The Angry Darren Mullins

This was the only sign at Amazing World where the d was missing. The rest of the signs were correct. Yes, Three Ring Roller Coaster comes close to copying the Arrow loop and screws, but it makes the roughest Arrow looper seem like a B&M.

Since my last trip report, I am happy to report the discovery of more coasters in China that weren't on any coaster census. I also need to correct myself as last week I said I found 51 coasters in Asia that were on websites like RCDB. I made a good and left out a couple of coasters. I should have said I had discovered 54 coasters. In the past five days, I discovered a park at Haiyue Lake in Houjie town in southern China. I found this on a satellite map. I decided to visit this weekend to visit this park, but due to a lost in translation moment, I didn't get to go there and found an entirely unknown, at least to us, park that was very nice. Anyway, long story short, I have now discovered 58 coasters during my time here that were not on any coaster census at the time I discovered them. Here is my latest trip report. On Saturday, September 3, I visited Amazing World at the New South China Mall. I was here last November, but came back due to the addition of a new family coaster. As it turns out the new coaster is called Junior Coaster and it will not open until October. I took some photos of the coaster and rode the big roller skater coaster there and left. On September 4, I went out to the town of Houjie to visit Haiyue Lake. There is a small park there with at least, two, possibly three coasters. I found this park on a satellite map last week. When I got to Houjie town, I found a taxi driver who figured out that I wanted to go to an amusement park from me showing him photos of a coaster. I tried to say Haiyue Lake or Shanghuan Dongton Paradise, which is possibly the name of the park at Haiyue Lake, but he didn't understand. He took me to a place in the next town over from Houjie called Nancheng. I was taken to a place called Shuilianshan Forest Park. Shuilianshan Forest Park is an excellent little park that has many well-kept rides, although a few rides are showing their age. Shuilianshan Forest Park is not listed on RCDB, but there is a powered coaster and a large steel coaster that features a loop and a single corkscrew. The large looping coaster here is called Three Ring Roller Coaster and it features a helix (ring one) after the lift, a vertical loop (ring two) and a single corkscrew (ring three). This coaster appears to be only a few years old judging by the condition of the train as well as the paint job on the coaster. The paint is not peeling nor is the coaster rusting away. I rode this coaster and it was so painful. I rode in the last car(the train consisted of four cars). The small drop off of the lift was nice, but the helix and inversions were horrible. After Three Ring Roller Coaster, I took a spin on Sliding Dragon, a powered coaster. I also rode the log flume here and I think it is the wettest log flume I have ever ridden. It isn't that tall, but it has two hills and two drops. Both the big drop and the small drop get riders very wet. I also tried the 5D motion simulator. Two films are shown. One is of a roller coaster with leap the gap sections and the other film is of a haunted house. I also rode a Crazy Daisy/Cuddle Up that has seen better days. Some cars have been removed from the ride and it goes so slow it can be installed at any old folks home to provide thrills to the over 90 crowd. It was so slow that it was unreal. The neatest thing about Shuilianshan Forest Park is the restaurant the park has. I have been to several KFCs in China and the photo advertising the park's restaurant showed pictures of food taken directly from the KFC menu. The restaurant at this park was called K. K serves knock off versions of KFC items. It is basically a knock off KFC. Being a fan of KFC, I had to try a twister here. It was a knock off twister and it didn't have the same taste as the twisters served at KFC. To the restaurant's credit, the french fries were delicious, but nothing outstanding. It was neat to discover Shuilianshan Forest Park, the rides there and the knock off KFC even if going to this park was not planned. I am here at Amazing Worl...at least that is what this sign says. Amazing World has this swing ride outside the mall. Here is a ride inside Amazing World. The Flying Tigers ride at Amazing World. The Jeff Johnson credit. Here is Roller Coaster at Amazing World. Roller Coaster is ready to leave the lift. Here is Junior Coaster-Amazing World's new for 2011 coaster. Too bad Junior Coaster wasn't ready to open yet. Here is the first car on Junior Coaster. I have made my unplanned arrival at Shuilianshan Forest Park. Inside the park gate is the carousel. Shuilianshan has this Carazy Daisy/Cuddle Up knock off that has seen better days despite the fact that much of the park is in very good condition. Here is the Haunted Mansion Dark Ride. I didn't enter but I think it could be a walk through attraction although a sign in English said it was a ride. I am going to eat you! Shuilianshan's Sliding Dragon in action. The flume at Shuilianshan Forest Park was very good. Here is one of the many rides at Shuilianshan Forest Park. Here is Three Ring Roller Coaster at Shuilianshan Forest Park. Here is the helix of Three Ring Roller Coaster. Three Ring Roller Coaster travels through the loop. Here is a shot of the lead car on Three Ring Roller Coaster. Here is a poster advertising Shuilianshan's KFC knock off. Most of the items on this poster were lifted from pictures found in KFCs across China. Here is K's (the knock off KFC) Twister Combo on the menu. It tasted nothing like what I eat at KFC.

