Photo TR: Hanno goes to China with TPR

Time for another update.

it's time for the start of Day 4: Victory Kingdom

Brand spankin new park which still needed a bit of work done (on some rides and shade)

But it was not band.

Mouse was closed, the water was nasty and the SLC clone was not that bad (as far as i can remember)

It's been a while so i might have just blurred everything away

it looks so pretty (and bright)

the entrance area

park map

this reminded me a lot of some of those rct games

yeah, that's the place we are at now

let's get into the park

shopping street which goes to..

ehmmm

the "arc of victory"

open space on the left...

more open space on the right...

big coaster on the right

brand new ride (still wrapped in plastic) next door

owh the theming...

it's the giant blocks building

yeah.. wide open area..

spinning tea cups.. every park needs these..

and it's a mouse

called spinning coaster.. which was down for the count this day..

double deck caroussel

where to go ?!?!?

no thanks, i'll skip this

4D Market?? ehm..

it's a road through a truck..

still working on some "small" details

big wheels..

snake around a tree

more rct

ehm.. yeah...

through infinity?

yikes.. this looks pretty nasty..

the dib.. coaster??

locals are having fun

rainbow time..

always cool when the water falls back on the boat

no fire hoses bummer

so yeah.. some TPR members decided to brave the water

just a split second before getting soaked..

looks like the wave came over the front and into the boat

and then the water came down, back onto the boat...

that's a lot of water

ok, time to move on

i believe they were installing a kids play area in here?

more rct

it ain't rome

yeah.. it's open..

train vs blue sky

scream

green dude

they look happy.. i guess..

holding on.. it can't be that bad.. right?

still holding on...

loop

nice sky

time for some flat ride fun...

up-side-down

and almost back to "normal"

yeah.. this looked... ehm..

one more look at this thing

the next coaster was not installed yet..

castle theming

that's it.. time to visit the next place.

This park was beyond creepy. I could see it being gone before it's even finished.

I made sure my mouth and eyes were closed tight on that water ride. I don't know what Dan was thinking, I hope he is off the antibiotics.

I think Dan may still be on antibiotics after catching the Skegness.

This park seemed abandoned even though it was brand new.

Great close-up shots of the splash boat and coaster, Hanno. That knock-off SLC is so yellow it's blinding!

I'll give Victory Kingdom four years. If that much.

Till the next TPR China Tour, perhaps?

The car ride looked like it was trying to knock off

how Hong Kong Disney's done theirs in the layout,

with that one guideway going out over the gp?

Great shots of great open spaces, Hanno LOL!

Great pictures Hanno!

After looking at these photos, it looks like this park has no shade at all.

Stomach King - This is an interesting name...

Chinese Food - This is China...

Yeah, I think I would rather face the zombie apocalypse than ride that Chinese water ride!

It is weird seeing pictures of these parks. They feel not very real. With that I think they are very soulless parks. Just opened up, no history yet. I have been in such a park just once and it is just weird, it can have good rides, but the feeling is not there yet. Hope they will have the time to mature

It is weird seeing pictures of these parks. They feel not very real. With that I think they are very soulless parks. Just opened up, no history yet. I have been in such a park just once and it is just weird, it can have good rides, but the feeling is not there yet. Hope they will have the time to mature

Victory Kingdom opened in July of this year, and Happy Valley Wuhan opened last spring. China is pretty new to the whole "theme park" thing. I think the Happy Valley chain itself started about six years ago.

The Chinese are still getting the hang of how to run a park, too.

Wow, that water looked like it was hooked to the sewer of the near by buildings.

Definitely need some shade and people!

^Yes, as hot as it was that day, I took one look at the water and said, "no thanks."

I still have to finish this trip report, so here we go again

Part 2 of Day 4

After visiting Victory Kingdom we had some time left to do a little more credit whoring in the area..

The things you do and rides you get to ride in China...

i guess this was something Olympic a while back?

big swings?

random kiddie area

that looks like a coaster..

yup, but it's still under wraps (the cars)

high rise structures on the other side of the water

happy happy joy joy, it's opening

ehmm

the Big man seems to enjoy it

oops.. looks like somebody got a bump (sometime in the past)

sjeehs.. why so serious??

that's more like it

is that the number 1 or number 2 face?

awesome brakes

eating flies for .. ehm...

too many flies -> barf time?

ok, time to move on

getto bumper cars...

ehm.. yeah... welcome to China

hey look, it's another powered dragon

scream if it's too fast for you

kiddie thing

so apparently at this next stop there is another coaster somewhere.. hmmm

market market market.. hey what's that?

ehmmm

yeah, layout

hitting the brakes

no more braking..

but it was a fun coaster

lots and lots of green stuff

location location location, that's it for today

I look at these pictures and am thankful no one died on the trip! I'm also thankful that even communist countries will happily accept bribes to open coasters that shouldn't be open!

