Crush 'n' Gusher water coaster to thrill in Typhoon Lagoon at Walt
Disney World
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Flash flooding will take on a whole new
meaning for Walt Disney World guests in spring 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.