I am not sure if I have responded to this or not but Space 2000 Atomic Coaster at Gyeongju World is the most violent coaster I have ever ridden. Of the 715 coasters I have experienced this one easily takes the prize for the roughest coaster. It is so bad I am known to call it Space 2000 The B---- Slap Coaster.

Yes.That is a hedge maze in front of the Devil's Joy Ride. The building that houses Devil's Joy Ride appears to be larger than most dark rides, so I am curious about the ride myself.

Gisco is correct. There are many parks like these in what seems like every major city in China. Most of them are city parks like Huangiang Park and Humen Park that feature an area devoted to amusement rides.

With the three coasters I discovered this past weekend, I have now discovered 51 coasters that were not listed on Roller Coaster Database (or any other coaster census for that matter). This is one of the neat things about living in another country. God only knows how many more coasters I will discover.

Wood Coaster at Knight Valley is my favorite GCI coaster, but it wasn't on the list posted here.

I think you are talking about the wave shuttle. It uses tires to propel the ride to start and uses the same tires to slow the ride at the end. The car is locked onto the rails on the inside. It is a good fun family ride.

I went explwhoring once again this past weekend and found two parks and three coasters that weren't on the Roller Coaster Database. For those of you who do not know what explwhoring is, it means you are credit whoring and exploring at the same time. I think it is a good example of multitasking. My first park this past weekend was Successful Land. I learned about this park from a Chinese friend. Successful Land is located in Fenggang in Dongguan and has a collection of basic rides, including a mouse coaster. There are weddiing facilities, lakes and an animal show where birds fly out into the audience and collect money that people hold up. If a person refuses to let go of the money, the bird will bite. My second park of the weekend was Humen Park, also in Dongguan. This park is a nice city park that has a coaster called Spinning Coaster. Sadly this coaster was built a few years ago and doesn't run due to a lack of business. Several other rides in the amusement area also do not run, but some small family rides are still open. After Humen Park, the plan was to go to Wanjiang to the New South China Mall to ride the new spinning coaster that just opened at Amazing World. Due to an error in communication, I found myself in the town of Huangiang which is located in Dongguan. As luck would have it, there is a city park here called Huangjiang Park and it features about six or seven rides, along with a reptile zoo, swimming pool and other facilities. Two of the rides are coasters. One is a mouse like the one I rode at Successful Land. The other is called a wave shuttle. It is like a coaster that used to be at Amazing World. I rode both coasters. Huangjiang Park is an excellent park and was a welcome surprise for me. I can go to Amazing World later. I started my weekend at Successful Land. The park has this castle being built at the entrance. Here is a lake inside of Successful Land. Here is one of the many odd trash cans in Successful Land. Here is the mouse coaster at Successful Land. Here is another photo of the Successful Land Mouse. Successful Land's Carousel I love bumper cars. Here is Humen Park. There is a pagoda on the hill here. This would be Humen Park's star attraction if it was open. Humen Park Pirate Ship Ride Here is the swing ride at Humen Park. This ride was open. I do not think this dark ride was open. Too bad. Here is another one of Humen Park's rides. Humen Park's Merry Go Round was open when I visited, but nobody was riding it. I have arrived at Huangjiang Park. Here is one of the rides at Huangjiang Park. Huangjiang Park has this small coaster. I enjoyed it. The mouse at Huangjiang Park dodged a lot of trees. Here is one more view of Huangjiang Park's mouse coaster. I ate lunch before going to Successful Land. The restaurant had this sign up to show me where I had to go to use the restroom.

