Season 7's Fun Slides Platform Spinning Purple People Beater
The Fun Slides Platform Spinning Purple People Beater is an obstacle, used as the third round in Season 7, replacing Wipeout's Greatest Hits, Wipeout City, and Sugar Smacks from the previous season.
First, all six contestants will start on the first slide, then land on the platform. If they take too long on this part of the course, the platform will eventually inch closer to the end of the slide. Then they'll navigate through the Sweeper Gauntlet to the other side. If they wipeout, they must head back to the beginning. Finally, they must time their drop down the spinning slide and through one of the four holes on the smack wheel to the finish platform. The first four contestants to make it through move on to the Wipeout Zone.
In episodes 1, 6, and 10, this was played before the Classic Sweeper, and the first four complete families, blind date couples, or boss-employee teams to make it through move on to the next round.
In episode 13, this was completely absent, being replaced by the Space Race, which was used interchangeably with the Classic Sweeper as the second round.
The smack wheel is infamous for injuring Yoshi Sudarso's right leg during episode 1 as he smashed it awkwardly when attempting to slide through it to the finish platform. Miraculously, it didn't stop him from competing. He later became the last person standing in the first round of the Classic Sweeper and the first to clear the Shredder in the Wipeout Zone, as well as achieving the fastest time of 02:00.06, letting him and his brother Peter win that episode.
It was replaced by the Gauntlet in the TBS revival.