booth Will be THE Place to be in New Orleans Outside of the French Quarter!
ProSlide Goes HUGE at Beijing Happy Magic Waterpark
Six Flags Great America Starts the Summer Right with Two World-Class ProSlide Custom Complexes!
ProSlide Launches the First Ever TOPSY-TURVY™ in Europe!
ProSlide Debuts the World's First KrakenRACER™ in Southern Florida
ProSlide Wins Reader's Choice Award for Best New Waterpark Ride of 2010
Raging Waters San Jose announces the ProSlide SuperLOOP™ for their 2011 Season!
Wild Wadi Waterpark in Dubai Opens the World's First ProSlide BowlingALLEY™
& TantrumALLEY™ Complex to Great Reviews!
ProSlide Starts off 2011 with Two World-Class Project Openings!
The ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY™ Wins the Best New Product Award at the 2010 IAAPA Show in Orlando, Florida
Wildebeest Wins Two Golden Ticket Awards!
ProSlide makes it's Olympic debut at the Water Cube in Beijing, China!
Lost Island Goes MAGNETIC for their 10th Anniversary Season!
ProSlide Welcomes Their Newest Team Member Mr. Lars Lenders- Amsterdam, The Netherlands
SplashTown at Darien Lake Debuts the Hottest New Tubing Ride in the World!
The World's Longest Water Coaster is Now Open at Holiday World Splashin' Safari!
ProSlide's Hottest New Water Ride Projects For 2010!
WhiteWater World at Dreamworld to debut the World's First ProSlide SuperLOOP™
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the first looping water slide in Australia!
Lost Island's New HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ is on Schedule for its 2010 Grand Opening!
ProSlide wins Best New Water Ride Product Award at IAAPA!
ProSlide RideHOUSE™ "Ride 'n Play System" will make its debut at the Olympic Watercube in Beijing in 2010!
Holiday World & Splashin' Safari Announces New Proslide Hydromagnetic Rocket™ For 2010!
Introducing the TantrumTWIST™!
Siam Park is the Newest and Most Exciting Water Park in Europe!
The ProSlide SuperLOOP Goes Indoors at Kalahari Resort
DECEMBER 22, 2012- The Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells, WI is the newest home to the world's smartest looping waterslide, the ProSlide SuperLOOP™. This brand new indoor complex houses three of ProSlide's SkyBox™ launching systems, two of which drop riders into the Duelling SuperLOOP™and the third drops riders straight down a ProSlide FreeFALL™. While the SuperLOOP™ has experienced incredible success on a global scale since its introduction just 24 months ago with over 15 installations, this complex at Kalahari Resort represents the first indoor installation 
Worldwide!
Unlike other looping water slides, the ProSlide SuperLOOP™ does not require the additional cost of expensive monitoring systems or escape hatches. The design allows a greater range of rider weights and there is no chance of riders getting stuck mid-loop.
Most importantly is the incomparable speed and g-forces the guests of Kalahari Resort are experiencing from this great complex! "They're pretty intense," Travis Nelson, the resort's spokesman and "Chief Slide Officer" said of the new looping slides. "But you want to go back and ride them again, and again."
ProSlide Brings Innovation and the World's Best Water Rides to IAAPA 2011 in Orlando
NOVEMBER 24, 2011- ProSlide's presence was hard to miss at this year's 2011 IAAPA Expo in Orlando, FL with the largest booth to date! ProSlide would like to sincerely thank all those that came by the booth to discuss their future Water Ride plans and see what innovations are lined up for 2012 and beyond. With more industry experts on hand than any other water ride manufacturer, ProSlide was the hot spot for Water Rides at IAAPA! ProSlide introduced its new advanced meeting spaces with greater accessibility to information, more images and more videos all at the touch of a finger! We are continually looking for new ways to better inform our customers and these advanced meeting spaces were a huge hit. ProSlide was very pleased to have brought home an IAAPA Brass Ring Award for this integration of technology and booth design this year!
Not only was the ProSlide booth buzzing with customers from all over the world, the Press was also very interested in what ProSlide had in store for 2012. Below are links to a couple of the interviews that took place, with more coming to your favourite publications in the upcoming weeks. Interview with Rick Hunter, President and CEO, ProSlide Technology Ray Smegal, ProSlide and Dan Koch, Holiday World
Ray Smegal, ProSlide and Dan Koch, Holiday World conducting an interview on the new HydroMAGNETIC MAMMOTH™
ProSlide would like to thank all of those who spoke to us about their upcoming Water Ride plans, with special thanks to those who committed to ProSlide Water Rides for 2012 and 2013. A particular highlight was with Skara SommarLand in Axvall, Sweden which is part of the Parks and Resorts Scandinavia Group. Skara Sommarland is putting in a ProSlide ProRACER™ in 2012, which will mark the first ProSlide Water Ride in Sweden!
Skara SommarLand - from left -Johan Tidstrand, Mattias Banker, Lars Lenders (ProSlide) and Fredrik Dahlbeck
Thank you to all who made this year's IAAPA Expo in Orlando, FL such a great success for ProSlide. We look forward to seeing everybody next year! |
Visit ProSlide in Orlando to see the Newest Water Ride Innovations for 2012!
NOVEMBER 8, 2011- The 2012 IAAPA Expo is the place to discover your next water ride attraction and when it comes to water rides, there is no better than the 'World's Best Water Rides' - ProSlide!
The ProSlide Team would like to invite you visit booth 4731 for over 2000sq/f of the best water rides in the world and take a peek into what is in store for 2012. With the Expo right around the corner our meeting schedule is filling up, so be sure to book an appointment today! You can request a meeting through email by clicking here, or you can call 613.526.5522 to schedule by phone.
We look forward to seeing you in Orlando from November 15-18 at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL - Booth 4731!
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ProSlide's Booth Will be THE Place to be in New Orleans Outside of the French Quarter!
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011- Are you going to the World Waterpark Association Trade show in New Orleans, LA on October 5th and 6th? 
