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📅 Slide history🇨🇳 🇩🇪2018

The wheel and the goggles

The first SlideWheel opened in China and the first VR slide opened in Germany.The SlideWheel opens at Chimelong on 1 April; the first VR slide opens at Galaxy Erding in July; Atlantis Sanya opens; Verrückt is dismantled in November.

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🇨🇳 Chimelong Water Park

SlideWheel (Chimelong)

The first spinning-wheel slide ever, opened on 1 April 2018.The world's first rotating water slide, opened 1 April 2018 by wiegand.
🇩🇪 Therme Erding & Galaxy

Space Glider (VR slide)

The first slide in the world where you wear virtual-reality goggles as you ride.Ballast VR's VRSlide launched on the 160 m Space Glider at Galaxy Erding in July 2018, with waterproof headsets synced by ultrasound and accelerometers.

🧭Before and after

2017

Volcano Bay

Universal opened a park around a volcano.Universal's park opens 25 May on the Wet 'n Wild site; Kansas tightens its ride law on 1 July.
2019

The longest slide

ESCAPE's 1,111-metre jungle slide opened.Herbert Sellner of Faribault, Minnesota, builds a 30 ft-high, 100 ft wooden track that skims riders on wooden toboggans across a lake at 50 cents a ride.

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