Hey, I just went down one of these last week!
It was still on a half day preheat, so it wasn’t that hot.
My family invested in a jungle-gym when I was a kid. We were lucky. The slide was wood with a thin wax coating. It lasted about one year in that region, baking in one season, swelling in another, freezing and thawing in the other two, until it became a splinter distributor and we never used it again.
For the metal slides, however, lying on a skateboard + metal slide = somehow never broke a bone.
Still better than the plastic slides.
Kids these days can still enjoy the finer things in life.
Fresh out? Still in!!