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Guests between 110cm and 200cm in height can ride.
So, the story goes that a category 5 cyclone has just blown through a port and we are in the calm eye of the storm. We've gotta make our way to the coastguard evacuation boats before the other side of the storm hits.
The entrance sign for the ride is a rusty ship door.
The coaster is a clone of Skatteøen at Djurs Sommerland in Denmark. A 28m high lift hill leads the boats into a dipping u turn, before a large sweeping 360 degree drop and rise. Finally, a straight drop and airtime hump leads boats to the indoor splashdown.
This is accomplished with boat shaped vehicles, and a special track system with 6 rails to guide the vehicle through the track. Normal coasters have two rails, with wheels that clamp around the track. In this case, the vehicle sits within the track.
It is the few "water coasters" worldwide; an attraction where riders spend part of the time travelling along a steel track through curves and dips, and part of the time floating along a channel of water.
Storm Coaster was the only major new ride to open in Summer 2013/2014 on the Gold Coast.
The slides as seen from the motorway.
The back end of the compex. In the center you can see the turnarounds for the four 'Breakers' and the double dip finale each one features.
In red and yellow you can see the bulging spirals of the 'Tropical Cyclone'. Behind it in purple and blue is the halfpipe. The slide drops in from a great height, giving rafts the momentum to carry up the wall.
Apart from the drums, Typhoon is mostly open air.
We wonder what the neighbours think of a water park opening next door?
We wonder what the neighbours think of a water park opening next door?
In pink are the drum shaped chambers rafts will wash through on 'Typhoon'. Snaking around the front in navy blue is the Aquatube
The Breakers are a set of four master blaster slides, which each feature an uphill section. Rafts are propelled uphill by high pressure water jets. Look closley at the light blue slide, and you can see the whitewater of the jets. On the red slide you can see the black slots where excess water from the jets is drained away.
This complex of 8 slides is just about a mini water park unto itself.
The moment where the lanes transition to the open air section. It's all downhill, which sadly means no airtime to grab off the camel humps often seen on similar rides.
H2Go Racers begins with a tangle of enclosed lanes (all calculated to be of identical length due to the way they cross over each other), before merging together for the open air final straight to the finish line.
360 Rush features a capsule on the starting platform fitted with a trap door. With a push of a button riders the door snaps open, and riders drop down and speed through the loop.
Bombora features a viscious 540 degree drop onto a curved wave, whilst T5 drops riders into an giant enclosed funnel.
The orange and red 'Tantrum' sends riders through a series of garlic bulb shaped chambers, where the raft rocks back and forth a few times before being flushed out the narrow end.
T5, in green yellow and blue, Tantrum, in orange and red, and Bombora, in red and blue make up a set of 3 high thrill raft slides using cloverleaf rafts.
