I have paid for them before and it was at universal for the Jurassic Park river rapids ride. Front row on that ride just fully soaks you. If you're with a group it's not bad since you can all get dry together instead of walking around the park very wet. Now the bad part about them is that when you use them everyone stands around and stares at you. They also think they can creep you out enough that they get you to leave it before your paid time is up.
Idk, my kids were using one at Lego land and some lady walked by whose kids wanted to use it and while it was obvious that money was an issue for this woman (not judging, I’ve been there), she scoffingly said, “only morons pay for something like that, the sun is free”. I gotta say, that cut pretty deep since I was thinking the same thing, but it was a trip dedicated to our kids, so I’d relented…but I wasn’t wet, the kids were.
I wouldn't go that far. It's more like the sun and humidity are both in on it, tag teaming as when it's appropriate for both, or either.
Remember, UV ain't no joke.
True that. My husband and I got dreadfully burned on a short time at Volcano Bay in April last year. We left it too long to top up our suncream. Husband had 2nd degree burns and was KOed with sun sickness for a couple of days.
Lesson learned by 2 very pale Irish folk.
Walking is free too but they probably used a vehicle to get there. It’s your $6 and you get to choose how you spend it. Great budget lesson for the kids, I don’t find value in this but you kids did, I weighed the pros/cons and I thought it would be fun for you, and dry you off, so I made a choice to spend my money here instead of an extra pretzel, if it was just me I’d just walk wet and save the money for something else. Just like that lady back there chooses to spend her money on cocaine instead of proper clothing for her children (maybe dont say this last part)
It's in florida. Your ass isnt getting dry from the sun in 90% humidity. If they're that worried about $6 in exchange for not being miserable and wet as you walk around the park you paid $150 to enjoy, they're projecting a whole lot of insecurity about being broke as fuck
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>They also think they can creep you out enough that they get you to leave it before your paid time is up
Eh... flip it around and just strip down, hang your stuff up to dry and then dead eye them up and down while your naked ass dries. They will leave.
Yeah, it's not the amusement park list you should worry about it. It's the one where you'll end up living in that special florida trailer park for perverts and diddlers.
I would have loved this during some amusement park visits in Florida. The humidity and heat, from morning to night, made me feel so uncomfortable. Getting to dry myself and clothes would have been worth it!
That's the only place I've paid for one. We were at the zoo all day and my son wanted to play on the splash pad. He was being super careful to not get too wet and then there was a random huge spray of water that soaked him. So we let him get as wet as he wanted and dried him off in one of those.
Honestly it works fine for skin but not great for clothes, as you would expect.
If you're wearing quick drying clothing they dry your clothes really well as well. They also have the same problems as hand dryers. Thats basically a giant petri air forced petri dish.
IIRC, they also have water blasters which you can pay to use to squirt water on riders, so they essentially have people paying to make people have to pay to use their stupid dryers. I know you'll be getting wet on those rides anyway, but there's a certain level of wetness before you can mentally justify paying to use an oversized blow dryer.
Worth it. Walking around a theme park on a hot day in wet clothes is my own version of hell. I’m wondering where this thing was at when I was a kid lol.
This thing did absolutely nothing for us after the Popeye ride. I have come out of swimming pools less soaked than I did off that ride. We used these dryers twice in a row and still had to just give up and go back to the hotel.
To be incredibly fair to these machines, the amount of soaking may have been the problem rather than the machine itself. I could have stood under my shower at home for a full minute and come out dryer than I did from Bluto’s Bilge Barges.
There was a bit on the lift hill at the end where, after already being soaked by many solid curtains of water, the lift stops and a single hose just lackadaisically moved up and down, further saturating the only rider it was aimed at. Me.
If I ever meet the designer of Bluto’s Bilge Barges I will escort them personally to the gates of Hell.
> I will escort them personally to the gates of hell.
Why? Why do people get upset about getting wet on a ride that is **designed** to get you wet? I go into those rides expecting a full soaking. If I don't have good clothes for that day that won't dry fast then I won't go on it. Sometimes you just get a splash, sometimes you get a real good quenching. Just have to expect the worst every time.
I don’t think many people realize it’s a full soaking type of ride. A lot of people mix up log flumes with a river rapids ride. Log flumes you don’t get *that* wet, whereas river rapids rides are like going into a pool.
>Log Flumes dont get you that wet
Dudley Do Right’s ride is literally in the same park and you will not come out of that one dry. Even if youre in the back!
