RyanTPM Posted June 3, 2016 Posted June 3, 2016 ^It does. I'm also very interested in seeing the trains, they certainly aren't winged and look like they're the same style as Tarons.
DoubleDown Posted June 3, 2016 Posted June 3, 2016 Does anyone else think a tilt coaster is a liiiiittle unnecessary? I mean, you already have the lift hill...you're just adding a maintenance nightmare to your portfolio of coasters, and I don't think thrill wise that this is doing anything a standard coaster could do. Â Now that Intamin Winged Shuttle, THAT looks fantastic! The whole time I was trying to figure out...how is this thing gonna work.
dcxs Posted June 3, 2016 Posted June 3, 2016 Wait, so this park both has the Intamin mega & launched shuttle?! That is a seriously impressive line-up I have to say
BDG Posted June 3, 2016 Posted June 3, 2016 Wait, so this park both has the Intamin mega & launched shuttle?! That is a seriously impressive line-up I have to say No. This thread is about all of the Wanda-parks, and the rides you mention are at different parks.  Wanda Nanchang (open) http://rcdb.com/10349.htm - Intamin mega - GCI woodie - a knockoff SLC (with a unique layout)  Wanda Xishuangbanna (open) http://rcdb.com/11928.htm - B&M Flying Coaster - Intamin watercoaster - Zamperla motocoaster  Wanda Hefei (opens in September) http://rcdb.com/12184.htm - Intamin shuttle launch - mysterious tilt coaster
Norwegian coasterfan Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 Well this looks interesting... Good layout and pacing though but the transitions looks awful
viking86 Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 Layout looks pretty good, and it's definitely a big step up from previous efforts, but it looks like they still have some way to go to produce a decent-quality ride.
rcjp Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 Actually it looks way better than I though. Nice layout and great pacing but you can still tell some transitions aren't the best (although they definitely look much better)
FLIPDUDE Posted June 6, 2016 Posted June 6, 2016 It always baffles me why parks with enough money to build amazing rides and amazing theming such as that weird intamin hyper or duel tilt coasters would build a Golden Horse ride... I mean, wouldn't it be better to actually hire Vekoma for it? Â Didn't Golden Horse get, like, banned from IAPPA or something for basically being Vekoma ripoffs? Â Â Having said that however - that layout looks super fun. If Vekoma were to do it and not Golden Horse I'd probably even be excited about it. But as it stands I imagine the thing would be more painful than enjoyable.
The Angry Darren Mullins Posted June 6, 2016 Posted June 6, 2016 I believe I was in the last car when that video of the SLC was shot.
LeoBruz199 Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 I believe I was in the last car when that video of the SLC was shot. And how did you find it?
gerstlaueringvar Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 That coaster is actually more intense than a Vekoma SLC with really strong laterals on the overbanked turn and the turn after the 0G Roll. I feel like SBL did everything correctly except for track manufacturing. They used steering bogie which helped a lot with smoothness.
The Angry Darren Mullins Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 I happen to like this coaster very much. I was always a fan of the Vekoma SLCs as I like the barnstorming feel of them. This is the best Chinese made SLC to date.
Gutterflower Posted July 18, 2016 Author Posted July 18, 2016 While we've known for a while that Wanda City in Harbin, China would be building a Chinese SLC the ride has finally completed construction and not without a fairly unexpected surprise. Â The ride is a mirror image of Soaring Dragon & Dancing Phoenix at Wanda City in Nanchang which we saw earlier in this thread, However the manufacturer has gone with a completely new track system in Harbin, doing away with the old Vekoma style system we've seen so far. This means theres a switch from inside guide wheels to outside and a generally smoother looking system. Â It begs the question, now these rides have their own unique layouts and track system they can't really be called knock offs anymore can they? Â Also below are two photos of the parks other coasters, a highly themed custom mine train design and a standard spinning wild mouse. Â Â Â Â
FLIPDUDE Posted July 18, 2016 Posted July 18, 2016 Whoa. Strange. Does that mean we have to, like, start respecting them now?
_koppen Posted July 18, 2016 Posted July 18, 2016 Whoa. Strange.Does that mean we have to, like, start respecting them now? Â TBH there is only a question of time until China starts pumping out larger glass smooth rides with unique layouts.
viking86 Posted July 18, 2016 Posted July 18, 2016 Well that sure was unexpected! Will be interesting to know how well it rides...
Garet Posted July 20, 2016 Posted July 20, 2016 What's the sloped building behind it? I thought it was an indoor ski-slope but it's huge compared to the SLC.
FLIPDUDE Posted July 20, 2016 Posted July 20, 2016 What's the sloped building behind it? I thought it was an indoor ski-slope but it's huge compared to the SLC. I still think that's what it is, though.
Gutterflower Posted July 20, 2016 Author Posted July 20, 2016 What's the sloped building behind it? I thought it was an indoor ski-slope but it's huge compared to the SLC. Â Correct, it's a huge indoor ski slope, There is also a shopping mall in there somewhere and I think a Cinema but the main part of the building is indeed a huge ski slope. It does make the SLC look tiny in comparison.
Henry M Posted July 21, 2016 Posted July 21, 2016 It really depends on how it rides. If it is still rough and painful, then nothing has really changed, however if it is B and M or even Intamin smooth, things have become strange... Â Are there pictures of the train?
Gutterflower Posted July 21, 2016 Author Posted July 21, 2016 Are there pictures of the train? Â Nothing yet I'm afraid. This park is always fairly difficult to dig stuff up on and it doesn't even open until June next year so they may not be on site. I'll post when I find any though.
trj820 Posted July 21, 2016 Posted July 21, 2016 What's the sloped building behind it? I thought it was an indoor ski-slope but it's huge compared to the SLC. Yep. Ski slopes absolutely dwarf coasters. A decent one has ~1000ft. vertical.
Garet Posted July 22, 2016 Posted July 22, 2016 ^Yea, I enjoy the resorts here in Korea where I learnt to ski, even if they probably work out a lot smaller and busier than outside Asia, but the two indoor ski resorts I have ever visited (one here and the one in Milton Keynes, UK) were both so tiny with only 200m long slopes I guess I was just taken aback by the size of that one in the second picture.
Gutterflower Posted August 7, 2016 Author Posted August 7, 2016 Some more photos of the Wanda Harbin coasters. Perhaps the best two Chinese built coasters so far? Both the inverted coaster and the mine train have custom layouts and track designs. Â Â Source (membership needed)
A.J. Posted August 8, 2016 Posted August 8, 2016 It took me exactly four looks to realize that the inverted coaster ISN'T a giant inverted boomerang layout. It looks to be inspired by...Odyssey?
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