The climate forecast for Legoland California this summer season requires a 100% likelihood of getting 100% soaking moist.
PHOTOS: Pirate Reef water experience at Legoland California
The brand new Pirate Reef water attraction opened over Memorial Day weekend on the Carlsbad kiddie park with a pair of life-size Lego pirate ships flanking the splash zone of the basic shoot-the-chutes experience.
For its comparatively modest dimension, the 25-foot-tall attraction constructed by Florida-based Hopkins Amusement Rides generates a surprisingly huge splash.
The 15-foot-tall fan-shaped tidal wave delivers a double whammy, with the preliminary deluge sweeping over the boat like a tsunami solely to be adopted by a trio of ricocheting blasts that careen off the dual pirate ships and the overhead bridge connecting them onto the boat passengers beneath.
Once I rode Pirate Reef, it felt as if each final drop of the 155,000 gallons of water within the lagoon rose in unison and crashed down upon our collective heads. I couldn’t get wetter if I dove right into a swimming pool in a rainstorm.
No place is protected. Entrance row, again row, it doesn’t matter. You may’t disguise. Each final inch of you'll get moist. Assured. I’ve by no means been on a wetter experience in my life.
I wore one of many $6 plastic ponchos that Legoland sells, however it didn’t assist a lot. I clenched up the hood as tight as attainable and water nonetheless managed to stream down the neck gap, soaking the back and front of my shirt.
Then got here the water cannons fired from the decks of the pirate ships, adopted by a sequence of innocent-looking Lego frogs that squirted a steady hearth hose-flow of arching water over the boat. By the point we returned to the dock, it felt as if we’d pushed a convertible with the highest down by means of a torrential downpour.
The brilliance of Pirate Reef is that the experience might be accessed from each the Legoland theme park and the separate-admission water park, that means you may and will experience Pirate Reef in a washing swimsuit. I don’t find out about you, however I don’t like strolling round a theme park soaked to the pores and skin — garments clinging, footwear squishing, shoulders shivering. It takes all of the enjoyable out of the day.
For the theme park guests who do get soaked, Legoland has stationed $5 physique dryers proper close to the Pirate Reef exit. The walk-in dryers go away you 90% dry and could be the best theme park invention of the previous decade.
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