The Angry Darren Mullins

RCDB lists the Crazy Mouse as new, but it could just be the same one that was there when I visited in 2009. Yes. It is getting crappier. The park is owned by the government. I was just shocked at the amount of rides that are no longer in service.

August 22, 2015 Shunyi Park: This park is in the northeast of Beijing. It is about an hour from downtown. There are a few rides here. One is a powered coaster that is very common here in China. I rode the coaster, took some photos and left. One ride here is a knockoff disko coaster. I have included a photo of it. Yiyuan Park: This park is also in Shunyi and is about a 10 minute walk from the west gate of Shunyi Park. This park is very small and you can walk eat to west or west to east in less than one minute. With that being said, it is a nice little place. There are a few kids rides here. One is a small powered coaster. I rode the powered coaster, took some photos and left. It was a nice little outing to these parks. Most foreign visitors to Beijing will not see these parks because they are so far out of the way. I am at Shunyi Park today. It is in the northeast of Beijing-far from the city center. A powered coaster is here. I see this often in China. Here is the carousel shot for my Shunyi park visit. The Chinese are knocking these off. This type of ride is common in Chinese parks. Shunyi park's lake is very nice. I took a short walk from Shunyi park and went to Yiyuan park. A small pond is here. A few kiddie rides, including this powered coaster, are here. It has a helix. I took this shot during my ride.

Yes. the shuttle loop is closed and weeds are covering it. The Space Trip coaster is closed. Jurassic Adventure is closed. Spinning Batmen is closed. Crazy Mouse is not open yet. The SLC has so much padding on the restraints that it is unridable for most people as the restraint will not close. I had ridden a copy of this SLC in Dalian at Discoveryland. It is a small loss not to get the credit. I would almost rather be on the wrong side of a prison shower gang rape than to ride one of these things. Although this park has easy access, you could probably give it a skip on your next tour of parks in China.

This wooden coaster did not have an inversion.

I went to two parks in Beijing today. Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park-I first visited this place almost six years ago. Many rides here no longer work. The place is so faded that I do not see it lasting much longer. With that being said, a new mouse coaster was just build. It hasn't opened yet. Space Trip is my favorite coaster here and sadly, it is closed for good now. There are four coasters that are SBNO and Crazy Mouse is not ready to open. That means that only 4 out of 9 coasters are in operation. The Shenzhou Coaster is no longer carrying larger guests. There is so much padding on the restraints that most guests can't fit in the ride. This is the first time that I could not get the restrain to go all the way down. This is not a problem on other SLCs. I only rode Atomic Coaster (#941) and found it to be enjoyable as it was made in Japan and is better than a lot of Chinese made coasters. Grand Canal Forest Park This is a new park. There are two coasters here. The loop and corkscrew Flying Roller Coaster (#943 for me) is Chinese made and is more rough than the Atomic Coaster at Shijingshan. Spinning Pulley (#942) is another spinning coaster. The Chinese love these. I have now ridden 943 coasters and have visited 460 different amusement parks. I started to day at Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park. This is a landmark here. The inverted coaster and carousel peacefully co-exist here. Space Trip is closed. It is my favorite ride here. Spinning Batman is also closed. The Crazy Mouse has not opened yet. The Ferris wheel is closed. Atomic Coaster is open. Up next was Grand Canal Forest Park. There is a nice lake in this park. These are very common over here. This will be my second loopscrew of the day. This action shot will close out the TR.

August 20, 2015: Fantawild Dreamland (Zhengzhou) I was in Zhengzhou for a bit today. I didn't have time to visit both Fantawild parks, so I only visited the new one. Fantawild Dreamland opened on July 9, 2015. There are two coasters here. Galaxy Express-This is a Vekoma family suspended coaster. It is very good for its size. I really enjoyed it. It is coaster #938 for me. Jungle Trailblazer-This was a milestone coaster for me. It is China's newest wooden coaster. It also became wooden coaster #100 for me. I really enjoyed this action packed ride. It became my 939th coaster in total. Fans of Happy Valley's Dauling Dragon will like this ride. People's Park I had time to go here before getting my next train. I went back to ride the spinning coaster I didn't get to ride three years ago. Spinning Coaster became coaster #940 for me. In all, I had a great day. I have arrived at Zhengzhou's Fantawild Resort. I will visit Fantawild Dreamland today. This is just inside the entrance. They love double decker carousels in China. This was my first coaster of the day. It is a very intense coaster for its size. It entertains a lot of guests here. This is the one I have been waiting for. This is the Jungle Trailblazer. It would become my 100th wooden coaster. The train is on its side in this shot. Timberliners are used on this ride. It is a great coaster. After Dreamland, I went to Zhengzhou People's Park. The loopscrew photo will finish the TR.

