Huge Abandoned Theme Park Exploration - Sino Wonderland

over the past month we visited one of the last countries we ever thought we'd be exploring in China it's not exactly the kind of destination a couple of freedom-loving Americans would put at the top of their bucket list but when we got the invite for what was sure to be a unique adventure we couldn't say no [Music] we had no idea what kinds of obstacles we'd face or what kind of trouble we'd end up in for exploring them but we took a leap of faith and made it back with footage from some of the most incredible abandoned places we've ever seen in today's episode we're visiting the abandoned silo Wonderland theme park in whine on this absolutely massive park was under construction until 2014 when the financing ran dry today the site stands frozen in time as if the construction crew suddenly walked off the job and never returned join us as we venture inside an attempt to explore the entirety of this massive complex [Music] [Music] unsure of the security situation we approach the part from his inconspicuous and angle as possible parking lot signs do you want to go in here you could pop it real quick it's just operation our signs okay I'm already getting Six Flags New Orleans vibes here's a chair swing right here for this exploration we're joined by our friends Chris Lockhart and Ranch roppa les will include their links in the video description this is looking amazing already yeah but in better condition is the control room over here there's different themed lands it looks like wow there's even an abandoned crane yes they left the crane ran didn't you say you wanted to climb a crane really bad there's an abandoned crane here oh yeah yep this place is just was just left one day made construction I feel like some small building like this could be hiding something really cool here so I'm gonna check this out real quick does that open out oh it's a 360 screen a lot of chairs in the middle I think this dish would have been a really lame attraction where are you essentially coming and watch a movie sit down on a swiveling chair and you'd watch something at 360 60 movie Wow that's all it is yeah that would be pretty lame yeah it's a pretty reflective surface you know alright there's so much to see here we're gonna do it this place let's try to go up to this thing little paratrooper type ride that's how you close oh I think it's just coming from that worksite over there but echoing it's like a space-themed area over there so these would just go up and down the theming is not half bad that asian area looks really cool it's like Asian fantasy doesn't that look just like the evil robot from Futurama forget his name this looks like a UFO what's in here oh there's like a teacup ride in here this area of the park Rin was definitely the sci-fi yeah but there's clowns down there there are clowns down there it's like a UFO of top but clowns on the bottom maybe they purchase this ride from somewhere else maybe installed it here some why is that wooden take it over there it's like half neatly it just got flowers over yeah I don't know that's those are clothes well it's not Disney we're all you know to be his family friendly this was their version of the Astra orbiter over here I guess kind of shaky buttons to go up and down yeah it looks like some of the other areas of the park aren't as fully constructed now as this area okay still see scaffolding back yeah rebar this we hear a dog barking now and the dog is a way we got busted at every other place is the Coby coming from off the property take a look at this rollercoaster here it looks like a vakama SLC which has a reputation of being one of the roughest rollercoaster clowns out there but this ride would probably have been even worse because it was a Chinese knockoff of that ride and if you look at some of the track work and you spent a lot of time looking at roller coasters you'll see that some parts of it look extremely janky but we'll get to that when we get closer to that ride this for instance right here though where the track goes into that inline twist it's like completely horizontal it starts banking way too early he's nobody a security it's probably nothing just China stuff plus there's not get seen by anyone though cuz every other time we've encountered series right there they've looked super unofficial yeah there it is is it yeah watch that's like a police truck watch that's the security drone always pointing right at us I saw a person down there too maybe we can ask him if we can use his drone footage since we don't have a drone anymore there are a lot of rides left here Wow oh [ __ ] we got the whole play pen to ourselves mm-hmm the whole play pen [Applause] is this one of those where you would shoot foam balls all over the place yeah I vaguely remember going in one of these as a kid and you'd put him in here and it would suck them up and shoot him at the top faces are kind of creepy though that new looking truck there is kind of sketchy it's probably fine to walk over there but you've been getting kicked out of all our other spots in China so we're gonna be a little more cautious here and go the other way it's the Cree a Z coaster a car oh yeah I know I don't know looks like a phantom I don't think it's no it was just like a hobbyist drone like a phantom this is what makes it crea Z 2015 it's a weird yeah the theming of this ride doesn't really match the rest of this area feels like the drone is kind of following us does it okay it's just my new series bones I didn't something died here sad cat for something [Music] [Music] yeah that is literally Roberto from Futurama it's more than similar it's exact should we check out the woowoo restaurant there's no broken glass on it yeah that's interesting oh there's broken glass over here