https://wwwyoutube.com/v/GZjOAw1SZ0U
http://www.theurbanslide.com/events/jacksonville-fl-2/
Using the only real hill in downtown Jax....Market Street!
Will it be on Market Street? Too bad they couldn't use Main Street Bridge or something?
^ I don't think the hill on teh main street bridge is long enough....and honestly they probably don't want too steep of a hill for safety.
Quote from: Murder_me_Rachel on April 21, 2015, 12:07:11 PM
$12 for a single slide? Seems .....steep.
You can always pay $5 + $1.90 service fees to be a "volunteer". True story.
I wonder how they treat manhole transitions and other bumps, humps and irregularities?
Wait, its $12 per ride? I thought the $12 gave you as many rides as you wanted. That is kind of lame. I can go to Adventure Island at the beaches with much bigger and funner slides and stay all day for $30 . I may try it out, but I think that price may keep a lot of folks back considering you only get one go at it.
I went today and it was awful. Bought 5 rides for $25 on Groupon. When I was walking up I noticed that most people were just walking down the slide due to the lack of a sufficient decline. I'd already bought the ticket, so I decided to give it at least one go. After 50 minutes in line I finally got my turn and I positioned my tube and got into launch position! After sliding for about 15 feet I came to a dead stop and started my walk of shame to the end of the slide.
Quote from: cowford on May 31, 2015, 07:27:58 PM
I went today and it was awful. Bought 5 rides for $25 on Groupon. When I was walking up I noticed that most people were just walking down the slide due to the lack of a sufficient decline. I'd already bought the ticket, so I decided to give it at least one go. After 50 minutes in line I finally got my turn and I positioned my tube and got into launch position! After sliding for about 15 feet I came to a dead stop and started my walk of shame to the end of the slide.
LOL. Well I feel good about missing it now so thanks for that.
Quote from: Overstreet on April 21, 2015, 01:59:45 PM
I wonder how they treat manhole transitions and other bumps, humps and irregularities?
They placed some sort of material (I believe foam if I'm not mistaken) underneath the slide.
Quote from: cowford on May 31, 2015, 07:27:58 PM
I went today and it was awful. Bought 5 rides for $25 on Groupon. When I was walking up I noticed that most people were just walking down the slide due to the lack of a sufficient decline. I'd already bought the ticket, so I decided to give it at least one go. After 50 minutes in line I finally got my turn and I positioned my tube and got into launch position! After sliding for about 15 feet I came to a dead stop and started my walk of shame to the end of the slide.
Yeah, it basically being a momentum-less slide is what caught my attention on Channel 4.
Didn't attend but heard the thing was a huge flop.
^ not sure it was a flop....there were long lines both days...I'm sure the company made plenty of money.
As for Wayne Woodstock...it made Urban Slide look cheap...thankfully, some of the proceeds went to PB&J.
They said that 'hundreds' of people came to the Urban Slide. No doubt they made some money. Here's a TU slideshow of it.
http://beta.spotted.jacksonville.com/mediadetail/22589041?gId=598557
QuoteI went today and it was awful. Bought 5 rides for $25 on Groupon. When I was walking up I noticed that most people were just walking down the slide due to the lack of a sufficient decline. I'd already bought the ticket, so I decided to give it at least one go. After 50 minutes in line I finally got my turn and I positioned my tube and got into launch position! After sliding for about 15 feet I came to a dead stop and started my walk of shame to the end of the slide.
Ha Ha, it should have been called the Urban Dud. Which it was as people on other sm platforms were calling it the pee highway as they recycled water and sprayed it in your face, well you get the drift of people waiting hours in line, and what do they do.....countless people stuck, so the company resorted to having people PULL riders on tubes with a rope.
Cant wait for the return of the Urban Dud, or Urban Thud. This is probably NOT how to recruit people to downtown....Monroe has more slope toward the Hart Bridge, Ugh.
^ FYI,...the Urban Slide was not a Jax. thing....they go all over the country....and they obviously have had many of the same problems (lack of water, small slope, etc.) in other places....just go online and look at the promo video and notice how only short segments are shown.