Move over, Yacht Club de Monaco: You no longer rule the inflatable waterslide world. FreeStyle Slides has entered the Guinness Book of World Records with a 74-foot-high (22.4-meter-high) version of the same inflatable slide it made for the yacht club. That new slide is officially now designated the World’s Tallest Inflatable Slide.
Technically, the record-setting slide is 73’5”. That certainly bests the one that FreeStyle Slides made for the yacht club in 2014. It measures 52’5” (16 meters), taking guests from the top “deck” of the building (shaped like a yacht) for a splashdown into the harbor.
Both it and the newly minted record holder are FreeStyle Slides’ Hybrid XL model. It blends features of the manufacturer’s land-based slides with ones from its sea slides. The Guinness Book of World Records sent an adjudicator to check out the Hybrid XL at a pop-up water park in Australia on February 19. That park is the Xscape at the City, located in Perth. As to why the park includes the slide, the answer is pretty simple. The park’s creator, Douglas Campbell (far right, below), already owned a FreeStyle Slide and had heard about the one in Monaco. (Pictured with him, left to right, are Xscape at the City director Nasir David, Guinness adjudicator Solvej Malouf, and FreeStyles Slides’ Adam Lowell.) Campbell commissioned an even bigger one to provide even bigger thrills.
Interesting enough, the Yacht Club de Monaco arguably had the world’s tallest inflatable slide until this month. We say “arguably” because the slide has never been reviewed by the Guinness Book of World Records, so it has never been an official record. In case you’re wondering what has held the record, the Guinness Book of World Records lists a 42’3” (12.9-meter) slide for an amusement park in Australia. That slide was checked out just last year, so the record didn’t last long.
For a virtual experience of what it’s like to whoosh down the World’s Tallest Water Slide, enjoy this video of an Australian reporter “testing” out the Hybrid XL at the water park. The slide is nicknamed The Drop:
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