Viva Madrid
Some may have been wondering why i haven't posted for a while but I've been quite busy and also been quite hot (lie it rained everyday in Madrid while temperatures soared in the London sunshine) in Madrid.
While running around in a Meridian street trying to get out of the thunder-storms i got the chance to visit two Spanish parks.
Firstly, i visited a very big park just outside of Spain, a trip on a Renfe train for 25km and a flyby a rather depressing looking prison you arrive at Parque Warner Madrid. A brilliant park with some incredible coasters. To highlight a Batman clone, certainly the best themed and possibly the most intense due to the loss of two rows making the rides trains only 7 rows long. Themed around a asylum in chaos as insane inmates escape and hide in the dark corners of the brilliantly themed queue line waiting for some victims.
Another highlight was Superman, a B&M floorless coaster, the first floorless coaster i have ridden and I quite enjoyed. Superman is a great coaster but it is nothing fantastic or outstanding. It's your usual B&M formula of the same elements, and making sure that the coaster has at least one major fault so that they can sell bigger and even better floored designs.
But what surprised me most was the parks only Vekoma coaster. Stuntfall. A Vekoma Giant Inverted Boomerang that thank god wasn't closed nearly always like the DeJa Vu series. And simply put, for a shuttle coaster it is awesome, perhaps the best in the park. Look past the rather garish colours, awful trains, bad track shaping and strange support structure, if you can to the beauty within this ride. It's an extremely intense ride for starters. The vertical lifts have a very strange sensation, being supported by only a dodgy Vekoma restraint 180ft above the ground is a very scary thought. But suddenly you are dropping vertically; your body floats up from laaying onto the restraint to literally fre-falling. Net you are thrust down at the bottom of the lift as your eyes vibrate your vision due the g-forces and bad Vekoma design. But overall it is an outstanding roller coaster filled with intensity and a great sensation of speed.
But what about the other park? I hear you asking. Well i will post a longer review and more photos on my site when I've got the time.
But for now.
James
Labels: Batman, Madrid, Parque Warner Madrid, Roller Coasters, Spain, Stuntfall, Superman, Theme Parks
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