RCT2 Ride Overview - Dinghy Slide

The Dinghy Slide is a fun water ride that can kill your guests if you're not careful. In this video we learn all about how it works and how good it is.

Background music: RCT2 Gentle style
Outro music by Panorrrama:

[eier]

If you ever feel useless, remember that the steep to gentle open dinghy slide track piece exists

[MadMovieMakers]

Just gotta give guests helmets with wheels on top and call that an upstop. Perfect explanation for the rafts staying on track in the tunnels on hills

[calGunslinger]

Given the dangerous reputation of this ride, I'm genuinely surprised OpenRCT2 hasn't added an Action Park style vertical loop.

[MNGoldenEagle]

I always found it weird that the dinghy rides were considered "water rides" even though you can't see any water in the tubes. It would've been nice if the artist had added a small stream of water to it, though I could see the difficulty in animating it in such a way that it would look convincing.

[firockfinion]

Marcel: "So, you can build this ride either to kill your guests, or give them brain damage."
Player: "Couldn't I just design them to be safer-"
Marcel: "No."

[theuncalledfor]

Someone needs to make a mod that produces a coconut-bonk sound effect whenever a crash on a dinghy slide is prevented by a tunnel track piece.

[rkniner]

Good to know the guests are immune to Verruckt-style head injuries

[jazzwave_]

hey marcel, would you ever consider doing a video on weather? how temperature and precipitation work, the effect of those on rides, different climates, etc? i feel like its a pretty underappreciated piece of the game design and id love to learn exactly how it all comes together

[worawatli]

In real life, this kind of ride caused a lot of casualties in water park, so them flying off in RCT just tell us how dedicated Chris Sawyer was, he researched a lot and brought that statistic into the game.

[stockicide]

Always nice to see a cameo from everyone's favorite ride, the Heartline Twister Coaster!

[Ze_eT]

I sure do hope nothing bad happened to those guests in the thumbnail!

[NCHProductions]

wait what.... I was todays years old to learn that the tunnels prevent the dinghy from flying off the track.... never realize that when I played the game when I was a always had to cautiously build the ride to ensure nothing flys off....

[RegretfulDeadMan]

I do love the idea that if you have a guest going through a tunnel at the top of a slope, they're just grinding their heads on the tunnel roof. it's like that one bit from Futurama where Fry is doing the skateboarding contest with the kids in the Los Angeles wastelands, and they go through a tunnel.

[fathertimejr]

I feel like I've just been granted official permission to smash my guests into covered sections of the slides. Thank you, Marcel.

[Feuerex]

When I was little, I remember this one time. I built a massive dinghy slide, really impressive, biggest attraction in the whole park. It had many slopes, turns and twists, and then by the end, when I was kinda done already, but needed to fill space to reach the station, I built a tiny little bump at the very end, just for fun. Just to give the guests a little extra fun on their otherwise simple way to the station.
I believe you know exactly how this goes - I didn't know testing rides existed back then, so I opened it, guests flooded in, they made it all the way through all the turns and slopes and amazing drops, and then like 16 people died on that tiny little hump at the very end. Since the ride was so big and took so long to get through, all the guests that were mid-way through were a lost cause by the time the first ones died.

[daninbox]

3:47 - Couple in Black Swan "I'm glad we came here Bobby. I feel like things are finally starting to look up".

[CarsSimplified]

Those are some wild top speeds that can be achieved using the heads of guests to keep the dinghy on the path! Great video!

[JCBro-ygvd]

Interestingly enough, there's a dinghy slide in the scenario "Aqua Park" that has a glitch on its biggest drop. Sometimes, if the drop is not enclosed, boats will fall through it and crash.

[bidul]

The most evil things with the dingy slide are the breakdown and when you have an empty boat followed by a full one

[SuperSkyhorse]

love, how the twisted heartline coaster gets bashed even here. No opportunities lost