Talk:Log flume (ride)

message: "Exciting ride for all?" Is it? Really? Zachkchk 07:24, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: Surely the above is pleonastic if not tautologous?  If a ride is the oldest of its kind then surely, by implication, it's the first ever built, and vice-versa.
Methinks this phrase should be reworked.
193.122.47.170 18:32, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awkward phrase? 

message: As I've already noted on the talk page for River Caves, river-caves rides are (IMO and IME) not indoor log-flume rides:
#River-caves rides date back to the early 1900s (IIRC the Blackpool one opened in 1905), log-flumes only to 1963 (so it could perhaps be correct to say that log flumes are outdoor river-caves rides, but not vice-versa)
#Log-flume rides are essentially rollercoasters built using aqueducts instead of tracks; river-caves rides are typically gentle rides past a series of tableaux (the Blackpool one depicts the wonders of the world, as did several others I've been on).  There may be a minor thrill element, but I've never known such an element to be a major part of the ride.
193.122.47.170 18:47, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Log Flume != River Caves 

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message: Seeing the Wicksteed Park Water Chute included in thae table of installations, I added the similar installations at East Park and Peasholm Park, but on closer inspection it seems that all three - along with Lake Winnepesaukah's Boat Chute would more properly be variations on the Shoot the chute concept. Certainly these four all date from the 1920s/1930s, while the first "modern day log flume" is identified as the one at Six Flags Over Texas, dating from 1963. There is undoubtedly a degree of cross-over between the two concepts, and it may well be that some of the other rides tabulated here are more properly StC types, but I'm not sure whether this merits detangling or amalgamation. Nick Cooper (talk) 10:22, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Confusion between these two pages has been going on for a long time. The opening paragraph of the Shoot the Chute page indicates that the term usually applies to larger boats seating four across, however the history section lists several early shoot the chute rides that had small boats, some smaller than today's larger flume rides. I think most people associate a flume ride with having a trough and taking a longer journey than the simple lift, u-turn, and splash down, of most shoot the chute rides, but then we have several, such as Universal's Jurassic Park: The Ride, Busch Garden's Escape from Pompeii and Movie Park Germany's Area 51, that have a long, themed ride area more like a flume ride. I would like to see us do our best at keeping the pages separate, but I think we need to recognize that there will be a lot of crossover. We probably need to better define what constitutes a log flume and what constitutes a shoot the chute ride.—JlACEer (talk) 15:53, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Log flumes or water chutes?