It looks like double barrel is up now if anyone wants to get a closer photo.

@themagician is @Gazza your source?  🤣

Edited October 1, 20214 yr by New display name

Double Barrel is indeed complete and the final drop for Kaboom is in place too 

Here is some updated pictures of the expansion! Its crazy to now understand the size of H2Oasis, this will end up being a welcomed addition and will provide so much relief to Wet'n'Wild Junior in summer and on busier days. 

 

Edited October 2, 20214 yr by Levram__

I've never seen such a long splashdown/exit flume/whatever it's called before...

It’s as long as the ones for the old Jet Streams, and these slides are much smaller. I hope this means the double barrel will pick up some speed really quick.

The run out for some of them looks double the length of the downhill section.

Unless they have sliders very much exceeding 75kg, I don't see anyone making it out that far.

Will those slides have sliders slide using a mat or tube? Perhaps those slides are for group riders?

Kaboom and Double barrel is done, and they are halfway through with super ripper.

You can see some of the water toys have been installed in h2oasis.

My biggest concern was that Kaboom was going to be too short. I would have preferred them to save some money by ditching some of the other basic slides on the tower and reinvesting that into Kaboom by giving it at least one more uphill section each. But looking at these pics it looks like there might be enough twists and turns to give the ride a bit more length and interest than I was expecting. Should be fun. Just think they need to reassess the name and logo now that the master blaster slides are a different colour from the original proposal.

PS Love the transparent slide sections!

Edited October 31, 20214 yr by GoGoBoy

WNW posted construction progress photos on their socials, but here are the most recent photos taken from the post 

 

Edited November 5, 20214 yr by themagician

A GCB article today on developments on the northern GC included this, and it’s not the first time they’ve mentioned it:

“Wet’n’Wild is to build the world’s longest water slide (130m).”

130m would certainly not be the longest water slide in the world, not by a long shot 

Any idea why they keep peddling this info out?

Because there aren’t good at journalism and are always getting information wrong 

8 hours ago, Brad2912 said:

A GCB article today on developments on the northern GC included this, and it’s not the first time they’ve mentioned it:

“Wet’n’Wild is to build the world’s longest water slide (130m).”

130m would certainly not be the longest water slide in the world, not by a long shot 

Any idea why they keep peddling this info out?

The slides they're building aren't even long. That's one of my biggest disappointments with them 

Yeah, even Magic Eye at Erding is over double the length.

Mammoth at Holiday World is over 500m

 

But the worlds longest is 1,111m long!

 

Edited November 17, 20214 yr by Gazza

12 minutes ago, Gazza said:

But the worlds longest is 1,111m long!

 

I've seen that before. What a horrible bloody slide though. Absolutely boring. 

This is a place so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to consider whether they should.

 

And they shouldn't.

2 hours ago, GoGoBoy said:

The slides they're building aren't even long. That's one of my biggest disappointments with them 

The only one I’m looking forward to is Kaboom. The other too are just a faster River Rapids and a new Speed Coaster (without the uphill). It’s great they’ve added new attractions like these to fill the void, but I wish they were taller/longer 

There is a large crane at the back of the park which I believe is lifting the shade structures into place 

On 17/11/2021 at 12:16 PM, themagician said:

. The other too are just a faster River Rapids

Controversial take. The body slides at WnW are some of my favourites but the line is always too long. I look forward to having Super Ripper.

 

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Yeah i was wondering why there was a such a big crane this morning. Just hope it is open before my pass expires December 23.

Edited November 18, 20214 yr by Gazza

  

12 minutes ago, themagician said:

There is a large crane at the back of the park which I believe is lifting the shade structures into place 

 

*eyes doubtfully*

Which of your sources gave you this information?

*questions suspiciously*

Edited November 18, 20214 yr by DaptoFunlandGuy

I was the passenger as we drove past, had a look, saw a crane, saw it was in front of the slider tower (in the area where the shade structure is), leads to my belief they are lifting shade structures into place 

43 minutes ago, themagician said:

I was the passenger as we drove past, had a look, saw a crane, saw it was in front of the slider tower (in the area where the shade structure is), leads to my belief they are lifting shade structures into place 

Were you Southbound or Northbound?

30 minutes ago, New display name said:

Were you Southbound or Northbound?

North