Bosque Magico

Bosque Magico is the oldest park in the city and our next destination.

I knew that I was going to hate this ride from the outset as they'd sold out to the fizzy drink brand and had the logos splattered all around the park even on the entrance.

It looked like they were taking delivery of a new ride as it stood on a truck outside of the park. 

Booo!!!!

Booo!!! Booo!!!

Seriously, somewhere in the Coca Cola offices I can imagine someone getting a huge pat on the back for pulling this deal off.  I hate it!

If companies like these took the money spent on advertising and invested it in improving the product it'd be so good that it wouldn't need advertising. Something to think about.

There was some sort of kids event going on this week. We couldn't get into this exhibition hall to see what they were doing.

A cute little ride.

The Haunted Walkthrough was an upcharged attraction where we suffered from not speaking the language. In the first room, which was pitch black, we had a cloaked figure walking around us tapping the floor and occasionally hitting the walls with his cane. The intro seemed to go on forever and I can only assume he was telling us to form a line and head up the stairs then move, but because we couldn't understand any of it we refused to move and he got angrier and angrier and louder and I can only imagine the final 5 minutes was him shouting "Move goddamit, why aren't you moving, are you all deaf, jesus, get a move on" etc. Eventually one of the locals took the lead and we were soon walked around a pretty good scare attraction with a very good Pepper's Ghost illusion half way through and what appeared to be some footage from The Walk Dead projected onto a door to give the impression zombies were going to burst out in front of you, only for them to come from behind. 

Overall really well done.

The rollercoaster was a corkscrew variant called Tornado. 

This model is probably the most fun to ride because the headbanging isn't as bad as on the usual corkscrew rides. We came up with the theory that it was because this layout has no transitions between straight and curved sections of track. It's all one big curve once it leaves the lift hill.

A rather stretched pano of the ride layout.

Elsewhere the park was like most parks here, well maintained and the operations were of a generally high level.

In the run up to the trip the park announced a new ride call Zombie, a launched double loop monstrosity similar to one I'd ridden in Germany. These are becoming quite popular now following the first one opening in California a year or two back there are now a number in flight, including one at Busch Gardens Williamsburg which is also due to open this Summer. This one took ages for the construction to start which meant it wasn't quite ready for our trip, in fact today they were putting in place the final piece.

Having done the one in Germany I can say that it's an intense ride and will be a step up for the park in terms of challenging rides.

We found some pieces of a ride nearby. Whether this was on its way out or coming in as a side attraction to Zombie I don't know. The park had also announced a new mouse coaster to the park but there were no signs of that here today, not even some cleared land on which to build, so we can conclude that ride is some way off.

The StarFlyer ride was quite popular, on the ride before some kids shoes flew off, which I kindly ran and recovered for him.

Tal is all ready to ride, taking no notice whatsoever of the sign behind him.

They even rebranded the utility vehicles.

I liked the name of this one

This section of the park to the left of the entrance doesn't really contain anything of interest to adults. They've done the same thing as Selva in having families with little kids be in a separate areas so they don't get upset at not being allowed to ride the big coasters.

On the way out we took a couple more pictures of the Zombie. Usually Zombies come after you but in the case the roles were reveresed and we knew we'd be back for it one day. A lot of our discussion at this point in the trip was around reasons to come back. This was obviously one reason, along with the two Schwarzkopfs that were missed. The feeling there was that Tsunami, the one at the fair, would move elsewhere. Triple Loop we'd accepted wasn't going anywhere and this one could easily be done as a day trip out of Texas. So I guess Mexico needs a bit more to attract us back, perhaps the Cirque de Soleil theme park rumoured to be coming to the West Coast would be enough, we'll see.

Aside from the Coke branding everywhere Bosque Magico is an OK if half-day park. Fortunately there was one more park nearby that could fill the rest of the day.

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