Yes, it’s another one. Before the school term properly kicked in, I had a long weekend, so flew out to Kunming.
The weather forecast was for rain and thunderstorms for the whole three days, which is obviously less than ideal. On the first day, it was cloudy in the morning, so I headed to the major park first, thinking that if everything else went tits-up, at least I had a chance while it was relatively ok.
Colourful Yunnan Paradise
This is brand new park that just opened during the summer. It’s pretty far outside the city, but is part of a bigger overall resort – Colourful Yunnan – that is still undergoing some construction. I can’t remember the exact price now, but it was expensive at over £30. I walked past/through a couple of areas to get to the B&M in the back corner of the park.
Save this one for later:
There was nobody around at this point, especially not in this area, but everything was open. In typical Chinese fashion, the English signage just calls it Wing Coaster, but the Chinese name is Snow Eagle.
They got me to wait around 5 minutes, but when it was clear that nobody else was coming, set me off by myself. See:
It was really good. On paper, it’s pretty much X-Flight, which I thought was s**t, but this just seemed so much better. I only rode at or near the front though, whereas I did X-Flight at the back. Plus, this is obviously newer and theming was loads better. Common sense was telling me to run and get the other creds in case it started raining, but I did a quick reride anyway.
Some other bits and pieces on the way to the next coaster:
Back to this in a bit:
The Blue Fire clone – called “Launch Coaster” in English but with a Chinese name that translates as “Elephant Play Dragon” – was next. Again, there were no people, so, again, I got a ride to myself.
There was some kind of manager hanging around who asked me if I wanted to “play again”, so I did.
This was no different to any other Blue Fire model, and I’m fine with that since I actually like them more than most people seem to.
There was a huge theatre with what I’m guessing was some kind of stunt show, but there was no information regarding times anywhere, so I guess it maybe wasn’t open.
Moving on then, this time to a Mack supersplash thing. There’s clearly a “Walrus Splash” influence going on with this in terms of the theming. The tigers are even more impressive from the top of the drop.
Some other stuff including a flying theatre (Ughhhhhhh, so f**king sick of them and shouldn’t have bothered) and a big indoor kiddy area.
And onto the final cred, which I’d walked right past earlier.
I did another couple of rides on Snow Eagle before it started raining.
Predictably, with the rain everything closed. I thought I could at least do the Ferris wheel, but they even shut that down. Thinking about it, I guess it could be a lightning risk. The rain didn’t last long though, and they opened everything back up pretty much immediately, which I thought was pretty impressive given that a. the park was dead and b. CHYAINA.
Ferris wheel for the views then.
After that it started raining again, only this time a properly pissing down thunderstorm which didn’t look likely to stop anytime soon, so I called it a day. This was fine though since the weather had held off long enough for me to get everything done, with rerides, so I couldn’t complain. There was some show in a large theatre a couple of hours later, and some nighttime show on the lake, but I didn’t really want to hang around that long.
Overall, this was a great park. It’s hard to comment on operations when it was completely dead, but the way that they were happy to send empty trains with no wait and get stuff open quickly after the rain stopped is a good sign. No bulls**t station warm-up exercises either. Ride operating hours seemed excellent as well. Signs out front of each ride had everything operating from park opening until at least 8pm.
The rest of this report is just crappy cred whoring.
The weather forecast was for rain and thunderstorms for the whole three days, which is obviously less than ideal. On the first day, it was cloudy in the morning, so I headed to the major park first, thinking that if everything else went tits-up, at least I had a chance while it was relatively ok.
Colourful Yunnan Paradise
This is brand new park that just opened during the summer. It’s pretty far outside the city, but is part of a bigger overall resort – Colourful Yunnan – that is still undergoing some construction. I can’t remember the exact price now, but it was expensive at over £30. I walked past/through a couple of areas to get to the B&M in the back corner of the park.
Save this one for later:
There was nobody around at this point, especially not in this area, but everything was open. In typical Chinese fashion, the English signage just calls it Wing Coaster, but the Chinese name is Snow Eagle.
They got me to wait around 5 minutes, but when it was clear that nobody else was coming, set me off by myself. See:
It was really good. On paper, it’s pretty much X-Flight, which I thought was s**t, but this just seemed so much better. I only rode at or near the front though, whereas I did X-Flight at the back. Plus, this is obviously newer and theming was loads better. Common sense was telling me to run and get the other creds in case it started raining, but I did a quick reride anyway.
Some other bits and pieces on the way to the next coaster:
Back to this in a bit:
The Blue Fire clone – called “Launch Coaster” in English but with a Chinese name that translates as “Elephant Play Dragon” – was next. Again, there were no people, so, again, I got a ride to myself.
There was some kind of manager hanging around who asked me if I wanted to “play again”, so I did.
This was no different to any other Blue Fire model, and I’m fine with that since I actually like them more than most people seem to.
There was a huge theatre with what I’m guessing was some kind of stunt show, but there was no information regarding times anywhere, so I guess it maybe wasn’t open.
Moving on then, this time to a Mack supersplash thing. There’s clearly a “Walrus Splash” influence going on with this in terms of the theming. The tigers are even more impressive from the top of the drop.
Some other stuff including a flying theatre (Ughhhhhhh, so f**king sick of them and shouldn’t have bothered) and a big indoor kiddy area.
And onto the final cred, which I’d walked right past earlier.
I did another couple of rides on Snow Eagle before it started raining.
Predictably, with the rain everything closed. I thought I could at least do the Ferris wheel, but they even shut that down. Thinking about it, I guess it could be a lightning risk. The rain didn’t last long though, and they opened everything back up pretty much immediately, which I thought was pretty impressive given that a. the park was dead and b. CHYAINA.
Ferris wheel for the views then.
After that it started raining again, only this time a properly pissing down thunderstorm which didn’t look likely to stop anytime soon, so I called it a day. This was fine though since the weather had held off long enough for me to get everything done, with rerides, so I couldn’t complain. There was some show in a large theatre a couple of hours later, and some nighttime show on the lake, but I didn’t really want to hang around that long.
Overall, this was a great park. It’s hard to comment on operations when it was completely dead, but the way that they were happy to send empty trains with no wait and get stuff open quickly after the rain stopped is a good sign. No bulls**t station warm-up exercises either. Ride operating hours seemed excellent as well. Signs out front of each ride had everything operating from park opening until at least 8pm.
The rest of this report is just crappy cred whoring.