This year of coaster construction updates has officially begun! First off the blocks is the construction at the wonderful ride at Quassy Amusement Park. It’s great to be on this journey with Quassy in the creation of this lasting transformation of their park. Seeing physical evidence of this construction is great to see and gets [...]

Martin & Vlemickx Rides (MVR) has announced a new Gravity Group designed, racing and dueling wooden roller coaster in Wuhan, China.  It will be an impressive ride with two tracks full of airtime, twists and turns.  This new ride will open in 2011 in Wuhan at a sister park to the Happy Valley Shanghai park [...]

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 health [...]

Amusement Today just published an update on the family-sized Quassy Amusement Park wooden coaster. [Links to the Article: Amusement Today, Quassy Website]
The following renderings were Included in the article: (click all images for larger versions)

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For a refresher, here is the previously posted rendering and layout for the coaster for which young hesistant riders will be [...]

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.

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These photos are all [...]