Well as I promised I've return to talk you abourt Parque de Atracciones de Madrid (P.A.M.)
First of all I must say this is an old park that has changed a lot since they opened in 1969 with only a coaster, 7 Picos, a Schwarzkopf Wild cat that was removed to place in 200 Abismo, the new X-car coaster.
The principal problem of the park is that is very near the centre of Madrid, and its palced in a protected natural area, so they can cut some trees ( thats the reason of the abnrmal supports of Tornado) an buy more terrain to construct, so the only way to make the park reliable is took down atracctions to put some new in their place. Thats why they removed the
Schwarzkopf it has had along his history, first was jet Star to place an Intamin Splash (Los Fiordos themed in the Vikings) a few years before but opened later than Jet Star they put down Katapult ( I think a girl died in it), later Looping Star (becouse the neighbours complained about the noise the coaster maked) and the last coaster was 7 Picos.
After removing Looping Star PAM started to get older, with older atracctions and poor and old themed. When Warner Bros. Movie World was anounced in Madrid PAM opened "la Lanzadera", the first freefall tower in europe, and Tornado, the first prototipe of their inverted coaster, it was a short but intense rida with odd suports, but it has a problem, if there isn`t too many people riding it the train can not reach the top of the second looping!!! between the turn and the second loop. Thats why this coaster its so dirty ( I think it would be replaced in three or four years). With the opnening of Warner Bros, Pam was divided in five themed areas, the machines area, the big avenue, the tranquility zone , the nature area an the childrens area. In 2003 PAM was bougth by Advent, an American company , to make competition with Warner Bros, then they opened Tarantula, and clean the face of the park painting buildings, putting more thematization and structuring the park.
For this year we are waiting for the openig of x-car Abismo (which has the tallest inversion of the world..) and the new shooting dark ride "Tarantula's Nest" ( yes ,the building under tarantula) that was before that an space-themed , an pirate-themed, and a mine-themed dark ride.
One of the best rides in the park is the hounted mansion, one of the best in all Europe, not for their animatronics (it hasn't) it is because is one of the most terrifying!!
Another cool thin is that you can pay at the entrace of tha park the ride and how many times you want to ride it.
I must tell you that Parque de atracciones is one of the two parks that opens all the year (the other is at Barcelona and its called Tibidabo)
and just after holy week the park are preparing the season so the park is upside down and looks very weird with not too much people visiting it..
Well, I encourage you all to come to the Spanish theme park in summer!! they are too cool and had some of the best roller coasters of the world, Dragon khan, Stampida, Superman...
Ah, of course... Spanish do not stand up in log flumes!! the boy in the foto is a gipsy guy (that people are crazy) and we dont do weir things on coaters wile rinding it!!
Los fiordos ( the castle is one of the two entrances of the splash)
Main avenue
La Maquina
Tarantula and 7 Picos
Tarantula has fog in the tunnel after the second inmelmamn, when it goes down Tarantula's nest" making you the sensation of crashing.
El aserradero (Arrow log flume)
7 Picos