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Here's the latest progress on Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis which will have an indoor theme park and is opening on August 28, 2018:







Sources: http://cj.sina.cn/article/detail/3665308924/233493 and http://cj.sina.cn/article/detail/3665308924/220288?cre=tianyi&mod=wpage&loc=1&r=9&doct=0&rfunc=0&tj=none&s=0&tr=9 and http://m.weibo.cn/status/4086768233671569

Wanda Nanning's indoor theme park is almost ready for its grand opening on June 17, 2017!

Plenty of interior photos of the practically completed theme park can be seen here: http://m.v4.cc/News-4355826.html

Sources: http://www.gx.chinanews.com/news/2017/0313/10778.html and http://m.v4.cc/News-4355826.html

Construction progress on Wanda Wuxi Cultural Tourism City from February 2017:





Wanda Wuxi Cultural Tourism City will include "the world's only large indoor children's theme park, indoor water park, large theme park" and completion has been pushed back to 2019

Source: http://chuansong.me/n/1446657952928

Trial operations for Wanda Harbin Cultural Tourism City's theme park began on April 30, 2017! The theme park is having its grand opening on June 30, 2017.

Here's two photos showing the practically completed theme park:





Source: http://3g.china.com/act/10000169_30475515.html

Source: https://twitter.com/DalianWanda/status/858756631798173703/photo/1

Wanda Harbin Cultural Tourism City's theme park, which is opening this June, will have a ride that includes two large flying theaters. The flying theaters use a "flight cinema simulator system" called HEXaFLITE® which was developed by the German company Simtec. This ride seems to be similar in concept to Disney's Soarin' ride and speaking of Disney, back in 2012 Screamscape suggested the potential that the technology behind the Flight of Passage ride opening soon at Pandora: The World of Avatar is also HEXaFLITE®. Can anyone confirm whether or not Disney did end up using HEXaFLITE® for their ride?

This isn't the first time a Wanda theme park has used a Simtec ride system. At the currently closed Wanda Movie Park in Wuhan, China, a motion simulator-type ride called "Power of Nature" was developed by Simtec and is shown in the video below:



Sources: http://www.asiaattractions.net/news/show-2932.html and http://www.screamscape.com/html/wdw_-_animal_kingdom.htm

Wanda's indoor theme park in Nanjing is set to open in June 2017 and will feature many advanced technologies such as virtual reality and 3D holographic projections to enhance the visitors' experience

Source: http://www.asiaattractions.net/news/show-2943.html

China's multinational conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group may be looking at pulling out of its $10 billion real estate project in Haryana.

The Wanda group's investment plan, including construction of five industrial and theme parks besides shopping malls, has hit a deadlock after the state government insisted that it be given higher equity ownership in the project

Source: http://www.firstpost.com/business/chinas-dalian-wanda-group-may-scrap-10-bn-haryana-project-on-ownership-row-3411096.html

Latest photos of the Wanda theme park in Nanning.





Source: https://twitter.com/VHCoasters/status/852351151181836288/photo/1

I know I am not supposed to publish opinions without additional content here, but it's important that someone says this. These Wanda parks are terrible rip-offs of existing attractions, in the Harbin case of Ski Dubai. The ceiling color of the ski dome, the French-style houses, all copy and paste. Wanda has no story to tell and its theme parks lack uniqueness, creativity and identity. Wang Jianlin may built a few more, but eventually he will fail.