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Recently, I had the occasion to bring my kids to some of the bigger slides in Singapore.
Typically of this over-achieving nation, these slides are the biggest/tallest in the world! Wow!
Unfortunately, after playing with them, my kids fairly quickly lost interest in them. Reason? Although they are the tallest slides, the ride/slide turned out to be very disappointing experiences.
Why? After the tremendous built-up at the giant size, it was a real let down to find that you cannot achieve any decent speed on them! Their thrill factor is ZERO!
While one may applaud Singapore authorities for putting safety first, they have gone so overboard that they have taken the fun out of it! In fact, they may have inadvertently made some of these slides more dangerous. I see many kids stand up and run down some of this slides because they cannot slide well! Even my girl is doing it...
I attach some videos to show what I mean!
I do not have good videos of the T3 megaslide but the fact that a good percentage of kids cannot even finish outside the slide ends should tell you something!
Thankfully, the Singapore government has wisely let the foreigners run the Universal Studios theme park. Imagine the BORE factor if the government officials ran it!
