HOLIDAY WORLD & Splashin’ Safari Santa Claus, Indiana (Abbreviation: HW)
Park News - (1/27/10) Holiday World has posted a new piece of artwork showing off the colors that have been chosen for the new Timberliner trains coming to The Voyage this season. (11/10/09) Holiday World has confirmed that the first set of Timberliner trains from The Gravity Group will be added to run on The Voyage in 2010. In addition to this new train design built to allow for a more smooth and extreme ride on The Voyage, they were also designed to put less wear and tear on the track. Even better, the padded seats have been ergonomicially designed for greater comfort as well as being designed to accommodate riders with wider hips and longer legs! Two new 28 passenger trains, will be made in Indianapolis and should be ready to roll when the park opens in the spring. You can see the artwork showing off the new train design at the HoliBlog. (10/12/09) Now that the final weekend of the season at Holiday World has come to a close, they have reported that they finished their 63rd season with an all time record attendance high of 1,039,359 guests. This is also the fourth season in a row that the park has had over 1 million guests. (9/8/09) The former Pilgrims Plunge construction cam has now been moved to cover the construction of Wildebeest.
2010 - Wildebeest - Confirmed - (1/4/10) Check out this awesome new construction picture of Wildebeest here! I think you’ll agree, this certainly does look quite a bit like the world’s best waterslide. (11/10/09) Holiday World will be the setting for an episode of World’s Toughest Fixes on the National Geographic channel as they come to shoot some footage in the park during the construction of Wildebeest and more. (10/20/09) Holiday World posted some new Wildebeest construction pictures on their Facebook page the other day. (8/14/09) As rumored, Holiday World announced the addition of a
new ProSlide HydroMagnetic Rockit slide. However, this is no run of the mill ordinary slide... the Wildebeest is the world’s longest water coaster slide, one third of a mile in length. The slide is so long it will take riders 2.5 minutes to experience it all. One look at the layout and I think I know where Will got the idea... I think he stayed up late playing with the Soaked expansion on Roller Coaster Tycoon a bit too much, because it’s crazy looking. It had to have been one of those, “Let see how long of a slide I can really make...” kind of nights. Wildebeest looks to feature separate load and unloading areas, a lift hill and more drops than you’ve ever seen on a waterslide before... including some that drop below ground level into tunnels. The rafts are huge as well, holding up to four riders at once... and all without having to climb 40 floors of stairs! Very impressive! Check out the official site for some artwork right now or go for a virtual spin on the video’s we’ve embedded below!
(8/10/09) Did Holiday World just slip us another ProSlide hint in their lastest HoliBlog update? If you check out the “Will reveals a sweet secret” entry it talks a bit about him sneaking cookies in a paper bag labeled “Apples”. Now forget all the text here... scroll down a bit to the last picture where we see the actual cookie and look what it’s sitting on top of. Down in the lower left corner of the photo you can clearly see a ProSlide logo through the plastic wrap. Mmmm.... a sweet secret indeed Will!
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