Another day, another incident of China making a farce out of intellectual copyrights.

August 1, 2015: Today I went to Zhongshan to visit Dasin Galaxy Land. It is a new park that opened about one month ago. The park opened as part of a mall. Part of the park sits on the ground on the north side of the mall and the other part of the park, including the roller coaster, sits on the roof of the mall. There are several rides here including a drop tower, which is still under construction, a boat chute ride and the coaster. I think the coaster's name is Family Roller Coaster. It is very popular with guests, but I found it a bit rough. It clearly is an attempt by Golden Horse to make their own roller skater model without copying it exactly. I rode it twice. It was coaster #937 for me. In all, the park is very nice and has a lot of new as it is a month old. Locals seem to be supporting it and the mall too as both places were very busy. It is nice to see Golden Horse do something different now that nearly every park has a space car or spinning coaster model. I have arrived in Zhongshan at Dasin Galaxy Land. The park opened about one month ago. This ride greeted me upon entering the park. Here is one of the rides at the park. The monorail looks very nice here. The boat chute is the biggest ride here. A roller coaster is here. It had a decent amount of attention from park guests. It seems to be based on the Vekoma Roller Skater. Here it is going over the lift. This looks like it could be a fun ride, but it is a bit rough. This will finish off the TR.

I visited two parks in out of the way cities in Guangdong province this week. July 26: Greenland (Enping, Jiangmen) I found a brochure for this park nearly two years ago. I finally got to visit it this week. This a big resort. The park is part of a chain that also includes Jindouwan Resort and Quanlin Resort in Zhongshan in Guangdong. I have been to these parks too. This park is located in an out of the way area. There are no direct buses to this place. I took an intercity bus from Kaiping to get there. I was dropped off several km from the park. There is a nice resort motel here, a lake and an amusement park. The park features basic rides and includes a mouse coaster. I would ride the mouse coaster and the powered coaster. I took some pictures and left as it was late in the evening. July 27: Sanbu Culture Park (Kaiping) I got up early and walked to Sanbu Culture Park. There is a mouse coaster here with a carousel and some kiddie rides. This appears to be the only park in the city of Kaiping. There may be another, but Kaiping is very small. The mouse here became coaster #936 for me to ride and coaster #279 for me to find before ACE or RCDB. Sanbu Culture Park became park #456 for me to visit. I had a nice little visit to two out of the way parks that most enthusiasts will likely never visit. I have arrived at Greenland in Jiangmen. There are rides here. Ohhhhh look! A powered coaster. Another day, another dragon. Another day, another jungle mouse. These are very common here in China. I took this photo during my ride. I went to Sanbu Culture Park in Kaiping the next morning. This park mostly has kiddie rides. A nice little lake is here too. So is another one of these damned things. I have seen this many times. It became coaster #936 for me.