Yes. Park maps still call the coaster Mountain Flyer but the sign on the station says Wood Coaster. I saw a sign in February of 2011 that said the coaster would open in July of 2010 so the delay in opening was one year. Pictures in the park also show the coaster with 4 set PTC trains and over the shoulder restraints.

Knight Valley is a huge park and I love 400 Miles To Earth Center. It is a cool dark ride. They have a flume ride there that reportedly (according to the park), is the tallest flume/shoot the chutes in the world. It certainly is a long ride too and it has one section where riders travel backwards down a drop. The flume ride does get you quite wet. One thing to note about the flume ride is that riders board in the middle of the park and leave the ride near the front of the park. The boats travel empty back up to the loading station. This may be the longest flume ride in the world as well as the tallest. It even goes through the side of one of the resort's hotels.

I went to Knight Valley today. I got a late start leaving Hong Kong but made it to Knight Valley at about 1:30pm. The new wooden coaster just opened last month after being delayed a long time. It was supposed to open in 2010 but I think the accident that claimed the lives of six people last summer on the space-themed ride may have caused a delay in opening new attractions. I say this based on a phone call a friend of mine made to the park a few months back. If anyone remembers, a ride malfunctioned and six people were killed. This happened in 2010 at Knight Valley, which is part of OCT East. There is also a Rockin' Tug ride from Zamperla that was under construction in February of this year when I first visited and it still hasn't opened. The wooden coaster which was originally going to be called Mountain Flyer has opened. It is simply called Wood Coaster. Although the name is not spectacular, the ride is very intense. I consider it to be a wooden version of Everland's Eagle Fortress. Although Wood Coaster isn't suspended or made of steel, it hugs the ground while providing a very intense ride experience. Wood Coaster even turns to the right and goes under the lift like Eagle's Fortress did. There are many twists and turns and some airtime during the ride. Wood Coaster also flies through the station twice and features a tunnel before the end of the ride. It is a shame that such a great ride has such a generic name but the ride experience makes up for the lack of vision the park had when naming this awesome ride. I have arrived at Knight Valley. Upon entering the park I came to Seafield Town. This place has a Starbucks and a Pizza Hut. Knight Valley has this carousel. This Rockin' Tug was under construction when I visited in February and it still hasn't opened. The Space Shuttle Colombia was donated to Knight Valley when the shuttle program ended. I could have sworn we lost this. This is the dark ride. It is called 4000 Miles To Earth Center. Cedar Fair must have named this ride or Knight Valley hired some of Cedar Fair's former employees. Wood Coaster goes up the lift... ...Wood Coaster goes down a drop. Wood Coaster flying through the station. Here is a shot of Wood Coaster in action. Here is the photo of my first ride on Wood Coaster. I got the back seat for my very first ride. I will close out this trip report with a photo of the building that houses the ride that killed six people during the summer of 2010. The ride was called Space Journey.

I think they are just BB guns. The inside of the park was decent enough, but outside was pretty ghetto.