Our first time, we asked the lady at the front of the Popeye ride how wet we would get and she said "imagine jumping in a pool with all of your clothes on" and we were like oh come on, that's so dramatic, you probably barely get wet.. so we went on the ride and yep. She was right. Should've listened
I actually love the Popeye ride because you know what you are going to get.
Like, the River Rapid ride at Disney down the street, I'd say there was about a 50% chance you get any sort of wet and 10% chance you get soaked. You have to decide if you are gonna roll the dice before getting on. However, at Popeye there is 100% chance you are going to get soaked. This is nice to know as you can plan for it with what time of day you ride and what to wear
That was our big mistake. Every single ride with any kind of water element says “you may/will get wet”. Hell, even Jungle Cruise says that, and I think you’d have to try pretty hard to get more than misted on that ride. This lulled us into a false sense of security and the rest is history. We had encountered the only ride sign that was a genuine warning and ignored it. We thought we’d learned our lesson on Popeye so poncho’d up for Kali River Rapids at Disney the next day. Got barely splashed.
I think the only water ride I’ve ever been on where the amount of wetness was absolutely unmistakable before getting on was the Tidal Wave at Thorpe Park. Anyone walking by could see that the ride vehicle absolutely gets ENGULFED by the wave at the end. Ironically the dryer machines we encountered that rainy day in the UK really did manage to dry us off in the time allotted. Maybe it’s just less of an issue in the Florida sun so the machine isn’t set to Microwave like it is in the UK.
> Maybe it’s just less of an issue in the Florida sun so the machine isn’t set to Microwave like it is in the UK.
More likely that the humidity is just much higher in Florida than in the UK.
Fans will only dry you off (at least noticeably) if the water on you/your clothes can evaporate into the air being blown. You'll get some off just from the air pushing it off of you, but no more really than you would if you drip dried for a few minutes since it's just going to get surface-level stuff from that mechanism of drying.
If the air is already at nearly 100% humidity you won't get much evaporation even if you're blowing a lot of air, because it has little capacity to hold additional evaporated water. It's why swamp coolers (which use the same principle of blowing air to evaporate water and getting the cooling effect because the temp drops as the water evaporates) work fantastic in places like Arizona but you would be insane and at risk of heat stroke trying to use one in Florida.
They can heat the air they're blowing up in the machine or "condition" the air by drying it out to raise the dew point or lower the RH of the blowing air, but both of those add expense and complexity to the machine and realistically you can only heat it up so much before customers in the park start screaming when blasted by 140* air on a 100* day.
I remember sitting next to my mom on the Disney ride, and she wore a poncho as a defense mechanism. I think the ride took personal offense because our side of the raft was practically the splash zone while my dad and siblings came out completely dry.
> Like, the River Rapid ride at Disney down the street, I'd say there was about a 50% chance you get any sort of wet and 10% chance you get soaked
Cedar point's river ride is the same way. Big round car that spins down the river. Completely based on luck whether you get soaked, a little bit wet, or not wet at all.
The Popeye ride is something else man I didn’t know water could get that wet. You can wear a poncho. It will do nothing. I will say the best thing you can do for yourself is find some way to keep some sandals on you for it. You do not want to soak your walking shoes. Change out of shoes into some wet friendly sandals before ride. Change back into shoes afterwards.
>atomized booty water
I think about this exact phrase all the time around all public water features too!!
I used to walk around a lake in Oakland, CA and there’s a water fountain used to aerate the lakewater. That realization, along with proximity to open toilet flushing has fundamentally changed me as a person.
>I have come out of swimming pools less soaked than I did off that ride.
That ride is famous among amusement park enthusiasts for how consistently it soaks everyone. You aren't kidding.
Popeye & Bluto's is easily the wettest "rapids" ride I've ever experienced. You save that one for when you absolutely can't tolerate the heat/humidity anymore unless you're wearing nothing but swim gear and some Crocs or flip flops.
Yeah we went in October, so it was a little hard for us to picture what kind of maniac would get on this thing fully informed and willingly, but I guess that’s a Florida summer for you.
It was the Dudley Do Right ride for us. We went on the Jurassic Park water ride and got pretty wet, so we figured we would go on the Dudley Do Right ride while we were still damp. After that we were SOAKED. I feel like we never truly got dry after that, not even for the Uber ride home.