Be sure to stop by booth 101 -206 and check out ProSlide's latest Water Ride Innovations! The ProSlide team will be on hand to answer any and all questions you may have in planning your next 'World's Best Water Ride' attraction.
Recipient of the 2011 World Waterpark Industry Innovation Award for the KrackenRACER, ProSlide has more patented, award-winning designs than any other manufacturer and we can't wait to show you what we have in store for 2012!
We look forward to seeing you at the Ernest M. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA - October 5th and 6th, 2011.
For 25 Years ProSlide Technology has created the world's most award-winning, fiberglass water rides for the waterpark, theme park and resort industries. ProSlide is uniquely focused on product development and innovation, producing visionary designs and inventive water rides. ProSlide has the industry's best planning, design, engineering and installation expertise, creating the highest caliber rider experience. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with multiple international offices, ProSlide has thousands of installations in over 45 countries worldwide. Visit www.proslide.com for further information.
ProSlide Goes HUGE at Beijing Happy Magic Waterpark
AUGUST 2011- The Beijing Happy Magic Waterpark located in the Fengtai District of Beijing, China has recently opened with some of the most unique and innovative water ride complexes in the world which entertains a huge amount of guests daily, 
up to 35,000! This Waterpark has the largest amount of water rides built in 2011 and has been touted as the World's Largest Waterpark, with all major rides and complexes by ProSlide Technology.
No other Waterpark or Water Ride manufacturer has produced such industry-changing complexes and world firsts. ProSlide provided Beijing Happy Magic Waterpark with 7 
major ride complexes, Thirty-five water rides and the World's Largest RideHOUSE active Ride n' Spray structure which boasts 12 slides, over 65 active water play features, a 400GAL dumping bucket and over 150 themed sculptures and features.
Beijing Happy Magic Waterpark has the World's First TornadoWAVE , the next evolution of ProSlide's thrilling line-up of extreme water rides. With a 45 
degree drop in and near vertical hang time there is nothing on the market that comes close to sweeping weightlessness sensation that the TornadoWAVE creates. This complex is even more impressive with the addition of the IAAPA Best New Waterpark Ride and Industry Impact Award winning BehemothBOWL!
In total ProSlide built a triple funnel TantrumALLEY, the iconic TORNADO, a MACH 4 complex, BehemothBOWL, Duelling CannonBOWLs, OctopusRACER, TornadoWAVE, a SpeedZone complex with FreeFALL, Turbo TUNNEL and a MultiBUMP, as well as a KIDZ Zone and a RideHOUSE!
The most iconic and Award-Winning Water Ride in the World, the TORNADO, goes even bigger in Beijing as now it holds the spot as being the world's tallest. At over 20.5m, or 67ft, the TORNADO towers over the park. Sharing in its massive stature is 
the TantrumALLEY. In doing so it establishes another worldfirst by having these two rides share the same complex.
The MACH 4 complex features four ProSlide PIPEline slides and combine to give guests over 360m, or 1200ft. of rider excitement on board their 2-Man tubes. For even greater speed and slide length the 8-lane OctopusRACER combines to produce over 880m, or close to 2,900ft. of high speed, side-by-side racing!
The rides, innovative complexes and sheer size of the Beijing Happy Magic Waterpark are something that truly needs to be seen to be appreciated. When you combine all these innovative ProSlide water rides and structures with one of the world's largest wave pools, the result is simply one of the most impressive waterparks in the world.
For 25 Years ProSlide Technology has created the world's most award-winning, fiberglass water rides for the waterpark, theme park and resort industries. ProSlide is uniquely focused on product development and innovation, producing visionary designs and inventive water rides. ProSlide has the industry's best planning, design, engineering and installation expertise, creating the highest caliber rider experience. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with multiple international offices, ProSlide has thousands of installations in over 45 countries worldwide. Visit www.proslide.com for further information.
ProSlide Launches the First Ever TOPSY-TURVY™ in Europe!
JULY 7, 2011- The Aqua Mundo waterpark, part of the beautiful Center Parcs - De Eemhof in the Netherlands is now home to Europe's first ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY™. The grand opening of the ride was attended by many, including local media and Olympic Swimming Champion, Inge de Bruijn. The opening was a great success and the crowds were thrilled with the new ride, which is nowone of the longest and certainly the most exciting inner-tube rides in Europe. The ProSlideTOPSY-TURVY™, winner of the2010 IAAPA Best New Water Ride in the
World, was the clear choice for Center Parcs when they were looking to add a new attraction that would provide their guests with a thrilling, yet family friendly 'SurpriseAdventure™' Water Ride.
The uniqueness of this TOPSY-TURVY™ installation shows how versatile and flexible ProSlide Water Rides really are. With its indoor start, outdoor triple TOPSY-TURVY™ ride footprint and the indoor ProSplash™ finish, this truly is a spectacular 'all weather' Water Ride.
The TOPSY-TURVY™ starts with riders cruising through radius curves before an unexpected drop into a funnel where they oscillate back & forth and then exit back into the enclosed tunnel and onto the next set of exciting curves & funnels! The ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY™ is the Hottest Tubing Ride in the World and will be the Center Parcs De Eemhof showcase Water Ride for their guests.
For 25 Years ProSlide Technology has created the world's most award-winning, fiberglass water rides for the waterpark, theme park and resort industries. ProSlide is uniquely focused on product development and innovation, producing visionary designs and inventive water rides. ProSlide has the industry's best planning, design, engineering and installation expertise, creating the highest caliber rider experience. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with multiple international offices, ProSlide has thousands of installations in over 45 countries worldwide. Visit www.proslide.com for further information.
Six Flags Great America Starts the Summer Right with Two World-Class ProSlide Custom Complexes!