it's just empty hey there's crash bandicoot it's probably not much in there is there literally nothing literally nothing okay oh wow there's a whole moat around the coaster it's on an island so we just used 45 minutes of time on this future world section and we only have about an hour and a half of good daylight left that's the challenge of travelling in a place like China and trying to see these places you can't rent a car so you end up on a really tight schedule so like minotaurs or something the drone is still flying so we're getting kind of concerned it's been like half an hour I think so it should be going down soon unless some sort of specialty drone and not a consumer drone which then it might be secured yeah which is strange if you're gonna fly it when she flied over the whole theme park maybe I mean what else would you be flying for around here elephants it's insane how after investing this much money you can just leave it all holy [ __ ] this place is pretty awesome and one English word I see is cosplay and they have an enlarged map of this area you think since we've been only in really public areas there's cameras everything I think since we went off the camera street cameras they said we don't like keep an eye on us I think it's a possibility that we crazy but that has definitely been in the air longer than half an hour no consumer phantom drone can do that I feel like up until now we've been on a camera somewhere yeah this is the one place we haven't been on a camera in China so they bring out the drone you know that happened to my brother - he has a similar story where he was on the abandoned Great Wall and a drone followed him in the air for like over an hour and then just left very well like this sounds like some crazy conspiracy you're the like cams that drone has been in the sky for over half an hour we dismiss tree cams so they sent out the drone to find us it's probably staying over there to watch Chris and ran - which is getting kind of creepy because it's not going anywhere and I saw its camera was pointing at us like when we it was like looking at us not at the overall scenery it's very strange the punish not gonna do anything for not vandalizing no otherwise they would have done something by now I just think it's because we disappear from the street yeah yeah that they just like sent Delta Jordan keep an eye on us because that is not a consumer drone it says no signs of going down anytime soon this is crazy anyway let's keep moving cuz we've caught a hill okay let's keep moving home as much as we can before we go there's a guy right there well he definitely heard us already where was Fran : well they were that way there's guys over there over there there's guys and hardhats over there and that your own has been in the air for almost an hour I think that's drawn belongs to that security guy cuz I saw his checking his phone for the job yeah that's a surveillance drone yeah and he asked her where you come from and I said from this way it is security flying the drone yeah I saw the guy checking his phone for he was thinking like we might be like off the street cameras so I sent out the drone key that's not a normal drone it's been in the sky for if you didn't have a controller no it's not his drone yeah okay well did you tell him about us no okay we're gonna keep going yeah go grab your track okay okay yeah okay there are some workers over here hopefully we can just wave yeah I know you already heard us though there's like something else that goes on over there let's just walk by here quickly even though this looks cool there's three bikes there's four guys looks pretty nice I love the fact that the crane is still there it really sells the whole idea that this place was just deserted all of a sudden one day look how big this place is look I see a drop tower way down there that's so far away [Music] I think the drones finally gone though is in the sky for at least a full hour I can't fit the damn thing in my lens even at 16 millimeters it's too big our plan was to climb the ferris wheel but with security around supposedly it's probably not the best idea anymore such a big nice ferris wheel and it still has carnival-style metal stairs Wow pretty cool control panel for just a ferris wheel he said fully air-conditioned cars there's a hundred percent another drone flying I hear it those ain't bugs whatever it's not really bothering us so we'll just keep going a drone can't kick us out oh wow that one's swinging so much must have been a ghost that down there looks like it would have been a flume ride it's not very far along though it's it over there and there's a whole section of the park that looks more complete and I see a big drop Tower that'll be cool to get a close-up of well there's a bridge this might actually be the largest a been in place we've ever done just based on sheer land area taken up by it can you think of any other abandoned place it takes up more land than this some of the steel mills were closed but I think this probably beats a ammunition plant in Kentucky good oh right that's but that was in Indiana right on the border Wow there would have been a boat that took you around the whole park and these waterways here that would have been one of the docks based on what we could calculate from Google Earth this theme park takes up around 150 acres of property to put that into perspective that's larger than the abandoned Nara dreamland and Six Flags New Orleans parks combined you know what this would be right here a prime spot for a knockoff Disney Castle that's probably what was supposed to be there I bet you or centerpiece that's what would they didn't get very far with it like some cars over there like no I see a car - yeah we should avoid that area I guess that means we probably shouldn't go