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The rest of the pics for Binhai amusement park...

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The falling apart carousel, it was open shocker.

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They have a nice little flume ride but it was drained today so no rides for me.

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Another spinning flat ride.

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They have a Chinese knockoff spinning mouse. This coaster has never been open all the times I have been to the park so for me it is a missed credit. It looks like it just recently received a fresh paint job so it should have been open today but another no credit.

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They had a giant ferris wheel, Lily and I rode this previously and the rust really had me paranoid so even though it was running today it was a pass for me.

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There is an Enterprise spinning ride but, like a broken record, it was not running today.

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Of course there is a haunted house but unlike the other haunted houses I have been to in China this one doesn't have live actors inside but mostly it uses effects and props to get the scares.

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And of course they have a Viking swinging ship.

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At the rear of the park is the only running coaster today, a flying squirrel. See the "child" in the lower right of the picture, she is the ride op and in this picture she is doing her laundry at the sink by the ride. I had to interrupt her laundry so I could ride the coaster, now that was a first for me.

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Here is her laundry drying hanging from the gate surrounding the coaster.

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Here is a video from a previous visit to the park. I am riding the flying squirrel coaster and at the end you will see people waiting on the platform, they were my entourage that day. Every time I go to this park random people start following me around and I think it is because this park is so far out that not too many foreigners come here so the locals are excited to see one. Every visit with the exception of this one I attract followers at the park. It's actually really fun to feel important for a little bit.

 

 

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I thought that bubble tram looked familiar but couldn't place it until Bert425 pointed out that it was on The Amazing Race! That's where I saw it. Thanks Bert!

 

The spider walk photo looking up is trippy. I don't quite understand where you walked inside of it because it looked like only latticework. The Canton Tower is so impressive and I really love all the photos of everything with long descriptions, even when you are at the parks and navigating the metro. If I ever head over that way I'll be sure to pull up your TR first for directions Ride op doing laundry is a new one! Too funny.

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I thought that bubble tram looked familiar but couldn't place it until Bert425 pointed out that it was on The Amazing Race! That's where I saw it. Thanks Bert!

 

The spider walk photo looking up is trippy. I don't quite understand where you walked inside of it because it looked like only latticework. The Canton Tower is so impressive and I really love all the photos of everything with long descriptions, even when you are at the parks and navigating the metro. If I ever head over that way I'll be sure to pull up your TR first for directions Ride op doing laundry is a new one! Too funny.

 

 

If you look at the top center of the spider walk picture that is the staircase that wraps around the "hub" of the Canton Tower. Looking straight up like that it really is intimidating.

 

I am glad you enjoy the trip report, I am trying to include as much information as possible with each picture and throw in some relevant videos that pertain to the subject. I intentionally threw in information on how to get to each park by the Metro just in case someone who is reading this finds themselves in Guangzhou and wants to visit some small parks while they are there.

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Well it has been a month and a half since I have returned from my trip and I really should get to the end of this report especially since everyone is posting Christmas related pics and I still have Halloween pics here, LOL.

 

The FINAL park I visited is also the park I claim as my "home park" (I refuse to claim Adventuredome as my home park) and that is Chimelong Paradise in Guangzhou. My wife and daughter experienced their first Halloween when I took them 2 years ago to Chimelong Paradise so I wanted to go back for Halloween because they had a great time so me, Lily and Susan (my daughter) and a couple of Susan's friends packed up our backpacks and headed to the Chimelong for the day. I experienced another theme park first here, I tried to buy the express passes so we would not wait in line at the rides but they refused to sell them to me because they said the park was empty, I was getting mad because they would not sell them to me so I finally gave up and just went into the park and they were correct the park was empty, the longest line we encountered was 15 minutes for the launched motorbike coaster, which I say kudos to them for not being greedy and selling the express passes when they were not necessary (hear that Cedar Fair and Six Flags). I wound up taking the 500 yuan I saved and purchased the haunt express band for 400 yuan (for the haunts the express pass was really needed).

 

When we went 2 years ago they had a couple of scareacters roaming around, one haunted house and a 4D movie for Halloween and it was all contained in the area around the 4D theater but this year their haunt really blew up and encompasses the entire park. There are now 8 haunted houses/mazes, a 4D movie based on Frankenstein, scareacters throughout the park, some of the restaurants offer Halloween themed food after 6pm and many Halloween themed gifts.

 

My impression on the experience as whole...

 

POSITIVE : the haunts were really good, money was spent on the set pieces and costumes and the scares were plenty. I would definitely put the haunts on par with what was offered at Universal Studios Japan. For a country that really does not celebrate the Halloween holiday Chimelong Paradise really went over the top with their offerings which really will not draw in too many locals to celebrate the holiday.