July 5, 2015: I arrived in Beijing at about 6:45 am. Lianhuachi Park is right next to Beijing West Railway Station. I walked over to the park and found a small collection of rides. There was a small coaster among the rides. At 7:45 am, I got to ride the coaster. By 8:30, I was at Black Bamboo Park where there is another small collection of rides that includes a small coaster. I rode this coaster before 9 am. I had been to two parks and ridden two coasters before 9 am on the same day. Sun Park was up next. There are 10 coasters here. I had visited Sun Park 5 and 1/2 years ago. Some new rides have been added here. I rode the knock off motorbike coaster and found it to be more intense the the genuine ride at Chimelong Paradise. I also rode Crazy Skateboard. This was very intense. The park has also added to twin helix powered coasters. Just why would a park do such a thing? One is enough. I went over to Wang Feng Pavilion Park next. This park is close to Beijing south railway station. There is a small collection of rides that includes a coaster (that had the same layout at the one at Black Bamboo park). There is also a flume ride here. This park finished up my day. July 6, 2015: I woke up early to catch a bus to Badaling with the intention of visiting the Great Wall Of China. The bus never stopped at the Great Wall entrance, so I rode clear to Yangqing. The bus terminal was very close to Yangqing Children's Amusement Park. This became park #450 for me. I rode a couple of rides here. One of the rides is a knock off Wacky Worm. It became coaster #930 for me. After visiting this park, I went to the Great Wall Of China. I climbed up two mountains (one to the south and the other to the north). This place is very much worth visiting. It was a great day. I have now ridden 930 coasters, visited 450 parks and discovered 276 coasters before RCDB or ACE could find them. I got off the train at 6:45am and walked to Lianhuachi Park which is next to Beijing West Train station. There is a small area with rides here. A little coaster is here. I rode this coaster at 7:45am. It is not even 8:30am yet and I am at my second park of the day. It is Black Bamboo Park. There is a small area of rides in this park. A kiddie coaster with a figure eight layout is here. It is not yet 9am and I am already at my second park of the day riding a coaster. It has some nice scenery. I have moved on to Sun Park to ride the Chinese version of the motorbike coaster. It is a large ride. It is much better than the one I rode at Chimelong Paradise. Crazy Skateboard was intense near the end of the ride. Space Scooter is one of two double helix powered coasters at Sun Park. Just why would Sun Park have two of the same coaster? Here is the other powered coaster. Roller Coaster (that is the name of this one) seemed to be the most popular ride in the park. Wang Feng Pavilion Park is near Beijing South Railway station. No park should be without one of these. Wang Feng Pavilion has a nice little flume. A small coaster is here. I went north of Beijing the next morning to Yangqing. I visited Yangqing Children's Amusement Park. This Tiltawhirl is an old ride, but the cars have been replaced recently. This ride was fun. A Wacky Worm knockoff is here. It is always good to get a credit. After leaving the park... ...I hit a wall.

On June 21, 2015, I went to Zhangzhou city to visit Jiulong Park. This is a small park with a small collection of rides. There is a mouse coaster, large Ferris wheel, flume and other rides. The park has added a few rides in the last year or so and removed a few rides, including a powered coaster. Jiulong Park is about a 20 minute bus ride from Zhangzhou railway station. The park is very well kept and the park maintains the rides well for a Chinese park. Speed Sled, the park's mouse coaster became coaster #922 for me and Jiulong Park became park #446 for me to visit. I am in the city of Zhangzhou to visit Jiulong Park. Most Chinese parks have a lake. This park also has a large Ferris Wheel. No park is complete without one of these. This is one of the park's newest rides. The flume is likely to be popular on hot days. A mouse coaster is here. I see this so many times in China. These are very common, but they are also very reliable. I rarely see one of these closed. Here is an on ride shot to finish the TR.

June 13, 2015: I visited the city of Chaozhou. I went to two parks there (parks # 444 and # 445). West Lake Park: This park is not on RCDB yet, but it soon will be. There is a small amusement park here and a mouse coaster was just added very recently. Sadly, the mouse was down due to being struck by lightning the day before my visit. God only knows how long it will be down. There is also a small powered coaster with a different layout from what I have seen before. The powered coaster serves as the centerpiece of the rides area. There are a few other rides here as well. Fenghuangzhou Park: I found this park a few years ago and alerted Duane at RCDB. The park had a mouse coaster and a powered coaster at the time of me finding it on Google maps. The mouse was removed shortly thereafter. This park's name in English is Phoenix Island Park. There is a small collection of basic rides here. I rode the powered coaster ($1.60 USD for four circuits). I walked around and took pictures and was about to leave when six children went over to the powered coaster to ride it. The ride op was in the ticket booth a couple of hundred feet away and couldn't hear the children screaming for him. I alerted him that they wanted to ride. I got an addition four spins on the powered coaster since as the result of my efforts. I am in the city of Chaozhou today. My first stop is West Lake Park. I love to see things like this in Chinese parks. There are rides at West Lake Park. A nice little flume is here. The Golden Dragon Roller Coaster is in the center of the rides area. I love the design of the lead car. This seemed to be the most popular ride at West Lake. It is actually a very fast ride. A mouse coaster is here. It looks like a brand new ride. Too bad a lightning strike one day before fried the coaster's operating system. My next park of the day was Fenghuangzhou Park. It is called Phoenix Island in English. As soon as I walked into the park, guests were enjoying the pirate ship. I have to get the carousel shot in. The moon cars are being overtaken by weeds. There is a powered coaster called Golden Dragon Roller Coaster here. Six Flags and Cedar Fair must co-own a lot of Chinese parks due to the names being recycled at nearly every park. The train even looks like a golden dragon. It has a long train. Long is the Chinese word for Dragon. This is pretty common in China. I will finish the TR with an onride shot.

