New thrills in sight for Wet'n'Wild

Wet'n'Wild Water World reveals its plans for the next year, with a brand new Bucanneer Bay childrens area and several major thrill rides, including 'Extreme H2O Zone' and 'Tornado'.

As part of a $20 million expansion of Wet'n'Wild Water World is expanding its current offerings, with a collection of all-new world class attractions to add to the park's existing arsenal of thrills and spills. Not only will these new attractions offer new incentives for guests to visit the water park, but they will provide it with much needed capacity boosts to allow the park to handle swelling attendance figures.

Buccaneer Bay - Opens September 2005 
Little buccaneers will soon be able to set sail for their very own aquatic adventure playground full of fun and fantasy at the all-new Buccaneer Bay, opening Saturday 17 September.

The massive new children’s attraction will incorporate the existing Buccaneer Bay and surrounding area, turning the space into the ultimate kids’ zone full of colour and cool interactive elements.

The multi-level attraction will have an elaborate pirate theme taking children into an imaginative and exciting world offering hours of entertainment. The all-new Buccaneer Bay will appeal to children under ten with specially designed zones for individual age groups, providing fun activity for all.

The focal point of the attraction will be a giant tipping bucket mounted at the top of the structure that will frequently spill litres of water onto the eagerly awaiting children below.

There will also be exciting purpose built children’s slides within the all-new Buccaneer Bay completing the water park experience for the under tens at the ultimate kids’ zone.


Extreme H2O Zone’ - Opens Christmas 2005
Christmas 2005 will see the introduction of an enormous new thrill slide area that is sure to get pulses racing. ‘Extreme H2O Zone’ will feature gigantic, king-sized slides offering adrenaline junkies the ultimate extreme aquatic experience.

Located behind Calypso Beach, the dramatic new ‘Extreme H2O Zone’ when first launched will showcase seven oversized thrill slides, like nothing ever seen before in Australia.

The Mach V attraction will house the Park’s two longest rides that will have guests sliding through 160 metres of twists and turns in open air flumes. It will also incorporate three adrenaline pumping high speed body slides – definitely not for the faint hearted!

Blackout as the name suggests, will feature two enclosed slides that will catapult riders into pitch black spirals of darkness. You won’t know which way you’re turning next and you won’t see a thing until you hit the final splashdown!


Tornado - Opens 2006
And Wet’n’Wild Water World’s expansion plans won’t stop there. 2006 will be just as exciting with the opening of another giant slide at ‘Extreme H2O Zone’, aptly named Tornado.

Riders will begin their wild journey on this unique super-slide 25 metres in the air blasting down a 40 metre long tunnel into the middle of a storm. Here they’ll spin around the Tornado’s funnel in a four person tube splashing back and forth through the menacing, swirling water. The exciting experience will culminate as riders are sent hurtling through the eye of the storm to the calm waters below.

Like existing models of this style of ride at parks such as Holiday World & Splashin' Safari in Indiana, USA or at Six Flags Hurricane Harbour in California, USA, Tornado is sure to be a tremendous success with families and thrillseekers alike.

Not to be forgotten is an upgrade of Mammoth Falls. Construction is already underway on a mirror-image version of "Mammoth River", which will see the ride's capacity to increase to 1,500 people her hour.