Would you rather ride on a water slide or a Ferris wheel? Tough choice — but if German water slide designer Wiegand Maelzer has its way, you might not have to choose between the two. The company is ...

This might be German engineering at its funnest. [Wiegand Maelzer GmbH] have created a new type of amusement park ride that combines the thrill of a water slide with the gentle revolutions of a Ferris ...

Water slides are best when they take you on a long meandering ride through curves and hills, but not every amusement park has room for a big installation. That’s why a German company has combined ...

One day after a 10-year-old boy was killed on a water park slide in Kansas, three girls fell from a Ferris wheel at a county fair in Tennessee. Both incidents are raising questions about the safety of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In some parts of the U.S., the thrill rides that hurl kids upside down, whirl them around or send them shooting down slides are checked out by state inspectors before customers ...