Introducing the World's First "ALL SkyBox™" Duelling SuperLOOP™/ Duelling FreeFALL™ Speedway Complex Accompanied by North America's First Outdoor TantrumALLEY™
JUNE 22, 2011- We are thrilled to announce the opening of yet another World's First ProSlide Complex in a Six Flags Waterpark. Six Flags pride themselves as "The gold standard of regional theme park entertainment. The parks are bigger and bolder than ever, offering cutting-edge, one-of-kind rides and so much more." Since 2003 with the initial installation of one of the first ProSlide TORNADOs™, Six Flags exemplifies the difference that ProSlide quality truly makes.Riptide Bay, Six Flags Great America's new 2011 summer expansion, demonstrates the continued trend-setting nature of this Corporation.
Plunge from either one of the six-story FreeFALLs™ with 80 degree angle drops, or the unmatched G-forces of
the incredible looping SuperLOOPs™. The ProSlideSkyBox™ Launch Systems are designed and refined to produce an absolutely unmatched high speed drop-launch experience. Enter any of the four SkyBoxes™ through the transparent door, if you dare, inspect your fate through the transparent floor panel and take your last breath before being launched down the ride of your life!
The launch angle of the SkyBox™ has been carefully calculated in conjunction with the speed with which the floor drops out to provide the greatest sensation of weightlessness, while providing a very safe and consistent anticipatory launch.
The fun doesn't stop there at Riptide Bay! The installation of North America'sFirst Outdoor TantrumALLEY™ spices up Water Ride entertainment for the whole family. "Wipeout" winds your 4-Person CLOVERleaf™ raft through the tunnel onto twoseparate funnels, both promising several oscillations before feeding your raft on through the ride.
Our continued partnership and friendship with the Six Flags Corporation has taken the water ride standard and industry to a whole new level, as they now have 14 TORNADO™ Installations accompanied by the largest number of iconic ProSlide attractions in the World.
For 25 Years ProSlide Technology has created the world's best, most award-winning fiberglass water rides for waterparks, theme parks and resort industries. ProSlide is uniquely focused on product development and innovation, producing visionary designs and the world's most inventive water rides. Equipped with the industry's best planning, design, engineering and installation expertise, our creations ensure the highest caliber of ride performance. With Global Headquarters out of Ottawa, Canada and multiple international offices, ProSlide now has thousands of installations in over 45 countries worldwide. Visit www.proslide.com for further information.
ProSlide Debuts the World's First KrakenRACER™ in Southern Florida
JUNE 2011- Rapids Water Park in West Palm Beach, FL is now home to the World's first ProSlide KrakenRACER™, which has been met with great accolade from both the park and their guests. The ProSlide KrakenRACER™ is the latest evolution of the Award Winning ProSlide ProRACER™, which since its debut has taken home IAAPA Best New Water Ride and now, has hundreds of racing lanes installed world-wide.
The patented ProSlide KrakenRACER™, with its fast dispatch and high capacity, starts 'racers' head first through enclosed, braided, twisting tunnels where they experience accelerating drops and twists before they speed towards the open racing lanes for one last stomach-dropping plunge and the chance of first place.
"The ProSlide KrakenRACER™ is a great example of ProSlide's relentless dedication to product development and innovation! It shows our commitment to our customers to continuously produce inventive designs and revolutionize what the definition of a 'racer' style Water Ride is," says Rick Hunter, President & CEO of ProSlide Technology.
Rapids Water Park chose the KrakenRACER™ in a 6 lane configuration but it is also available in other multi-lane footprints - 2, 4, 8 and 10 lane configurations. The ProSlide KrakenRACER™ joins Rapids Water Park alongside a wide array of other must-have ProSlide Water Rides including: TORNADO™60, DarkTORNADO™45, CannonBOWL™, ProBOWL™, MAMMOTHBubba™, DarkMAMMOTH™, PIPELINEs™, TWISTERs™ and a KIDZ™ zone!
For 25 Years ProSlide Technology has created the world's most award-winning, fiberglass water rides for the waterpark, theme park and resort industries. ProSlide is solely focused on product development and innovation, producing visionary designs and inventive water rides. ProSlide has the industry's best planning, design, engineering and installation expertise, creating the highest caliber rider experience. Located in Ottawa, Ontario Canada, with multiple international offices, ProSlide has thousands of installations in over 45 countries world-wide. Visit www.proslide.com for further information.
ProSlide Wins Reader's Choice Award for Best New Waterpark Ride of 2010
APRIL 2011- With tens of thousands of votes cast, ProSlide's HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ took the top award in the much acclaimed About.com's Readers Choice Award for Best New Water Park Ride.
The ride that took the top honor was the 'Wildebeest' at Holiday World Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, IN as the longest, and clearly the best, water coaster in the world!
Wildebeest begins with a conveyor ride up the water coaster's lift hill. Following the four-story drop at a 45-degree angle, ProSlide's HydroMAGNETIC™ technology propels the four-person rafts up seven additional hills, through two underground tunnels, and around a helix. Wildebeest covers more than two acres and its topspeed is 36 feet per second. 
Wildebeest's tallest elevation is 64 feet higher than itslowest drop and isone-third of a mile long, thrilling riders for two-and-a-half soaking minutes of hills,drops, twists and turns.
We would like to congratulate Holiday World on edging out the competition and taking the honor of Best New Water Park Ride for 2010!
The ProSlide Team is extremely excited to have produced not only the number one ride, but four out of the top five finalists! We are proud to produce 'The World's Best Water Rides' and are thrilled that those who ride them agree!
For 25 Years ProSlide Technology has created the world's most award-winning, fiberglass water rides for the waterpark, theme park and resort industries. ProSlide is solely focused on product development and innovation, producing visionary designs and inventive water rides. ProSlide has the industry's best planning, design, engineering and installation expertise, creating the highest caliber rider experience. Located in Ottawa, Ontario Canada, with multiple international offices, ProSlide has thousands of installations in over 45 countries world-wide. Visit www.proslide.com for further information.
Raging Waters San Jose announces the ProSlide SuperLOOP™ for their 2011 Season!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February , 2011 - Raging Waters San Jose announces their new ride for the 2011 season! "Bombs Away" will debut in May 2011, making it the first West Coast installation of the ProSlide SuperLOOP™!