On June 6, 2015, I went to Xianzi Park in Huidong county in Guangdong, China. This park is in the middle of a very small city. The park is very small and only the pirate ship still operates here. The rest of the rides are rusting away. There is a small powered coaster that has an unusual figure eight layout. Most of the paths are starting to over taken by weeds. The fact that this park charges a 3 RMB (about 50 cents USD) admission is a joke. Nothing has been taken care of here. I took several photos and left. This park probably will not last much longer. If the pirate ship breaks down, that is it. The paths have weeds covering them and the park is very dirty. I do not see how anyone actually goes here. See you in hell Xianzi Park. I have arrived at Xianzi Park in Huidong, Guangdong. This paratrooper ride is just inside the gate and it no longer works. As luck would have it, the pirate ship still entertains guests at Xianzi Park. The haunted walk through is no longer in service. The bumper cars are stored in here. Halfway up the hill is this old merry go round. It doesn't look so merry. At the top of the hill is a powered coaster. I see this type of train design in China very often. It is a powered coaster that had not been in service for some time. It is all ready to leave the station, but it will not run anymore. This powered coaster has a figure eight layout. This is something different from other powered coasters. Weeds will eventually overtake this ride. This will finish off the TR. I wonder how much longer this park will last.

I traveled to the city of Ganzhou this past weekend. I arrived in the city on the evening of May 23 and began exploring. I visited three parks and one historical attraction. Children's Park (May 23) This park is one of China's many children's parks. The ride collection here was all replaced a year or so ago. There used to be a coaster here. The coaster's train is in storage at the park. I got a picture of the train even though darkness was about to overtake the park. This was park #440 for me to visit. Baohulu Farm (May 24) This park is located in the northern part of the city. It is somewhere between a full scale theme park and a traditional park. There are two coasters here. One was open. I rode Three Loop Roller Coaster (#919 for me). This was a very rough Arrow knockoff. The parks spinning mouse coaster was closed. It is being given a paint job. There was showers while I was at this park, but they still opened the rides. That is a huge bonus for this place. I love it when parks will not let a little bit of rain ruin the day. There is also an ice sculpture display here and there is an ice slide there as well. That begs the question can I count an ice slide as a coaster? It is important to remember that roller coasters evolved from ice slides, so counting it would actually have some validity. Floating Bridge (May 24) The city is home to a floating bridge that dates back from the Song dynasty. It is about 850 years old. I stopped here as it was on the way between the two parks I would visit on May 24. 5 Dragon Keija Custom Park (May 24) This park is a very well kept (except for the amusement rides) park near the center of the city. I saw the nice entrance. I walked across the nice bridge and had high hopes for when I reached the rides. When I finally found the rides, I noticed that the rides have not carried anyone in a loooooonnnnnnnggggggggg time. It is really sad too as they have some neat rides including a troika knock off that I would have loved to have ridden. You can tell by the photos that these rides will never be used again. In all, I have now ridden 919 roller coasters, visited 442 amusement parks and have found 270 coasters before RCDB or ACE could find them. Upon Arriving in Ganzhou, I checked out Children's Park and discovered that it used to have a coaster. The train is still there. On the morning of the 24th, my first stop was Baohulu Farm. There is some nice scenery and a huge Ferris wheel here. Once again, no park should be without one of these. The park had this unusual looking train ride. The flume is not working. Here is a test spin on Top Spin. I like the outside of this dark ride. A Spinning Coaster from Golden Horse is here. It was not open today. Three Loop Roller Coaster was open for business. It is a knock off of an Arrow ride. Here is some corkscrew porn. The weather got kind of misty when I took this photo. They have an ice sculpture display at Baohulu. What is this? It is some type of lift. The lift is part of Baohulu's ice slide. Does it count as a credit? Roller coasters evolved from ice slides. On the way to the next park, I stopped to walk across this approximately 850 year old bridge for a culture credit. The last park I would visit in Ganzhou would be 5 Dragon Keija Custom Park. Seeing the nice entrance gate and this colorful bridge really gave me high hopes for the amusement park area here. WTF? This is the first ride I saw here. This ride didn't look any better. The enterprise ride was as dead as the dodo. There is even a knock off troika ride here, but it is no use to think you will get to take a spin on it. There is a small powered coaster here. This is a very common design. You can see how this coaster will never carry another rider. It has seen better days. The park must have had a real ass clown in charge of ride upkeep.

