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📅 Slide history🇺🇸 🇨🇳2007

Magnets and China

Deluge, the first magnet water coaster, opened in Kentucky. Chimelong Water Park opened in China and soon became the busiest in the world.Deluge, the first hydromagnetic coaster, opens at Kentucky Kingdom; Chimelong Water Park opens in Guangzhou and soon becomes the world's busiest.

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🇺🇸 Kentucky Kingdom & Hurricane Bay

Deluge

The first water coaster pushed by magnets instead of jets.The first magnetic-launch water coaster (ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC Rocket): 57 ft tall, 890 ft long, four-person tubes.

🧭Before and after

2004

Tropical Islands

A rainforest water park opened inside a giant airship hangar.Germany's giant hangar park opens; ProSlide's raft bowl debuts at Golfland-Sunsplash.
2008

Loop the loop

The first AquaLoop opened.Action Park builds its vertical loop; it runs for about a month in 1985 before regulators shut it.

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