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In 2004, the slide was redesigned and the entrance to the funnel changed to the current configuration. This lead to concerns about the height that the rafts reached and for the first season, it mostly used standard single passenger tubes. The design itself was more aggressive, as it featured a straight steep drop from the platform directly into the funnel. It was shoe horned into a compact location between a Chance Flying Bobs dry ride and a 4 slides tower and it replaced the water park old entrance. Tornado at Six Flags New England (Agawam, MA) was the headlining attraction of the revamped Hurricane Harbor that debuted that year. The funnel is built on a hill side and when the raft leaves the platform, it drops a little, turn right and drop right into the Funnel. It is much simpler and is behind the funnel. High Anxiety at Action Park (Vernon, NJ) features the same funnel, but the slide portion before is different. Picture of Zinga at Holiday World in the background.įlex provided us with this picture of Zinga at Holiday World. In 2004, Holiday World added a conveyor belt to take the rafts up to the platform from the splash pool this is a feature Cedar Fair and Kings Island adopted for their Tornado slide installations. Zinga features a 270 degrees helix after leaving the launch platform and then, it dives down into the funnel. Plus, the access platform is placed strategically in front of the funnel, so that people can see the rafts when they freefall down. The half pipe would have the top enclosed and the slide would become a 60 feet tall funnel that lay on its side. So, Zinga was about to start construction when in January 2003, Proslide approached the park and proposed a design modification. Those are exclusively fabricated for Proslide by Ztec Inc. Using a cloverleaf design, those rafts enhanced speed and provided a safe seating area even when going over waves of water. The next innovation is the rafts themselves where instead of the regular round rafts used until then on family raft slides such as the Proslide Mammoth, new 4 person tubes were designed. The curvature of the walls were engineered to provide a safe ride path and make sure the vehicles make it to the bottom in the most comfortable way. It would feature an enclosed slide leading to a large half pipe where the raft would drop at 45 degrees, go up the opposite wall and then do one to three more trips up the walls before being flushed out at the bottom. In 2002, after providing most of the attractions to the Koch family, owner of Holiday World/Splashin Safari (Santa Claus, IN), Proslide approached them with an innovative new prototype.