The "Bombs Away" experience begins when a rider steps into the enclosed ProSlide SkyBox™ positioned nearly five stories above Raging Waters! The capsule door is sealed and the countdown begins! The rush of adrenaline kicks in as the trap floor drops, plummeting the single rider down into the narrow 32" enclosed tunnel reaching speeds of up to 38 feet per second. Powerful G-forces glue them to the side of the wall the entire way around the tight 360 degree SuperLOOP™ and then riders experience another quick drop before the watery runout brings them to a stop at the bottom.
The ProSlide SuperLOOP™ is the smartest looping water ride on the planet! Riders go from top to bottom in eight seconds flat with no possibility of stopping in the middle! Like many of our other speed slides, the ProSlide SuperLOOP™ has no weight restrictions so anyone over 48" can ride it!
To plan your trip to ride the new ProSlide SuperLOOP™ at Raging Waters San Jose visit their
website: www.rwsplash.com
To find out more about the World's Best Water Rides visit ProSlide.com or contact a ProSlide Team Member now!
Wild Wadi Waterpark in Dubai Opens the World's First
ProSlide BowlingALLEY™ & TantrumALLEY™ Complex
to Great Reviews!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 13, 2011 - Wild Wadi Waterpark in Dubai opens the Hottest new Water Ride Complex in the World, including the World's First ProSlide BowlingALLEY™ & the World's Longest TantrumALLEY™! The Grand Opening of Wild Wadi's massive expansion was on 11/01/11 at 11am and was packed with people ready to experience the most exciting new water rides in the World! Wild Wadi's "Burj Surj" (ProSlide BowlingALLEY™) & "Tantrum Alley" (ProSlide TantrumALLEY™) are a huge hit!
The bar has been set high with this amazing expansion! Wild Wadi's "Tantrum Alley" is the only one in the World with three funnels, two open & one enclosed, and it spans a record-breaking 820 feet (250m) long. With over 8500 gallons of water per minute pumping through this high intensity water ride, the ProSlide TantrumALLEY™ at Wild Wadi has everyone coming back for more! Riders in 4-Man CLOVERleaf™ tubes experience an overall drop of over 65 feet from top to bottom and feel the exhilaration of the high speed inrun and the heights of the gravity defying funnels three times in a row!
The World's first BowlingALLEY™ at Wild Wadi is setting records of its own! As the only water ride in the World with back-to-back BOWLS™, the "Burj Surj" features two 40 foot diameter BOWLS™ that have riders in 4 to 5-Man Rafts experiencing the thrills of our award- winning BehemothBOWL™ two times at thrilling speeds! The fully enclosed tunnels between BOWLS™ give riders an experience like no other! At over 775 feet (236m) long, the brand-new "Burj Surj" has double the fun & double the thrills for the whole family!
To plan your trip to see the new ProSlide BowlingALLEY™ and TantrumALLEY™ at Wild Wadi Waterpark in Dubai visit their website: Wild Wadi Website
To find out more about the World's Best Water Rides visit ProSlide.com or contact a ProSlide Team Member now!
ProSlide Starts off 2011 with Two World-Class Project Openings!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 5, 2011 - ProSlide starts the New Year off right with two World-Class waterparks debuting their new ProSlide water rides and attractions! Parque Recreativo Piscilago in Melgar, Colombia opened South America's first ProSlide RideHOUSE™ & The Time Capsule in North Lanarkshire, Scotland debuted Europe's first ProSlide TANTRUM™!
The brand-new ProSlide RideHOUSE™ multi-level family Ride 'n Play structure at Parque Recreativo Piscilago is packed with watery fun, tons of water cannons, active water sprays, and a High Volume Tipping Bucket covers everyone in it's path! The RideHOUSE™ at
Parque Recreativo Piscilago also features four exciting RideHOUSE™
versions of our award-winning slides. The two RideHOUSE
DECKtops™, RideHOUSE GangSlide™ & RideHOUSE Tunnel
TWISTER™ are huge hits with kids of all ages!
The Time Capsule in North Lanarkshire, Scotland has opened their brand-new expansion which includes the high-intensity ProSlide TANTRUM™! The first of its kind in Scotland! From the exhilaration of the high speed in-run, to the heights of the breathtaking funnel, to the 2-Man WhirlyWHEEL™ & 4-Man CLOVERleaf™ face-to-face tubing technology, everything about this ride literally screams family excitement!
To plan your trip to see the new ProSlide RideHOUSE™ at Parque Recreativo Piscilago, go to: www.parquepiscilago.com! Going to Scotland? Check out www.thetimecapsule.info to ride Scotland's only TANTRUM™ at The Time Capsule!
To find out more about the World's Best Water Rides visit ProSlide.com or contact a ProSlide Team Member now!
The ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY™ Wins the Best New Product Award at the
2010 IAAPA Show in Orlando, Florida!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 22, 2010 - We are proud to announce that at the 2010 IAAPA show in Orlando last week, ProSlide was awarded the Best New Product Award for the ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY! At ProSlide, our relentless dedication to new product development and innovation has led us to be the World Leader in Water Ride Innovation and the TOPSY-TURVY™ is a great example of this program! The variable speed TOPSY-TURVY™ takes a 20 second serpentine PIPEline™ and turns it into an amazing 35 to 40 second "SurpriseAdventure" Tubing Journey like no other! With multiple funnels, either open or enclosed, and back-to-back curves these one or two-man TopsyRIVER™ tubing rides are causing a paradigm shift in tubing rides for the future!
The ultimate thrills of Slow 'n Go tubing rides have made a comeback
and have made the TOPSY-TURVY the hottest new ride in 2010!
