ProSlide Technology

ProSlide Technology
Industry Manufacturing
Founded 1986
Founder Richard D. Hunter
Headquarters Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Area served
Worldwide
Products Water slides
Website www.proslide.com

ProSlide Technology is a Canadian manufacturer of water rides and water park resorts. They manufacture both traditional slides and innovative rides such as water coasters with conveyor belts, funnel-shaped Tornado slides, and Bowl slides. More recently, they have received some additional attention for being the first water slide manufacturer to build a water slide that is launched with the aid of linear induction motors.

History

Coming from a background of alpine ski racing, Richard D. Hunter founded ProSlide Technology Inc. in 1986. As of 2013, Hunter still serves as ProSlide's President and CEO; he is responsible for designing many of the products that ProSlide offers, including the Tornado, HydroMAGNETIC, CannonBowl, and Behemoth Bowl.[1] ProSlide maintains a continuous ProSlide Product Development Program with the goal of allowing their clients to continue adding new ProSlide products to their water parks each year.[2]

During the early 2000s, ProSlide has manufactured the majority of the water park industry's award-winning rides. For example, in 2005, three of the top five Golden Ticket Award winners for Best New Ride for 2005 (Water Park) were rides manufactured by ProSlide.[3] The Black Anaconda at Noah's Ark Water Park, which placed first, was a ProSlide Rocket; the third-place Typhoon at Six Flags New England and the fifth-place Funnel of Fear at Michigan's Adventure were ProSlide Tornados.[3] ProSlide also had two of the top three winners for Best Waterpark Ride in 2004, 2005 and 2006, with Holiday World and Splashin' Safari's Zinga (ProSlide Tornado) and Zoombabwe (ProSlide Mammoth) coming in second and third, respectively; Master Blaster, a water coaster at Schlitterbahn New Braunfels made by NBGS International, won the award.[3][4][5]

Current products

ProSlide debuted three types of water slides in 1987, which they continue to make today: Twisters, Kidz, and Plummets, which are all types of body flumes. In 1989, the first ProSlides using inner tubes opened (Pipeline). More recently, they have built 4-person family slides (Mammoths), funnel-shaped slides (Tornados), bowl-shaped slides (Bowls), and uphill water coasters (Rockets).

Aerial view of the Tornado at Darien Lake.
The Super Tubes Hydrocoaster (a LIM-powered ProSlide Rocket) and The Green Room (a ProSlide Tornado) at WhiteWater World.

Golden Ticket Award winners

References

  1. "ProSlide". Company. Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 15 December 2006.
  2. "ProSlide". Mission Statement. Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 15 December 2006.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "2005 Golden Ticket Awards" (PDF). Amusement Today. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2006. Retrieved 14 December 2006.
  4. "Amusement Today" (PDF). 2004 Golden Ticket Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2006. Retrieved 14 December 2006.
  5. "Amusement Today" (PDF). 2006 Golden Ticket Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2006. Retrieved 14 December 2006.
  6. 1 2 3 "ProSlide". Twister Installations. Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  7. "ProSlide". Plummet Installations. Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  8. "ProSlide". Kidz Installations. Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  9. 1 2 "ProSlide". Pipeline Installations. Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  10. 1 2 "ProSlide". Racer Installations. Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  11. "Kings Island". Boomerang Bay. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  12. 1 2 3 "ProSlide". Mammoth Installations. Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  13. 1 2 "ProSlide". CannonBOWLS. Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  14. "ProSlide". BehemothBOWLS. Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  15. "ProSlide". Tornado Installations. Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  16. 1 2 "ProSlide". Rocket Installations. Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  17. "New water park brings slide innovation", retrieved January 21, 2006
  18. "Kentucky Kingdom and Hurricane Bay". Splashwater Kingdom is bigger, better and wetter!. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  19. http://www.holidayworld.com/news/expansion-for-2010
  20. Roseboom, Matt (August 3, 2011). "Out of the Loop: Holiday World announces longest water coaster (again)". Attractions Magazine. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
  21. "Amusement Today" (PDF). 2003 Golden Ticket Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2006. Retrieved 14 December 2006.
  22. http://web.archive.org/web/20110429013829/http://www.goldenticketawards.com/gta2011.html
  23. "2010 Golden Ticket Awards The Best of the Best!". Golden Ticket Awards. Archived from the original on 2011-04-29. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
  24. http://www.goldenticketawards.com/pdfs/2011_golden_ticket_section.pdf
  25. "GTA 2012" (PDF). Amusement Today. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  26. Baldwin, Tim (2013). "Amusement Today — Golden Ticket Winners 2013" (PDF). Amusement Today. Retrieved July 22, 2014.

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