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Their burgers are supposedly quite good. I think a friend of mine ate their once on his trip.

YAAYYYY!!!! No OTSRs! THe trains look great! Can't wait to ride that coaster.

That is pretty old!!! Cool to see some old memorabilia though.

Again Great TR. You mentioned that you wanted to ride that weird cyclistic inverting contraption of death. It is one of the most unsafe attractions there are. Most of the small parks have like ZERO maintenance. I was on one of those things in Shanghai Zhonghshan Park where they used to have those. We got stuck like at a 100 degree angle for like ten minutes. Pretty freaky but a unique experience.

Well, IF you buy one and accidentally say your wife saw it, then............ Sorry.

^^Were they actuall selling those T's???

Hey Big Mike, What are the names of the remaining coaster in the US left for you?

looks twisty and insane.

^^Agreed.

Great update! Happy Valley Beijing looks good, if only their operations were better. From how you described, it must have been a tangle of lines all over.

JEEZUS! TELL ME THE GERTRUDE JOKE! noones ever told me! WHat is it about Gertrude the goose? When was it started? I've been wondering for ages.

Well, all this is creeps me out. I bet that this will be just like a vekoma head-banger. BUT, i would still ride it to get an extra credit.

Dont know why I love Intamin hypers and mega-lites and especially SKYRUSH, but I absolutely hate its Zac-spins and multi-loopers. The Zac Spins and multi-loopers are sometimes even more painful than the Arrow Looper Ninja.

Hey you do know that Robb does have a real job right? TPR is a part time thing. Robb's real job is a video game designer.

Offer an bribe like maybe paying for dinner and snacks or just offer him marijuana and just see what happens Just kidding. DONT DO THAT!!!

On the news today, It showed the Intamin Mega-lite stuck on the lift keeping riders on for over half an hour.

Well it is changing now with 90 degree curves.

That is FREAKING AWESOME! Looked kind of bumpy from the video though.

Yep, the frisbee was intense and fun. I was very surprised by its long cycle. The mega lite had some of the most airtime I experienced. Sort of like Superman Ride of Steel. I also did not include photos of the awesome intamin mine train which I didn't have time to ride along with the Golden horse kiddie and a Zamperla spinner. Ah we'll, next time.

I stand corrected.

So, this is my first attempt at doing a photo trip report for TPR. So please excuse me it it is slightly not as detailed as you might be used to due to my lack of time as a 9th grader studying abroad in China. Therefore, please post comments so that I can improve my reports in the future. So about my day at Happy Valley Shanghai: Overall, it was only an OK park for me. There was a great selection of rides, but about a quarter was down for maintenance. Food was good. There is a pizza hut, multiple KFCs and multiple Chinese fast food stores. Prices were cheap compared with Six Flags or Cedar Fair park prices. Dumplings and meat on sticks were relatively cheap at around 8-10 yuan each. Unfortunately, I will have to rant on and on about the park's ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE Operations. Lines for all the coasters were consistently 1- 1.5 hours long and around 45 minutes for flat rides. I still don't understand why they couldn't just operate two trains. Even with a long line, the ride ops will meander around and take about 10 minutes to dispatch a train. Please excuse the lack of detailed pictures again and excuse the low quality. The beautiful entry plaza. Dont let the lack of alot of people fool you. THe park is crowded inside. You can see the park's awesome GCI woodie. This airtime monster is awesome. Definitely in my top ten list. Wooden coaster Fireball is seriously just awesome. The chinese riders unfortunately never ride with their hands up. Typhoon bay: a kind of lame dark ride. the 3d effects were not good and a couple of screens were broken as was most of the special effects. Happy Valley Shanghai is themed better then Cedar Fair parks. Hint hint, Cedar point should have more theming. Fake waterfall, etc. the parks landscape and environment is awesome. There was some kind of spring windmill festival of some kind. THere were many small windmills all over the park. the awesome Intamin Mega-lite through the trees. Operations were terrible. I waited an hour to get on this. THey made you do this weird strectching exercise before you can ride. Bad english is a theme in all Chinese parks it seems. The mega-lite is another airtime monster. Why hasn't a US park gotten one of these?! The park's awesome B/M Diving coaster with a train on the top. another shot of the Diving coaster. VERTICAL! MUST GO VERTICAL!!!!! This diving machine is similar to Sheikra but smoother on the side. Immelman loop. There is some hangtime but not too much. The unused second train. Seriously, the wait was 1 hour and 45 minutes and yet they operated only one train. The piece of track right before the lift hill visible from the line Diving Coaster's lift hill with a train in action climbing up. You can get a pretty good idea of this ride's layout from this view here. THe park also had one of the best frisbees I have ever been on. Seriously, it rocked. They also ran an insane 7 minute cycle. Towers where you pull yourself up. another view of the woodie. The line for this was insane. I waited for 2 hours. I felt like I spent most of the day waiting for the rides. Again, this ride operated with only one train. Stupid Ops. The Park's splashdown boat. It was closed for maintenance. A crazy Zamperla flat ride that was fun but made me dizzy. I will conclude this with another shot of the diving coaster.

Man! Even better would be a evil pregnant woman dark shooting ride where you shoot at her testicles and oter things like that.

MUST RIDE COASTER! MUST RIDE COASTER! MUST WIN BAG OF CRAP!!!!!!

Ole laser seems to be holding up just fine. Hopefully that doesn't change over the coming years.

You guys were lucky to catch the Battlestar Gallactica credits. I was there last year in November and both operated only on and off so I missed it