On June 26, I ventured out to Tangxia, which is part of Dongguan in Guangdong province. My destination was Tangxia Guanguang Park. I first learned about this park when I saw a log flume while riding the train from Shenzhen to Guangzhou. I searched for the park on Google Maps and found the park I had seen from the train. As it turns out, the park I saw while riding the train was not Tangxia Guanguang Park, but it was Tangxia Culture Park. Tangxia Guangguang Park is located very close to Tangxia Culture Park. It is a 20 minute walk between the two parks. I visited Tangxia Guanguang Park first and found they had a powered coaster called Dragon Roller Coaster and a mouse coaster called Forest Squirrel. This park also features a disko ride, ferris wheel and several other rides. There is also a reptile zoo. The rides look somewhat new or they are just well-kept. I am guess the rides are new as small Chinese parks usually do not do a good job on the upkeep of the rides. Tangxia Guanguang Park is connected to Tangxia Culture Park by a ropeway. I didn't use the ropeway to go to Tangxia Culture Park. I walked between the two. Outside of Tangxia Guangguang Park, I walked past an area that had carnival games. This is something I haven't seen a lot of in Asia. At Tangxia Culture Park, I found a SBNO log flume and a few other rides. There was no coaster there. I like living in Asia because it helps me to find coasters that are not listed on the Roller Coaster Database. From visiting the parks or researching them online, I have found nearly 50 coasters that weren't listed on the RCDB or ACE's Census. Welcome to Tangxia Guanguang Park Tangxia Guanguang Park has a ferris wheel on a hill There is a powered Dragon coaster at Guanguang Park Here is the first helix on the Dragon It is time for the Forest Squirrel Notice how it looks like a mouse Here is the lift hill of the Forest Squirrel I have ridden so many of these, but this one is the most colorful one yet Here is another look at the Forest Squirrel Here are some carnival games Next was Tangxia Culture Park Here are two of the rides at Tangxia Culture Park This is Tangxia Culture Park's biggest ride I do not know Jeff Johnson, but I know that Tangxia Culture Park has something waiting for him

The coaster at People's Park is from Golden Horse in Zhongshan, Guangdong. They make their own versions of rides from Europe. The Chinese have also copied the Vekoma/Arrow rides many times.

On June 19, I visited People's Park in Zhongshan, Guangdong province in China. There is a small coaster there that costs 2 yuan (30 cents US) to ride. People's Park is a city park with a small amusement area that features about five rides.There is a carousel, mini train, rockin' tug and a small kangaroo spinning ride in addition to the coaster. The park has some very nice scenery and was a joy to visit. I have entered People's Park There is this cool pagoda in People's Park The carousel at People's Park is pretty basic Here is one of the rides at People's Park What is this? Here is the coaster in action

Does anyone know if they killed his wife too? I can't imagine her allowing him to walk around paradise with 72 virgins.

Norton's Auctioneers specialize in selling off defunct parks. Whenever park closes, Norton comes in to sell off the rides and other equipment in the park. Norton is sort of the Grim Reaper for amusement parks.

On April 23, 2011, I visited Guangzhou in southern China to go to three parks. My first park was Tianhe Park, which is home to four coasters. The Spinning Coaster is like about 20 other rides I have been on. The powered Gliding Dragon is something I have done in many parks in Asia. The Shenzhou Airship is a fun ride and is like the spinning coaster that used to be at the South China Mall in Dongguan. This may even be the same coaster. The Fruit Worm Coaster at Tianhe Park is a fun ride for the family. I walked around and tried to find the non-spinning mouse coaster listed on RCDB. If it was there, it was invisible. My next park was the South China Botanical Garden. This place has an amusement area with a mouse coaster and a powered dragon coaster. The mouse coaster appears to be an expanded version of other mouse coasters I have ridden in China. It was fun. I took a few photos and went to my final park of the day. My last park was Guangzhou Children's Park. There is one coaster here called the Fruit Worm Coaster. It is like the one I rode couple of years ago in Beijing at Sun Park. Adults are not allowed to ride the coaster at Guangzhou Children's Park. This is BS and I hope Mr. Norton pays a visit to Guangzhou Children's Park as the result of such a sicko ride policy. Here is Tianhe Park I am so sick of these-I have ridden so many Spinning Coasters Here is Tianhe's Gliding Dragon. This looks like fun The Shenzhou Airship is great fun Here is the Fruit Worm Coaster at Tianhe Park Here is another look at the Fruit Worm Coaster at Tianhe Here is Tianhe Park's lake Here is the carousel Here is Tianhe Park's ferris wheel Here is the amusement area at the South China Botanical Garden Here is the mouse at the South China Botanical Garden I have been on several coasters similar to this one, but this one seems to be an expanded version of other mouse coasters Here is another look at the mouse The South China Botanical Garden has this powered coaster Here is the carousel at the South China Botanical Garden They also had this ride at the South China Botanical Garden Here is the Fruit Worm Coaster at Guangzhou Children's Park They will not let adults on the coaster at Guangzhou Children's Park. I hope Mr. Norton comes here.

