Thrill-seekers had one more reason to road-trip to Texas last summer with the opening of the 10th anniversary season of Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Galveston and their brand new, record-breaking attraction called MASSIV – an 81-foot-tall (plus 6 and 3/4-inches), 926-foot-long water coaster!
This wild, gravity-defying ride includes a nerve-wracking climb up 123 stairs while you pre-worry what the ride’s going to be like and whether you’re going to pass out from the heights or have to change your shorts from the cascading falls. Either way, scads of park-goers lined up last year to take the inaugural rides, which were something they wouldn’t soon forget. Constructed using 135 slide segments, including seven transparent tubes, MASSIV also features “water blasters” that catapult riders up and over hills before they progress into a large landing pool.