The all-new ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY™ has changed tubing rides forever! These high-capacity "SurpriseAdventure" tubing rides debuted at five waterparks in 2010 and are in high demand for 2011! SeaWorld Aquatica in Orlando/Florida, Great Wolf Lodge Kings Island in Mason/Ohio, Great Wolf Lodge Kansas City in Kansas City/Kansas, Adventure Bay at Adventureland in Altoona/Iowa and SplashTown at Darien Lake in Darien Center/New York all added their own custom TOPSY-TURVY™ complexes with multiple funnels and they were a huge hit! Watch for the arrival of at least six more TOPSY-TURVYS™ to make an appearance at leading waterparks around the World for the 2011 season!
Check out the TOPSY-TURVY™ on our ProSlide YouTube Channel
or get planning your trip to ride one in the 2011 season!
To find out more about the World's Best Water Rides visit ProSlide.com
or contact a ProSlide Team Member now!
Wildebeest Wins Two Golden Ticket Awards!
ProSlide makes it's Olympic debut at the Water Cube in Beijing, China!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 18, 2010 - On August 8th, the Water Cube in Beijing, China had it's Grand Opening to debut their brand-new indoor waterpark to the World! Featuring over 12 ProSlide Signature rides, the Olympic Water Cube is now open to the public and has been packed with over 4000 people a day!
In addition to the ProSlide TORNADO™, BulletBOWL™ & 2 PIPElines™, the brand-new ProSlide RideHOUSE™ multi-level kids play structure is packed with watery fun and is entertaining families for hours on end! Featuring tons of water cannons, active water sprays, and a High Volume Water Dump that covers everyone in it's path, the RideHOUSE™ at the Water Cube also features over 10 exciting RideHOUSE™ versions of our award-winning slides. The 2 RideHOUSE FireSlides™, 2 RideHOUSE DECKtops™, RideHOUSE MiniRiver™, RideHOUSE OctopusRACER™, RideHOUSE Tunnel TWISTER™, RideHOUSE TOPSY-TURVY™ & RideHOUSE KIDZ Racer™ are huge hits with kids of all ages!
The Water Cube in Beijing is the iconic building where Michael Phelps won his 8 Gold medals at the 2008 Olympics. The waterpark takes up about half of the 12,000-square-meter complex and is now the largest in Asia. The Olympic Water Cube also features a wave pool, lazy river, spa area and several restaurants.
To see the CNN story on the new waterpark at the Olympic Water Cube in Beijing, China
go to: CNN Story on Water Cube in Beijing
To find out more about the the brand-new ProSlide RideHOUSE™ and more of the World's Best Water Rides visit ProSlide.com or contact a ProSlide Team Member now!
Lost Island Goes MAGNETIC for their 10th Anniversary Season!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 21, 2010 - Lost Island Waterpark in Waterloo/Iowa is celebrating their 10th Anniversary season with the opening of a brand new water ride. "Wailua Kapua", which translates to purple Hawaiian river dragon, is the 990 foot-long ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ water coaster that is the longest ride addition in the tropical paradise-themed waterpark's history!! The HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ has all the attributes of a roller coaster but it's pure water excitement! Utilizing a combination of water lubrication, downhill and uphill gravity and ProSlide's proprietary HydroMAGNETIC™ technology, riders experience the "magnetic pull" of the ascent followed by the exhilarating speeds of the downhill drops and riders feel the "magic" of going uphill at top speed. No other company in the World uses this ground-breaking technology on Water Rides and ProSlide's HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ won the 2007 IAAPA Award for Best New Water Ride Product.
Wailua Kapua brings riders, seated in 4-person rafts, 40ft up to the top of the first hill before they experience the first drop and are then propelled up & down three more hills and around three closed-tunnel turns at speeds reaching up to 35ft per second! The HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ at Lost Island is also one of only two in the World with a ride-up conveyor, making the water coaster accessible to people who may have problems with traditional stairs.
Lost Island Waterpark also features the Award-Winning ProSlide TORNADO™ & Dark MAMMOTH™ as well as, the ProSlide OctopusRACER™, CannonBOWL™, PLUMMET™, 2 TWISTERS™, 3 PIPElines™ & KIDZ ProRACER™! To book your trip to ride Wailua Kapua & the rest of the ProSlide rides at Lost Island Waterpark, go to: www.thelostisland.com
To find out more about the ground-breaking HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ and more of the World's Best Water Rides
visit ProSlide.com or contact a ProSlide Team Member now!
ProSlide Welcomes Their Newest Team Member Mr. Lars Lenders- Amsterdam, The Netherlands
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 6, 2010 - ProSlide is proud to welcome the newest member to the ProSlide Team! Based out of Amsterdam, Lars will step into the role of Business Development Manager for ProSlide's overseas projects. Lars will join the Sales Team, with Rick Hunter, Jeff Janovich, Phil Hayles & Frank Good, to further develop the company's presence in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Having worked with both manufacturers in the theme park and waterpark industry, Lars will use the extensive experience he has gained from being in charge of leisure projects worldwide. "In fact, now that I have seen the various fields of leisure development, I look forward to combining this know-how in future waterpark projects", says Lenders.
Meet our newest team member at the upcoming IAAPA Asia Tradeshow in Kuala Lumpur from July 13th to the 16th!
To find out more about the World's Best Water Rides and our exciting new projects visit ProSlide.com or contact a ProSlide Team Member now!
SplashTown at Darien Lake Debuts the Hottest New Tubing Ride in the World!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 16, 2010 - Get ready to scream! SplashTown at Darien Lake opened their 2010 season with the debut of their new Swirl City Slide Complex featuring the brand-new ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY™- one of only two at outdoor waterparks in the World! The Swirl City TOPSY-TURVY™ takes riders through dark enclosed tubes and into three different funnels, two enclosed and one open, with exciting twists and a thrilling double spiral for an exhilarating ride experience from top to bottom! The TOPSY-TURVY™ starts with riders cruising through back-to-back radius curves before an unexpected drop into a funnel where they oscillate back & forth and then exit back into the enclosed tunnel and onto the next exciting curves & funnels! The "SurpriseAdventure" ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY™ is the Hottest New Tubing Ride in the World!