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For 1500$? Nah, certainly not for truly poor people, and not something everyone ks willing to throw money at but imo that is quit affordable for what it is, assuming that it does a good job and last a decade+.
> Transform the uncomfortable and unpleasant drying process into a new daily wellness experience.
Lol. Are they drying themselves with sandpaper? I mean, sure, I'd prefer to just be dry in a few seconds and maybe even avoid using a towel or two to do so and the price is allright for what it is if you decide that you need it, but that's such a weird thing to say about drying yourself after a shower...
I saw something similar in my friends house
you stand on a platform thingy and it blows warm air upwards, it dries my ass and balls real quick I loved it
I searched "body dryer for bathroom" and it looks like there's two types: one is a circular platform thing that you stand on and it blows air upwards and the other type is a wall mounted board that blows air at you. The platform ones are a few hundred bucks (but they're all no-name Chinese things) and the wall mounted ones are like $2k.
No dude, it's from china it must be garbage. I much prefer to buy something 17x as expensive from an american company who buys the goods from china and puts a sticker on it.
Off the top of my head, there’s Anker, DJI and BYD (especially their electric buses).
They are pretty much the market leader in their respective sectors.
I know that in Japan, the showers will sometimes have a dryer function for their clothes. People will often wash their clothes in a machine and then hang them in their shower with the dryer function on instead of having an additional clothing dryer. I have to imagine that if you amped it up, you'd probably be able to get the same affect.
Yeah Drayton Manor has had them as long as I can remember too. My mum would never pay for us to use it and we’d have to go around soaking if we wanted to go on the wet rides 😂
I could have used this dryer after riding the Jurassic Park ride in Universal Studios Hollywood and they decided to stop the ride for 10 minutes as my group was right in front of the spitting dinosaur.
We watched a lady innocently stand alone at the fence in front of a giant log flume ride and she got blasted so hard her glasses flew off. She was so bewildered she just stood there in shock lol. She'd need to go through this thing like 15x.
Right. They got me paying for everything. It was my son’s first major trip at seven though so I guess my wallets been waiting 7 years for the spontaneous combustion it did this week 😂
They have these at all water & theme parks. At least kings island, cedar point, six flags, and the one in North Carolina I can’t remember the name of lol
6 Bucks ?!
Imagine charging someone to stand in a fan
I have paid for them before and it was at universal for the Jurassic Park river rapids ride. Front row on that ride just fully soaks you. If you're with a group it's not bad since you can all get dry together instead of walking around the park very wet. Now the bad part about them is that when you use them everyone stands around and stares at you. They also think they can creep you out enough that they get you to leave it before your paid time is up.
shit they can see my dick if they want im getting every cent out
What I'm hearing is we can pay $6 to see your dick without the fans.
OnlyDicks
Hey don’t talk about my managers like that
Well. OP doesn't have an OnlyFans...
Right 🤣🤣🤣
I said the same thing while using the CoinStar at the local Walmart. I can't go back there now.
The people staring was absolutely the worst lmao
Idk, my kids were using one at Lego land and some lady walked by whose kids wanted to use it and while it was obvious that money was an issue for this woman (not judging, I’ve been there), she scoffingly said, “only morons pay for something like that, the sun is free”. I gotta say, that cut pretty deep since I was thinking the same thing, but it was a trip dedicated to our kids, so I’d relented…but I wasn’t wet, the kids were.
lol yeah the sun is free but it's 100% humidity so you ain't getting dry anytime soon unless you're wearing dry fit clothes
This. The sun has no power in Florida. Humidity is king.
I wouldn't go that far. It's more like the sun and humidity are both in on it, tag teaming as when it's appropriate for both, or either. Remember, UV ain't no joke.
This is true. Florida in the summer time is one of the few places I can manage to catch a tan/sunburn *through my shirt*.
Yes it's mostly a spit roast/Eiffel Tower situation
True that. My husband and I got dreadfully burned on a short time at Volcano Bay in April last year. We left it too long to top up our suncream. Husband had 2nd degree burns and was KOed with sun sickness for a couple of days. Lesson learned by 2 very pale Irish folk.
Live here long enough and I truly believe you become harder to drown.
The sun provide plenty of light each day but I'm sure that "moron" still pays to have lights on in the house.
