HAPPY VALLEY PARKS
China
HAPPY VALLEY BEIJING (Beijing, China) - website
 2010 - S&S Launched Coaster - Semi-Confirmed - (11/18/09) Happy Valley Chenzhen and Beijing are both adding S&S Launched Coasters before the end of 2010. Each one will feature a unique layout, but launch riders out at 140kph (87mph).
HAPPY VALLEY CHENGDU (Sichuan, China) - website
2010 - Nothing known at this point in time...
HAPPY VALLEY SHENZHEN (Guangdong, China) - website
2010 - S&S Launched Coaster - Semi-Confirmed - (11/18/09) Happy Valley Chenzhen and Beijing are both adding S&S Launched Coasters before the end of 2010. Each one will feature a unique layout, but launch riders out at 140kph (87mph).
HAPPY VALLEY SHANGHAI (Shanghai, China) - website
Park News - (9/9/09) Some great new footage from Happy Valley Shanghai, along with a great video of Fireball in action, has been posted to Theme Park Review.
(8/23/09) A bunch of great pictures from the newest Happy Valley park have been posted to Theme Park Review, including a few bad example of “Engrish” translation. Care to take a ride on the Souring Dragon anyone? Wow… maybe they meant it as something you can buy in a gift shop… like the bags of Spicy Duck Tongue or Spicy Duck Necks! Ummm…. Thank you… I’ll pass.
(8/11/09) New pictures from Happy Valley Sheshan have been posted to The Theme Park Guy! The park had not yet opened up (now slated for August 16th I’m told) but it looks like he managed to get in and take a good look around the place, including a good look at the newest B&M Dive Machine which appears to be a copy of SheiKra. There are also pictures of an Intamin Mega-Lite and some kind of themed mine-train looking coaster, but I’ve never seen one quite like this.
2010 - Flight of the Dragon - Under Construction - (11/18/09) From the sounds of things the new Flight of the Dragon ride at Happy Valley will indeed be a copy of the same concept at Disney’s Soarin’, but will use Huss Rides to create the actual ride hardware.
(11/13/09) Super 78 Studios has finished an attraction film for “Happy Valley Shanghai” to be used for the “Flight of the Dragon” attraction. The “digital large format live-action aerial film” captures incredible footage of China’s Great Wall, the Yellow Mountains, Zhangjiajie, the Lijiang River, and takes guests through a tour of China’s most famous landmarks. The guests are accompanied by a computer generated Dragon who guides them on their journey. The theater experience will also use a variety of “4D” style effects like wind, mist and the scent of a bamboo forest. In other words, this sounds a lot like “Soarin Over China”, though I’m not sure what kind of ride system will be used here.. It is set to open in 2010.
2010 - Underground Hotel - Under Construction - (1/31/09) They say that the entire resort area here will be 10 times bigger than the Happy Valley Jinjiang park. In addition to a theme park the resort will feature a “five-star underground hotel” and the Guangfulin Cultural Park. And yes, that wasn’t a typo, I did say Underground Hotel. This unique resort is being constructed in an abandoned quarry about 89 meters below ground level next to Tianma Mountain. The construction on the 19 floor, 400 room hotel will begin before the end of the year and take 18 months, opening in March 2010. It will also feature unique restaurants, saunas and “underwater guestrooms”. Now this is a hotel I have to see pictures of when it’s finished
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