# One last Titanic thread: The Titanic Water Slide for kids' parties! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079 "2012-04-17T19:28:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/1 "2012-04-17T19:28:36Z")
> **[Titanic slide inflatable ride | Fun Makers](http://www.fun-makers.com/titanic.html)** > > Rent our giant inflatable Titanic slide. Fun Makers provides rentals of the Titanic and other high adventure games in Ohio, Pa, WVa, including Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Columbus and Youngstown, OH “\*Wheeeee! \*I’m Ida Strauss!” So appallingly tasteless I \*love \*it. Right up there with the Auschwitz Diet Camp, Hindenberg Exploding Balloons, and the hilarious Japanese Tsunami Lawn Sprinkler! ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/2 "2012-04-17T22:15:01Z")
I can’t decide if I want it, or if I want it gone. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/3 "2012-04-17T22:16:26Z")
I wonder if they have a 9/11 World Trade Center bouncy castle? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/4 "2012-04-17T22:20:31Z")
What?! No Berlin Wall Shooting Gallery? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/5 "2012-04-17T22:44:51Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I wonder if they have a 9/11 World Trade Center bouncy castle? I think you go smaller scale with this one: the World Trade Center Jenga Tower game. How about a Burundi Lazer Tag Set? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/6 "2012-04-17T22:48:45Z")
How about a Charles Whitman/Lee Harvey Oswald shooting gallery? You get to choose between shooting presidents or college coeds. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/7 "2012-04-17T22:51:21Z")
Wow! It’s actually real: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/t-i7s5QFOe4/hqdefault.jpg "titanicslide.MOV") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-i7s5QFOe4) Complete with “First Class Only!” sign too! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/8 "2012-04-17T22:51:42Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I wonder if they have a 9/11 World Trade Center bouncy castle? Or the World Trade Center bungee jump… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/9 "2012-04-17T23:04:52Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Wow! It’s actually real: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-i7s5QFOe4&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-i7s5QFOe4&feature=related) > > Complete with “First Class Only!” sign too! “Sorry, Jimmy, you’re Irish steerage trash–you have to stay at the bottom!” ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/10 "2012-04-18T13:20:46Z")
Not far from my house is a playground with a large wooden “play structure”, I guess it’s called, in the shape of a boat. Painted on the side is its name: The Tot-anic. ---
**Author:** ![lizlizliz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/db5fbb/32.png) [@lizlizliz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizlizliz)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/11 "2012-04-18T13:30:46Z")
Holy shit! That slide came to my elementary school’s fair every year. It always had the longest line and required the most tickets. I wonder why nobody in my town ever bothered to point out how tasteless it was. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/12 "2012-04-18T13:53:49Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > “\*Wheeeee! \*I’m Ida Strauss!” > [@Jenaroph](#): > > World Trade Center Jenga Tower game. > [@Eve](#): > > “Sorry, Jimmy, you’re Irish steerage trash–you have to stay at the bottom!” Things in this thread that made me laugh-out-loud. This is going to be a good day. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/13 "2012-04-18T14:32:55Z")
From the same site: [Go Racers!](http://www.fun-makers.com/images/pictures/racers.jpg) So yeah, not a bastion of tastefulness. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/14 "2012-04-18T14:52:18Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > From the same site: [Go Racers!](http://www.fun-makers.com/images/pictures/racers.jpg) So yeah, not a bastion of tastefulness. Oh, Kate and William had those at their wedding party in St. James’s Palace, I believe! You should have \*seen \*the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Phillip racing around. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/15 "2012-04-18T14:57:42Z")
Actually, I could totally see Charles on one! LOL! ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/16 "2012-04-18T15:00:27Z")
I’m going for the Nagasaki Tanning Bed. I’m going to Hilton Head for spring break so I want to get a good base. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/17 "2012-04-18T15:02:27Z")
I like the idea of the two princelings in [inflatable sumo wrestler suits](http://www.fun-makers.com/images/pictures/sumo.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/18 "2012-04-18T15:11:03Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I’m going for the Nagasaki Tanning Bed. I’m going to Hilton Head for spring break so I want to get a good base. While you’re there, be sure to save your appetite for their Tibetan monk BBQ–_yum!_ ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/19 "2012-04-18T15:37:07Z")
I hear that they are releasing a Where’s [Madeline](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline_McCann) picture book for Christmas. (Hint: check the eyes.) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079/20 "2012-04-18T15:52:26Z")
Hmmm. I can imagine an adventure game, though it would be a bit pricey compared to these others. Escape Mommy’s Car: The Susan Smith Adventure Game. You strap kids into the back seat of a big plastic car, and run it down a ramp (maybe you could combine it with the Titanic!) into a pool. The kids then have to escape or… not. As a companion game you can get: Paramedic Rescue Game With REAL Defibrilator! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-titanic-thread-the-titanic-water-slide-for-kids-parties/619079.md?page=2)