As promised in that rapturously-received last report, here’s the Mexico section of my summer trip.
I had an evening flight from San Antonio to Mexico City, arriving quite late at night. At that time of night, with few people around, I was worried that I might have been in a slightly sketchy area, but it really wasn’t at all. It turned out to be perfect really. An Uber in the morning got me to my first Mexican park.
Six Flags Mexico
I resisted heading straight to the RMC, and went the other way around the park, hitting Superman first. From this vantage point, you see nothing of it, but there’ll be more pictures later. It was a walk-on at this point, so straight to the back row.
This was the last Morgan hyper I needed to complete the collection (note to self: dig out that “complete set” bragging topic), and, taking Steel Dragon 2000 out of the equation, was by far the best. I absolutely loved it. It’s forceful, has loads of airtime and isn’t anywhere near as formulaic in layout as the others.
I did a quick second go and moved on, picking up a Fastpass from the exit shop. The fastpasses here were cheap as s**t, and could be picked up all over the park. They’re hardly high-tech though:
There’s a 4-ride or 10-ride option, and a ride op just scribbles over a box when you use it. Almost nobody had them, so it meant walk-on for everything though not all rides use it. There seemed to also be a VIP wristband system, which I missed until much later, which seemed to allow people onto literally all rides by using the exit ramps.
Keeping going then:
I didn’t bother wasting a fastpass for the Boomerang since there was only a one-train wait. Depending on how you classify it, either this one or the one at Bellewaerde is the world’s first/oldest boomerang. This one was built first, but Bellewaerde’s actually opened first.
Wonder Woman wasn’t on the fastpass, so I ended up waiting about 20-minutes, which was fine as it was really the only wait I had all day.
Batman here is a Vekoma SLC. Ugh.
While I remember, I’ll have a bit of a moan. There was a strict no-bag policy on everything here (even including Justice League – WTF?), but there wasn’t an all-day locker option. Plus, single use lockers only lasted an hour rather than the 2 hours in the US parks, and for the same price (around $1), so there was more pissing about and it worked out to be more expensive. They were the exact same lockers/screens/system that the US parks have, so no excuse really. It was more an inconvenience than a difficulty, but stupid that it worked out to be twice as expensive as the US parks’ single-use lockers when you consider how ridiculously cheap everything else was here.
You get a better view of bits of Superman from around Batman and Justice League, but most of the layout is still pretty hidden away.
Kiddy coaster and spinner. The kiddy was walk-on, but the spinner had a queue of what looked like at least half an hour, so this is where the fastpass really came into its own.
It was the same deal with the roller skater (quiet) and Dark Knight (busy).
The Serpentarium was a weird attraction for a Six Flags park. It was a bit crap really, with nothing in it that you couldn’t buy from a decent pet shop.
I’d ridden Medusa before some of the stuff just posted, but didn’t take pictures until a bit later. It had a consistent, though not huge, queue, so I used a bunch of my fastpass boxes for it. You can see almost nothing of it until you’re in the queue. After a couple of rides, I was confident to take my camera through the queue line (bags locked away remember) and shove it in a pocket during the ride.
This was the RMC – until Steel Vengeance came along – that I’d always thought looked the most interesting, and it doesn’t disappoint. It’s not my favourite RMC, but it’s a relentless ride which borders on vicious at times. My biggest gripe is that I’d personally prefer a “proper” first drop over that twisted barrel rolw thing, which looks amazing but isn’t, for me, an exciting start to the ride.
I spent my last hour or so using up my fastpasses between Medusa and Superman, probab;y heading out of there around 3pm, but I can’t remember exactly now.
I really liked this place. Apart from a few copy/paste attractions, it feels very different from the American Six Flags parks. Obviously, there’s a completely different customer base and language, which is a big part of that, but it’s also down to the buildings and slightly quirkier attractions.
Medusa was excellent, but almost predictably so. The surprise for me was Superman. Not only is it by far the best Morgan hyper, I’d say it was up there with my favourite hypers from any manufacturer.
There's loads more to this report, but, as far as parks go, that's the highlight, so feel free to sack it off now.
There was a new coaster nearby which was, supposedly, newly opened, so I took a detour there before heading back to the hotel.
Kataplum
This is a new park on the roof of a new shopping mall.
For some reason, the lifts weren’t letting me get up to the top level. Turns out that the top level is purely for the park, and it wasn’t open yet. UGH!
The worst thing was, there wasn’t just the one coaster up there. The Vekoma SFC was listed, but there was also a spinner up there and a train thing which could possibly be a cred. You could see up from the level below.
They even had a couple of staffed ticket booths, but unfortunately they had “no idea” when the place was going to open.
Missing a +1 is annoying, but the potential +3 was so much worse. I thought I’d cheer myself up by buying a bunch of sh**ty snacks and drinks from Walmart to stock the hotel room with, but that wasn’t ready either, the f**kers.
