There are still Schlitterbahns open in the United States, but this Kansas City, Kansas Schlitterbahn has ended operations due to safety violations. This park is really interesting because it operated for only 9 years, from 2009 to 2018. Additionally, it was world-famous for having the world's largest water slide, the Verruckt, which tragically caused a decapitation in 2016.
Here's a video on the Verruckt ride. Coincidentally but creepily, this video was uploaded only a month before the decapitation would lead the water ride to close.
Does anyone else live in this area and know why it smells like all the forgotten Easter eggs throughout time? Been going on for almost a month now and we can't get an answer from the office.
I just completed these quick offers from Discover.
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I signed up for info about park season passes. I only needed to provide name/email, no confirmation. The offer is for 50SB each for the Schlitterbahn and Dorney Park info. They must be under the same mailing list because I couldn't sign up for both with the same email address. However, I just used two different emails and it seemed to work fine.
Both went to pending immediately.
Edit: Thanks to everyone below noting that there are actually 2 Schlitterbahns, so a total of 150SB for all 3!
I Think Jake would enjoy Researching and doing a video on this epic fall in Corpus Christi, Texas History.
The last few years saw Cedar Fair purge all of their freestanding water parks that were not attached to a theme park from their portfolio. Then last year they acquired two of the Schlitterbahn water parks in Texas. The odd part is, none of these water parks have any real room for expansion but they do have some rather unique features such as the retractable roof which are not found anywhere else. They also operate as resorts, so the only real option moving forward that I can see is to expand the resort offering and maybe getting a tornado water slide.
Does anybody have more info on the Pizza time players at schlitterBahn
Either as a guest or an employee? What's it like? My family is supposed to take a trip there in two weeks and we're concerned about it not being safe enough. How crowded is it, are people staying socially distant, are the kids areas packed, etc.?
I read that Cedar Fair had an option to buy Schlitterbahn Kansas City for $6 million but I think it said they only had 120 days to exercise the option, and that was back in July, did it go ahead or fall through? I can't find any new information. I am hoping it doesn't get sold to the Oceans of Fun people, their prices are astronomical. No way I can take my kids there for less than $300, too much for one day at a water park. Man I used to love Schlitterbahn. I bought the season pass to take the kids but found myself there often even on weekends when I didn't have the kids. Lining up three jack and Cokes at the swim up bar. Getting on the tube and floating around and around and around that lazy river, staring up into that hot cloudless Kansas sky. God damnit come back summer.
i have just finished reading the 48 page inditement regarding the arrests in the upper management of schlitterbahn, and let me just say... wow. there is some pretty damning stuff in there. to save y'all the trouble of having to read it, here's some of the major issues:
-multiple concussions and serious injures were reported from the rafts going too high and were covered up by upper management
-medical staff and lifeguards were coached by management on how to cover up these reports and keep the families out of the loop
-the ride was designed by two people with no design background or accreditation
-rafts were seen flying off the ride days before opening and nothing was done to try and prevent them from doing so
-emergency maintenance was needed on the brakes just 10 days before the decapitation, but management decided to hold off on it so that way it'd be open during the summer
-there was no maintenance manual so maintenance staff simply looked for whatever issues they could find and tried to solve them to the best of their ability with duct tape
-the rafts had missing pieces of safety equipment that were never replaced
-there was a history of "raft B" (the raft that Caleb was riding in) flying up too fast that one time resulted in someone's head skimming the top of the metal bars
-the designers knew that there was serious risk of someone flying off, and instead of redesigning the ride for a 3rd time, they simply placed the metal bars above hoping that it would cause less injury than someone flying off and falling 90ft
-the water jets that accelerate it up the 2nd hill were designed to push the same amount of pressure regardless of raft weight, meaning that a raft weighing 550 pounds was pushed with the same force as a raft weighing 400 pounds. this would have caused a raft weighing 350 pounds to shoot up into the metal bars which caused said tragic accident
-safety sensors were covered with rubber bands instead of being repaired
this news article is on the front page of every single news station in america, and the inditement has been throughly analyzed from multiple people that i know. i have to say, it was pretty shocking to read about such a massive coverup from what i thought was a family-owned, maintenance and safety heavy company that just loved crazy waterslides. so the real question is, what will happen to the chain?? will they sell off schlitterbahn kansas city?? will more people upper management be charged?? will they have to rebra
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