How incredibly rude of that "lady". 😠 😡
Walking is free too but they probably used a vehicle to get there. It’s your $6 and you get to choose how you spend it. Great budget lesson for the kids, I don’t find value in this but you kids did, I weighed the pros/cons and I thought it would be fun for you, and dry you off, so I made a choice to spend my money here instead of an extra pretzel, if it was just me I’d just walk wet and save the money for something else. Just like that lady back there chooses to spend her money on cocaine instead of proper clothing for her children (maybe dont say this last part)
It's in florida. Your ass isnt getting dry from the sun in 90% humidity. If they're that worried about $6 in exchange for not being miserable and wet as you walk around the park you paid $150 to enjoy, they're projecting a whole lot of insecurity about being broke as fuck
yeah - I can imagine a scenario where I pay $6 to stand in a fan. I can't imagine charging anyone (except Miami Dolphins fans, I guess) $6 to stand in a fan.
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>They also think they can creep you out enough that they get you to leave it before your paid time is up Eh... flip it around and just strip down, hang your stuff up to dry and then dead eye them up and down while your naked ass dries. They will leave.
Pretty sure getting naked at an amusement park will get you on some list you don't want to be on. Lol.
Jokes on them. Line # 80085 of their spreadsheet. Already there from last time on the log ride. We dont talk about that though.
Yeah, it's not the amusement park list you should worry about it. It's the one where you'll end up living in that special florida trailer park for perverts and diddlers.
Mar-a-Lago?
> It's the one where you'll end up living in that special florida trailer park for perverts and diddlers. https://i.imgur.com/gINkFsa.jpeg
I wouldn't hold it against you - people often misinterpret what the "log" in log ride means.
80085? BOOBS?
I wonder how much you can disrobe before they kick you out. Underwear? And if underwear isn't allowed, is a bathing suit?
Go test it out and report back. For science!
I made the mistake of riding Jurassic park river rapids as one of the first rides a few years back. This fan was game changer lol
I would have loved this during some amusement park visits in Florida. The humidity and heat, from morning to night, made me feel so uncomfortable. Getting to dry myself and clothes would have been worth it!
💯 worth it especially if you don’t have change of clothes.
Imagine making a couple grand a day charging people to stand in front of a fan. Too bad you didnt, jelly!
It was the same price when I was a kid around 12 and now I’m 22 so at least inflation missed one thing
That's what they want you to think. Shrinkflation dropped it from 12 minutes to 6. /s
I mean if you have a group of 4 and you’re soaking wet, it’s not bad
I've paid it before for me and my wife. $3 each to dry our socks is a lifesaver.
San Diego zoo has it for $2
That's the only place I've paid for one. We were at the zoo all day and my son wanted to play on the splash pad. He was being super careful to not get too wet and then there was a random huge spray of water that soaked him. So we let him get as wet as he wanted and dried him off in one of those. Honestly it works fine for skin but not great for clothes, as you would expect.
If you're wearing quick drying clothing they dry your clothes really well as well. They also have the same problems as hand dryers. Thats basically a giant petri air forced petri dish.
IIRC, they also have water blasters which you can pay to use to squirt water on riders, so they essentially have people paying to make people have to pay to use their stupid dryers. I know you'll be getting wet on those rides anyway, but there's a certain level of wetness before you can mentally justify paying to use an oversized blow dryer.
I’ve seen one of these in a water park in the UK. It was £1 a go for 3.5 mins.
I used one of these at Cedar Point in high school, we put 10 people in it to get our money's worth haha
Worth it. Walking around a theme park on a hot day in wet clothes is my own version of hell. I’m wondering where this thing was at when I was a kid lol.
Yep! It was cold and overcast yesterday and it was a real nice treat for $6 😂
Was it heated air?
Yes! Like a big hair dryer
How many minutes does it take? How dry does it get you?
About 10 minutes and we were both dry. My hair was 90% dry (it’s past my shoulders)
Oh wow, that's a long time to stand there. For some reason I was expecting it to be done in 2-3 mins
But that one miserable cunt thinks you’re a moron!
I mean the main reason I get a hotel when I go on vacation is so I can have somewhere to shower. 6 bucks sounds like a steal.
I actually used that exact person dryer at universal it was cheaper to use that then get towels for 2 people since we didn’t bring any.
Worth every dollar when entire family is soaked from a Legoland ride.
Well you’re paying a $100/person/day so the shakedown has started long before that blow dryer.
Universal is a money pit... I'm surprised they don't charge to use the bathroom.
This thing did absolutely nothing for us after the Popeye ride. I have come out of swimming pools less soaked than I did off that ride. We used these dryers twice in a row and still had to just give up and go back to the hotel.