May 4, 2015: Today I visited the cities of Nanchang and Jiujiang. I went to one park in each city. People's Park (Nanachang) This park is not listed on RCDB. I knew it had some rides so I decided to check it out. There is a coaster here. It is well hidden in the trees. It is similar to many other coasters I have ridden. It is a mouse coaster, but the lift on this one is not as tall and it has a different layout. Near the end of the ride, there is a small dip that has a brake on it. I wondered why it had a brake there and about one second later, I found out why. I was slammed into the side of the car as it made a quick turn to the right. It started to rain hard as soon as I finished my ride on the coaster, so I took a few photos and then headed out to catch a train to Jiujiang. Gantang Park Gantang Park is in the city of Jiujiang and while RCDB lists only a powered coaster, there are two other coasters here. The ride collection here is nice. I rode the powered coaster, which was nothing special. Walking through, I noticed a small kiddie coaster. I took a spin (2 circuits) on it. It is not like other coasters I have ridden. I wonder who made it. A short distance away, there was a mouse coaster. This mouse coaster is very smooth, except for two places. There are two short drops and coming out of these drops provide extreme airtime. In fact, the airtime coming out of the last dip right before the final brake is so intense that I doubt this coaster could operate in America. These two spots are the best airtime I have ever experienced on a coaster. It is well worth checking this coaster out if you are in China. I have now ridden 918 different coasters and with the three coasters I found today, I have now discovered 269 different coasters before ACE or RCDB could find them. I have arrived to explore People's Park in the city of Nanchang. I am inside. People can enjoy boats on the lake here. Some rides are here. A Chinese made Crazy Daisy type ride is here. This ride was closed. A mouse coaster is here and at first glance, looks like familiar. Here we go again. I see so many of these here in China. Hmmmmm....the lift is not as tall on this one. This ride is hidden by a lot of trees. This drop had a brake on it. The reason was clear about a second later when the coaster slammed me to the side as it made a sharp right turn. A quick train ride and I was in the city of Jiujiang to visit Gantang Park. RCDB only lists a powered coaster here. Here is the dragon coaster. They keep up the paint job on it. Here is my on ride shot. Gantang's Ferris Wheel is located on a hill. No park should be without one of these. This walk through goes underground. This is a very popular family ride at Gantang Park. A worm themed kiddie coaster is here. The train looks like a giant worm. It is so tall, it almost touches the....uh....well, it is not that tall. It is a fun little coaster. This little pagoda was nice to look at. The lake here is huge. This thing can be experienced at Gantang Park. It is a mouse coaster and it has a name. I have not ridden another one like this one. Here is some porn for the lift hill addicts. The cars look like mice. To the bottom right, going up that little incline provides the bets does of airtime I have ever experienced on 918 different roller coasters. Coming out of this small drop provided a massive does of airtime. I am talking serious ejector air. I have seen nothing else like it anywhere. It is actually a very smooth ride. It is easy to get good pictures of. That will finish the TR.

May 3, 2015: I visited two parks in the city of Hengyang. This was actually my second visit to the city. I was there two years ago in the early evening and visited Yueping Park and West Lake Park. At that time, I got to fully take in West Lake and then went to Yueping Park as the sun was going down. Many of the rides at Yueping Park were closed when I got there. I was still able to ride a mouse coaster that was there. The mouse coaster has since been removed from Yueping Park and trees have been planted in its place. Pinghu Park: Pinghu Park is a small park with a lake and two areas of amusement park rides. One area has a few kiddie rides and the other area has a few more rides, including a mouse coaster. There is not really much to this park and the coaster is like many others that I have ridden in China. With that being said, any coaster nut who visits the city of Hengyang in Hunan province will find a good afternoon of fun in at Pinghu Park, Yueping Park and West Lake Park. RCDB lists a second coaster under construction, but there is no coaster under construction at Pinghu. There is only a mouse coaster. Yueping Park: This park is billed as being an "Anti-Japanese Leisure Spot". Two years ago, I rode the mouse coaster here. It is not gone. I went back this time to explore an area of rides that was closed during my last visit. There is a powered coaster there that is really powerful in regards to speed. It, along with the powered coaster at the now defunct Wonchon Lake Land in South Korea are the best powered coasters I have ever ridden. After visiting Yueping, I went to the train station and left Hengyang. I saw no need to visit West Lake this time as Nothing has been added and again, I got to see all of that park the last time. This is the back entrance of Pinghu Park in Hengyang. Hu is the Chinese word for lake. This is the body of water that gives the park its name. Pinhu's rides are this way across this bridge. There are not many rides here, but there is a nice little merry go round. There is also a mouse coaster here. It is the same as many others that I have ridden in China. Once again, this is a very common sight for me in China. This was taken during my ride on the coaster. Here is an action shot of the mouse. On the way to the train station, the bus passed by Yueping Park. I decided to pay another visit as many of the rides had closed for the evening when I was here two years ago. Yueping Park's mouse coaster has been removed. A few footers are all that is left of the coaster. A powered coaster is here at Yueping Park. It looks like a pretty basic powered coaster. What makes this powered coaster different is that it uses part of the terrain. From this on ride shot, you can tell that the track is pretty much on the ground. It was really moving fast at this point. Here is an action shot to finish off the TR.

