Festivals - Six Flags Magic Mountain: Welcome to the thrill capital of the world

By Mulder, Los Angeles, 27 march 2018

The six flags parks are internationally known for having awesome rides and mostly for their roller coasters. Particularly, Six Flags Magic Mountain has 18 roller coaster and is located in Valencia CA, just a few minutes from Los Angeles and beginning with the 2018 season, the park is open the 365 days of the year!

In this park you can ride “The new Revolution” (formerly “the revolution”) which was the first roller coaster in the world having a modern vertical loop; “Goliath” had the world record for the tallest drop (255 ft, 78m) when opening in 2000; “Superman: Escape from Krypton”, the first coaster to reach 100 mph; “Justice League: Battle for Metropolis”, the first dark ride of the park; “DC Superheroes: Drop of doom VR” (also known as “Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom”) a free fall from 400 ft that speeds up to 85 mph; and many more!

In the summer of 2017, “Justice League: Battle for Metropolis” opened in this park as well as in other six flags park across the world. This attraction is the first dark ride that Six Flags implemented in the Magic Mountain park and also the first 4D shooting ride for this franchise. On the outside is seen as the Justice Hall and the DC heroes are in front of it at different hours for us to meet Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman and Green Lantern, just be patient to take a snap, there are very popular. In the inside of the justice hall there are statues of the trinity DC heroes and a screening of the transmission of the Justice League about the mess that is taking place in Metropolis. Then, on the next room we meet Cyborg who explains the way we can help the league to defeat the villains and finally, after that room, there’s the queue for the ride with a rack of 3D glasses. The cars are up to 6 people, every seat with a gun that states the color of the shots and a display with the points made along the ride. When exiting the attraction is a store with a lot of merchandise from the villains and heroes, including Funko Pops, shirts, caps, etc.

On Monday 26, was the grand opening of “DC Superheroes: Drop of doom VR”, an improvement of the “Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom” ride with Virtual Reality added to the big free fall. Some of the highlights of the story shown in the official Six flags site are:

• Lex Luthor levitates riders with his anti-gravity ray gun and they begin to float upward, rising high above the skyscrapers;
• Wonder Woman and Superman dash to the rescue and an epic battle ensues high in the air over Metropolis;
• Wonder Woman clashes with an army of flying LexBots while Superman is in fierce combat with Lex Luthor; and
• High in the sky, the battle spins out of control and riders fall a thousand feet—straight down, to the city streets far, far below.

This is for a limited time, but we hope it’ll stay for good! With the warm sun in southern California, there’s no place better to boost your adrenaline anyday.

Our photos are available on our Flickr page here 

Photos and video Lola Marquez (Lola)