Nowhere is the exquisite combination of joy and pain more perfectly represented than this slider losing her shoe halfway down the slide. The spectacle is simply too intriguing to resist. I’m reminded of a scene in Jordan Peele’s NOPE after a group of bystanders have realized the terrible mistake they’ve made. What sticks out about this video is that it lingers on the sliders after they reach the bottom, rolling around, holding their backs. The sliders appear to be bracing themselves for pain and yet they remain stunned. The slide has clearly been open for a while by the time this video is being filmed. Onlookers are now becoming equal parts amused and concern. The videographer sums up what he’s just seen perfectly in his comments at the end of the video. The sliders in the previous videos certainly got some air, but in this video they seem to come so far off the slide after that second bump that they very nearly skip the next one. One of the interesting things about the Giant Slide is that gravity seems to vary by the minute. The spectating parents are beginning to become concerned. Forty feet is a long way down, especially if the descent includes banging your head/elbows/butt on a metal surface three to four times over the course of the journey. This video really shows just how giant the Giant Slide really is. The stage is set for the next four hours of pain. The clanging of bone on metal reverberates throughout and we finish with the perfect review from one of the sliders: “That was not good”. A perfect straight-on angle gives us a clear view of five different sliders, each clearly becoming airborne on the second hill. WARNING: All stunts are performed by people with no idea what they are doing - please do not attempt.Īs far as we can tell, this is the video that first brought the Giant Slide into the national spotlight, and it’s easy to see why. After a thorough analysis of the footage obtained before the slide was “fixed”, we at FTW have determined the top five Giant Slide highlights so far and present them to you here. The slide closed four hours later and reopened after adjustments were made, slowing down the speed of the slide and thus ruining most of the fun for spectators. After years of being closed down for safety reasons, the slide reopened last week and immediately became a social media sensation as riders proved exactly why the slide had been closed for safety reasons. Built in the 1960s, the Giant Slide was once an attraction known only to the children of Detroit who climbed 40 feet into the sky overlooking the US-Canada border to brave its metallic fury in a burlap sack. That toughness is embodied perfectly in a certain Detroit landmark that has suddenly reached national prominence: the Giant Slide at Belle Isle. Every American-made car commercial is basically some version of the sentence before this one. Detroit has always held a place in the American mythos as the embodiment of toughness, grit and resilience.
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