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.
 2010 - Extreme Rusher / S&S Launched Coaster - Confirmed - (8/28/10) A couple of video links (Video 1 / Video 2) were sent in showing off test runs on Extreme Rusher, the new S&S launched coaster at Happy Valley.
(6/28/10) S&S have a new launched coaster under construction that should open later this summer at Happy Valley (Beijing, China). The coaster is called Speed Car and will launch rides at 83mph up a steep twisted hill before plunging them down into a dark tunnel and into a series of twists and funs. Construction pictures can be seem over at RCDB.
(11/27/09) I've been told that the two new S&S launched coasters going into the Happy Valley parks in 2010 will feature 4 across seating, a first from S&S Power.
(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 - (11/27/09) I've been told that the two new S&S launched coasters going into the Happy Valley parks in 2010 will feature 4 across seating, a first from S&S Power.
(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 - (4/16/10) An impressive article and review of Happy Valley Shanghai has been posted to Trips ‘n Pics.
(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
HAPPY VALLEY WUHAN (Hubei, China)
2011 - (7/9/10) The Gravity Group have confirmed that they are working on a new Martin & Vlemickx racing / dueling wooden coaster in Wuhan, China at a new Happy Valley park opening in 2011. It will feature a new very interesting element… a racing camelback where the trains are tilted at 90º at the peak, allowing for a near miss “High 5” moment between the rides on both trains. In fact, that’s what they’re calling it… the High 5.
(4/28/10) RCDB has posted a few details for another new wooden coaster coming to China, this time to the brand new Happy Valley Wuhan park opening in 2011. According to the stats, this one will come from Martin & Vleminckx with some outsourced design help from The Gravity Group (like Happy Valley Shanghai’s Fireball) and will feature Timberliner trains put to use for the first time on China’s first racing wooden coaster.
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