The remnants of WATER MANIA - Central Floridas demolished attraction
www.AdamTheWoo.com - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE - Water Mania closed its doors in 2006 and was demolished a short time after. This is the location on which it stood as well as a few reminders and memories of the place that so many people enjoyed.
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During the summer, this was a hot spot
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known as Water
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mania. All the water flowed into all the
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water attractions over here. We're going
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to go find remnants
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of. How's it going?
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Not really sure what this was used for,
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but it's pretty
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amazing. It's a very heavy gawky piece
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of machinery. Looks like it may have
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been to carry water or something of that
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sort. You know what this is? If you
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worked out here or if you have an
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educated guess, let me know. I'm
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curious, just like you.
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I go now into the back entrance where
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the employees entered Water
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Mania and chain link still here. All
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destroyed, of
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course. For all you souvenir hunters, I
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got myself a water mania brick. Right
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over in this area here is where the big
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chipper mini golf area was. Uh, you can
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see there's a little cone, parking cone
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here that was used probably in the
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miniature golf course. And if we venture
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over this way, a little more
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proof. Hole number 17
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sign. I pulled it up out of the ground
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so you could see it a little bit better.
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Hole number 17. You can actually see
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part of the miniature golf course there.
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The blue
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rug. All kind of memories out here
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proving that there was once a water
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park. You wouldn't know it, of course,
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unless you just were as dumb as I am to
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walk around through this
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mess. Coming up on a couple other little
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piles of concrete from the old pools and
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stuff that were dug up. Here's a pretty
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fantastic
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find. Big thick pipe leading into the
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ground right above these sewage grates.
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This is a really awesome find. Some
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sewage grates out here in the middle of
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nowhere.
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Also got a few more remnants of picnic
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tables that have been destroyed over
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time. Check out this bad boy. Old school
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picnic table been dismantled. If you
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look right underneath these leaves, you
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can see a sidewalk that comes to right
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here and then breaks apart. Probably ran
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straight along there. You see my tripod
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laying down there and went straight off
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that way. But underneath all these
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leaves, it's all concrete.
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parts of another picnic table. The thing
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I find fascinating, it might not look
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like much now, but at one time there
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were families out here on
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vacation. Kids and parents eating
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together, having a good time, having the
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time of their lives. Check it out.
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Now, I'm going to go check out the wave
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pool. Look at the size of this pipe.
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Used to be a big giant wave pool right
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back there. This is all that's left of
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the wave pool area.
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Definitely a area of the park that
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always had a lot of
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visitors. All the remnants of the wave
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poolool brick and concrete are all piled
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up there. All in this massive pile of
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debris with grass growing over it. Look
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at the piles of debris of all the old
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pools. Crushed up slides and pools. Lots
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of memories in those piles there. If you
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look at this big slab of concrete here,
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got a little personal memory would lead
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into the wave poolool. I remember in
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1991 or '92 came out here with my family
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and my little sister at that time. She's
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still my sister, but she was little
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sister then.
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She wanted to be on the Buckaroo Bob
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show. There was a character named
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Buckaroo Bob who filmed a TV episode out
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here at the front of the wave
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poolool and she was on TV. We never got
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to see it, but she lives on forever in
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Buckaroo Bob history
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right here on this slab of
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concrete. Here's a deep
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pit. If you look straight down, see how
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deep that goes out
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here? One of my favorite things out here
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at the old water mania was the screamer.
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It was very, very tall, sky high almost.
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You would climb to the top and you would
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go straight down. You'd get to the
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bottom and you'd have the biggest wedgie
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of your life. Almost every water park
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has them, but Water Mania's version was
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the
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scream. It's kind of in the wooded area
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out here and it smells very bad. Anyway,
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you can see a lot of bricks
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and sort of pipe
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here. So, anyway, back to that smell.
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Smells like some sort of large
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animal died out here and it's pretty
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disgusting. Head back the other
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way. Puke out here. drove up or
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something. It's very nasty.
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There you have it. The old water mania
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in CMI. Water mania.