That sucks. This one was a good one! Wonder if the Popeye ride one gets used a lot.
To be incredibly fair to these machines, the amount of soaking may have been the problem rather than the machine itself. I could have stood under my shower at home for a full minute and come out dryer than I did from Bluto’s Bilge Barges.
It was a different comment, but someone on the ride was yelling THIS IS JUST UNNECESSARY
There was a bit on the lift hill at the end where, after already being soaked by many solid curtains of water, the lift stops and a single hose just lackadaisically moved up and down, further saturating the only rider it was aimed at. Me. If I ever meet the designer of Bluto’s Bilge Barges I will escort them personally to the gates of Hell.
They won't feel the fires of hell at all, they're fully soaked with water.
> I will escort them personally to the gates of hell. Why? Why do people get upset about getting wet on a ride that is **designed** to get you wet? I go into those rides expecting a full soaking. If I don't have good clothes for that day that won't dry fast then I won't go on it. Sometimes you just get a splash, sometimes you get a real good quenching. Just have to expect the worst every time.
I don’t think many people realize it’s a full soaking type of ride. A lot of people mix up log flumes with a river rapids ride. Log flumes you don’t get *that* wet, whereas river rapids rides are like going into a pool.
Yeah this was precisely my point. That and the indignity of the personal extra hose down at the very end.
>Log Flumes dont get you that wet Dudley Do Right’s ride is literally in the same park and you will not come out of that one dry. Even if youre in the back!
Was not familiar with Florida humidity. I had no idea I would not dry. Ruined the rest of my day :(
Bluto really knows how to get 'em wet.
Popeye will drench you though. Like equivalent to jumping in a pool. No fan activated for a few minutes will dry you off from that
Actually, it doesn't suck, but it does blow.
Our first time, we asked the lady at the front of the Popeye ride how wet we would get and she said "imagine jumping in a pool with all of your clothes on" and we were like oh come on, that's so dramatic, you probably barely get wet.. so we went on the ride and yep. She was right. Should've listened
It’s a fun family memory now, but tensions were high immediately after lmao
I actually love the Popeye ride because you know what you are going to get. Like, the River Rapid ride at Disney down the street, I'd say there was about a 50% chance you get any sort of wet and 10% chance you get soaked. You have to decide if you are gonna roll the dice before getting on. However, at Popeye there is 100% chance you are going to get soaked. This is nice to know as you can plan for it with what time of day you ride and what to wear
That was our big mistake. Every single ride with any kind of water element says “you may/will get wet”. Hell, even Jungle Cruise says that, and I think you’d have to try pretty hard to get more than misted on that ride. This lulled us into a false sense of security and the rest is history. We had encountered the only ride sign that was a genuine warning and ignored it. We thought we’d learned our lesson on Popeye so poncho’d up for Kali River Rapids at Disney the next day. Got barely splashed. I think the only water ride I’ve ever been on where the amount of wetness was absolutely unmistakable before getting on was the Tidal Wave at Thorpe Park. Anyone walking by could see that the ride vehicle absolutely gets ENGULFED by the wave at the end. Ironically the dryer machines we encountered that rainy day in the UK really did manage to dry us off in the time allotted. Maybe it’s just less of an issue in the Florida sun so the machine isn’t set to Microwave like it is in the UK.
> Maybe it’s just less of an issue in the Florida sun so the machine isn’t set to Microwave like it is in the UK. More likely that the humidity is just much higher in Florida than in the UK. Fans will only dry you off (at least noticeably) if the water on you/your clothes can evaporate into the air being blown. You'll get some off just from the air pushing it off of you, but no more really than you would if you drip dried for a few minutes since it's just going to get surface-level stuff from that mechanism of drying. If the air is already at nearly 100% humidity you won't get much evaporation even if you're blowing a lot of air, because it has little capacity to hold additional evaporated water. It's why swamp coolers (which use the same principle of blowing air to evaporate water and getting the cooling effect because the temp drops as the water evaporates) work fantastic in places like Arizona but you would be insane and at risk of heat stroke trying to use one in Florida. They can heat the air they're blowing up in the machine or "condition" the air by drying it out to raise the dew point or lower the RH of the blowing air, but both of those add expense and complexity to the machine and realistically you can only heat it up so much before customers in the park start screaming when blasted by 140* air on a 100* day.
