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A “record-breaking” waterslide built by Avalanche Waterslides features a 90-foot tower, a 45-foot freefall drop and a 30-foot vertical loop. Skycalibre features the first-ever vertical freefall, the ...

Until now, thrill seekers have been forced to either speed down a wet slide or ride upside down through loops on a roller coaster — but never both. Well, it's 2015, and it's about time human evolution ...

We've all seen some pretty impressive water slides at amusement parks. But, have you ever wondered what your favorite water slides would look like if they got extreme roller coaster-inspired makeovers ...

New Jersey’s Action Park will soon be home to a new 90-foot water slide named Sky Caliber. If all goes according to plan, the behemoth slide — with its 45-foot free fall and 30-foot full vertical loop ...

Set to debut at New Jersey’s Action Park this summer or next, the first-of-its-kind Sky Caliber vertical looping water slide promises to rocket riders, encased inside a bullet-like capsule, through a ...

A New Jersey water park that briefly opened the world’s first looping water slide in the 1980s plans to unveil a modern heir to the legendary ride long shrouded in myth and hyperbole. Set to debut in ...

Before you start screaming in the comments that New Jersey’s Action Park was actually the first amusement park to have a water slide with a vertical loop back in the ’80s, you’ll be happy to hear that ...