The tallest water slide will also likely be the fastest. The water slide, Schlitterbahn’s Verrückt Meg-A-Blaster, will open next year.
The water slide is approximately 17 stories high, said the Kansas City Star. Customers will have to climb 264 steps to get to the top but they will be shot down the water slide at around 65 mph.
The slide also includes a small hump to add to the experience.
Company officials have not disclosed the exact height of the water slide until it is officially measured in the spring.
“We have always been family friendly, but this will attract those adrenaline junkies who are always looking for that next biggest, coolest thrill,” Layne Pitcher, the park’s director of marketing and sales, told the Star.
The world’s tallest water slide currently is the 134.5-foot-tall Insano in Brazil.
Winter Prosapio, a communications director, said the slide won’t cause wedgies. “Seventeen stories with a wedgie would be really bad,” she said.