The Swirl City Slide Complex features three other ProSlide World-Class Water Rides that all leave from the same tower, offering a variety of ride experiences. From the award-winning ProSlide CannonBOWL™, (Cannon Ball Run) with its high-speed drop that plunges riders into a giant 40-foot wide BOWL™ for a rushing spin around and around, to the two ProSlide PIPElines™ (Turbo Twins) where riders snake and spiral through the giant slide complex in enclosed tubes, the Swirl City Slide Complex is almost like a complete water park in itself! The huge new complex delivers fast-paced swirling, whirling, sliding and spinning through open and enclosed sections of the most uniquely shaped funnels, bowl & serpentine slides in the industry!
To plan your trip to experience the ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY™ and the rest of Swirl City Slide Complex at SplashTown Darien Lake go to: www.godarienlake.com
See what it's like to ride the brand-new ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY™ by going to the ProSlide YouTube Channel
To find out more about the World's Best Water Rides and our exciting new projects visit ProSlide.com or contact a ProSlide Team Member now! Come & See Us at the Upcoming 2010 tradeshows!
The World's Longest Water Coaster is Now Open at Holiday World Splashin' Safari!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 9, 2010 - Can you tame the "Beest"? The brand-new ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™, aptly named the "Wildebeest", stretches a whopping 1710 feet making it the Longest Water Coaster in the World! The "Wildebeest" at Holiday World Splashin' Safari made its debut on May 7th to rave reviews. With its HydroMAGNETIC™ technology that propels riders uphill at top speed, to its breathtaking drops and turns, the "Wildebeest" has all the makings of a roller coaster. But be prepared to get WET!
Riders seated in 4-person rafts are brought to the top of the first hill before being dropped 38 feet at a 45-degree angle. Using a combination of water lubrication and ProSlide's proprietary HydroMAGNETIC™ technology, riders are then propelled up and down seven additional hills, through three tunnels and around a helix at exhilarating speeds, all while experiencing the "Magic" of the magnetic pull. No other company in the World uses this ground-breaking technology on Water Rides and ProSlide's HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ won the 2007 IAAPA Award for Best New Water Ride Product.
With 2 ½ splashing minutes of exhilirating hills, thrilling turns and high-speed twists, the ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ at Holiday World Splashin' Safari will have you hooked! To start planning your trip to tame the "Beest" go to HolidayWorld.com
See what it's like to ride the "Wildebeest" by going to the ProSlide YouTube Channel
To find out more about the World's Best Water Rides and our exciting new projects visit ProSlide.com or contact a ProSlide Team Member now! Come & see us at the upcoming 2010 tradeshows
ProSlide's Hottest New Water Ride Projects For 2010!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 11, 2010 - Get ready for a ProSlide Summer around the World! As the Industry Leader in Water Ride Innovation, we are proud to have over 20 new projects debuting this summer at some of the best Waterparks around the World! Check out these hot new projects that will open, or have already opened, for their 2010 operating seasons!
Adventure Island, Altoona/IA- ProSlide MACH 4™ (TOPSY-TURVY™, BulletBOWL™ & 2 PIPElines™), TantrumTWIST™, 6-Lane ProRACER™, & 2 PLUMMETS™
Alpensia Indoor Waterpark Resort, Pyeongchang/South Korea- ProSlide TORNADO™, PIPEline™ & TWISTER™
Beijing Water Cube, Beijing/China- ProSlide RideHOUSE™ SF-6 (with 12 specialty RideHOUSE™ slides!) , TORNADO™, BulletBOWL & PIPEline™
Darien Lake SplashTown, Buffalo/NY- ProSlide MACH 4™ (TOPSY-TURVY™, CannonBOWL™ & 2 PIPElines™)
Dollywood's Splash Country, Pigeon Forge/TN- ProSlide 4-Lane ProRACER™
Great Wolf Lodge, Kansas City/KS- (World's First Indoor!) ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY™
Great Wolf Lodge, Mason/OH- (World's First Indoor!) ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY™
Great Wolf Lodge, Poconos/PA- (World's First Indoor!) ProSlide TantrumALLEY™
Holiday World Splashin' Safari, Santa Claus/IN- (World's Longest!) ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™
Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells/WI- 3 ProSlide TWISTERS™
Leisurelink Aquatic Centre, Geelong/Australia- ProSlide CannonBOWL™ & PIPEline™
Lost Island, Waterloo/IA- ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™
Parque Recreativo Piscilago, Melgar/Colombia- ProSlide SF-3 RideHOUSE™ (with 4 specialty RideHOUSE™ slides!)
Raging Waters, San Dimas/CA- ProSlide TantrumTWIST™
SeaWorld Aquatica, Orlando/FL- (World's First) ProSlide TOPSY-TURVY™
Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, Jackson/NJ- ProSlide TORNADO™
SplashDown Beach, Fishkill/NY- ProSlide BulletBOWL™
SplashTown Waterpark, Houston/TX- ProSlide 6-Lane OctopusRACER™
The Time Capsule, North Lanarkshire/Scotland- ProSlide TANTRUM™
Whale's Tale Waterpark, Lincoln/NH- ProSlide SF-4 RideHOUSE™ (with 6 specialty RideHOUSE™ slides!)
WhiteWater World at Dreamworld, Coomera/Australia- (World's First!) ProSlide SuperLOOP™
Congratulations to all of our valued clients on your new ProSlide Water Ride Attractions and all the best in the 2010 operating season! We look forward to providing you with more of the World's Best Water Rides for your World-Class Waterparks!