I went to the city of Wuzhou in Guangxi province on Sunday to visit a couple of parks there. I would visit the two parks I planned to visit and then find a smaller park that I stopped at. Here is a rundown of each park: Rose Lake Park: This park is built around a lake and a section of amusement rides has just been added in the past several months. The flume ride and Ferris wheel are still not open yet, but they will open very soon. There is a mouse coaster here and it seems to follow the layout of other mouse coasters in China, but it has a couple of differences. The drops are slightly larger on this coaster and the track is of a different design. This mouse coaster provided an intense ride. I really enjoyed it. I took some photos and then left because I had another park and I had a train to catch back to Guangzhou later that afternoon. Taihe Garden: This park has had rides for much longer than Rose Lake Park. The rides are scattered about in three areas here. There is mouse coaster that the layout was the inspiration for the Rose Lake coaster. I like these and that is good because there are so many of them here. I actually found this park a while back and alerted Duane at RCDB about it. There is also a powered Dragon coaster here that has curves that were banked wrong. The car I was riding in on it felt like it was loose and could come off the wheels. Culture Square: This park is in the south park part of Wuzhou. There are only kiddie rides here. I stopped to look around because I still had about one hour left to kill. I saw where they had a knock off balloon ride, so I took a photo of that and then left. It was a nice little unplanned side trip for the day. In all, I had fun at the parks and they made a nice little outing for me. I have now ridden 912 coasters. I have arrived at Rose Lake Park in the city of Wuzhou. They just added an amusement area. This Frisbee was the first ride I saw in the park. This ride was popular with guests on this day. The Ferris Wheel has not opened yet. The flume ride has not opened, but park employees were test riding it today. Here is necessary carousel shot for this park. Chinese people just love these. I love the front of the walk through haunted house here. A roller coaster is here. It has cars that look like mice. It copies, but modifies the layout of several mouse coasters here in China, but there are a couple of differences. The track design is one thing that is different. The drops are a bit bigger. That is the other difference. Here is a view of the coaster from another angle. Here is an action shot of the coaster before I leave to head over to Taihe Garden. I have arrived at Taihe Garden. 2015 is the year of the goat in China. We will get the carousel shot out of the way early for this park. There is a powered dragon coaster here. It is a little bit different than others I have ridden. I enjoyed this little ride. Taihe Garden has a very nice flume ride. The ride through haunted house was nicely done. A mouse coaster is at Taihe Garden. These are so common, but I like them. This balloon ride is a knock off. I stopped at this little amusement park as I was going to the train station. Not much is here, but I thought I would check the place out. That will finish the TR.