to the top of this well this is kind of a [ __ ] to get to the Train still in the station looks like they covered everything with plastic or this never took the packaging off of the rides that was annoying to make it over here I didn't even finish covering up the building with the fake rock [Music] we said we wanted to save going up for last because there's a chance of getting spotted but this area was a [ __ ] to get to and I don't want to go through that again so we're going now and if I see security out go back down that white car is gone there's a few scooters left though Oh what is it I don't know yeah we're already up here might as well get to the top and then go down I was saying we're on an island so it'd take them a while to get to us yeah we can be seen from the street even here so we definitely won't spend too long probably pretty small for the ground so they really have to be looking to find us yeah the [ __ ] drone is back I heard it the whole time dude I'm telling you I I knew that was drone drone is back it's moving now that I said you're staying in one spot this has to be a surrealist drone it has to be then how come they're not doing anything to us well it's because I never said pursue drone they don't care that we're just taking photos meanwhile it is a surveillance drone all they care about is knowing where we are yeah I mean I guess I mean I never I don't know if security of the place you're like Chinese government drone it could be a Chinese drone could be and they just care about knowing where people are yeah like I bet if we saw if they saw us do a like commit a crime yeah then they would do something about it yeah or if you were vandalizing okay is it looking at us where is he going he's going past us what's going for Chris that's a surveillance you're on Chris and Rainer buy the first bill right now aren't they watch it flies right into the ferris wheel oh my god I'm just gonna keep doing what we're doing because nobody's bothered us so our final theory with the drones is that it was probably just the on-site security flying them the super long flight durations could be explained by quick battery changes that might have happened while we weren't paying attention those hotels were part of this two massive place backing up backing up there's always [ __ ] Bulldogs every time we get caught it starts with dogs barking though so let's get and see this quick this area is really overgrown which is annoying holy [ __ ] this is a cool view [Music] there's faces up there weird looks like their shelves in there for a store maybe yeah it is just an empty gift shop but it seems really finished fresh paint it's interesting uh some areas are so unfinished and others are very complete looking [Applause] that was one of those swings not drop tower it's got like a medieval Greek Egyptian vibe to it all it man wonder if it would have been some kind of haunted house but it has all three of those like mashed together yeah you got like the Anubis head and then a lion and then the like grills that all that jeez this is just such a hodgepodge and medieval casting things it's weird yeah like that that's a Greek style statue right there there's so many pieces waiting to be installed just sitting on the ground to like look at all of them over here this looks like a robot leg so that probably would've went in the future area I think they just have a hodgepodge of scenery from different areas stored here let's check out the swing ride those are some interesting noises coming from over there [Applause] yeah this looks like a Roman area Italian maybe yeah I see some Venice looking stuff yeah it's a mix of everything what are these what do they do and try and take selfies or something yeah you can stick a phone in these statues hands yeah what are they doing it's kind of like I come I come here gesture I don't know oh it's DaVinci town this looks kind of unfinished over here it's a topspin or something yeah here comes Chris walking down the desolate streets of sino Wonderland the lifecycle of abandoned buildings is a little different in China and that many places sit abandoned before they're used rather than after over the past decade their policies have created a lot of over ambitious development resulting in many stalled out projects such as this one however due to the rapid growth of Chinese cities many of these projects are eventually resumed after sitting idle for years so one day as unlikely as it seems these desolate paths may be filled with guests only time will tell so yeah we're gonna walk out past the word is because the other way out requires a really long walk at going through brush and we don't want to do it so hopefully if we just beeline it out here nothing happens I bet that dog is gonna start barking yeah we were saying how this probably would've been a centerpiece of the park but they never finished building it so that's the incentive out here too this would have been like a world-class dog oh sure there's like part of [ __ ] here we should not have come over here this seems like a bad idea [Music] [Music] [Music] China yeah you want to go dance with that guy I heard words like home just do what he's doing sadly I have no moves if this goes on your video

Channel: The Proper People

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Keywords: abandoned, urban, exploration, urbex, exploring, haunted, proper, people, theproperpeople, theme park, abandoned theme park, amusement park, abandoned places, nara dreamland, six flags, adventure, abandoned roller coaster, roller coaster, apocalypse, china, abandoned places in china, documentary, zombieland, jazzland

Id: SWm0tszVrVQ

Length: 39min 5sec (2345 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 25 2019

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