Whitewater World Wedgie Water Slide

[Ashley]

Something what I have been curious about is WWWs Wedgie water slide was its name given just for the hell of it or do people who ride it do really get a wedgie on it, what DW uses to promote it on there website is Get Wedged on the Wedgie.

[Reanimated35]

That was their whole marketing angle when it launches and still is their marketing? The videos and stuff showed people picking their butts after the ride. 

[Theme Park Girl]

Definitely a side effect of the slide. I usually set up camp nearby (on the right side of the wave pool) and regularly witness riders pulling their ridden up shorts out of their butts after they get out ?

[coasterdude44]

The marketing lied too, it said it was going to be a looping waterslide. It isn't.

Edited April 18, 2016 by coasterdude44

[XxMrYoshixX]

7 hours ago, Ashley said:

Something what I have been curious about is WWWs Wedgie water slide was its name given just for the hell of it or do people who ride it do really get a wedgie on it, what DW uses to promote it on there website is Get Wedged on the Wedgie.

People don't get wedgies on it, but it's really fucking painful like a wedgie is.

[themagician]

1 hour ago, coasterdude44 said:

The marketing lied too, it said it was going to be a looping waterslide. It isn't.

It's a sideways looping waterslide.

[Theme Park Girl]

1 hour ago, coasterdude44 said:

The marketing lied too, it said it was going to be a looping waterslide. It isn't.

You mean a vertical one? Haha, if only... but gravity says no  

[Reanimated35]

7 minutes ago, OceanGirl said:

You mean a vertical one? Haha, if only... but gravity says no  

Oh ye of little faith...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-s-action-park-return-vertically-looping-waterslide-article-1.2143369

[XxMrYoshixX]

36 minutes ago, reanimated35 said:

Oh ye of little faith...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-s-action-park-return-vertically-looping-waterslide-article-1.2143369

I thought they built one in the 80's that was closed for safety reasons?

[Reanimated35]

10 minutes ago, XxMrYoshixX said:

I thought they built one in the 80's that was closed for safety reasons?

And another perfect example of why click bait works so well - people don't bother to read the articles. 

Quote

For a brief moment New Jersey's Action Park resort boasted the world's first vertically looping waterslide before a series of injuries and accidents abruptly shut it down.

Now plans are underway to bring it back

 

For those of you playing along at home, that's the opening paragraph to the article. 

[coasterdude44]

When it said 360 looping, I though they meant it was going to be like aqua loop at wet n wild

[joz]

If memory serves correctly they, did too until Wet 'n' Wild wouldn't let White Water West sell them one

[Tim Dasco]

^ Yup that was what I believed also. I don't think White Water West cared because they got 4 from Wet 'N' Wild.

[bladex]

no way in hell will i ever ride this thing. everytime we go there i get called a chicken and i say yeah well watch a few of the guys after they have ridden it i swear i almost saw 1 guy cry!

Edited April 18, 2016 by bladex

[Santa07]

It's not even scary... aqualoop is much worse.

[themagician]

Agreed. First time I went on Aqualoop I was shaking as I went up the stairs, and then waiting in the shoot, my heart was pounding. I went on the Wedgie for the first time, after I'd ridden Aqualoop many times. But Aqualoop still gets my heart pounding, Wedgie, not so much, but still has a level of thrill to it.

[XxMrYoshixX]

1 hour ago, Santa07 said:

It's not even scary... aqualoop is much worse.

While Aqualoop is definitely scarier, you do get a mat on your back unlike the Wedgie, so the only scary thing about the Wedgie is the pain that comes with it. Both times I went on it I got bruises (and the second time a splinter) on my back. If DW included those back mats found on Aqualoop, it would be a lot more tolerable!

[Santa07]

Very true, but it would mean they'd have to build a queue at the bottom of the tower which would be a pain

[Theme Park Girl]

17 hours ago, reanimated35 said:

For those of you playing along at home, that's the opening paragraph to the article. 

Haha, I stand by my original comment ??

[New display name]

3 hours ago, XxMrYoshixX said:

Both times I went on it I got bruises (and the second time a splinter) on my back.

It's not made of wood is it?

[coasterdude44]

30 minutes ago, skeetafly said:

It's not made of wood is it?

Ow