At booth 4613 at the IAAPA Expo here in Orlando, Florida, we will be showing off our four rides for 2011.  Don’t miss the never before published renderings of the Happy Valley Wuhan racing & dueling roller coaster. Stop by and say hello.  We will be showing off one of the Timberliner cars from the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]