
This is the latest attraction at Ocean Park, Hong Kong - Dreamworks’ “How to Train your Dragon” where visitors are each given an electronic Viking shield to activate the onscreen quiz and games about the movie. Your score is recorded in your shield which you then use to print out a certificate of participation or graduation into a “Dragon Knight”, “Hero” etc.

This is the Monstrous Nightmare dragon from the movie.

The Hideous Zippleback dragon.

The little Terrible Tenor dragon.

Visitors can ride on the back of the Gronkle dragon which is posed against a large green background for a photo shoot.

Your photograph of riding on the Gronkle dragon will be photoshopped against a blue sky with clouds to look as if you’re riding it in the skies. Too bad they only had the Gronkle for visitors to ride. I only wanted to ride Night Fury, so I didn’t opt to have a Gronkle ride that day.

And finally the main stars of the movie saved themselves as best for last. Here we have Night Fury, together with Astrid, and of course his trainer and rider Hiccup!
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These are the other wonderful and traditional sights of Ocean Park. As it mostly poured throughout that fateful day, I wasn’t too much in the mood to take many photos while holding an umbrella. Nevertheless, I did take some scenery shots before all the colors became drenched with “greyness”.

A pair of Giant Pandas reside in an air conditioned habitat at Ocean Park. As the animals were sleeping then, I didn’t take their photos.

This is a view of the lowland section of Ocean Park taken from the cable car cabin as it climbed the mountain slope to the upper section of the theme park.

Then as the cable car ascended higher, the view of the nearby bay could be seen!

The cable cars travel along the mountain range just beside the sea, all the way to the “highland” station. The sea and mountain views were fabulous, even on a cloudy day!
Then it poured from mid-afternoon onwards and nothing much could be done for the rest of the time I was there, except to seek shelter, watch the Dolphin and Sealion show and visit the Atoll and Chinese Sturgeon fish aquariums. All the outdoor rides were closed due to bad weather…