WhiteWater World at Dreamworld to debut the World's First ProSlide SuperLOOP™,
the first looping water slide in Australia!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 1st, 2010 - Opening April 2nd! WhiteWater World at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast in Australia is set to debut the World's First ProSlide SuperLOOP™, the only looping water slide in Australia! From a dizzying 58 feet in the air riders climb into the launch capsule (ProSlide SkyBox™) positioned over the near vertical freefall drop, cross their ankles, put their hands behind their head and the countdown begins! The rush of adrenaline kicks in as the floor suddenly drops out and riders are propelled into the narrow 32" enclosed tunnel and instantly accelerate to a top speed of 38 ft per second. With powerful G-Forces that glue them to the side of the wall the entire way around the tight 360 degree SuperLOOP™, riders experience another quick drop before the watery runout brings them to a stop at the bottom. Remember to keep your ankles crossed the whole way down or you'll realize why Dreamworld called their SuperLOOP™ "The Wedgie"!!
The ProSlide SuperLOOP™ is the smartest looping water ride on the planet! Riders go from top to bottom in 8 seconds flat with no possibility of stopping in the middle! And like many of our other speed slides (ProSlide PLUMMET™) the ProSlide SuperLOOP™ has no weight restrictions so anyone over 48" inches can ride it! The ProSlide SuperLOOP™ is packed with excitement from top to bottom and will have riders coming back for more!
To see what its like to ride the World's First ProSlide SuperLOOP™, the World's Best Looping Water Ride, at Dreamworld go to our YouTube Channel: ProSlide YouTube Channel or to start planning your ProSlide SuperLOOP™ visit ProSlide.com or contact a ProSlide Team member now! Get planning your trip to get your own "Wedgie" at Dreamworld by visiting their website at: www.whitewaterworld.com.au or to check out their Facebook page on "The Wedgie" go to: Dreamworld Facebook Page.
Lost Island's New HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ is on Schedule for its 2010 Grand Opening!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2010 - With the debut of the newest ride attraction planned for its 2010 season, the construction at Lost Island in Waterloo/IA is right on schedule for their 10th anniversary opening in June! "Wailua Kapua", which translates to purple Hawaiian river dragon, is the 990 foot-long ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ water coaster that will be the longest ride addition in the waterpark's history! ProSlide crews having been working tirelessly to have the new blue & purple ride ready for the new season and have been challenged by the cold winter weather and the heavy Iowa winds. The ride which will be in the northwest part of the park, is tucked between three other rides so the Lost Island installation team has been working around those existing rides as the new Water Coaster gets put together, piece by piece!
The HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ has all the attributes of a roller coaster, but it's pure water excitement! Utilizing a combination of water lubrication, downhill and uphill gravity and ProSlide's proprietary HydroMAGNETIC™ technology, riders experience the "magnetic pull" of the ascent followed by the exhilarating speeds of the downhill drops and riders feel the "MAGIC" of going uphill at top speed. Lost Island will also have one of the first ride-up conveyors in the world! Instead of a series of stairs leading up to the beginning of the ride, riders will get in the 4-person boats at the bottom of the first hill and ride the conveyor up to the top before the first drops begin! Lost Island also features other award-winning ProSlide water rides like the ProSlide TORNADO™, the ProSlide CannonBOWL™, the ProSlide OctopusRACER™, the ProSlide Dark MAMMOTH™ and many others.To get planning your trip to Lost Island to ride the new Wailua Kapua visit www.thelostisland.com
To find out more about the Award-Winning ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ go to ProSlide.com now!
ProSlide wins Best New Water Ride Product Award at IAAPA!
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 - We are proud to announce that at the IAAPA 2009 show in Las Vegas last week, ProSlide was awarded the Best New Water Ride Product worldwide for the ProSlide TantrumTWIST™. With installations at both Splish Splash Waterpark in Riverhead/NY (pictured above) & Wet'n Wild Emerald Pointe in Greensboro/NC, the TantrumTWIST™ is taking the industry by storm! The new ProSlide "TantrumTWIST™" is like no other on the planet! Groups of 2 to 4 riders plunge into a 10' diameter dark tunnel and quickly accelerate through the 450˚ vortex tunnel before being launched into the Tantrum 26' enclosed funnel. They are then propelled vertically up the opposite wall and experience momentary weightlessness before accelerating down and back up the opposite wall for a second vertical weightless sensation, finishing off with a second 270˚ accelerating vortex before finally catching their breath in the landing pool below. The TantrumTWIST™ has a great beginning, great middle and great ending for a non-stop, "seat-of-your-pants" thrill your guests will want to experience again and again. Look for new TantrumTWIST™ installations to debut at waterparks in 2010! To find out more about our 10 other TANTRUM™ installations worldwide and get planning your newest ProSlide Ride, visit ProSlide.com now! |
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ProSlide RideHOUSE™ "Ride 'n Play System" will make its debut at the Olympic Watercube in
Beijing, China in 2010!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 30, 2009 - ProSlide goes Olympic! In 2010 ProSlide will introduce its latest innovation, the ProSlide RideHOUSE™, an all-new experience in family water play structures that will take the industry by storm! The ProSlide RideHOUSE™ is the new "ActiveWaterPlay" Structure for kids of all ages that features tons of water cannons, active water sprays, and RideHOUSE™ versions of many of the ProSlide award-winning rides never found on a multi-level water play structure before. The RideHOUSE TOPSY-TURVY™, RideHOUSE OctopusRACER™, & RideHOUSE FireSlides™ will have kids of all ages screaming for more and will entertain families for hours on end!
The ProSlide RideHOUSE™ multi-level "Ride 'n Play System" will make its debut at one of the most recognizable buildings in the World. The same building that Michael Phelps won his 8 Olympic medals in 2008! The Olympic Watercube in Beijing, China! The Watercube is adding a very large indoor waterpark that will be packed full of the Hottest Water Rides on the Planet from ProSlide! The RideHOUSE™ at Watercube will also feature an enormous High Volume, High Speed Water Dump that will soak everyone in its path! In addition to the ProSlide RideHOUSE™, the Beijing Watercube will also feature our award-winning TORNADO™, the hottest-selling water ride on the planet, the ProSlide BulletBOWL™, as well as 12 other ProSlide "Specialty RideHOUSE™" water rides sure to make this facility a world-leader in indoor waterparks.
