White Water World Slide Repaints 2019 - 2020

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Slide parts have arrived for Fully Six.

[themagician]

Good to see they are even promoting the repainting on social media

[Mc coaster]

Don’t get me wrong it’s great that it has been repainted and it certainly looks much better than before but I can’t help but feel it looks a bit off. I don’t know what it is but it just doesn’t feel right. 

[A.H]

59 minutes ago, Mc coaster said:

Don’t get me wrong it’s great that it has been repainted and it certainly looks much better than before but I can’t help but feel it looks a bit off. I don’t know what it is but it just doesn’t feel right. 

So are we restarting the "I don't like the Green room colour" Debate again?

[GoGoBoy]

Interesting they chose that photo to reference WWW's repainting. From what I can see the top half of the inner section of Green Room was repainted but the bottom half, where the raft travels, wasn't?

[themagician]

Both halves were repainted, how ever the top part was painted a darker tone because it isn’t exposed to water

[GoGoBoy]

1 hour ago, themagician said:

Both halves were repainted, how ever the top part was painted a darker tone because it isn’t exposed to water

You sure about that? Doesn't look like it. You can still see the years of water wear on the bottom half. Plus the darker paint from the top half bleeds down in an awkward way, suggesting they were planning to repaint the rest of it later. I do remember the slide always had two tones though.

[themagician]

Yeah I’m fairly certain. I definitely get what you are saying though, but I drive past the park most days and watched them repaint the entire funnel 

[GoGoBoy]

Just now, themagician said:

Yeah I’m fairly certain. I definitely get what you are saying though, but I drive past the park most days and watched them repaint the entire funnel 

Yep it looks like you're right based on these earlier pics I found. Looks like they just didn't do a crash hot job of the bottom half - not that it would be easy painting a giant funnel. They moved away from the original colour scheme with the different coloured circles too. Also, can't believe how much it deteriorated in recent years.

[themagician]

Definitely. Seeing these before and after pics shows how bad they had gotten over the last 14 years. The Rip looks so much nicer, hopefully they have refurbished inside the bowl too (I’m sure they have). I can’t wait to see the little rippers and temple of Huey once they are done because they are looking the worst with all the bird shit and dirt

[themagician]

The Hydrocoaster isn’t reopening until November 11. I would imagine there is an issue with the magnets after the repaint.

 Temple of Huey and Little Rippers has been pushed back to close November 1 and will be closed for the entire month

Rip, Bro and Triple Vortex now aren’t reopening until the end of the month 

[themeparkaddict]

1 hour ago, themagician said:

The Hydrocoaster isn’t reopening until November 11. I would imagine there is an issue with the magnets after the repaint.

 Temple of Huey and Little Rippers has been pushed back to close November 1 and will be closed for the entire month

Rip, Bro and Triple Vortex now aren’t reopening until the end of the month 

And pipeline won't be repainted till nek year

[themagician]

Rip and Bro are now scheduled to reopen tomorrow and the closure of Little Rippers and temple of Huey was delayed until those slides reopen 

[themagician]

It’s amazing how bad these slides got and how amazing they look now 

[Gazza]

The vibrant colours are probably worth it, even if it requires more maintenance because it would attract more drive by interest.

[themagician]

Pressure washing all the shit off currently underway 

 

[Gazza]

So Screamin Right Handers no longer has moss spots all over it?

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

Not a slide but I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time

 

[themagician]

Here’s a photo of the sign from a couple months ago for comparison 

Im surprised they didn’t just replace it entire since their logo doesn’t feature the dogs or shield anymore. Still very glad they’ve refurbed it 

[themagician]

Considering the temple of Huey is reopening in a couple weeks and they haven’t started repainting them yet, I don’t think we will see them repainted until early next year. Instead they’ve just cleaned them for now and repainted the theming

[Flynn_Smith]

At White Water World today, heaps of work happening on the Temple of Huey. The stairs are all getting repainted, as well as what looks to be like filters/motors. 
 

Also looks like the top of the Screaming Right Handers has begun repainting (as seen in the picture). 
 

The end of each of the slides has also gotten a lick of paint. Looks nice!

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

3 minutes ago, Flynn_Smith said:

what looks to be like filters/motors. 

Do you mean Pumps?

3 minutes ago, Flynn_Smith said:

 

I realise they were going for a 'beach' splashdown area, but I never really noticed the pool was a sandy colour, and always just thought it looked dirty... like the pebblecrete pool for whitewater mountain. I wish they'd stick with a nice clean blue.

[Gazza]

For safety reasons, several water park operators paint pools in a sandy colour because it creates an immediate mental association that sand = shallows.

Shallow blue painted pools can result in serious accidental dive injuries because it makes water appear deeper than it is.

Edited November 29, 2019 by Gazza

[themagician]

1 hour ago, Flynn_Smith said:

Oh I can’t wait for the blue repaint to be finished 

[Mc coaster]

7 minutes ago, themagician said:

Oh I can’t wait for the blue repaint to be finished 

Wow I didn’t even realise that was supposed to be blue I thought it was green.