 

NEGATIVE : they have no line flow control inside the haunts, with the exception of the Terror Visions 3D maze all the rest of the mazes people would just stop and take pictures of all the set pieces which created a real bad bottleneck towards the end of the mazes to the point of in 2 of the mazes the scareacters in the last quarter of the mazes were just standing around posing for pictures because it was useless for them to try to scare people because everyone was just stopped, they need employees inside the mazes to keep traffic flowing so they can serve up the scares. Also the Terror Tram (shooting zombies from a tram) was way too short, literally 45 seconds long, the wait was over an hour, I believe this was the first year they tried this but they need to find a bigger area for this attraction or make it a walk through like Universal Japan did with Biohazzard. My last complaint was the roaming scareacters were not scaring people they were just walking around taking pictures with people, when we went 2 years ago they were chasing people around (it was funny watching one chase my daughter all the way into a gift shop) but this time no such scares.

 

Now on to the pics...

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To get to the park you take the Guangzhou Metro line 3 and exit the train at the Hanxi Changlong station. Anyone that has been to this park before be aware that the old subway exit "B" is no more, now you must exit at the "A" exit which is across the street and take the pedestrian bridge over to the Chimelong resort where you catch the resort bus to get where you need to go.

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Here are the ticket prices for Chimelong Paradise, they recently had a price increase of 30 yuan (about $5 USD) so be prepared to pay just a little more on your next visit.

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Here is the park map so you will have a reference of how the park is laid out. Like Universal Japan the haunt map was only available on the Chinese map and not the English map.

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The rear entrance to the park where you encounter the B&M dive coaster in all its glory.

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And here is Dive Coaster (really that's the name of the ride) which is a standard 200ft dive coaster with added bonus helix.

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Walking through the entry plaza you are greeted by the Chimelong mascots wearing Halloween costumes. The one in white kept rubbing my belly, guess she thought it would bring her good luck.

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Some of the Halloween decorations and roaming stilt walkers.

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More Halloween decorations in the entry plaza.

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Here is the Flying Horse family coaster, a Mack custom Youngster coaster. I have to admit this coaster is pretty forceful around the helix.

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Over by the 4D theater they have 2 new attractions. The first is Forest Temple which is a walk through attraction (later transformed into a haunt), from what I could make out it there is a troll that takes us deep down into a temple where we encounter a talking tree, giant ants, satan (???) and a dragon. It made no sense to me but the set pieces were really cool.

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Giant vines on a building= spooky

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It has a large que line, guess they expect large crowds but not this day because the park was empty.

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The talking tree, this animatronic was really good. wonder who they got to build this.

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I have never seen this before and found it really cool, it is a maze room but the walls are actually curtains of water. Funny how I found something so simple so fun.

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Here is the Dragon animatronic.

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The other new attraction at Chimelong Paradise is Alien Attack which the best way to explain it is a motion simulator surrounded by a giant screen (think King Kong 360 at Universal Studios Hollywood) but you are attacked by an Alien family because their kids, like most kids, are mischievous.

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Me with the giant protection robot outside the attraction.

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Umm... Honey... I don't think you are allowed to grab him there...

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The que line is rather large with many artifacts to look at. During the haunt at night this que was pretty full but this is a high capacity ride so it moved pretty good.

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The pre show where you learn about time travel technology and also learn about the protector robots that will accompany us on our trip to the future.

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Here is the actual ride vehicle/motion simulator surrounded by the giant 360 degree screen. This was really a good ride and a lot of fun.

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The show building is actually quite large.

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A true HUSS Giant Frisbee. I really hate this ride but Lily loves it and since she went on Dive Coaster for the first time with me this visit I felt I owed her and rode this. I have never been so happy to be on solid ground before in my life as I was when this ride was over.

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The Sky Drop is a Zamperla model drop tower. This is a rather weak ride in this parks lineup and it would be nice to see this drop tower removed and replaced with a proper drop tower ride from SS Worldwide or Intamin.

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This is Skater (but the ride vehicle was a boat), a compact Zamperla Disc-O

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This large tent contains 2 of the parks haunts, The Haunted Mansion and the Gothic Haunted House. If you read my negatives I wrote at the beginning these 2 haunts were the worst example of what I wrote about.

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Here is the Gateway To the Undead haunt, it was based on zombies in a toxic plant. The set pieces were good but also suffered from what I wrote in the negative section.

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Motorbike coaster is a launced coaster where you ride motorcycles. It is a fun ride with a few pops of airtime and 2 helixes.

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Waiting for the launch.

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Into the first bunny hop hill at 50 MPH.

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They had a Top Spin but it is now being removed so I wonder what new attraction they will be getting.

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One of my favorite steel coasters the 10 Inversion Coaster (the ride names are not very original in China). This is an Intamin coaster with 10 inversions.

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Just in case you were curious what Chinese people riding a coaster looks like.

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Just in case you were curious what Chinese people upside down on a coaster looked like.

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The rest of the pics from Chimelong Paradise...