Thanks. I should be like Jeff Johnson. I would be at over 1000 coasters by now.

I got up early this morning to visit the city of Huizhou in China's Guangdong province to go to Xiapu Binjiang Park. This park sits along the river and has over a dozen rides, including a spinning mouse coaster called Spinning Coaster. Spinning Coaster became my 700th coaster this morning. It is like about 20 other spinning coasters I have ridden in China, Korea and Japan. It was still fun. Xiapu Binjiang Park also has a drop tower ride, ferris wheel, Disko and several other rides. I rode the coaster, ferris wheel and carousel, took some photos and left. This park opened about 15 years ago and a bunch of new rides replaced several older rides recently. One of the rides that was removed was a kiddie coaster. The first thing you see upon arrival is this ferris wheel at Xiapu Binjiang Park. This merry-go-round greets visitors upon entering the park. There is this Disko ride at Xiapu Binjiang Park. Bumper cars are always fun to have in any park. Here is my reason for visiting the city of Huizhou. Here is a view of the Spinning Coaster in action. Here it is-the car that will allow me to experience my 700th coaster. This at the end of the ride. I have now ridden 700 coasters.

It is after midnight here. I was trying to sleep when I work up to what I first thought were explosions. They weren't explosions. The noise was from fireworks lighting up Shanghai for the new year. The Chinese like to set off fireworks to ward off evil spirits. Since I can't sleep, I decided to post some photos from day # 2 of my Shanghai trip. I managed to visit five parks on this day. This is the most parks I have ever visited in one day. I could have visited seven parks as I went by Century Park and People's Park, but since I had done those the day before, I didn't bother with them. It is possible to visit six or seven parks a day here in Shanghai due to the wonderful metro system that drops you off at the parks or very close to the parks. The parks I visited today were Jinjiang Action Park, Chang Feng Park, Luxun Park, Gongqing Forest Park and Heping Park. Jinjiang Action Park is home to four coasters(soon to be five) and was my first park for the day. My first ride was on the Moto Coaster, which I liked better than the one I rode at Chimelong Paradise. My next ride was on the Roller Coaster-a shuttle loop like the ones I rode at Mitsui Greenland in Japan and Seoul Dreamland in Korea. The Karst Cave indoor powered coaster was fun and there was a spinning mouse like several I have already been on. One neat ride here was a version of Disney's It's A Small World Ride. I rode this, but I my favorite version of this ride is Global Village at Everland. My next park was Chang Feng Park. They have a basic collection of rides and a lot of scenery. I rode the coaster(named Mine Car), took some pictures and left. Luxun Park was next and I saw it before I got off the metro. There is a powered coaster called Gliding Dragon and some other rides. As with Chang Feng, I rode the Gliding Dragon, took some photos and then left. My next park was Gongqing Forest Park. This is a massive park with two separate amusement areas and three coasters. There is also a Bobkart ride here. I rode the three coasters and the Bobkart Ride, some photos and left. The Bobkart ride was my third Bobkart (the other two I have ridden are at Shenzhen's Window Of The World and at Nagashima Spaland). The three coasters are the Inertia Roller Coaster (an Asian knock-off of Lakemont's defunct Mad Mouse), Loop and Spiral Coaster and Golden Dragon Roller Coaster (a wacky worm with a dragon themed train). My last park of the day was Heping Park. There is a very basic collection of rides here, a small zoo and a lot of scenery. The Outer Space Flying Car is a kiddie coaster and is like the one I rode at Haibin Park in Zhuhai. The only difference is the track is different-the layout is the same. There were a few other rides here and I took some photos of some of the rides and left. As I was walking to the metro station from Heping Park, some people must have set off 1000 firecrackers on the sidewalk. I got a few photos of this. On my way to eat some Korean fried chicken, I passed People's Park and Century Park and could have easily went into them and said I visited seven parks in a day, but I didn't bother as I went to them the day before. At least I visited five parks in a single day, which is a new personal record for myself. I started the day at Jinjiang Action Park It looks like they were trying to copy a couple of American parks with this tower inside the entrance. This train was in Jinjiang Park Moto Coaster-my first ride of the day. This looks like it could be a good ride. Here is a shot of the Roller Coaster at Jinjiang Action Park Through the loop This was at the entrance to the Karst Cave Coaster I have ridden so many of these A new ride is being built at Jinjiang. I have this strange feeling of deja vu... Here is Chang Feng Park Pathway in Chang Feng Park More scenery in Chang Feng Park Here is the Mine Car at Chang Feng Park Carousel Chang Feng Wave Swinger More rides at Chang Feng Park Here is the lake at Luxun Park Another photo from Luxun Park Here is the powered coaster Here is the coaster in action This is the entrance to the powered coaster. This ride was in Luxun Park Here is Luxun Park's wave swinger Here are a couple other rides in Luxun Park My next park was Gongqing Forest Park Here are Gongqing's Bumper Cars This is the train at Gongqing Forest Park Here is the Bobkart at Gongqing Forest Park The Loop and Spiral Coaster at Gongqing was an okay ride. This is the Inertia Roller Coaster at Gongqing Forest Park. Gongqing's Golden Dragon became my 100th coaster in China Here is another shot of the Golden Dragon. Heping Park was my fifth park of the day Some scenery in Heping Park Here is Heping Park's Carousel Heping Park's pirate ship Here is a photo of Heping Park's Outer Space Flying Car Fireworks outside of Heping Park Another photo of the fireworks I am glad I do not have to clean up this mess