I got up this morning and went to Baiyun Lake Amusement Park in Guangzhou. This park opened two years ago and is a major park even by coaster/park enthusiasts standards. I was really surprised by how many rides it has. There is a large looping coaster called Roller Coaster that is like four others that I have ridden in China. Some of them have been rough, but this one was surprisingly smooth. Maybe the company that designed it has improved the later installations of this design. A jungle mouse coaster is here and it is just like so many others that I have ridden in China. A small powered coaster can also be found at this park. It is like so many others I have ridden as well. There is a large Ferris wheel and a Frisbee type ride here. The park's log flume had not opened from its winter slumber yet, but it has three lift hills. I have not seen another flume like this one in China. In all this park has about 35 rides and one could easily spend half a day in the amusement area if it was not for one thing-no POP is available. The rides are all pay per ride and Roller Coaster costs USD $5.80 per ride. The mouse coaster costs about $3.25 per ride. If you go to the park and ride 5 or 6 rides, you will have spent what could have gotten you a POP at a lot of parks. The Baiyun distric has had a checkered past with its parks. Oriental Park opened near Baiyun mountain and has since closed. Nanhu Amusement Park in Baiyun looks like it should have closed 10 years ago and is in the process of removing its Arrow looper and only has a kiddie coaster. With the addition of rides at Baiyun Lake, the area now has a major coaster again. I hope the locals will keep it that way. My track record is now at 909 coasters, including 99 wooden coasters. I have arrived at Baiyun Lake. The rides must be over in this direction. This is the first ride that greets you as you arrive at the rides area of Baiyun Lake. No park is complete without one of these. A look down the midway shows two coasters. There are other rides besides coasters at Baiyun Lake. This is probably the longest flume ride that I have seen in Asia. Too bad it was closed for the winter. It will open in another month or so. A small powered coaster is here. Here is the station for the powered coaster. I see so many of these here. This was shortly before my ride on the coaster. I have seen so many of these in China, including three others in the past two weeks. I see so many of them for sure. I wonder how many of them actually exist. This mouse coaster is at Baiyun Lake, but I could have easily used a photo of another mouse coaster from one of my reports and nobody would have known the difference. Look familiar? A large looping coaster called Roller Coaster is here. it is very tall. Here is one view of the coaster. This ride is Chinese made, but looks like TOGO tried to rip off Arrow's loopscrew design and leave out a corkscrew. This was the first run of the day. It was a test run. This is the biggest drop on Roller Coaster. Through the loop during the test run and that will finish off the TR.

The haunted house was a walk through attraction. It was very cheesy. The props and effects worked only because the park is so new.

Finding it was totally unplanned. I was just walking down the street and there it was.

I am in Guangzhou for the weekend and I am staying at a motel next to former site of the Guangzhou airport. From my research, the waiting hall of the old airport was converted into a shopping mall rather than to just build a new building for the mall. As I was walking to what would be my motel for the night, I saw some lights (it was shortly after 6pm) like you would find on amusement park rides. Sure enough, there is a small park here located just outside one of the entrances to the mall. The park is called Golden Disney Amusement Park in English, although the Chinese name of the park features what is supposed to a be a corruption of the Disney name. Despite the park being called Golden Disney Amusement Park. There is no Disney theme of any kind nor are any Disney characters used. There are about 10 rides in this park. There is a small fruit worm coaster that mimics the layout of a wacky worm, but the station area is on one end of the coaster where a turn would be on a wacky worm ride. The haunted house walk through features a wave swinger on top of its building. It is possible to walk through the whole park in about 30 seconds going from one end of the park to the other end (there is a gate on each end of the park). I rode the coaster(they give two laps) and took some photos. The rides are basic Chinese fare (total crap to us westerners, but big stuff to the Chinese) and the park can make an easy side trip (it is located near Baiyun Park subway station) if you are credit whoring around the city of Guangzhou. The coaster here became coaster #906 for me. It also became coaster #264 for me to find before RCDB or ACE. I am in Guangzhou for the weekend and just found the Golden Disney Amusement Park. Let's see what is inside. Guests must pay a deposit for a ride card and charge it with money for each ride. Here is the park's merry go round. Some guests were enjoying the rocket ships when I entered the park. The ever popular pirate ship ride can be found here. The wave swinger sits on top of the walk through haunted house. A family roller coaster is here. It isn't very tall. You can see the highest point of the coaster behind the kiddie flume ride. The lead car looks like a worm. Here is a shot of the train inside the station. This action shot of the train climbing the lift will finish off the TR.

This park is far from new. It is an event that has been going on for over 25 years or so. I went there in 2001. It is a lot of fun. They had a portable Zyklon coaster and a portable log flume.It is located at the I-X Center in Cleveland, next to the Cleveland airport.

