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^ I think it would be even better if GCI built this thing. Fjord Flying Dragon's tack work also seems kind of poorly done.

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Both of my park visits were planned the night before my visit and lasted for only 4 hours. I usually plan everything a few months or even a few years ahead. Park 1: Happy Valley Tianjin. I went to Beijing on November 10th for college interview and spent the night in our great capital. The tickets for the flight back to Guangzhou sold out so we had to fly from Tianjin the second day. That's when I remembered there is a Happy Valley park! Fjord Flying Dragon seemed to have very great review from last year's Mitch hawker poll so we decided to visit that place. Me and my mom planned the park visit at around 9:30 PM and took the Beijing-Tianjin bullet train in the second day's morning. I was so excited that I could post the first Happy Valley Tianjin TR on TPR so we were rushing the whole way. We arrived at the park at 1:30pm due to some transportation issues and I immediately ran into the line of their El Loco. My mom is not a fan of hang time so she skipped it. Crazy Bird review: The coaster was originally named Angry Bird, OCT probably had some copyright issue so they changed the English name. Crazy Bird is my first El Loco and I enjoyed it. I think it is a perfect family coaster, it looks intimidating but actually it is tame enough for the whole family to enjoy. First drop gives more of a hang time feeling than airtime, lateral G force is a bit much but that's probably the point of this design, final brake hits really hard that I saw an unprepared GP getting her chin hit into the lap bar. Overall it's a very great design and I can imagine how awesome the Vegas one would feel like! This is also my first time experiencing hang time on lap bar only coaster. After two rides on Crazy Bird, we went to the main reason why we visited the park: Fjord Flying Dragon. The park was absolutely dead so we had to wait in line for 10 mins to wait for more riders as told by the ride op. What's the best thing to do on queue line(or basically any free time)? Browsing TPR forums! When I opened the page, Gutterflower's Happy Valley Tianjin TR was at the top place Fjord Flying Dragon review: It is my mom's first wooden coaster and my 20th wooden coaster. I think this ride feels more like a rougher GCI coaster with super sharp transitions. PTC really doesn't work on this layout well enough, turns are rougher than a new coaster should be and the trains bounces around quite a lot. Straight sections are fine and smooth though. There are two twists that are way too sudden IMO, the quick transition after the second hill and the transition to the turnaround next to the station. Airtime is incredible for the first half but second half was affected by the high wind too much. For this layout I would say Timberliners would work better even though my Hades360 experience readjusted every bone and organ in my body. Among the three Gravity Group woodies I've been on, it is my favorite one simply because Fireball and Hades360 were too rough. Fjord Flying Dragon is a fun coaster, but world's top 10? I don't think so. I ranked it at my #5 spot after American Eagle. Try to avoid wheel seats and brace for sharp transitions for a smoother ride experience. Then I went on the Christmas Tower thing which is a "drop tower" by Golden Horse. It's so clear that a 2-year-old can figure out it's a Tower of Terror knock-off. But Golden Horse used their magical power to make the copy of possibly the best drop ride in the world a kiddie dark ride that's even slower than the 30-year-old elevator at our local hospital. All things worked like a huge disaster, sound effect wasn't even on, noise of the hydraulic system is too much, wind effect takes 15 seconds to turn on, glass at the top window was partly broken, the cheap seat belts take the ride op 10 minutes to do safety check... Members of RCD told me that the Mine Train is Golden Horse's first good ride and it is surprisingly the smoothest coaster at the park. How can I miss it? Expedition of Volcano is mostly in a very dark room with a short outdoor/indoor section and a helix wrapped around a volcano. I have to say, IT WAS SO FREAKIN' SMOOTH!! Golden Horse really did a good job on this custom Mine Train. They even put silent lift, magnetic brake etc on it (Yes Intamin started using those thing 10,000 years ago but this is a first for Chinese manufacturers) There are still some flaws on the design: the turns aren't exactly as even as those coasters by European and American manufacturers, the train design is very cheap and the switch track gives some bumping at the end of the ride. Hopefully they can start using the wheel bogies that push the guide wheels towards the track soon. Happy Valley Tianjin is a nice park with a good ride collection. Their atmosphere is better than I expected and their Halloween celebration attracted a lot of visitors at night. November 11th is the Single Day for China so a lot of single people went to the park. This is part of the reasons why OCT kept their Halloween event till Single Day. The park was dead the afternoon but it started to get busy at around 5:00 PM. BUT, the park's remote location really prevented a lot of tourists from even getting interested in visiting there, OCT made no advertisement at the bullet train station or any public transportation. Happy Valley parks are famous for their low efficiency and Happy Valley Tianjin is no exception. They aren't taking on-ride photos at the station yet, but the employees don't seem to like or care about their jobs. The minute I walk into the park, I get the "Ride it or not is your choice, I don't give a crap about anything, I'm getting paid anyway" feeling. When I was at Fjord Flying Dragon, they were arranging seats and put everyone at the front of the train because high wind can cause valleying if the barycenter is further the back. I talked to a ride op when standing in line and asked for a non-wheels eat row before they arranged the line, she said I'm "crapping dog sh*t out of my mouth" because she never heard that wheel seats give rougher ride. Enjoy the pictures, my phone was dying so I didn't take a lot of pictures like I did at Ocean Kingdom. Beijing! Can you believe that? They stopped all the factory and heat in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei area and limit the private vehicle on the road for APEC. Our plane by Hainan Airline. Boing 787 really is good. Bullet train! This is Victory Kingdom AKA Fiasco Kingdom. It's pretty close to Wuqing station. Here it is, in the middle of nowhere. This is CCTV's building, 1.3 billion people are saying it looks like a giant boxer but I guess only me, the designer and 10 other people think it is a beautifully designed masterpiece. Here it is, must see it to prove you are in Beijing. The building for Zhongye, where horrible knock-off SLC's with Suicidewinder was designed. A Beijing restaurant with very nice traditional house theming. While I'm really not a fan of Beijing food because Canton area wins the whole China on food, I really enjoyed the atmosphere. This thing looks so good but I'm not brave enough to eat it. Yay for another woodie! It's a beautiful day thanks to the government's hard work. Closer That drop! That turn! El Loco!!! There is a stage right after you enter the park. Just to let you guys see how empty this place is. No one, no one, no oneeeeeee Welcome to Happy Valley Tianjin, this is where the magic starts. See? Actually not bad for Happy Valley standard. Pumpkins on spider nets? They turned off the lights for Halloween event. This ride is surprisingly fun. Unexpected airtime is a good thing. Found this at the airport. Strangely it gives me a nightmare. Yay! There's a bridge with two rows of Chinese zombies. Chinese zombies jumps with their arms reaching out straight. Different from those on Walking Dead. Just look at the creepy face! Imagine her eye following you when you walk past it. The Subway castle. Unfortunately we had to leave the park early because our flight is at 9:00 PM so I didn't get to experience their Halloween event. This is the kiddie dark ride with disastrous special effects. Imagine riding a woodie with Arrow horseshoe collars This actually looks smaller than I imagined. The other train is resting, there's no need for two train operation when you need to wait 10 mins for 7 riders. Empty station with the rudest park employee I've ever seen Heartlined track is a pretty thing. PTC! Finally see you again after Mean Streak. That weird flat by Nanfang looks like a vomit machine. Where the roughness kicks in

