Six Flags Over Texas has come up with a novel way to beat the heat and activate the part of your brain that makes you think you're gonna die so you can scream your guts out at the same time.
looks like a simple ride. Two carts can hold up to 20 people at once and runs on a single straight track with no turns. A large turn table puts each cart on the track and launches backwards up a 90-degree angle track. Then the cart speeds forward towards another vertical track that sends the cart speeding backwards towards the very end of the 90-degree track at speeds as high as 63 mph.
"It's a giant ride that has a lot of surprises in it," says Chris Ozimek, the regional marketing director for Six Flags Over Texas."It goes backwards and forwards and every time you go in another direction, it goes faster and faster." Six Flags Over Texas will open the first launching water coaster in North America on Saturday with its newest ride Aquaman: Power Wave.Then right after the final 90-degree drop, the cart drives over a large pool of water one last time except before the final drop, the water level is raised creating a massive tidal wave soaking the riders and anyone standing in the splash zone.
. MACK Rides built the first version of its PowerSplash coaster in 2016 with the opening of Pulsar in the Walibi Belgium theme park.in 2019 and started construction the same year but the project was delayed the following year because of the coronavirus pandemic that closed the park to the public for nearly four months. Crew finished construction on theride in August of 2022 but park officials delayed the opening to this Saturday to coincide with the start of spring break.
"COVID hit us in 2020 and really slowed us down with supply chain issues and labor issues," Ozimek says."Once we got to 2021, we decided to redesign the ride because it was designed with only one boat at a time. Now we have two boats that load on a turn table."that brings back to the park's Halloween attraction starting at 9 pm on Saturday.
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