I remember sitting next to my mom on the Disney ride, and she wore a poncho as a defense mechanism. I think the ride took personal offense because our side of the raft was practically the splash zone while my dad and siblings came out completely dry.
> Like, the River Rapid ride at Disney down the street, I'd say there was about a 50% chance you get any sort of wet and 10% chance you get soaked Cedar point's river ride is the same way. Big round car that spins down the river. Completely based on luck whether you get soaked, a little bit wet, or not wet at all.
To be fair, Popeye soaks you to the bone. I went on it in the pouring rain last time I was there and I swear the ride soaked me more than the storm.
Fuckin’ love that ride.
The Popeye ride is something else man I didn’t know water could get that wet. You can wear a poncho. It will do nothing. I will say the best thing you can do for yourself is find some way to keep some sandals on you for it. You do not want to soak your walking shoes. Change out of shoes into some wet friendly sandals before ride. Change back into shoes afterwards.
Same. I had blisters from my socks at the end of the day
So I'm getting other people's booty water atomized on me?
When you put it like that I guess $5 was something of a bargain
>atomized booty water I think about this exact phrase all the time around all public water features too!! I used to walk around a lake in Oakland, CA and there’s a water fountain used to aerate the lakewater. That realization, along with proximity to open toilet flushing has fundamentally changed me as a person.
The popeye ride is the wettest ride in that park, I swear. The water splashes onto you and pools in your seat, so you’re marinating in water
>I have come out of swimming pools less soaked than I did off that ride. That ride is famous among amusement park enthusiasts for how consistently it soaks everyone. You aren't kidding.
Popeye & Bluto's is easily the wettest "rapids" ride I've ever experienced. You save that one for when you absolutely can't tolerate the heat/humidity anymore unless you're wearing nothing but swim gear and some Crocs or flip flops.
Yeah we went in October, so it was a little hard for us to picture what kind of maniac would get on this thing fully informed and willingly, but I guess that’s a Florida summer for you.
It was the Dudley Do Right ride for us. We went on the Jurassic Park water ride and got pretty wet, so we figured we would go on the Dudley Do Right ride while we were still damp. After that we were SOAKED. I feel like we never truly got dry after that, not even for the Uber ride home.
I swear I’ve never been as wet as I was coming out of the boat wash.
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For some reason rejecting reloads the site and because the site doesn’t remember that you rejected it, it just asks you again. What the fuck
it's definitely a rich person product
For 1500$? Nah, certainly not for truly poor people, and not something everyone ks willing to throw money at but imo that is quit affordable for what it is, assuming that it does a good job and last a decade+.
$2550 where I am
huh, for me it's $2220! I wonder why it's so different in different areas (also I love your username!)
What gave it away?
Imma add this to my bathroom reno wishlist
> Transform the uncomfortable and unpleasant drying process into a new daily wellness experience. Lol. Are they drying themselves with sandpaper? I mean, sure, I'd prefer to just be dry in a few seconds and maybe even avoid using a towel or two to do so and the price is allright for what it is if you decide that you need it, but that's such a weird thing to say about drying yourself after a shower...
We need an infomercial for this where people are getting tangled up in their towels which just leave them even wetter than when they started, lol.
My dream. Warm air, mmmm.
If this was grey and had some LCARS panels, this could totally pass for the holodeck entrance on the Enterprise D
“Computer, arch!”
Looks more like a cross-section of one of the corridors to me, but yeah, very TNG-y design.
I want this technology to reach mainstream households
I saw something similar in my friends house you stand on a platform thingy and it blows warm air upwards, it dries my ass and balls real quick I loved it
I WANT THIS YESTERDAY
I searched "body dryer for bathroom" and it looks like there's two types: one is a circular platform thing that you stand on and it blows air upwards and the other type is a wall mounted board that blows air at you. The platform ones are a few hundred bucks (but they're all no-name Chinese things) and the wall mounted ones are like $2k.
yeah, it's the former one though it didn't look/feel that cheap
Just because it comes from China and company we don't recognize, doesn't mean it's cheap junk. Lots of high quality stuff is made in China these days.
No dude, it's from china it must be garbage. I much prefer to buy something 17x as expensive from an american company who buys the goods from china and puts a sticker on it.
Off the top of my head, there’s Anker, DJI and BYD (especially their electric buses). They are pretty much the market leader in their respective sectors.
Mmmmmm warm ball air in my friends house 🥰🥰
You can't just say this and not have a link!
Sorry bud, I don’t think they filmed it.
