Ocean Kingdom in China

[larrygator]

^^^What Chuck said is correct. Sometimes there were third world shanty towns outside our window in Beijing. The government is modernizing by leveling a lot of the bad looking inner city neighborhoods and then putting the residents in newly built apartments. However, it is all cosmetic. It's putting pig on a cow.

Edited January 27, 2013 by larrygator

[Moose]

I remember how at one of our nice, 5-star hotels, our room had a beautiful view not only of the city, but also of the decrepit, decaying old high rise next door. It was such an odd mix of "new hotness" with "old and busted."

 

I think that was Wuhan which suffered from a quake a few years ago and I suspect that the building was a casualty of it.

[KingRCT3]

 

 

 

 

Source.

 

And the hotel:

 

 

[Nrthwnd]

^ That hotel (so far) looks massive!

 

indeed.

[Moose]

The Chinese are known for their love of giant buildings. I wonder if this is a case of that or if there will be a need for a hotel of that size.

[gisco]

Park is looking real nice. Lot of work to go if they are to open this year. Looks like with thre coasters it will be worth a stop on the next TPR trip in that area.

[ernierocker]

That will definitely be one of the better themed Mack Supersplashes.

[darklingscribe]

I would love to see if Mack could make one of their Super Splashes more than just what they are. It would be nice if they could do that reverse section into maybe a helix and a mini splash down then they would hit an elevator or something and do the big splash once they reach the top of the drop. Basically can they do a super splash in the layout of one of their smaller water coasters or does the size/shape of the super splash boat negate any type of diving turns?

 

As it is the ride looks great, and I'm curious to see what kind of show elements will be inside the reversing sections of the ride.

[gerstlaueringvar]

Please don't tell me they are naming those excellent themed Macks like Water Coaster, Super Splash sort of name! Look at their original park! But that got great ride operation which is 1,000,000,000 times better than Happy Valleys

[rubysparkles]

Hundreds of workers are racing against time along a new, palm-lined road leading to the southeastern section of the Hengqin New Area, next to Macau, to put the final touches on Asia's largest theme park before its first phase opens to the public later this year.

 

(Source)

 

This is the last picture I could find of construction, I'm wondering whether it will open this year or not. I've seen a ferry direct from Hong Kong mentioned in some articles but can't find any sort of proof of one.

From http://entertainmentdesigner.com/news/theme-park-design-news/chimelong-ocean-kingdom-to-open-in-late-2013/

[_koppen]

Here are some more up to date construction pictures

Source

[rcjp]

Wow all these structure look massive! I'm guessing a lot of money is being spent on this park. Does anyone know when this is supposed to be finished? I find it strange that the B&M is just waiting there for the rest of the park to be built.

[Hilltopper39]

 

What the hell is that!!!! A gigantic shark statue? Is there going to actually be anything inside that thing? Whatever it is it's awesome!

[Ultimate]

Here are some more up to date construction pictures

I really like the look of this element

[SharkTums]

WTF>!!> I would go to the park just for that giant shark statue!

[DJeXeL]

That Shark statue is epic. Do they have an obsession with sharks or something?

[_koppen]

That Shark statue is epic. Do they have an obsession with sharks or something?

 

And walruses

[djboss302]

That Shark statue is epic. Do they have an obsession with sharks or something?

 

And walruses

 

And rays

[alpengeist04]

Holy crap!!! Now we just need a giant octopus to go with that mega shark.

[djboss302]

^^^^^^

[JonnyRCT3]

Here are some more up to date construction pictures

 

Doing it better than SeaWorld!

 

That is truly stunning.

[Nrthwnd]

Just sayin' but it could be a killer whale, hmm?

 

And that ray over the entrance...

 

Wow. Awesome. Impressive.

[Meteornotes]

Looks like they are actually building Mechashark! I approve of this construction.

 

dt

[ernierocker]

That is certainly impressive, wow.

 

And yes, they need to build Sharktopus right next to it for the ultimate win.

[GigaG]

http://rcdb.com/9114.htm

 

FOtR is still under construction. Do we have an opening date yet? Anyways, if this is longer than GK, do you think CP will stop using the length record? I mean, none of the GP in the States will know about it.