It is hard to believe that I have been back from China almost a month already.  I made a solo journey to Shanghai during the middle of May to be a part of some of the commissioning procedures for the ride. After the plane landed in Shanghai, we were greeted by something new – government [...]

We recently uploaded some video of China’s first wooden roller coaster to our YouTube site.  This HD video shows the ride in action – including an onride video.  Footage was shot during my trip to the jobsite during the middle of May.

Here are some photos of the dummy-filled train taken during the testing of the wooden coaster last week in Shanghai.  Hopefully Chad and Larry will get some of their photos posted a little later this week.  When they were over there, they took video too!  We’ll just have to wait and see. These photos are [...]

The first wooden roller coaster in China has now had its first runs and first riders!  Congratulations to the teams at The Gravity Group and Martin & Vleminckx for this spectacular work of art. Chad said, “Rode it. awesome. smooth. WAY FUN!”  He went on saying it was fantastic with tons of airtime particularly on [...]

[I tried publishing this back in March, but had some problems with the feed/itunes.  With Larry and Chad currently in China and just days away from testing the ride, I thought I would try posting it again.] Chad and I recently got back from a trip to Shanghai to check out the work on the [...]