So, back to the hotel it was.
I had an evening flight from San Antonio to Mexico City, arriving quite late at night. At that time of night, with few people around, I was worried that I might have been in a slightly sketchy area, but it really wasn’t at all. It turned out to be perfect really. An Uber in the morning got me to my first Mexican park.
Six Flags Mexico
I resisted heading straight to the RMC, and went the other way around the park, hitting Superman first. From this vantage point, you see nothing of it, but there’ll be more pictures later. It was a walk-on at this point, so straight to the back row.
This was the last Morgan hyper I needed to complete the collection (note to self: dig out that “complete set” bragging topic), and, taking Steel Dragon 2000 out of the equation, was by far the best. I absolutely loved it. It’s forceful, has loads of airtime and isn’t anywhere near as formulaic in layout as the others.
I did a quick second go and moved on, picking up a Fastpass from the exit shop. The fastpasses here were cheap as s**t, and could be picked up all over the park. They’re hardly high-tech though:
There’s a 4-ride or 10-ride option, and a ride op just scribbles over a box when you use it. Almost nobody had them, so it meant walk-on for everything though not all rides use it. There seemed to also be a VIP wristband system, which I missed until much later, which seemed to allow people onto literally all rides by using the exit ramps.
Keeping going then:
I didn’t bother wasting a fastpass for the Boomerang since there was only a one-train wait. Depending on how you classify it, either this one or the one at Bellewaerde is the world’s first/oldest boomerang. This one was built first, but Bellewaerde’s actually opened first.
Wonder Woman wasn’t on the fastpass, so I ended up waiting about 20-minutes, which was fine as it was really the only wait I had all day.
Batman here is a Vekoma SLC. Ugh.
While I remember, I’ll have a bit of a moan. There was a strict no-bag policy on everything here (even including Justice League – WTF?), but there wasn’t an all-day locker option. Plus, single use lockers only lasted an hour rather than the 2 hours in the US parks, and for the same price (around $1), so there was more pissing about and it worked out to be more expensive. They were the exact same lockers/screens/system that the US parks have, so no excuse really. It was more an inconvenience than a difficulty, but stupid that it worked out to be twice as expensive as the US parks’ single-use lockers when you consider how ridiculously cheap everything else was here.
You get a better view of bits of Superman from around Batman and Justice League, but most of the layout is still pretty hidden away.
Kiddy coaster and spinner. The kiddy was walk-on, but the spinner had a queue of what looked like at least half an hour, so this is where the fastpass really came into its own.
It was the same deal with the roller skater (quiet) and Dark Knight (busy).
The Serpentarium was a weird attraction for a Six Flags park. It was a bit crap really, with nothing in it that you couldn’t buy from a decent pet shop.
I’d ridden Medusa before some of the stuff just posted, but didn’t take pictures until a bit later. It had a consistent, though not huge, queue, so I used a bunch of my fastpass boxes for it. You can see almost nothing of it until you’re in the queue. After a couple of rides, I was confident to take my camera through the queue line (bags locked away remember) and shove it in a pocket during the ride.
This was the RMC – until Steel Vengeance came along – that I’d always thought looked the most interesting, and it doesn’t disappoint. It’s not my favourite RMC, but it’s a relentless ride which borders on vicious at times. My biggest gripe is that I’d personally prefer a “proper” first drop over that twisted barrel rolw thing, which looks amazing but isn’t, for me, an exciting start to the ride.
I spent my last hour or so using up my fastpasses between Medusa and Superman, probab;y heading out of there around 3pm, but I can’t remember exactly now.
I really liked this place. Apart from a few copy/paste attractions, it feels very different from the American Six Flags parks. Obviously, there’s a completely different customer base and language, which is a big part of that, but it’s also down to the buildings and slightly quirkier attractions.
Medusa was excellent, but almost predictably so. The surprise for me was Superman. Not only is it by far the best Morgan hyper, I’d say it was up there with my favourite hypers from any manufacturer.
There's loads more to this report, but, as far as parks go, that's the highlight, so feel free to sack it off now.
There was a new coaster nearby which was, supposedly, newly opened, so I took a detour there before heading back to the hotel.
Kataplum
This is a new park on the roof of a new shopping mall.
For some reason, the lifts weren’t letting me get up to the top level. Turns out that the top level is purely for the park, and it wasn’t open yet. UGH!
The worst thing was, there wasn’t just the one coaster up there. The Vekoma SFC was listed, but there was also a spinner up there and a train thing which could possibly be a cred. You could see up from the level below.
They even had a couple of staffed ticket booths, but unfortunately they had “no idea” when the place was going to open.
Missing a +1 is annoying, but the potential +3 was so much worse. I thought I’d cheer myself up by buying a bunch of sh**ty snacks and drinks from Walmart to stock the hotel room with, but that wasn’t ready either, the f**kers.
So, back to the hotel it was.
