Wet'n'Wild: New 2007 Attraction

[mattcrombie]

Looks to be a beach Hut or a shack.

[Dom15]

Not just cold, but the whole area use to stink as well. I think you will find the new "whatever" will probably quite attractive and in many cases could be more functional too.

just thought id say i work at a donut king and he promotion is doing pretty bad for victorians donut kings, but the donut surfrider donut tastes nice anyway, its a iced bar pineaple flovour with new raseberry flavour decoration, very nice. when i saw the promotion i scabbed some of the extra posters (asked my boss first) cause it has the actual carrage pic on it! very cool!

[mattcrombie]

The Bill Board out the front of Wet N Wild now has the Surf Rider on it. I will try and get a Picture Only days before they all open....

[myk]

SurfRider won't be open till October. Is it just me or do the slides look the same layout as they were before?

[saberon]

The old bodyslides were poorly designed where it was quite easy to get stopped along the tube, they were also unexciting. Good riddance.

[Gazza]

You probably weren't leaning into the curves and lying down with your shoulder blades and heels on the slides, you can make any slide exciting riding like that

[Churros]

SurfRider was testing today. It looked pretty good I must say. From what I saw, it also has proper water jets, so it should be a really good ride! The new slides will more than likely be ready soon too. Pictures below...

[ShadowXL]

Where is the jet shooting from? does it just shot everytime the surfboard passes the shooting range? Thanks for the photos.

[MickeyD]

Awesome! Thanks for the pics. Well QLD school Holiday's officially start tomorrow - I wonder how soon this little number will be riding real peeps? Not long to go at all by the looks!

[Churros]

Yeah sorry, it is pretty hard to show with a still image. The jets spray you with water as you are coming back down the track. I honestly couldn't see where the water comes from, but I could see it spraying so I assume it is coming from somewhere. And again, it isn't very easy to get a good shot of it, but the water does give the train a fair soaking.

[skystar_a320]

The Ride looks really good! Strange though that they are spraying up huge jets of water and DW don't have any water on the wipeout anymore nor the fountain/pond at the entrance of DW 'that isn't in operation because of water restrictions' It must have a pool under the ride to catch the water???

[Churros]

^Yeah, they have built a pool under the SurfRider.

[myk]

WOW! That looks absolutely awesome! Thank you so much Churros! SurfRider will be opening in October.

[mattcrombie]

I just drove past and it was operating with people on it. Looks kool from the Freeway. Lots of water spraying around.

[ShadowXL]

yer, i was at the park today, it is running. It opened yesterday, looks good, didnt get to ride it. Can't really ride it with a uniform on can ya... The water sprays just before you start droping down so by the time you get to the wet section its like a mist you go through. Thing i noticed was a lot of spinning on the two sitting things, as you go up you spin more then when going down.

[Gazza]

^That is because of the way the rings of seats are weighted a bit off center. On the way up the ring freely tries to rotate itself so the weight is pointing downwards, so because it has done this on the way up it wont really turn on the way down. When it reaches the other side of the halfpipe the ring is the "wrong way around" so again the ring rotates naturally to have the weight at the bottom.

[zane]

Dose anyone know whether the water jet is just a compressed air jet that is triggered underwater like maverick's and the hulk's or is it a water jet that uses a pump? I'm curious to find out what and how it works cause that's what I do lol. and has anyone got a chance to ride yet? I might be going this Friday so I will get some footage and pics, that's if I go Zane.

[Original]

I have ridden it! I went the first day it opened! It's pretty awesome, you get soaked!!!

[BNErider]

Wow, good pictures Paul. The coaster seems somewhat more thrilling then the MotoCoaster, that's for sure.

[GoGoBoy]

Wow, good pictures Paul. The coaster seems somewhat more thrilling then the MotoCoaster, that's for sure.

I agree! I can't believe this coaster has ended up looking better than the Motocoaster at Dreamworld... but it has. I thought it would be the other way around. Dreamworld underdelivered whereas WnW has come through with the goods. I'm glad they went with a proper water jet as it helps tie it in with the waterpark theme. I wasn't happy about having a dry ride in a waterpark when I heard about this originally but it makes more sense if you get drenched. The surfboard is a good look too

[Gold Coaster]

And thank goodness that we didn't end up with a design where we have to get dressed to ride it! It'll be quite strange to be both barechest and barefoot on a coaster.

Edited September 25, 2007 by Tony Teulan

[bigtimer]

looks pretty cool

[Gazza]

Brian from Ozcoaster has done an update on the ride. http://ozcoaster.net/index.php?option=com_...5&Itemid=27 In the 8th photo there appears to be a billiard table riding. The ride looks all shiny and new, though personally I would jazz up the 2 ride control booths to something a bit more catchy than plain white, to me they look like a perfect blank canvas for a surfboard artist to do something creative. And something else I just worked out a minute ago, I think they made the track go beyond vertical at the top so the ride vehicle actually ends up at true vertical when it gets up there, intelligent thinking there by Ride Trade.

Edited September 26, 2007 by Gazza

[Original]

I'm a bit confused with the height! I recently heard the add for the new surfrider, but the add claims that the ride is 30meters high, yet on this site it claims that it is only 20meters tall!!! I would like to find out Surfrider's actual height as I'm a bit confused!!! Also if you haven't ridden Surfrider yet you have to! it's a really fun ride, sort of reminds me of The Claw!!! But yet its still different!!!

[rob]

^^Maybe Wet 'N' Wild claim it is 30 meters high because it is raised off the ground, yet the actual ride is probably only 20 meters.