Showing posts with label Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Park. Show all posts

The World's Largest and Steepest Roller Coaster in Japan

If you plan to travel to Japan soon and you’re not among the faint of heart, you might want to visit the Fuji-Q Highland, an amusement park that just added a very special new attraction: the world’s steepest roller coaster. The so-called Takabisha accelerates to 100 km/h, has a 43m drop and a 121-degree freefall.


The Japanese roller coaster beat the former record holder, the Le Timber Drop in France, which measures “just” 113.1 degrees.

Fuji Q Highland invested $37 million in the development of the Takabisha. One ride takes 112 seconds and costs $12.50.













Awesome Dinosaur Park in Poland

For many years Poland lacked a good theme park, now dinosaur parks are everywhere. The country’s first park devoted to dinosaurs opened in 2004 at Baltow in the Kamienna river valley. Apart from dozens of natural size figures of dinosaurs and other extinct animals, the park offers a fossil museum and a children’s playground.


















Bizarre Parks in Asia





Sad toys hang around - and a bunch of ferocious rabbits haunts the premises:
Spectacularly overgrown roller coaster - and "Okutama Ropeway" still offers great view from the cabins:


Here is a misty ride 250km north of Tokyo



Would you trust these rusty rails with another ride? Maybe, if you're in a 1980s horror movie.
These pictures take my pick as the creepiest of the bunch
Passengers in stasis: frozen in time, place and who knows what else

Many parks in China were originally built to as "People's Parks", for many years being the focus of family fun and activities in large cities. With huge changes in the Chinese economy and a lack of funds for upkeep, many are lying in disarray, and yet many more are still open and maintained by dedicated workers.
Here is a Shanghai theme park with dioramas and statues intended to represent countries around the world, abandoned for nearly 10 years - photos by Wesley:

The heads are growing like mushrooms there
Ever seen an abandoned fairy tale castle before? You know, "Happily ever after"..?


This picture has everything: signs of old, signs of new (airplane) and a profound philosophical statue to contemplate this all
Another abandoned park (again for 10 years) near Beijing: this time because of the lack of funds to maintain it -
For a moment I thought that it's a Shuttle launch tower:

Finally, here is an aesthetic pleasure - another Chinese park


Looks like the faux-"mountains" are still standing
3. LAOS



Batman grounded
4. SOUTH KOREA

Entry into the park, leading to a "house of terror"

Some colorful characters inside:
Outside the park: Buddhist statues and the sound of Buddhist prayers from the temple next door
Caterpillar exodus. The world will soon end if you see these heading out of the city


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