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The first haunt opened at 2pm and it was Terror Visions 3D, I have never been in a 3D haunt maze before and boy was this thing crazy. I don't know how they achieve the 3D effect because I would take off the glasses and it was just fluorescent paint thrown on the walls but with the glasses on you couldn't tell real from a simple effect, this maze was a lot of fun.

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Into the clowns mouth we go to experience the scary clowns.

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A Sombrero flat ride. See, China doesn't just plagiarize Disney characters they plagiarize Warner Brothers characters also.

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The bumper cars were quite popular, there was a 25 minute wait.

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Yet another theme park first for me, I have never seen them stop any bumper car ride so the ride ops could sweep the floor. A lot of theme park firsts for me on this trip.

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A large half pipe coaster is found at Chimelong Paradise. This coaster is named Half Pipe oh the uniqueness.

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Lily and I riding brooms. A photo spot as well as part of the Halloween decorations.

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Around 5pm they started opening the Halloween themed booths at the park.

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I told our daughter that she could get her face painted as anything she wanted and she chose a cat, of course Lily was having a grand time making faces behind her back...

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BUSTED...

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Tea cups, or should I say tea kettles.

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One of the costumed characters that were roaming around. I think she was going for and elfin, maybe?

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Confession time, this woman was gorgeous so I made Lily get in the picture with me so it would not seem awkward. I really don't know what theme she was going with but it is China so an A for effort.

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For some reason the Shoot The Chute splashdown ride had the longest line of all attractions today, we waited over an hour for this ride because they were only running one boat. We got in line while the sun was out and finally rode it after dark.

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Some of the scareacters doing a performance, they pulled "random" people out of the crowd and sat them in the electric chair

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We had dinner at one of the restaurants serving Halloween themed food, this led to all of us having a competition on who could take the coolestt picture of the Chinese Coke logo. I think my submission was the best.

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Halloween inspired candles on the table.

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This is about how busy the park was during the haunt event.

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The lighting package on the 10 inversion coaster is really nice.

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Halloween decorations in the trees all lit up.

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The entrance to the Terror Train haunt, a zombie shooting ride.

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Basically it is a tractor that pulls 3 cars that have guns mounted on the edges and you shoot at live zombies, It was not very well executed though.

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Here is Lily with one of the guns.

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Me with the Grim Reaper.

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Haunted Valley was a really good maze through a path in the forest. good set pieces and lots of scares.

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The Forest Temple looks pretty cool. Chimelong Paradise is a very nice park, but it could use a decent dark ride or two--any excuse to enjoy some air conditioning.

 

 

I will say the Forest Temple is unique but when you exit you are left wondering what you just experienced. Alien Encounter is a nice "dark ride" addition to the parks lineup, I think you guys will enjoy it on the next TPR China trip.

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The talking tree/dragon/waterscreen walk-through looks really neat. Is there a storyline going along with it or you just see the different rooms and move on?

 

 

There is a vague story that it follows but towards the middle it kind of gets weird. The first scene you encounter is the said troll then as you enter the different show scenes he appears so you are kinda following him but when you get towards the final third it feels like the scenes are just thrown in.

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Well, there you go my entire trip to Japan and China and boy has this trip report brought back so many memories. I realized while posting this report that I visited so many parks (9 to be exact) during my trip that it took me until now to appreciate everything I did on my trip. I hope everyone has enjoyed the report and if it has inspired at least 1 person to visit Southern China then I will say all the effort was worth it. My next planned visit to Guangzhou will be to finally bring my wife to America and she can finally experience all the fun that American parks have to offer.

 

I want to thank everyone who took time out of their schedule to look at my report and I hope to have many more trip reports to present to you.

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The Forest Temple looks pretty cool. Chimelong Paradise is a very nice park, but it could use a decent dark ride or two--any excuse to enjoy some air conditioning.

 

 

I will say the Forest Temple is unique but when you exit you are left wondering what you just experienced.

 

I've found this is true of many dark rides and walk-through attractions in Chinese and Japanese parks.

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That giant cockroach really made me think about who hurt those designers. Forest Tample is nicely themed but I really didn't find the connections between scenes. There's satan followed by knights wearing the Scream mask and then there are bats and wolves...

 

Great TR, thanks for sharing.

 

 

Yeah, it definitely was bizarre to say the least but at least they spent money on adding 2 new attractions so I am happy for that. Looks like Chimelong is feeling the pressure of all the new parks coming to China and they are spending money to stay the premier park in the region.

 

Posting these pictures has really made me miss China and I really look forward to my next trip back there.

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Cool P:TR, I thoroughly enjoyed the pictures! Chimelong Paradise is a pretty nice looking park...glad you had fun, thanks for the report!

 

 

Glad you enjoyed the trip report. I never realized how much I really did until I created this TR. I definitely had a blast in Japan and China.

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