Photo TR: Jianghui Amusement Park 9/25/11

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

I woke up this morning and headed to Jiangmen in Guangdong in China. About a month ago, I learned of a park there called Jianghui Amusement Park. The park was not on the RCDB at the time I learned about it. The park is a wonderful traditional park that is, by Chinese standards, well-kept. The gondolas on the ferris wheel are new. There is a new kiddie ride there and most of the older rides look decent. There is a mouse coaster there that is like several others I have ridden. Most small parks in China just have a mouse coaster and nothing bigger. This is okay though as I love mouse coasters. There is also a powered coaster called Golden Dragon. The helix on Golden Dragon is taken at a decent speed. There is a nice log flume with the shortest flume boats I have ever seen. There is also a dark ride with dinosaurs (Cedar Fair doesn't have anything on the Chinese) and it cost only 5 yuan (75 cents) to ride through and look at dinosaurs, which is a much better value than the dinosaur attractions Cedar Fair has been building. There are two Jeff Johnson credits at Jianghui Amusement Park and other rides, including a Paratrooper and a moon cars ride. It is a very nice park that sits just outside of the city of Jiangmen and not far from Jiangmen's East Lake Park (Donghu Park).

Welcome to today's adventure

I think I know where to go here.

Here is Jianghui's Golden Dragon.

Here is part of the Golden Dragon's layout.

Here is the Dragon in action.

This is the ride I came here for.

I took this photo from inside the station area.

Here is a good view of a lot of the mouse's layout.

Here is another view of the mouse.

I took this shot while riding.

All parks need one of these.

This Top Spin knockoff was a new ride.

I think this ride came from Australia. There was an advertisement on the arm of the ride for an Australian company.

This game stand was at the park.

A dinosaur overlooks Jianghui's dark ride. This one must have gotten loose from a Cedar Fair park.

I love these moon car rides.

The park had this Jeff Johnson credit.

The park also had a second Jeff Johnson credit.

This flume ride has this smallest boats I have ever seen on a flume.

This was a new ride.

A spinning coaster like the one Amazing World at the South China Mall used to have once stood in this spot.

Here are the footers that remain from the spinning coaster.

I took this shot of the ferris wheel before saying goodbye to Jianghui Amusement Park.

[SoCalCoasters]

OMG! That top spin looks like it came straight out of RCT2!

 

I always love seeing parks like this.

[SharkTums]

China is weird, that is all!

[A.J.]

That Topspin knockoff looks like it's missing two harnesses. They seem to have replaced them with...backpack straps?

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

China is indeed weird, but it is weird in a good way. Jianghui is in a beautiful location with a lot of trees and a lake. Locals probably do not even notice that Jianghui's mouse is the same as the one at the nearby East Lake Park.