Photo TR: The Parks Of Fuzhou, Fujian, China (Oct. 4, 2014)

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

Today, October 4, 2014, I went to six parks in the city of Fuzhou in Fujian Province in China. I have several photos to share, but before that, I will give you a brief rundown of each of the six parks I visited. Please not that all photos were taken on October 4, 2014. The first couple of photos have the wrong date due to me resetting my camera and forgetting to turn off the date and time option.

 

Zuohai Park: This park is a large park with rides scattered throughout the whole park. There is one coaster here. It has been SBNO for some time. It is a composite of the old Japanese shuttle loops. I wanted to ride it, but as it was closed, I didn't get to. It has a short drop, loop and reverse point after the station like the Senyo shuttle loops do, but the lift is like the Meisho shuttle loops. This coaster was built by a company in Shanghai.

 

West Lake Park: This park is very famous. It is 1700 years old and has a nice lake with boats. There is a small collection of kiddie rides here. If you only want rides, this place is not for you. There are no adult rides and no coaster is here for credit whores.

 

Children's Park: This park is located in the northern part of Fuzhou. It is a new park and despite info on the internet that says it has a coaster, there is no coaster here. One photo shows a Golden Horse spinning coaster, but it is not from Fuzhou's Children's Park. Maybe this park is planning to add a coaster soon. It is still a new park.

 

Forest Park: This park is a short walk from Children's Park. This is a very beautiful park. There is a small collection of rides here. The log flume is the only ride open. The rest of the rides were under different management.The other rides are currently closed while the park looks for someone to manage them. They have been closed for a while. There is a small spinning coaster here, but it is SBNO. As a side note, this coaster is the 250th coaster I have found that ACE or RCDB did not know about.

 

Happy World: This is a new theme park that opened in October of 2013. There are many rides here. There are four coasters. There is a spinning coaster called Spinning Coaster, a really good, Chinese designed SLC that I enjoyed. The sign said it's English name is Roller Coaster. Children's Coaster is just like the ones at Shenzhen Children's Park and Sun Park in Beijing. The posted rules say only one adult per car on this one, but the ride op would not let any adults on. He will burn in hell for this as far as I am concerned. The other coaster here is called Gold Mine Train. It is like the mine trains at the Happy Valley and Fantawild parks. Both the mine train and the SLC broke down, but I managed to ride them at different points in the day. I have now ridden 881 different coasters.

 

Kika World: This park is located across the street from Happy World. It is a park for children. There are bumper cars here that seem to be very popular with park guest. I had a good time on them. It actually felt like the car would tip over when I got bumped. They couldn't operate a bumper car ride like this in the USA.

 

In closing this TR. I think the Chinese parks, while nice, should keep their rides up better. I went to five parks today before I got on a roller coaster. I have encountered many closed coasters in 2014 here in China. I have now ridden 881 different coasters and I have visited 411 different amusement parks.

This is my first park in Fuzhou. It is Zuohai Park.

The flume here is popular with guests.

Zuohai's Ferris wheel is very tall.

This is one of the rides that entertains visitors to Zuohai park.

There is a large looping coaster here.

It is a shuttle coaster.

It has a big loop.

Here is the reverse end of the coaster.

Nothing says SBNO like weeds growing on the coaster's track.

West Lake park has boats and a small collection of kiddie rides that were not open. I didn't spend much time here.

Fuzhou Children's Park has a nice carousel.

Forest Park is a short walk from Children's Park and has a nice flume.

A small spinning coaster is here, but it is waiting for new management, along with most of the other rides, to reopen it.

My 5th park of the day was Happy World.

This lake is in the center of Happy World.

The Ferris Wheel here gives a good view of the entire park.

This big ride is very popular with park guests.

A small kiddie coaster is at Happy World and depsite what the posted rules are about adults being allowed to ride, it is all BS. They will not let adults on this ride.

Just look at that face. It says ADULTS CAN'T RIDE ME BITCHES!

An inverted coaster is here. It is called Roller Coaster. It actually wasn't a bad ride either.

Here is the top of the lift on Roller Coaster.

Here is Happy World's Spinning Coaster.

This is the mining town themed area of Happy World.

Happy World's Gold Mine Train is here.

The mine train head up the second lift.

Here is Gold Mine Train's lead car.

Kika World is part of a complex for children right across the street from Happy World. This small carousel is one of the many rides there.

Kika World's bumper cars are some of the best ones I have experienced. This will finish off the TR.

[rcjp]

Is that an SLC knock-off? And it's not bad??!

[larrygator]

The mine train looks so authentic heading right towards the tall buildings.

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

I got a kick out of seeing the tall buildings near what was supposed to be a town from more than 100 years ago. The SLC knockoff is an updated version of a Chinese designed SLC that can be found at parks all over China. The modifications to this one include a more gradual drop and the height of some of the inversions being lowered. Having ridden one of the original designs in Dalian, China, I can say that the modifications make a much better ride. For one, the train does not look like it will stall when going through the inversions.

[shivtim]

Thanks for the pics! The shallow drop on the inverted coaster at Happy World is weird. Reminds me of some of the old Arrow suspendeds.

[rcjp]

^It looks like they didn't really know how to start....

[gerstlaueringvar]

There are three manufacturers in China that offer similar SLC's. This one is from Jiuhua, their version has a smoother first drop, curved airtime hill and a shorter ending which maintains the speed better than Shibaolai and Zhongye's version.

 

But it is still worse than Vekoma's, I can guarantee that.

Edited October 7, 2014 by gerstlaueringvar

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

I am glad to see that someone agrees with me that Happy World's version is smoother. It is listed as version 2 on RCDB. I think they took the original design and knew they needed to improve it. By the way, I think Happy World's SLC may be the second best SLC I have ridden. Serial Thriller or whatever they call it at Geauga Lake (relocated to another park) is #1 on my list of SLCs.

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

Golden Horse in Zhongshan also makes SLCs. This makes four companies to offer the SLC in China.

[gerstlaueringvar]

Golden Horse in Zhongshan also makes SLCs. This makes four companies to offer the SLC in China.

Sorry, I mean the model similar to Shibaolai's version

[rcjp]

^So which one is the "best"?

[gerstlaueringvar]

^So which one is the "best"?

I think they are all pretty bad. If I have to choose it wuld be a tie between Shibaolai's and Jiuhua's. Shibaolai's newest version reverses the direction of the inline twists to avoid coat hanger and they did pretty well, Jiuhua made some good modifications to the original model and significantly improved the experience. As for Zhongye and Golden Horse, they need to go bankrupt.

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

With Golden Horse, They have done so many spinning mouse coasters, kiddie coasters and mine trains(Happy World's is from Golden Horse) and some SLCs, I doubt they would go out of business, but then again, they are going to have to stop offering the same four layouts over and over if they are going to continue to do business because sooner or later parks are going to have either everything Golden Horse makes or like attractions made from a company like Jiuhua.

[bert425]

Wonderful pictures. . thanks so much for sharing.

 

*your thoughts too. . this actually made me laugh out loud!

 

The posted rules say only one adult per car on this one, but the ride op would not let any adults on. He will burn in hell for this as far as I am concerned.

 

 

I seriously love your enthusiasm