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Mad In Madrid: Parque de Atracciones: Mostly Plane Sailing!

 


Day two of the Mad in Madrid trip! The day started by filing some coffee and a large waffle, covered in white chocolate, into my face. It was an easy metro ride over to Parque de Atracciones (PDA). The plan for the day was simple: get in, get the creds, get to the airport, fly home, pick the i30 up and boot it back to Cambridge! 

The operations at this park were an improvement from Parque Warner, thankfully! Seven creds to get, let’s go!


Paw Patrol 538:


A plus one. It’s best to get these ticked off early, before they have a disgustingly huge queue! This was actually pretty rough, for some reason. Meh, plus one and done! 


Vertigo 539: 

As Wild Mouses go, Mack probably make the best ones. Mack’s mouses are enjoyable for being decent creds, rather than funny chaos like most UK seaside mouses. However, they do become less enjoyable when you get hit in the face by a wasp, thank flip for glasses! Sometimes the brakes can be a bit sharp,.



Padrinos Voladores 540: 


The most tedious queue of the day. A plus one for me, but a milestone 400th cred for two mates on this trip. Congrats guys! 


TNT Tren de la Mina 541: 



Hiding behind this castle like building, is PDA’s mine train. It’s not your train, it’s mine train. That joke was probably more interesting than the ride. 

Abismo 542: 


I’m really not a fan of these. The hang time is just unpleasant. Having said that, the second half of these can be ok. On Abismo the second half was very rough. Abismo was abysmal.


Tarantula 543: 


A tricky one to photograph! Tarantula was a decent coaster. However, despite our best efforts to off balance the train to get the ultimate spin, there wasn’t much spinning action. 

Tornado 544: 


I’ve now completed the set of Intamin inverts! Womp womp! I actually really like these. They’re forceful and fun! Not as good as their rivals B&M (no, not the shop), but still a good coaster! 

With the creds done, it was time to eat! 


This was my first time eating bioconcave chips, that was a nice surprise! The ribs were nice too! I washed both down with a radler, it was hot and I had to drive later on. 

With creds done and food consumed, we even had time to ride other things in the park! 

La Lanzadera: 




Intamin drop towers are great! This was a 63 meter, second generation tower and was really fun! 


Star Flyer: 



I have ridden of these since my last visit to Grona Lund, it had therefore been a while! This was one of the smaller Star Flyer models, standing at just 80 metres. Because I’m super nice, I volunteered to look after a slightly nervous first time Star Flyer.


La Maquina: 


Inward facing spinning things aren’t nearly as good as outward facing spinning things. This one faffed around for a bit and then got intense for less than 30 seconds, before ending. 


Day two of Mad In Madrid was certainly an improvement! All of the creds were obtained with relative ease, the food was better than Parque Warner and the weather was better too. PDA has a reasonable collection of rides, though nothing really stands out. I do like an Intamin invert though. 


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