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taytig Full Fledged Donkey Enthusiast!
Joined: 24 Apr 2005 Total posts: 169 Location: Canada Age: 38 Gender: Male |
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WOW - Crystal Wings looks absolutely amazing -Hopefully Cedar Fair can take note and do something like this somewhere - Do you think a trashcan mountain theme could be worked out? 
Glad you are having a blast - keep the photos coming please!
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| BarryH He's kind of sad and pathetic
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| Chadley Full Fledged Donkey Enthusiast!
Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Total posts: 342 Location: Miamisburg, Ohio Age: 39 Gender: Male |
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Thanks for the great photos Robb. Happy Valley is truly incredible...it seems like actual ride construction is almost secondary to the theming! It also looks like Kristen is becoming a celebrity in her own right over there. 
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| Hicko Full Fledged Donkey Enthusiast!
Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Total posts: 149 Location: Milton Keynes, Bucks, UK Age: 31 Gender: Male |
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[quote="TheRealTinkerbell"] | robbalvey wrote: |
OMG KidTums is seriously adorable beyond belief. Are you just going up to random Chinese girls and saying like "Hey, take a picture with my daughter and I'll guarantee you a date with this man *pulls out picture of Jahan*" |
I was over there in 2003 for 2 weeks and I had my picture taken by locals about 50 times. When not having a picture taken you just get stared at. Felt like I was famous for 2 weeks lol. I guess since the Olympics and all the tourists it's calmed down a bit as it's getting more normal to see westerners now.
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| BDG Full Fledged Donkey Enthusiast! Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Total posts: 340 Location: Belgium Age: 23 Gender: Male |
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| Marcio wrote: | The Chinese SLC also uses the same color scheme as "Desafio" in Parque de la Costa - Argentina! They really love to copy everything!  |
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| robbalvey Site Admin
Joined: 01 Feb 2005 Total posts: 18522 Location: So Cal Age: 39 Gender: Male |
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Today was our transfer day from Beijing to Guangzhou. We boarded an early morning flight on one of those 747 "Combi" planes which is 1/2 passenger, 1/2 cargo. It's weird in a way, but also kind of cool.
We hit up one small park called "Nanhu Amusement Park" which looked like the kind of place that closed a little over a decade ago, but they forgot to tell the employees who dilligently keep it open. It was "weird."
Then we headed to a bonus park, Jing Ying Amusement Park, for a bonus credit! Yay!
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| Here we are at the Beijing Airport. Every time we fly internationally we realize how crap most of the US airports are! |
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| At the airport was Jackie Chan's Cafe. |
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| No seriously...it REALLY was Jackie Chan's cafe! (Remember him in Cannonball Run?) |
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| Here we are on Delta airlines! |
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| The girls of TPR...totally crashed out! |
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| Um...did we just land on the SUN?!!? |
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| We stopped off for a quick dim sum lunch where green stringy stuff seemed to be the dish of choice! |
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| "Welcome to the most ghetto park of the trip so far!" |
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| "Nanhu Amusent Park"....um, yeah... |
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| It was ghetto like Nara Dreamland, but yet it had none of the qualities that made Nara "cool." But wait...what is that I see... |
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| OMG! Is that a REAL space shuttle??? |
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| Our first credit that isn't a credit of the day was the powered Dragon. KidTums says "Why am I riding this? I don't even count it!" |
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| Right next door was a Jeff Johnson credit still under construction. |
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| Yay! Finally we get to the Arrow/Vekoma mutation! |
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| The story behind this ride is that it was started by Arrow, but then later finished by Vekoma...yeah, we're going to die! |
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| Oh, we can only call that section over there "Coat Hanger Madness!!" |
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| The first drop was....well.... "Weird" |
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| GO! GO! GO!....we nearly stalled out in the corkscrews! |
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| Um...is that a bunny hill into a sidewinder?!?!? WTF!!! |
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| When you were done getting your skull beaten apart, they had exercise equipment for you to use. |
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| If Joey can lift 20 pounds I'll pay for your "BeetleBen" prostitute tonight. (Don't worry, I know it's a safe bet!) |
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| After last year's Korea bounce fest, we were very happy to see a Tagada! |
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| But, no...all this one did was spin. :( |
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| Gift shop anyone??? Gift shop? |
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| Hmm...I actually think this ride may be OPEN! Let's not go find out, shall we? |
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| The splashdown boat has seen some better days. |
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| We finally found the first dark ride of the trip! |
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| Despite Steve's honest attempt to look thrilled...it really was total crap...although if you were taller than about 5' 10" you totally hit your head on all the gags! |
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| It was time to board the Elissa Alvey bus of death and mortal sin. |
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| Well at least I feel safe that no one will be touching my self esteem! |
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| Apparently this is some kind of important wall...CULTURE CREDIT! |
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| This is why we like keeping TPR trips to small groups! |
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| It was a very bizarre mouse...not like anything I've ever been on before. |
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| This is a "two packs per day" control panel. |
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| Yup, it's a mouse....litterally! |
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| Momma gets a coaster credit... |
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| ...while KidTums gets a carousel credit! |
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| Did we mention that this was a very bizarre mouse? |
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| I'm king of the world!!!! |
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| Rich has found a new career as a Chinese laborer. |
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| Nah, you can never pull the cop out of the donut. |
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| Dude! Room Ten-O-Two! Isn't this where Tom Hanks' Bachelor Party was??!?! DONKEY SHOW!!!! |
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| I think we have just sucked the power dry from the hotel. |
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Here is the view from our hotel. About 60 seconds after taking this picture all the lights went out due to the amount of laptop and camera charging in the room!
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| HEADCHEEZ Knows where his bowel is
Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Total posts: 320 Location: Las Vegas, NV Age: 15 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:19 am Post subject: |
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... And I thought Nara Dreamland was ghetto! Glad you're having fun guys! I wish I was there!
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| Noxegon Full Fledged Donkey Enthusiast! Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Total posts: 304 Location: Dublin, Ireland Age: 29 Gender: Male |
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| Manny In England Bonafide Donkey Expert
Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Total posts: 1564 Location: Bristol, England Age: 17 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:02 am Post subject: |
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I'm not sure I'd enter something labelled Amusent Park. But it worked out OK for you guys. Can't wait for Chimelong Paradise / 10 Inversion Coaster / "generic name"-Dive Machine.
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| coastercub I Love Donkeys!
Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Total posts: 76 Location: South Coast UK Age: 38 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: |
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I'm looking forward to Chimelong paradise DiveMachine as it's the only one I haven't been on YET !!!!
Looks like you guys take as much tech on holiday as I do !!
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