Re: Thorpe Park and Florida
Crappy Valley Shenzhen
We planned this as the last park in the Shenzhen area on the long shot off chance that the new S&S coaster would by magic, decide to open. It obviously didn't, but nobody really knew how close (or far) it was from opening so it was worth giving it a try at least.
The park was HEAVING, and they only had one train on all the coasters. We didn't turn up till lunch time, which resulted in a terrible ride count (we only just managed to get the creds in, and there were only 4 open!)...
We started with the Big Apple knockoff, which spited Adventure Island by being on a roof. Although, I don't see why such a major park would NEED to shove a cred on a roof? Whatever...
Luckily this was walk on, unlike the Vekoma Mine Train, which we waited about an hour and a half for. Ugh.
This was the first time we experienced the STUPID Chinese way of crowd control in queue lines. You know how on XNWO at Thorpe they don't let you queue in the main queue, but force you to wait outside and then let you through in groups? Well, they do this for all their major coasters at Happy Valley, resulting in a huge queue of people blocking the main paths of the park, standing in the heat, when there's a nice shady purpose built queue line standing empty, only for you to walk through when they let your 'train' enter. I can understand why they do this on X because it's a dark building etc, but these were just normal outdoor cattlepens that they wouldn't use. Hopefully I explained that haha, perhaps Gavin or Ben can help.
We then queued a couple of hours for the Golden Horse Spinner, which we didn't take any photos of, so I'll steal one from RCDB:
The queue jumping was horrendus here, which set a trend for the rest of the trip. Seriously, entire families would just casually shove their way through like you're standing in their way or something. ****.
Our last ride of the day was the last cred, Kumali. If I remember correctly this was better than Kumali, but the one in Beijing was DISGUSTING? Ben?
See what I mean... When inside, there were entire queue sections just closed off...
Although I'll give them credit for ONE thing, the few sections of queueline they were using had these little benches, which were at all the Happy Valleyz:
It was **** boiling, so we got some masculine snowcones...
The Vekoma <////3
(note the amazing translation <3)
Even the reflection was offensive.
The test seat was fab... it was actually on a random bit of transfer track <3
Oh, here's some photos of the spiteful cred. S&S, why do you suck so much? To be fair, the guys from S&S were there all day, and were walking out of the park behind us going on about how they were playing with the launch or something. Such yanks. One of them was really hot actually <3.
It seemed to be several track connections which were spiting, which is understandable after doing the one in Beijing at the end of the trip. Some of the transitions were REALLY brutal just a few months after it opened, so god knows how it's going to age. Anyway, more of that later...
This made us LOL on the way out <3
As this was our last night in Shenzhen, we splashed out a quid or so on a meal.
This made me LOL...
Ben said:
Dinner tonight was the dogs bollocks. No, really, it was dog.
Thanks for reading! Next part will be the journey to (and touristy stuff in) Shanghai.
