Rare footage of Jiulong Amusement Park, Beijing, 1997. Aquarium, and on-ride of Dragon Palace ride

from: bilibili.com
Rare footage of Jiulong Amusement Park, Beijing, 1997. Aquarium, and some on-ride footage of Dragon Palace ride

[@kultkayleigh]

Exploring with Josh brought me here ❤

[@altitudeoflife]

Me too! So cool to see it in its prime ❤

[@DanielMeehan-uj8ub]

Same

[@graybeardedmadness5827]

I worked on all the Robots here in the USA, Shipped to China. If you have any questions, just let me know.

[@ChroniksNotHere]

I'm here from Josh's vid and seen some of these really cool animatronics, and some really do stand out to me, and I'm here to ask you some questions that im interested in!
1. How does the dragon king's head work? (As well as some of the other ones that can turn their head around revealing another face)
2. What is the most complexed ones while you're working on those animatronics? And what kinds of faulty errors or malfunction did they cause while in the works?
3. Do the animatronics use the same endoskeleton as the one's from Disney?

[@graybeardedmadness5827]

@ChroniksNotHereGreetings,
The Dragon King arms raised holding the Ball in his hands, the Ball would flash brightly, and the head would turn before your eyes adjusted from the light flash, revealing the Dragon head.
The majority of the animatronics in that show ran by Pneumatic Actuators, powered by 90 PSI Air, actuated on/off by a 24VDC Valve, Adjustment (setting of speeds) was done with Air Flow Controls on each actuator.
The entire show was run from a Show Control System that contained the show programming. The Show Control sent the “On/Off” signals to the Air Valves. The Control System also contained lighting triggers and the Sound Tracks, the motions are actuated with SPMTE (for Timing & Synchronization).
As far as the internal skeletons, in short, yes and No, however, the owner of the company was indeed from Disney, the internal mechanisms were customized to each animatronic figure, but share the same mechanics.
Problems? As with all animatronic figures, the R&D is a lot of work, best pivot point location, actuator size & stroke all designed and built to be contained within the figure (outside in) always challenging.
Everything starts with a Marquette (Miniature Scale model of what the Art Director wants for each figure), then sculptors sculpt the full size from the Marquette scaled up measurements. Molds are made, from the sculptures, internal mechanisms and framework built & tested, Paint & Costumes all in the same company.
As a matter of fact, I still have a Dragon Head and Neck Marquette in my toolbox.

[@graybeardedmadness5827]

@ChroniksNotHere Greetings,
The Dragon King arms raised holding the Ball in his hands, the Ball would flash brightly, and the head would turn before your eyes adjusted from the light flash, revealing the Dragon head.
The majority of the animatronics in that show ran by Pneumatic Actuators, powered by 90 PSI Air, actuated on/off by a 24VDC Valve, Adjustment (setting of speeds) was done with Air Flow Controls on each actuator.
The entire show was run from a Show Control System that contained the show programming. The Show Control sent the “On/Off” signals to the Air Valves. The Control System also contained lighting triggers and the Sound Tracks, the motions are actuated with SPMTE (for Timing & Synchronization).
As far as the internal skeletons, in short, yes and No, however, the owner of the company was indeed from Disney, the internal mechanisms were customized to each animatronic figure, but share the same mechanics.

Problems? As with all animatronic figures, the R&D is a lot of work, best pivot point location, actuator size & stroke all designed and built to be contained within the figure (outside in) always challenging.
Everything starts with a Marquette (Miniature Scale model of what the Art Director wants for each figure), then sculptors sculpt the full size from the Marquette scaled up measurements. Molds are made from the sculptures, internal mechanisms and framework built & tested, Paint & Costumes all in the same company.
As a matter of fact, I still have a Dragon Head and Neck Marquette in my toolbox.

[@EminaSirena]

Awe that poor turtle was used to swimming in the open ocean just to be caputured and restricted to a small tank for people to look at 😢

[@EminaSirena]

All these tank seem way to small to be housing so many large fish together.

[@手撕小粉红-r2c]

这地方比鬼屋恐怖多了

[@paulox93]

extreme rare dark ride