Ocean Kingdom | Unknown | Mack Water Coaster & SuperSplash

[Martyn B]

(Just to help beef up this section a bit...)

Here's a thread for the Mack Water Coaster being built at Ocean Kingdom.

http://www.rcdb.com/4123.htm

Roller Coaster: unknown
Amusement Park: Ocean Kingdom (Zhuhai, Guangdong, China)
Classification: Roller Coaster
Type: Steel - Sit Down
Status: Under Construction opening 2013
Make / Model: Mack Rides GmbH & Co KG / All Models / Water Coaster
Designer: Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH
Categories: Water Coaster
Inversions: 0

 

[Nic]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

There's also a separate listing for a SuperSplash. Is that a duplicate entry, or are they actually getting two water coasters?

http://www.rcdb.com/4122.htm

Roller Coaster: unknown
Amusement Park: Ocean Kingdom (Zhuhai, Guangdong, China)
Classification: Roller Coaster
Type: Steel - Sit Down
Status: Under Construction opening 2013
Make / Model: Mack Rides GmbH & Co KG / All Models / SuperSplash
Categories: Water Coaster
Inversions: 0

Seems a bit odd, although the massive woodie has apparently been scrapped? If they are getting 2 Mack water coasters, then I'll start a separate topic, but I need to be convinced first. Mind you, it's China, stranger things have happened.

Anyway, let's shove this in here for the fun of it -

 

[Snoo]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

Looks like a standard layout. Of course, if the theming looks like that.. win. BUT, it won't.

 

[roomraider]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

They are getting 2 mack water rides.

Part of the watercoaster rises. (supersplash is in the background)

Supersplash also going up with pretty much the same colour track but different supports. The B&M is in the foreground still not vertical.

Source and more pics: http://vhcoasters.com

 

[STC]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

They are getting 2 mack water rides.

Part of the watercoaster rises. (supersplash is in the background)

That looks like it could be a clone of Poseidon at Europa. Looks identical to its second lift and drop

 

[SilverArrow]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

The theming looks very seaworld-esque, will be interested to see how this looks once it's finished.

 

[Screaming Coasters]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

Why do Mack always make that funny straight bit on the top of the main drops decent, instead of a constant slope down?

 

[Ethan]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

Extra floater airtime?

 

[TheCoasterCruiser]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

The scale of the theming in this park is MASSIVE!

Source: http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1803826397?pn=3

 

[gavin]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

^The whale shark sculpture is apparently 80m (262ft) tall. I can't find the link now, but I'm sure I read that the park is actually getting some whale sharks, too.

 

[rollermonkey]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

Holy crap, that's HUGE!

Has any aquarium or park ever had whale sharks?

 

[BBH]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

Holy crap, that's HUGE!

Has any aquarium or park ever had whale sharks?

The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta currently houses two, but at one point had four of them in their collections.


Posting from a comfortable spot.

 

[gavin]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

^ A few. Georgia Aquarium in the USA, Okinawa Aquarium in Japan. Hakkeijima Sea Paradise also got a couple recently which they actually include in one of their shows.

 

[BBH]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

^ A few. Georgia Aquarium in the USA, Okinawa Aquarium in Japan. Hakkeijima Sea Paradise also got a couple recently which they actually include in one of their shows.

That's interesting, I didn't know about the Japanese aquariums/parks. So there's a few, but they're not by any stretch of the imagination a popular aquarium animal.


Posted using The Force.

 

[Ethan]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

China <3

 

[gavin]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

That's interesting, I didn't know about the Japanese aquariums/parks. So there's a few, but they're not by any stretch of the imagination a popular aquarium animal.

Yeah, they obviously require huge amounts of space, which very few places can provide, and they don't tend to do very well in captivity, so housing , and replacing, them is incredibly expensive and ecologically questionable.

Ocean Park in Hong Kong had plans to get them, but decided that since they're essentially an ecological charity organisation, it wouldn't really be environmentally sound to capture and keep them. Mainland China and Japan have no such issues.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgeAA9v2OWw[/youtube]

Edit - Just had a quick look on Wikipedia and seems that there are actually a few more than I thought, including Osaka, Taiwan, and at least 2 places in China (probably more that we don't know about), one of which actually has five of them.

 

[rtotheizzo17]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

^Im curious if any have lived to give birth. It is believed that the whale shark gives birth to 300 pups at a time, that would be some site to see.

 

[gavin]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | "Unknown" | Mack Watercoaster

^No. It's never even been observed in the wild. Biologists seem to think that they might not give birth to all 300 at once, but they're born in smaller numbers over a period of time.

In the past, the average captive life span was around a year and a half, now it's up to around 3 years, with some having lived longer and still going. When you compare that with a life span in the wild of 70-100 years, it's really ****.

 

[Lofty]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | Unknown | Mack Water Coaster & SuperSpla

Incredible.

 

[Ethan]

Re: Ocean Kingdom | Unknown | Mack Water Coaster & SuperSpla

Pure class, that is.