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Epic Attractions

Season 1 2015

  • 2015-08-10T02:00:00Z on Travel Channel
  • 30m
  • 2h 46m (6 episodes)
  • United States
  • Documentary
The biggest, fastest, wildest, most beautiful and most insane theme parks and attractions are run like well-oiled machines. These parks are high-tech and high-dollar, as well as exciting, exotic and extreme. Now, expert Chris Perry, who managed a top amusement park in Dubai for more than 15 years, is revealing all the industry's secrets for success. Pulling back the curtain, Chris provides an exclusive look at how the mechanics of amusement parks and rides really work at Ohio’s Cedar Point, Dubai’s Aquaventure Waterpark, Germany’s Europa Park and Florida’s Busch Gardens Tampa, to name a few. Each episode of Epic Attractions offers not only a backstage pass to some of the world’s greatest attractions, but also an inside scoop on the science and engineering that make up one of the biggest industries on the planet.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2015-08-10T02:00:00Z

1x01 Apocalyptic Coaster, Jetpack, Crazy Food Eatery

Series Premiere

1x01 Apocalyptic Coaster, Jetpack, Crazy Food Eatery

  • 2015-08-10T02:00:00Z43m

Chris Perry rides Thorpe Park's The Swarm, flyboards 30 feet above water, goes down Wild Wadi's double-speed waterslide, eats at Europa-Park's Food Loop and swims with Ski Dubai's colony of penguins.

Chris Perry climbs 310 feet to ride the giant Millennium Force in Cedar Point, blobs at Austria's Area 47, dives in Atlantis at The Palms' Ambassador Lagoon and becomes a game expert at Morey's Piers.

Chris Perry rides Cedar Point's wooden monster Mean Streak, loops around the Scorpion's Tail waterslide at Noah's Ark, flowboards Yas Waterworld's Bubbles Barrel, gets high at The London Eye and eats a Bacon Pretzel Fury.

Amusement park expert Chris Perry rides the world's fastest coaster, the 150 mph Formula Rossa, wrestles nasty reptiles in Gatorland, goes backstage & tackles the new Tower of Poseidon waterslide & eats "Breakfast in the Sky."

Chris Perry darts down the three stand-up slides of Ihu's Breakaway Falls, rides Germany's lightening fast Blue Fire, snowboards at Ski Dubai, gets pampered in a 7-star hotel and has his feet sucked on at Fisho.

Chris Perry races cheetahs at Busch Gardens, aims water cannons at Yas Waterworld's Bandit Bomber, has a Halloweekend at Cedar Point, sees Europa-Park's Arthur the Ride and jets up Wild Wadi's Master Blasters.

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