USA: “New Edge” Water Coaster Provides Even More Fun & Thrills at Soaky Mountain Waterpark
Courtesy of Soaky Mountain
Visitors to the Soaky Mountain waterpark (in Sevierville, Tennessee) can now experience even more splashing water fun, provided by the new and recently opened “New Edge” water coaster. The world’s first “Duelling Master Blaster” from Canadian manufacturer WhiteWater West with “Boomerango” elements (one per Master Blaster), which was announced at the end of last year as this season’s novelty (c.f. EAP News of 11 Nov 2021), challenges guests to a fast-paced sliding race. Two guests (with a body height of at least one meter) can use a raft boat together to compete with the “opposing” team on the parallel Water Coaster track. Right at the start of the slide adventure, the three-story (almost ten-meter) high mega drop awaits the sliders, followed by downhill and uphill sections of the slide, which – as already reported – feature open and closed slide segments, the latter ones designed with AquaLucent rings.
“Riders are sure to be mesmerized by the coaster’s AquaLucent (colorful circles) designed into the tube segments. The distance between the rings will get closer and closer, giving riders an appearance of acceleration before they are surprised to see their competitors again as they are dropped into another heart-pounding drop,” describes Dave Andrews, General Manager of Soaky Mountain waterpark, the experience and adds, “The Boomerango is loved the world over, but our guests will be treated to a very special version of it that has never done before. Our Boomerango walls are being designed to make the riders feel like they are going off ‘The Edge’ of the coaster. […]” (eap)
