HAPPY VALLEY PARKS
China
HAPPY VALLEY BEIJING (Beijing, China) - website
Park News - (7/31/10) An Escape artist was performing at the Chinese theme park, handcuffed to a B&M roller coaster it seems. While making the last second dive to safety from the tracks the train clipped his foot, breaking it. Based on the photos on the site, this would be Crystal Wings at Happy Valley Beijing, a B&M Flying coaster.
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HAPPY VALLEY CHENGDU (Sichuan, China) - website
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HAPPY VALLEY SHANGHAI (Shanghai, China) - website
Park News - (1/27/11) Riders became stuck for up to two hours on the Diving Coaster at Happy Valley Shanghai the other day, a B&M Dive Machine clone of SheiKra, as they waited for the staff to bring them back down to the ground, one at a time.
(4/16/10) An impressive article and review of Happy Valley Shanghai has been posted to Trips ‘n Pics.
2013 - Waterpark - Under Construction - (10/15/12) Sp
ecial thanks to a reader who ventured out to Happy Valley Shanghai this past week, and spotted construction in progress on a new waterpark at the park. They sent in pictures of the construction site as well as a couple of shots of a model they had on display as well. At the rate they’re working on this, I’d look for it to open sometime in 2013.
(11/11/10) According to this article, Happy Valley Shanghai isn’t going to just let a new Disney park come in without putting up a fight, so there are already plans being put into place to expand and continue to improve the Happy Valley park, as well as build an upscale hotel resort. The report also claims that the park is working to build a waterpark inside the current attraction in the hopes of putting on Asia’s largest surfing pool competition in 2012.
HAPPY VALLEY SHENZHEN (Guangdong, China) - website
 Park News - (3/18/13) A reader who visited Happy Valley Shenzhen the other day noticed some activity over by the park’s Bullet Coaster (S&S Launched Coaster) which just opened last July, but then was reported as closed for an unknown reason since in November 2012. Our reader reports seeing what appeared to be new trains on the track making test runs loaded with water dummies, so it looks like it could be reopening soon if all goes well.
(9/28/12) Want to see a video Dean Gunnarson performing his escape stunt from the Bullet Coaster (S&S Launched Coaster) at Happy Valley Shenzhen. Check out the video below. Maybe it’s just me… but it looked like the guy was tied more to himself with chains, rather than being tied to the coaster track.
(9/26/12) Dean Gunnarson, a Canadian escape artist, will travel to China where he will be chained down to roller coaster tracks on Wednesday and have only 58 seconds to get free and leap 30 feet to safety before the coaster train runs him over. The article doesn’t mention which coaster he will be chained to, but does mention that he has tried this stunt before, and the last time the coaster caught part of his foot as he was jumping away from it. I’m sure we’ll have some video of the stunt posted up to YouTube within the next day or two.
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HAPPY VALLEY TIANJIN (Dongli, China)
2013 - New Park - (1/2/13) According to a listing in Park World magazine, the new park will also open with a new El Loco coaster from S&S Worldwide. According to the listing posted on RCDB, the ride will be called Angry Birds, which suggests it may be themed after the popular video game series.
(2/7/12) RollerCoasterRevulution has posted a look at the layout for a new Martin & Vleminckx wooden coaster going into Happy Valley Tianjin, a new Happy Valley park set to open in 2013.
HAPPY VALLEY WUHAN (Hubei, China)
Park News - (10/3/12) Theme Park Review has posted an incredible POV video showing off what the incredible High Five element looks like on Dauling Dragon at Happy Valley Wuhan. Unfortunately, I’ve heard that the park’s standard operating procedure for this coaster is to not run it as a racing coaster during your typical day. It was only runs this way during the video shoot, which seems very odd, as what was the point of building the High Five element unless you have two trains racing through it. Hopefully we’ll see more of these in the future… and closer to home.
(9/17/12) Martin & Vleminckx and Gravity Group have posted a great POV video showing off the “Dauling Dragon” at Happy Valley Wuhan in China (aka: Dueling Dragon)… showing off just what the new High-5 maneuver looks like. Looks like an awesome coaster… reminds me quite a bit of Lightning Racer at Hershey Park actually. Check it out!
(4/18/12) CoasterFriends has posted a large construction update from Happy Valley Wuhan with about 70 new pictures of the park as it nears completion. This includes the latest S&S Launched coaster (Extreme Rusher) tower rides, a rapids ride, tons of flat rides, a race themed Vekoma mine train coaster (Monte Carlo Racetrack), various other pieces of interesting looking themed set pieces as well as the Dragon Wings racing wooden coaster.
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