No, maybe RMC doesn't want to build loops because they want to stay low G's, but there are still manufacturers that adds loop on their rides. Bluefire clones are showing up everywhere, YOLOcoaster is getting huge success, Gerstlauer can pretty much add anything to their Infinity Coaster and Euro Fighter, B&M is still doing the same thing for 20 years, Vekoma still sells Boomerangs... Plus, Golden Horse, SBL, Zhipao, Zhongye etc are still building knock-off coasters with loops. RMC having so many orders and might dominant the coaster world for this decade doesn't mean vertical loops are going anywhere.

2020? So glad there will be a lot of RMC's coming.

They announced something new. Wonder how the restraints work and how they keep the wheel chair on place. [youtu_be] [/youtu_be]

I actually kind of wish they build a Frozen castle instead. That ice castle would be really bad a$$.

^ They are Maurer Söhne coasters.

Strange ticket system, so the package ticket is also flash pass? That seems like a good deal that those in the 3 hour line don't even know about. They made a second modification on the SLC as you can see on the support near the Immelmann there are a few spots that are redone. Old Gold Mine is a Chinese knock-off Meisho looper by Sameco (They made Shanghai Amusement Equipments co. sound like a Japanese company) As for the air, I feel blessed to live in Guangzhou.

Is it becoming a thing now? Building horrible Chinese knock-off coasters I saw some contests about it a while ago. You seem like a huge fan of these coasters.

Yes! I'm so excited for this ride! For some reason I really love Triotech rides. Congrats to both KBF and Triotech, this ride will be amazing!

It's hard to remember such a giant project is coming next year as well. Other parks are doing so well on updates, Lagoon just seems too mysterious on everything. Hopefully it will be really amazing because every unannounced detail will rock the world.

Great TR! These parks look actually pretty nice. We call Victory Kingdom Fiasco Kingdom because it is always a ghost town. Meanwhile their U-Shaped Coaster costs the price of an admission ticket to do a circle. They can start planning to sell their rides to other parks.

Yes, but I think transforming a water ride into a water coaster might be easier and cheaper.

Area K looks like a water coaster! So is this the location for Mack's mysterious new water coaster concept?

BEST COASTER SHIRT EVER!!

^ No restraint can detect the rider's body shape nowadays! The green light goes on as long as the restraint touches the maximum lock position. Making sure the riders are properly locked is the ride operator's job. A 60-pound kid whose height just reached 48' would most likely to fall out if the restraint is at the maximum lock position. You can go on a coaster that uses lights to indicate the restraints' position and try it out yourself. It's not that hard to understand. Gerstlauer did nothing wrong on this.

Cliffhanger, instead of Magic Flyer, will be the new ultimate credit whore coaster for a lot of enthusiasts. Not meant to offend anyone and sorry if I do, this park is like a North Korea rebuild if they change Jesus into Kim Jong Un. Hopefully Cliffhanger will be closed or relocated, that way I won't have to decide to go or not.

Photos of Gerstlauer parts are better than porn.

I feel so happy for RMC, everything they do are amazing and their business is going up real fast. Hope someone can visit their new factory and make a TR

Yesterday at Happy Valley Tianjin, the restraint of El Loco went one clicked up during that weird dive loop thing. I was scared for a second but then I turned around and saw the restraint system and remembered Alan Schilke designed it. I went back to complete normal riding mood.

Happy Valley Beijing's Vekoma Shenlin SLC just valleyed at the Cobra Roll. Fantawild's Golden Horse Shenlin knock-off also valleyed at about the same spot a couple of years back. Is it a design thing? Vekoma's Cobra Roll seem to have both halves at the same height so during high wind or cold weather it is more likely to valley. But on the pictures the train is apparently empty. Beijing is about 43 degrees now.

Coke! I was pretty much a Coca Cola addict a few months ago and now I have to use soda water to get out. Long Island Ice Tea?

Imagine repeatedly enduring a rear-end car collision for about a minute or so--that's the Chinese version of an SLC. The Vekoma original is buttery smooth by comparison. Wow. Even more so the Gouderix? Haven't been on Goudurix yet, but I can pretty much guarantee Goudurix is smoother.