Typhoon's new attraction: Crush 'N' Gusher

[TrendyMagic]

Here is the official release:


LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Flash flooding will take on a whole new meaning for Walt Disney World guests in 2005 as they experience Crush 'N' Gusher, a new white-knuckle "water coaster" thrill ride like never before at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon.

Crush 'N' Gusher will utilize "some of the latest water ride innovations in the industry today," said Patrick Brennan of Walt Disney Imagineering and lead creative designer of the new attraction. "When completed, Crush 'N' Gusher at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park will be the only water coaster thrill ride of its kind in Central Florida."

While riding Crush 'N' Gusher, guests will be whisked along a series of flumes and spillways that weave through what appears to be a rusted-out tropical fruit facility. It's another chapter of the Typhoon Lagoon legend.

As guests slip and slide through torrents of gushing water, gravity defying conditions caused by the recent typhoons create crushing bursts that propel guests up and down through cavernous twists and turns, weaving in and out of treacherous wreckage and debris that once transported tropical fruit through the plant's wash facilities.

Walt Disney World guests will have three different fruit spillways to choose from, each ranging between 410 to 420 feet in length with varying degrees of slopes and turns -- Banana Blaster, Coconut Crusher and Pineapple Plunger.

[Lou Mongello]

Lou trying on his Speedos getting ready to go...

I know... scary though. I shudder at it myself

[TrendyMagic]

LOL Oh my...

[Princess Jas]

Sounds like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing this with us!

[Lou Mongello]

Lou in Speedos sounds like fun? Obviouslyyou haven't seen my picture!

[Princess Jas]

I meant about the ride! I did not realize how it sounded until I read it again after your post. Yeah, I have seen your picture. Speaking of your picture, where is the post with the picture of Al and Jas with your head in Al's place? I was looking for that thread today and could not find it.

[Lou Mongello]

Had to try and remember, but here it (ugh) is:

http://disneyworldtrivia.com/forums/...read.php?t=819

[Princess Jas]

Thanks! Hope you get feeling better and your little one doesn't get sick.

[Lou Mongello]

Thanks, Jas...back to work today... tried to stay away from Marion as much as I could yesterday

[Disnatic]

That ride sounds fantastic. Theirs a waterpark in the United Arab Emirates that has the gravity defying stuff.

[4Mickey]

That sounds like too much fun! I haven't been to the water parks in years, but this might warrant a trip!