george greenway

not everything went to plan, the picture of the park at the start of the day got mixed up, heres the correct picture. if robs clever enough he'll drop this picture in the right place, if not he'll leave it here as testament to its after midnight here, I have an hour left to finish my report and get to bed. dedication or stupidity, il put another one together soon :-/ the correct picture for the park at start of day

its 11pm at night here, still compiling report for the day, but here are a few more pictures of the park. Ill open another TR on other parks as i get the time over the next few days thanks for the encouragement, its hard work in china the past 3 weeks and im due a holiday, btw its easter if youve noticed and im working it. even more unhappy. i dont have the ferris wheel park, its at suzhou. an finally, it amazes me the chines are not top of my list as obey rules, they overtake on the side of the road, but on a coaster they all hold onto the bar. tell me im strange, but i collect unusual building shapes, and toilets are sometimes imaginatively hidden. this one is a conch shell. its not as wierd as the sink shot youll find in a toilet on TPR visit to china last year the parade hapened at 2pm, and was average, i lined the my camera up and the cowboys turned on me to shoot me, didnt notice till i put the camera down. damn, english people stick out. now why put a huge call with a windmill and a frog in fornt of an oversize fairy castle, the map is in chinese so ill find out one day. fancy an ice cream, look for the shop shaped like your choice. as you walk around, you find space mountain, this one has a 3d cinema in it, bit cheesy but passed 20 minutes ... leads you into the conch shell 4d cinema. you can barely see the size of these buildings, they will easily take 800 people. couple of close ups of the park, this is the upside own house being attacked by dinosaurs, which in the next picture ... entering shangril land you get asked to pose with the snake, as i was the only one who could reach into its mouth, wish id charged. atop dwarf tower, i kid you not, there is a good view of the park, this way over the minetrain queue and towards aztec pyramid plenty of space to squeze another few chinese peolpe in, and one tall english man who got picked on by the clown entertaining the crowd. hmmmm. the queues are out of this world, 2 hours is not uncommon and its only the early part of the season and incase you werent wet enough, the park kindly provides dustbins full of water for other guests to refll their soaker guns. recall the river ride, the water level was at soaking level. close up of a group enjoying the pulley ride the hanging pulley station, they are very happy to have their photos taken, as were the japanese. i got a few requests to star in photos with short girls. no safety nets here, just walk along the track and lift the next carriage off. the SLC has a few problems with its trains entrance sign post for SLC, very eleborate. shows you have better the day gets in the afternoon, and the entrance has hardly anyone in sight, they are all in the 3d shows. the day started misty and raining, but it soon burnt off. the entrance at the start of the day was packed, notice the queue on the left is groups only, as you bought the VIP ticket you can go in the tiny queue on the right and get the map. this will give you the layout of the main park, entrance on bottom, it surrounds 2 lakes.

the theming in this park is good, the apple contains a chair swinger. the suspended mouse is like aladelta, touring the spanish fairs, it is fairly smooth with alittle lateral jarring in the corners. the giant conch shell house an underwater cinema experience, where you wear 3 d goggles and walk on the sea bed. its very good. this park has the best 4 D cinema attraction in china, think as good as spiderman in IOA, it involves dinosaurs taking over the world and you fall into an abyss, this explains the upside down building which I first saw in USA. the tree with big orange balls appears inother parks, its in beijing happy velley i think, i saw it yesterday. Ill dig out my pictures of discoveryladn in dalian and post them next, this is the other must see park ive found in china, apart from the obvious big parks, the chimelong, happy valley ones. Ive only got Urumqui to visit and ive covered all the provinces with parks with more than 2 coasters. to get anymore is going to require some serious planning on daytripping into and out of an airport with no hotel. If anyone wants to contact me for information on how to get to the parks im posting about, then please do. Its not difficult but will need a fair bit of preperation with written chinese help cards The hotel will do these for you on the day for the taxi drivers who cant read english, and even if you say "happy valley" you still wont get there as I found, you have to say the chinese name for the place to get there. when im speaking to taxi drivers the first thing i say is "le yuen" it means park, if your lucky you get taken to a park, if your unlucky you get taken to an area of night clubs ... or museum. been there.

FANTAWILD, wuhu, China here are pictures of the main views of the park and the four coasters. appologies as Ive hijacked the thread with pictures of another park in china I was at last week. It is really a top notch park in an abismal city. after the boat rounds the corner, the crowds soak the boat mercilesly with water cannons they bought from gift shop, park provides dustbin of watre to refill the cannons. their water splash. very impressivly themed not originally in RCDB, this looks like a roller skater, with a pair of helixes in the ride. billed as chinas tallest suspended coaster, i went on another in beijing shigshansen park today, spinning batman, its a towering coaster and loks great once the mist had burnt off a view from the top of dwark village overlooking the mine train volcano and river ride view in the other direction over the lake showing the giant conch under see motion ride , the t 2oasters in the back ground,and the volcanos of to the right a pirate ship and half a geosphere, this houses another 3d cinema experience the main entrance to the complex. city walk is the first bit with shops, the entrance and ticket areas are well down this avenue.

its tough out here at te moment, weather is 24 deg (76 for us frinds) and cool breeze, crowds are high but its not easter in china, so i have a few days off to travel, im in beijing taking in some culture and filling in some gaps from last years TPR trip, so far ive got 2 out 3 of the golden horse spinning mouse coasters that were down last year. this trips big find is Fantawild in Wuhu. its an ace park, as big as a disney park, has the feel of a disney park, has epcot geosphere, space mountain( 4d show though), and the talest hangin coaster in china. their mine train is a twin lift hill and has impecable themeing, the atlantis water ride looks straigh out of IOA. ther eis a city walk as you enter the park, again an IOA idea re-used. Its a must see park i China,but its no where near an aiprot, and is 4-6 hours from shanghai by train. If TPR could get this on their next china trip it would be a real coo. when I get the time I will put more photos up on RCDB, check fantawilf in a weeks time george

yeah, the first picture was bigger than TPR allowed size of 800x600, so i thought it was rejected, it appears to have posted and is causing the 2nd attempt to be offset perhaps the moderator can fix it. I am standing at the right of the main entrance, you can see the dive machine to the left. it was as far as i got before being spotted by the workers ans opted to go back to the taxi. I really cant see how they are going to get 3 more coasters up and running in 4 months and finish the buildings, but this is china and they don't build to last. the factory I'm working in was constructed 18 months ago and it looks 30 years old already. george

heres the picure of the woodie i got last week.

I'm out working in SongJiang, only 15 minutes away from this mud filled construction site. I went up there a few days ago, the dive machine is looking near completion, there is still loads of track in a tarmac area to the south of the park. I couldnt get as close as the construction workers, but i got a half decent dusk shot of the woodie, and a crackig close up of the dive machine. Im hoping to get back nextg week and see the yellow and green track installed a bit to the west of the park. Im also on the september TPR trip through here. if you want to see my photos they are on RCDB cheers george while your on RCDB check oout parks in wuhu and nanjing ive visited. not many pictures up yet as im stuck behind great ftp fire wall of china and cant easly ftp pictures

the english confectionary and the opening of saw the ride at thorpe park this week . could you be heading over the pond to visit Lou.