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Wanda have begun construction of the 17th Wanda City Project – Urumqi Bainiao Lake Wanda City.
The*mega-size cultural tourism project is planned to open in 2021. The development will include*eco-friendly planning and design as well as*cultural elements relating to*Xinjiang. *Amusement facilities will include indoor and outdoor theme parks, an indoor aquarium (including an ocean animal show), an indoor water amusement park*and hotels.

Source: Blooloop

By browsing through the web I found another Wanda theme park. It is indoor, but infact it is just an artwork from the "Sanderson Group" and it is located in Changbaishan. Here is the artwork:


Source: https://www.sandersonintl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/WANDA-1024x400.png

Originally Posted by Anonymous

I've developed a bit of a morbid fascination with these Wanda theme parks. I'm visiting China and was thinking I'd check one out. Which one would be their supposed 'best' park? I'll be visiting Shanghai Disney as well to note the 'contrasts', shall we say.

I would say do Wanda Nanchang and if possible, if you go to the aquarium at Wanda Nanchang, please let me know if they have whale sharks and if so, how many. Thanks!

I've developed a bit of a morbid fascination with these Wanda theme parks. I'm visiting China and was thinking I'd check one out. Which one would be their supposed 'best' park? I'll be visiting Shanghai Disney as well to note the 'contrasts', shall we say.

Excellent post by Micael listing the up and coming projects. I can add a couple of locations to that.

10. Wanda Chengdu Cultural Tourism City
Completion: 2018
Location: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@30.9586024,103.6103632,1755m/data=!3m1!1e3
Budget: $7.6 billion

11. Wanda Guilin Cultural Tourism City
Completion: 2020
Location: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@25.2296861,110.3106087,1131m/data=!3m1!1e3
Budget: $2.5 billion

12. Wanda Chongqing Cultural Tourism City
Completion: 2020
Location: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@29.6302613,106.3498183,1542m/data=!3m1!1e3
Budget: $8 billion

The Chongqing and Chengdu ones are accurate and the weird show buildings Wanda build to showcase the model at each park are present on the satellite image. Guilin is based on diagrammatic maps seen of the project and is approximate.

And in relation to Wuxi. The mall is well under construction but nothing vertical on the park yet


Coaster wise the expected lineup is
B&M Wing Coaster
Mack Blue Fire Launch Coaster
Intamin Impulse Coaster
Golden Horse Wild Mouse.

Does anyone have any more information on the construction of Wanda City Wuxi? Does anyone know their ride line up?

I tried to make a comprehensive list of every theme park-related Wanda development and here it is:

It's in order by completion date and I was unable to find the exact locations of some of them so if anyone can find those missing locations please share in a post on this thread and I'll update the list.


1. Wanda Movie Park (currently closed for "upgrades" as August 2016)
Completion: December 20, 2014
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/3RCHhCgPzQ42
Budget: $1.1 billion


2. Wanda Xishuangbanna International Resort
Completion: September 26, 2015
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/3TssePpSsmz
Budget: $2.3 billion


3. Wanda Nanchang Cultural Tourism City
Completion: May 28, 2016
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/LoHaSxKMjv92
Budget: $3.2 billion


4. Wanda Hefei Cultural Tourism City
Completion: September 24, 2016
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/8ZjtHSqpBmp
Budget: $3.5 billion


5. Wanda Harbin Cultural Tourism City
Completion: June 30, 2017
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/hoWuJzE1GTR2
Budget: $3.3 billion


6. Wanda Wuxi Cultural Tourism City
Completion: 2017
Location*: https://goo.gl/maps/Mo3UnnR7qp12
Budget: $3 billion


7. Nanning Wanda Mall
Completion: 2017
Location*: https://goo.gl/maps/sRTapYWvz7D2
Budget: $2.2 billion


8. Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis
Completion: August 2018
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/DVyo6UANhYz
Budget: $7.6 billion


9. Wanda Guangzhou Cultural Tourism City
Completion: 2018
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/djrVAMTYYPp
Budget: $7.2 billion


10. Wanda Chengdu Cultural Tourism City
Completion: 2018
Location**: Unknown
Budget: $7.6 billion


11. Wanda Guilin Cultural Tourism City
Completion: 2020
Location**: Unknown
Budget: $2.5 billion


12. Wanda Chongqing Cultural Tourism City
Completion: 2020
Location: Unknown
Budget: $8 billion


13. Wanda Haikou "shopping complex"
Completion: Late 2020
Location: Unknown
Budget: $7.2 billion


14. Wanda Jinan Culture, Sports and Tourism City
Completion: 2021
Location: Unknown
Budget: $9.45 billion


15. Wanda Xi'an Cultural Tourism City
Completion: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Budget: $7.3 billion



Outside China:

Gold Coast, Australia: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/property/wanda-group-sets-sights-on-new-gold-coast-theme-park/news-story/8f2c82a6557960b409e35d8d39ecd6f7

http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/entertainment/billionaire-plans-to-open-jurassic-theme-park-on-the-gold-coast/news-story/53a76ee67503957d7d5a6e2f7671e447

Paris, France: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-24/china-s-richest-man-said-to-be-planning-france-retail-project

http://disneyandmore.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/breaking-news-chinese-billionaire-wang.html


*approximate location
**the aparent location was found in earlier post #41 in this thread by "Gutterflower" but I was unable to find it myself

The Wanda corporate site doesn't have a list of all the ones that are rumoured but it does have currently open ones and a brief list of the more developed projects.







Source: http://www.wanda-group.com/businesses/culture/outdoor_theme_parks/

Thanks for the update Michael. Wanda have announced so many parks I can't keep up with them all. I know Gutterflower created a great list of all of their parks previously, would it be possible to update this to include all of the new parks announced since then?

Plans for another Wanda "shopping complex" have been announced. This one will be located in the city of Haikou on Hainan Island in China. The complex will "also boast a theme park, convention facilities, a bio-park and other tourist facilities and hotels"

Budget: about $7.2 billion
Opening: Late 2020

Source: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/business/Wanda-plans-shopping-complex-on-south-China-island/shdaily.shtml