I left Hong Kong on the afternoon of February 4th to go to Shanghai. I took the overnight sleeper train and woke up this morning in Shanghai. My first port of call was to check into my motel and then go to some parks. The first park I visited was Zhongshan Park, which is home to a wacky worm called Big Worm Inertia Train. This was a typical wacky worm, but I wanted to ride it to add it to my track record. I took the subway a few stops to People's Park and rode the Gliding Dragon, which is a powered coaster. People's Park is a small city park that has some amusement rides. I took a few pictures and then left. My next stop was the Oriental Pearl Tower to ride Space Switchback. Space Switchback is a Vekoma junior coaster that has a first drop right out of the station. This ride is short, but it is fun. The coaster is located in the sphere 90 meters up in the tower. Converting meters to feet, I have determined that this coaster needs less than five more feet in height added to it to make it a giga coaster. Being 90 meters up in the tower, one could argue that the tower is supporting the track. I took the elevator to the top level of the tower to see how impressive Shanghai was. I just loved looking down at the street 1000 feet below. You can actually see through the floor on the observation deck. My last place to visit was Century Park. This park is home to a spinning mouse coaster. I got a good ride and the car spun like crazy when it hit the brakes. There are a few basic rides here and that is it. After Century Park, I went back to my hotel and called it a day. Here is Shanghai's Zhongshan Park Boats in Zhongshan Park Here is the Big Worm Inertia Train Here is the Gliding Dragon at People's Park People's Park also had this Carousel This appears to be a new ride at People's Park Here is another one of the rides in People's Park Here is the Oriental Pearl Tower. There is a roller coaster in the bottom sphere, but I didn't take any photos of the coaster as it was too dark inside. Here is the ticket booth at Century Park Here is the Rotating Pulley at People's Park. I have ridden several of these spinning coasters. Here is another shot of the Rotating Pulley.

I haven't had time to go through all of the posts about Invertigo, but here are my reasons for thinking that the ride is going to Valleyfair. I do not think it will go to these parks: Kings Island-they already have one Kings Dominion-there used to be one just up the road Carowinds-they have a boomerang World's of Fun-they have a boomerang Knott's Berry Farm-they have a boomerang Dorney-unlikely as they have two inverted coasters already and nearby Hersheypark has a boomerang Michigan's Adventure-Not likely after getting Thunderhawk so recently. Canada's Wonderland-they have a boomerang Cedar Point-Not likely as they already have two inverted coasters and Kings Island has an Invertigo copy Gilroy Gardens (does Cedar Fair manage this?)-Too close to Great America.

I guess it will be a floorless. I thought it was a stand up by the way a park employee pointed towards my feet when I asked about it. I guess this was one of those lost in translation moments.