The Wet'nWild theme park in western Sydney / Pic: Phillip Rogers Source: The Daily Telegraph
The Wet'nWild theme park in western Sydney / Pic: Phillip Rogers Source: The Daily Telegraph
LIKE a massive, multi-coloured Lego set, pieces of the world's largest water park are coming together in Sydney's west.
On a 25ha site between the M4 motorway and Prospect Reservoir, the first of the slides that will make up Wet'n'Wild Sydney are beginning to take shape.
The multicoloured cone of the 18m-tall Dark Tornado, part of the southern hemisphere's first Tornado Wave and Tantrum Alley attraction, can already be made out. Next to it is the towering Aqua Loop and Whizzard Racer - an attraction where riders stand on a trapdoor and drop 20m before doing a 360 degree loop.
Wet'n'Wild Sydney general manager Chris Warhurst said the water park was "on time and on schedule" for its scheduled launch in December.
"There are about 1100 moving parts to this project and they are all coming together beautifully," Mr Warhurst said.
"Of the 400 15m containers of rides and slides, 390 have touched down in western Sydney."
Thousands of pieces of brightly coloured fibreglass - which will eventually form rides including the Aqua Loop, Mat Racer, Double Skycoaster, The Python, Rattler and Constrictor, as well as the biggest wave pool in Australia - are being lifted into place by 30m cranes.
More than 160 workers, the majority from western Sydney, swarm over the site each day, laying more than 15km of piping and pouring concrete that will form paths and the foundations for shops and the 150m surf pool and 70m wave pool.
"We're essentially creating a beach the size of Bronte," Mr Warhurst said. "With 2m high waves to go with it."
Wet'n'Wild Sydney will be home to a total of 42 slides and attractions including the world's largest Sky Coaster, which lifts passengers to a height 10m higher than the sails of the Sydney Opera House, before they plummet to earth - face first - at 120km/h.
The $115 million project is set to create the equivalent of 300 full-time jobs when it is up and running.
"More than 5000 people have registered their interest on our website," Mr Warhurst said. "It's been an amazing response."
The park's owners, Village Roadshow Limited, will pay $7 million to upgrade roads around the site, which it will lease from the state government.
Annual visit passes will cost $79.99, with prices for single visits yet to be announced.
At the project's launch last year, Premier Barry O'Farrell said Wet'n'Wild was predicted to attract about 900,000 visitors a year - including 20 per cent from overseas and interstate - and generate more than $500 million for the state's economy in the first 10 years of operation.
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