Wet'n'Wild Water World, Water park in Gold Coast, Australia
Wet'n'Wild Water World is a water park in Oxenford on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, next to Warner Bros. Movie World. Its Extreme H2O Zone, opened in 2006, holds the Tornado funnel slide, the enclosed Blackhole tubes and the Kamikaze half-pipe. A steel tower carries enclosed blue and orange tube slides, and a wooden sign lists Mach 5, Black Hole and Tornado.
The site opened in 1984 under the name Cade's County Waterpark and grew into one of the largest water attractions in the Southern Hemisphere. The owner later introduced the Wet'n'Wild brand and expanded the complex over the following decades with new slides and pools.
The park opened in 1984 as Cade's County Waterpark, named after the son of founder Colin Herringe. It was renamed Wet'n'Wild Water World under Village Roadshow ownership, then Wet'n'Wild Gold Coast in 2013 to distinguish it from the Sydney park. Scenes set at a fictional "Splash Planet" in the 2014 film The Inbetweeners 2 were filmed here.
The park stays open all year, though some rides close for seasonal maintenance in winter. It sits next to Warner Bros. Movie World in Oxenford, and Fast Track lets guests pay a set fee to skip a ride's queue in peak seasons such as the 2012–2013 summer.
The Tornado slide sends riders through a wide funnel where they swirl in spirals before shooting through a dark tube. The Kamikaze is considered one of Australia's first slides to use upward momentum in its boomerang shape.
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