The Beijing Watercube is scheduled to open in June 2010 so get set to experience an Olympic adventure for yourself!
With another new RideHOUSE™ "ActiveWaterPlay" Structure already scheduled to open in 2010 and more to come, this is sure to be the hottest new family attraction in the industry! To get planning your ProSlide RideHOUSE™ visit ProSlide.com now!
Holiday World & Splashin' Safari Announces New Proslide Hydromagnetic Rocket™ For 2010!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 13, 2009 - Holiday World & Splashin' Safari announces their new record-breaking $5.5 million ride, the second largest ride investment in the theme park's 63-year history. Splashin' Safari will open their 2010 season with a ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™, the world's longest at over 1,710 feet long! "We're calling our huge new water coaster Wildebeest," says park president Will Koch. "And when we say it's long, we really mean it. Wildebeest is one-third of a mile long and it will thrill riders for two-and-a-half splashing minutes of hills, drops, twists and turns."
Riders seated in 4-person rafts are brought to the top of the first hill before dropping them 38 feet down at a 45-degree angle. Using a combination of water lubrication, downhill & uphill gravity and ProSlide's proprietary HydroMAGNETIC™ technology, riders will then be propelled up seven additional hills, through three tunnels and around a helix at exhilarating speeds, all while experiencing the "magic" of the magnetic pull.
Linear induction motors (LIMs) make it all possible by utilizing alternating magnetic fields beneath the slide surface that first attracts and then instantly repels the rafts, pushing them rapidly and smoothly uphill. ProSlide is the only company in the world to use this ground breaking technology on water rides and has won numerous awards including the IAAPA Best New Product Award in 2007.
Holiday World & Splashin' Safari will have the first HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ with a ride-up conveyor which replaces any stairs, making the water coaster accessible to riders who might have difficulty walking up stairs. Wildebeest's tallest elevation is 64 feet higher than its lowest drop; its top speed will hit 36 feet per second.
For more information on the "magic" of the HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™ and to find out where else
you can ride it, visit:
www.proslide.com
For Holiday World & Splashin' Safari's Press Release and to experience the virtual Wildebeest Ride Animation Video for yourself visit the parks' website at:
www.holidayworld.com/rides/wildebeest
Introducing the TantrumTWIST™!
April 9, 2009
 ProSlide, the ones who have brought you all of the "hottest" water rides in the industry over the last 20 years such as the TORNADO™, the BehemothBOWL™, the OctopusRACER™, the HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™, the MAMMOTH™ and many more, are pleased to introduce the latest new ride innovation for 2009, the "TantrumTWIST™".
The new ProSlide "TantrumTWIST™" is like no other on the planet! Groups of 2 to 4 riders plunge into a 10' diameter dark tunnel and quickly accelerate through the 450˚ vortex tunnel before being launched into the Tantrum 24' enclosed funnel. They are then propelled vertically up the opposite wall and experience momentary weightlessness before accelerating down and back up the opposite wall for a second vertical weightless sensation, finishing off with a second 270˚ accelerating vortex before finally catching their breath in the landing pool below. The "TantrumTWIST™" has a great beginning, great middle and great ending for a non-stop, "seat-of-your-pants" thrill your guests will want to experience again and again. For those parks looking for a very cost effective and a very unique looking ride attraction with huge capacity and huge rider appeal, look no further than the new ProSlide "TantrumTWIST™". Like many of the Award-Winning ProSlide Ride innovations that preceded it, the "TantrumTWIST™" is destined to become another #1 World-Leading ride attraction for waterparks everywhere. The World's first "TantrumTWIST™" rides will make their big splash this spring at Splish Splash Water Park in Riverhead, New York and Wet'n Wild Emerald Pointe in Greensboro, North Carolina as "Dr. Von Dark's Tunnel of Terror"!!!!! Be a leader and add this exciting new ride attraction to your ride mix too. To see how easily the new "TantrumTWIST™" can be integrated into your waterpark plan, contact the ProSlide Sales Team at 613-526-5522. |
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Siam Park is the Newest and Most Exciting Water Park in Europe!
February 3, 2009
| Siam Park is the newest and most exciting water park in Europe! Set in the stunning surroundings of the Canary Islands in Tenerife, Spain, Siam Park is the largest waterpark in Europe with over 30 acres of specially themed rides, pools & rivers. With 3 years in the making, this dynamic & thrilling waterpark is set into the side of a volcanic mountain overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and is complimented by the ancient Thailand theming throughout. Packed with excitement and adrenalin pumping rides like the “Tower of Power” (ProSlide’s Plummet™) that drops riders 91ft straight down and through an alligator tank and the daring “Dragon” (ProSlide’s award-winning Tornado™) that defies gravity 4-riders at a time, Siam Park has a thrill for everyone. Other signature rides include the “Naga Racer” (ProSlide ProRacer™), a head first 6-lane race to the bottom of the mountain, and the “Jungle Snakes” (ProSlide Pipelines™) that have riders in 2-person tubes winding their way down four different mountain slides at top speeds. Working with the natural surroundings & preserving the history and culture of Tenerife was very important to owner Christoph Kiessling and ProSlide. Portions of the mountain were literally carved away to allow the rides to blend into the hillside and the spectacular landscaping was allowed to flourish naturally around them. Mount Teide, an extinct volcano that stands 12,198 feet (3718 meters) high, was key in the design and building of the entire park and each ride complex uses the natural elevation of the mountain for starting point entry and had no requirement for structural towers of any kind. “The entire ProSlide team is extremely pleased and very proud to be involved with such an important waterpark like Siam Park. The bar in world-class waterparks has just been reset!” stated Rick Hunter, President & CEO of ProSlide Technology inc. This world class park is truly a work of art and guests can enjoy some of the most breath-taking water rides ever created by man. Visit www.siampark.net to learn more. |
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IN THE NEWS! Holiday World's Wildebeest Proves to be a Huge Hit - HydroMAGNETIC ROCKET™
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