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Thunder River is a river rapids ride located at two American amusement parks. The first opened in 1980 at Six Flags AstroWorld in Houston, Texas , which was the first of its kind in the world. The popularity led to other similar installations at various Six Flags theme parks throughout the 1980s.
The Thunder River Rapids Ride was a river rapid type water ride located in the Town of Gold Rush section of the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. [ 3 ] After four riders were killed on it in late October 2016, the ride was closed.
The river rapids ride concept was proposed by Bill Crandall (general manager of AstroWorld in Houston) and developed by Intamin.AstroWorld introduced the world's first river rapids ride, Thunder River, in 1980 and popularized a concept which can now be found at most major amusement parks.
Thunder River, installed in 1980, [98] has been described as the "first commercially successful river-rapids ride". [110] Warp 10 took over the former site of the Astrowheel in 1981; it was later moved to Plaza de Fiesta in 1987 and renamed Warp 2000. [33] Warp 2000 was operating as Crazy Legs at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, as of 2016. [108]
Thunder River may refer to: Thunder River (Peshtigo River tributary), a tributary in Wisconsin, US; Thunder River (Tapeats Creek tributary), a tributary in the Grand Canyon, Arizona; Thunder River Rapids Ride, an amusement ride at Dreamworld; Thunder River (ride), amusement rides at Six Flags Astroworld, Six Flags Over Georgia, and Six Flags St ...
Six Flags Astroworld and Intamin partnered in 1979 to build the world's first river rapids ride in 1980 called Thunder River. The water ride became so popular at Astroworld that Six Flags debuted two new river rapids in 1981 at Six Flags Magic Mountain, in 1983 at Six Flags Over Texas, and in 1984 at Six Flags Great America. The version at Six ...
Rumba Rapids (also known as Rumba RAPids or Oompah Rapids) is a rapids ride at Thorpe Park, Chertsey, Surrey.It opened in 1987 under the name of Thunder River, and is the second oldest ride currently still in service at Thorpe Park.
Thunder River Rapids Ride (1986–2016) was Australia's only river rapid water ride since the closure of the Snowy River Rampage which operated at Wonderland Sydney. On 9 November 2016 the CEO of Dreamworld's parent company Ardent Leisure announced on that the ride would be decommissioned and demolished after the ride claimed the lives of four ...