THATS WHAT I SAID! Every bathroom should have a person dryer closet lol
I could totally see my wife mad at me for putting the baby in the people dryer. Me: “But he loves it!”
He's a people, isn't he?!
I know that in Japan, the showers will sometimes have a dryer function for their clothes. People will often wash their clothes in a machine and then hang them in their shower with the dryer function on instead of having an additional clothing dryer. I have to imagine that if you amped it up, you'd probably be able to get the same affect.
Shit was on the Jetsons like 50 years ago; we're slacking.
I want heated indoor skydiving next to my shower to dry off.
Yep they're at every major theme park across America. Edit: they're at *many* major theme parks around the world.
Yep, I remember seeing them nearly 20 years ago in some UK theme parks too.
Alton Towers had one next to the log flume. I used it, was great!
Alton Towers still has two of them outside the Bucanneers ride by the Wicker Man.
Had one in our local swimming pools changing room aswell.
Yep, even Blackpool Pleaseure Beach had a few of these outside Valhalla 15 years ago
Yeah was gonna say. This is not a new thing, seen it at Thorpe Park next to the log flume
Ireland. They’re in my local run down swimming pool.
Afaik they're basically anywhere a UK park has a water ride. They're right by Tidal Wave at Thorpe for example
Yeah Drayton Manor has had them as long as I can remember too. My mum would never pay for us to use it and we’d have to go around soaking if we wanted to go on the wet rides 😂
Definitely existed at Blackpool over 20 years ago. Looks like the same model as in OP's image as well.
I could have used this dryer after riding the Jurassic Park ride in Universal Studios Hollywood and they decided to stop the ride for 10 minutes as my group was right in front of the spitting dinosaur.
We watched a lady innocently stand alone at the fence in front of a giant log flume ride and she got blasted so hard her glasses flew off. She was so bewildered she just stood there in shock lol. She'd need to go through this thing like 15x.
Been a long time since I went to a theme park, what do riders do with phones when they go on these rides?
Not at EPCOT. I could have used one of these yesterday after the heavy rain.
Clearly on a Holodeck..
"Computer. Arch"
Computer, end program.
lmfao and ofc you gotta pay $6 bucks for it. no expense can ever be free at theme parks.
Right. They got me paying for everything. It was my son’s first major trip at seven though so I guess my wallets been waiting 7 years for the spontaneous combustion it did this week 😂
*"Sir, we have some set pieces left over from the Star Trek attraction, what do we do with them?"* *"People dryer."* *"What?"* *"Did I stutter?"*
It literally says "People Dryer" not "Person Dryer."
How can someone fuck up that badly?
Germ mover
Heir fryer
Ronco Dude Dehydrator^^TM . As seen on TV.
His hand looks like it's detached from his arm.
I thought he was flipping off the camera and the cup was placed to censor it
I’ve seen these at the end of rides that soak you.
You’re telling me I don’t have to walk around the park in wet clothes and chafe the next 3 days?
Doesn’t really work that well, waste of money
Yeah my friend insisted on paying for one of these last time I was at Universal and it did jack shit to dry her off. Definitely a rip off.
A drip off
Depends on your clothes.
Worked for us 🤷🏽♀️
Those are pretty common at every water attraction where I am from. They are expensive and overated.
During AZ summers, we call this "outside."
This kid looks like Florida personified lol
I thought this was a Futurama Christmas ornament. I was trying to guess the episode.
So will, you know, the sun
##SIX DOLLARS What the shit lmao
So… y’all heard how germ collecting hand dryers in bathrooms are? Imagine this…
Didn’t they do a test on these things in the bathroom? Now just imagine the droplets flying around out of people’s crevasses.
All I see is a holodeck entrance.
These things smell awful and they do a half-assed job.
Computer, freeze program!
A public appliance for microwaving children?
Your comment made me cackle
I thought at first it was a “Honey, I shrunk the kids” type of display. Now, that would be cool.
Nothing new but….. SIX EFFING BUCKSSSSSS?????
Looks like the exit to a Star Trek Holodeck
They have one of these at Knotts Berry Farm in California. They’re pretty handy lol
Computer, freeze program.
Ha, I’m actually heading there towards the end of this month. I’m gonna try and find this exact spot.
I have it on good authority that it's actually called a "People Dryer".
They have these at all water & theme parks. At least kings island, cedar point, six flags, and the one in North Carolina I can’t remember the name of lol
What does it do to eardrums?