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Old 06-24-2014, 06:29 PM  
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Verrückt, world’s tallest water slide, opens Sunday


What will it feel like, this Verrückt? We’re just a few days from finding out.

Schlitterbahn in Kansas City, Kan., will open its world-record-holding water slide to the public on Sunday.

There’s the Niagara-Falls-barrel-plunge analogy — Verrückt’s height at 168 feet, 7 inches is about right — although many of us probably haven’t done that either.

While Verrückt’s opening, originally scheduled for May 23, was delayed for adjustments a couple times, the hype over it seems to have gotten even hypier. USA Today debuted a countdown Monday. The promotional video (see below) of the ride has more than 4.8 million views. The park said the opening this weekend coincides with a one-hour Travel Channel special on “Xtreme Waterparks.”

The Guinness Book of World Records has declared Verrückt — German for “insane” — the world’s tallest water slide. It edged out the Kilimanjaro slide in Rio de Janeiro by several feet. To get to the top, riders will climb 264 steps. That’s about 17 stories.

On the way to the bottom, the four-person raft is expected to reach speeds of 60 to 70 mph in a seriously vertical plummet.

Then, after the big plunge, there is a five-story hump to fly over, so to speak. But not to worry: The hump features a protective net, just in case.
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Old 06-26-2014, 05:02 AM   #76
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Schlitterbahn Kansas City Waterpark has canceled the media rides for its world's tallest water slide that were previously scheduled for Thursday and Friday.

Verruckt opening delayed until end of June

As work continues on the world's tallest water slide, the opening is now scheduled to be at the end of June.

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According to Layne Pitcher, the park's director of marketing and sales, the conveyer system that pulls the rafts up Verruckt's slide was experiencing some problems. They were working on it and say it's now functioning properly, but they want to continue to do more testing.

Pitcher said they hope to reschedule the media rides at some point, but had no idea when that would be.

Despite the media rides cancellation, Pitcher said the waterpark still anticipates Verruckt opening to the public on Sunday when the park opens at 10 a.m.

Chopper5 was over Schlitterbahn Wednesday afternoon when two rafts were launch. The first raft navigated the first slide but couldn't make it up the first hill. Instead, the raft went backwards in the spray of the water. The second raft successfully navigated the rides.

No one was on board either ride.

Sources tell KCTV5 that riders have been down Verruckt successfully during overnight hours when testing has occurred.

Doug Flora of Haas & Wilkerson was expected to be among the first to ride Verruckt when it opened for the media and others.

While he's disappointed by the cancellation, he knows Schlitterbahn is doing everything it can to protect riders.

"I feel very comfortable that this will be a nice safe ride for me and also for the community," Flora said.

Verruckt's opening has been delayed multiple times. Schlitterbahn had been scheduled originally to debut the 17-story slide when the park opened for the 2014 season on May 23. But after officials said the slide was "not behaving properly" the opening was delayed until June 5. They then announced the opening would be June 29, which is also the same day that the Travel Channel will debut a special on the building of Verruckt.
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Old 06-26-2014, 05:38 AM   #77
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Old 06-26-2014, 07:43 AM   #78
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This may become the next ride in Springfield on the the simpsons.

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Escalator_to_Nowhere

The Escalator to Nowhere is an escalator that leads to nowhere located near the Springfield Monorail, 50 Foot Magnifying Glass and the Popsicle Stick Skyscraper.

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No offense to KC, because I loved living there. But why KC?

Thought it would be better utilized in a city that could open it all year.
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I'm not going on it until they landscape around that thing. No way I'm spending an hour waiting up there for such a crappy view.
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Old 06-26-2014, 09:27 AM   #80
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Considering it was built with scab/illegal labor imported from Texas, I'm assuming the worst.
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Considering it was built with scab/illegal labor imported from Texas, I'm assuming the worst.
We were on a horrifyingly tall water slide in CA, and the stairs were wobbling. I was already uncomfortable and my friend just goes, "The best part is that this was built by the lowest bidder."

Nightmares for weeks.
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The net goes all the way down... this changes everything

http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/...-down-verruckt

the video on kshb makes it look kinda slow
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http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/...-down-verruckt

the video on kshb makes it look kinda slow
Nah, you'll end up on State Ave or I70 after you launch off that first hump, if you don't fall over the edge and die before you get there.
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Considering it was built with scab/illegal labor imported from Texas, I'm assuming the worst.
So just because something was built with union labor over non union automatically makes it better quality????
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http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/...-down-verruckt

the video on kshb makes it look kinda slow
That uphill part reminds me of Masterblaster in the original park in in New Braunfels. Tx. It feels faster while you are going up the hill getting blasted by the water flow.
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So just because something was built with union labor over non union automatically makes it better quality????
Schlitterbahn cut all sorts of corners, man, in the construction of that park, and also backed out of some of the agreements it made with the county to get the permits and clearance to build the park.

It's not just about using non-union labor that concerns me. It's that they cut corners at every single turn (and were sued over some of those moves).

One of the ways they did that was by bringing in construction crews from Texas that were non-union and highly suspected of being filled with illegal labor.

There are non-union shops in the KC area (Crossland Construction, for example) that could have been employed on the job. At least then you're dealing with locals who are documented on the job site.
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