"lots of green stuff"

Including the water there, LOL.

Also, this was one of the places you noticed

all of the apartment/condo buildings standing there,

totally uninhabited. And been standing there

for what, a few years? (What I remember hearing.)

Wierd. Just strange.

But bribery is A Good Thing!

I look at these pictures and am thankful no one died on the trip! I'm also thankful that even communist countries will happily accept bribes to open coasters that shouldn't be open!

Those were some of the dodgiest coasters of the whole trip (aside from the looping toboggan thing). I remember being thankful that the Jungle Mouse's safety features actually worked when they dispatched my car too early!

Time for another update

Day 5: Floraland

Let's see what i remember..

ehm.. suspended coaster: ouch (trying to forget)

another mouse, ice coaster.. dried up water rides..

hearing Rammstein songs while walking around the park and then there was this weird thing called a Tagada

So much fun (especially while hearing the Hermes House Band doing their "i Will Survive" version (including some dutch)

Yeah, fun day

could this be it?

yep looks like we made it

it's just a tad bit smaller..

and this one is a bit taller

bungee jump (and larry doing his "thing" )

ehmm yeah..

yes, another one of these..

some still have the energy to be mad.. and some appear to have said goodbye to life and are at peace.. i guess

ouch ouch ouch

grrrrrrrrr

the many faces of...

yeah, time to move on

weird ride names

guess what.. another spinning mouse

not sure if i want to ride that

surprise surprise.. they had one of these

yup, that looks like fun

one big pile of body parts

inflatable stuff

ehm.. bumper thingies?

this might actually be ehm..

wishing tree

china is so random... like that blue green building is a ride building

with this...

behind you they have these contraptions which you can rent and drive around the park if you want to

and if you see something like this in a park...

get inside, get clothes at this place and..

enjoy a ride on the ice coaster

that's a lot of ice

pretty lights

i survived.. i guess

going back up

4d theater with what looks like a splash battle in front of it

ice place

and then you get to this area..

water ride without the water

these were all over the place (and many many parks)

another area of the park

this was like the most random thing i've ever seen happen during a TPR trip.. looked like there was some kind of video shoot happening.. and they got a bunch of TPR members to join the fun

yeah, i was stunned as well

bungee jump fun

ok, time to go.. but wait.. what's that??

owh my, wth are they building there

it's pruple and under construction

imagine the sound of pain

so yeah, they are adding another phase to Floraland next door

brand spanking new and shiny colors

Floraland is just getting bigger

Ah, Floraland--the park with pixies and hookers (at least in statue form). I enjoyed the place, as bizarre as it was. Love the pictures of the knock-off SLC.

Did you get any pictures of the REAL prostitute out front who kept harassing a lot of our male participants!?!?

Did you get any pictures of the REAL prostitute out front who kept harassing a lot of our male participants!?!?

I took one or two pictures of her. Now that was bizarre.

Time for another update.

After visiting Floraland during day 5 of the trip we got to see some other (small) local parks and coasters.

It's all part of the adventure

Anyway.. here's a few more pictures from random parks in the Chengdu area

Looks like we made it

lots and lots of green

another one of these things

and the underside

ehmmm

yeah, we found the coaster

ehm.. what happened to Larry?

happy people

it's not the longest train

aawwhh, no friends?

ehm yeah, i'll pass

next park, another coaster

more and more folks showed up to watch us get a ride on the coaster

happy joy joy

no problem..

and some random sings, that's it for today

ehm.. what happened to Larry?

Due to the expression on my face, I think he just farted.

I look at these pictures and am thankful no one died on the trip! I'm also thankful that even communist countries will happily accept bribes to open coasters that shouldn't be open!

Looking at ALL of these pictures at ALL of the parks, I am shocked we all made it back unharmed.

^Yes, it is pretty remarkable that some of them didn't simply collapse--particularly at Fisherman Wharf.