Photo TR: Shanghai 2017: Part 1 (October 2, 2017)

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

October 2, 2017: Shanghai-Day 1

 

Century Park/Peoples Park/Zhongshan Park

 

I visited three parks today. I visited them all in 2011, but all of them replaced their coasters with new coasters. This meant I had to go back again. Can you think of a better reason?

 

First up today was Century Park. It has its own metro station. There are several family rides here, including a Golden Horse family coaster. It is a step above the Golden Horse Space Car rides. It is very comparable a Vekoma Roller Skater. It became coaster #1094 for me to ride.

 

A short subway ride later brought me to Peoples Park. This park has a small collection of rides. They recently added a Chinese made copy of a Zamperla family coaster. I enjoyed this ride (#1095), but notice that the train seemed to have a problem going over the lift. I bet the Zamperla originals do not have this problem.

 

My last park of the day was Zhongshan Park. It is one of many Zhongshan Parks in China with rides. The old Wacky Worm type coaster has been replaced with a twin helix dragon coaster that is not a powered coaster. It runs on gravity. It is a bit choppy. It became coaster #1096 for me to ride.

 

There was a light mist when I visted each park, but they kept the rides open. This is great. It is also only day #1 of my 2017 Shanghai trip. Stay tuned...

This is Century Park. It is my first park of the trip.

These trees are probably very nice in the summer when temperatures soar.

The lake is very nice at Century Park.

A Golden Horse family coaster is here.

I love the colors of this one.

A short subway ride brought me to Peoples Park where I would ride this.

It is a knockoff of a Zamperla ride.

It is a fun little ride, but there seems to be a major design flaw in the chainlift. It sounds like the train is being ripped loose from the chain as the train goes over the top of the lift.

A lot of people at Peoples Park were enjoying this ride.

My last park of the day would be Zhongshan Park.

This is one of the few rides here.

A twin helix GRAVITY powered dragon coaster replaced the old wacky worm type ride that used to be here.

Here is an onride shot to finish my first day of coastering in Shanghai.

[SharkTums]

I'm surprised that they're actually updating the kids/junior coasters at these parks.

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

I am not surprised about this at all. It seems that the in a few years, a coaster is done for here. What does surprise me is that the parks didn't replace these coasters with identical coasters. This appears to be common practice here.