On March 14, 2015, I ventured over to Huizhou to visit Bandao Culture Sports Park. I found this park sometime ago and knew that it had a coaster. I didn't get to visit the park until this weekend. For those who want to visit, you should go to Huizhou by train to Huizhou South train station. From there, take bus 6 directly to the park. Bandao Culture Sports Park is a very nice park, although some sections of it are fade, others look like they were built yesterday. There are several basketball courts and other sporting facilities here. There are also three clusters of amusement rides. Two of them are very close to one another and feature mostly kiddie rides. Another section of rides has a coaster, paratrooper and some kiddie rides. The coaster here is a jungle mouse coaster that is similar, but not identical to some of the others I have ridden. On this one, the drops are very gradual. Actually on most of them, the drops are gradual, but it is even more so on this one. The brakes made a funny squeaking sound and at times, I thought the ride would fall apart. Other than that, I enjoyed this coaster. It is one of 263 coasters I have found before RCDB or ACE, although it took me a couple of years to get over to the park and ride it. It was also my 205th coaster. Last week, I visit Chuangyi Future City Amusement Park in Shenzhen's Pingshan district. Both of these parks are three miles (5 km) away from each other and you could walk the distance between them in one hour or so. In all, I had a great time at this park. I am in Huizhou today to visit Bandao Culture Sports Park. There are rides here. A nice little merry go round is here. This is a very colorful Ferris Wheel for children. I think they let adults ride too. The train entertains children who visit Bandao Culture Sports Park. This one of many kiddie rides here. I thought this was a nice little ride for kids. Pirate ships are popular at parks in most countries. A paratrooper ride is here. This is one of the games in the park. Who is up for some target practice? A mouse coaster is here and it is similar, but not identical to other mouse coasters that I have ridden in China. Once again, this is a very common sight for me in China. The coaster even has a name. Here is a shot of the lift. Here is a side view of the lift. This coaster was easy to photograph from different angles. Here is the mouse from another angle. Here is one section of the coaster. I will close out the TR with an on ride shot.

I woke up this morning and made it out to Shenzhen's Pingshan district to visit a park that opened almost two years ago. The park is called Chuangyi Future City Amusement Park and it was built as part of a complex that features a shopping center. Sadly, the park could be called Chuangyi Dying City Amusement Park as the mall is now mostly dead, except for a supermarket and a small ladies clothes shop and the park has no room to grow and doesn't attract very many people. The park is located so far out from the city of Shenzhen that most people in Shenzhen have not heard of it. There are several parks in Shenzhen with good transportation links. Chuangyi Future City is not one of them. It could best be described as Shenzhen's own version of Amazing World, except that when the mall at Chuangyi Future City opened, it actually had many stores (it doesn't now). There are 10 rides at the park including a standard jungle mouse coaster that I rode twice. I like this particular brand of mouse coaster and that is a good thing as this particular model is found at parks all over China. There is a giant Ferris Wheel here too. This park, while it does have its good points, has a few bad points. First, there are no direct buses to the nearby train station. There are city buses into Shenzhen, but they will take a long time to get to the city. It is not an easy place to get into without going on the bullet train to Shenzhen Pingshan Station, being @$$ raped by a private driver (over twice the cab fare) in order to get to the park and the fact that the park seems like it was not built to last. The park is about half the size of Stricker's Grove's midway. For those who have been to Stricker's Grove, that should give you a clue as to how small this park is. Those factors, plus the location of the park being so far out from city will probably doom the park. I can honestly see the park not existing next year. There were many shops in the mall and sadly, they have all closed. The park and the mall opened on March 22, 2013 and now, almost two years later, the mall is dead. If the clothing shop closes or the supermarket closes, that is it for this place. I doubt the rides would continue to operate. In any case, the coaster here was one of 262 that I found before RCDB and ACE. Chuangyi Future City Amusement Park became park #427 for me to visit and the coaster here became coaster #904 for me. I have arrived at Shenzhen's version of Amazing World. Chuangyi Future City Amusement Park was built as part of a mall that opened two years ago. The mall is almost totally dead now. Chuangyi Future City Amusement Park is a small park here that has a basic collection of rides-10 in total. Every park should have one of these. This is the biggest ride in the park. The pirate ship seemed to be popular with visitors. A Chinese made mouse coaster is here. It is a good thing I like this particular model. The mouse is at one end of the park. The building you see in the background beyond the Ferris Wheel is the opposite end of the park. Here is the mouse in action. Here is a photo from my first ride on the mouse to finish up the TR.

Something would help, but the area underneath the mouse is all concrete. Maybe some fake scenery would help, but I doubt they will add it. I admit the way the area around the mouse looks is a bit butt ugly. The park itself is a nice little oasis.