Kaili's Happy Valley Shanghai Trip TR:

[kailisun98]

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.

[cfc]

Fireball is a great ride, but it's a Gravity Group coaster, not GCI (just a fine, nerdy point). In general, Chinese park operations everywhere are poor, but Happy Valley Shanghai is a very nice looking park.

 

Thanks for sharing your time there with TPR.

[kailisun98]

I stand corrected.

[_koppen]

Awesome photos.

 

This is one of the parks in China I would really like to visit.

[RoCo]

It's a bummer about the long waits, and it's REALLY a bummer about the poorly maintained dark ride, but the rockwork looks great, and that is one amazingly solid coaster collection. (I would kill to live near a park that had an amazing woodie, a Mega-Lite and two-drop Dive Machine.)

 

I also love those huge Frisbee-type flats, but seven minutes?! No freaking way I could handle that.

 

Cool report!

[SharkTums]

I actually love seeing TR's like this as I hope it makes our Trip Participants understand the level of work, persistence and money it takes to get these parks to open all of their rides and get us on them!!!

 

I don't think I'd ever go to China unless it was during a TPR Trip!

[Nrthwnd]

Great First-Time Report!

 

And I still always get a kick seeing some of the

(what I call) Repetative Themeing that this chain

does - like the splashdown boat's lift hill bldgs.

 

And of course all that high "rockwork" (The Valley?) to walk through.

Even the signature small stage in there for performance groups.

 

Classic Happy Valley, heh.

[kailisun98]

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.

[kailisun98]

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

[Nrthwnd]

I don't think I'd ever go to China unless it was during a TPR Trip!

 

QFT