Day 2

A lovely buffet breakfast began our long second day at the park, which was coincidentally the first day of their Halloween event. At 10 we walked very quickly past Baco and through Sesame Street. In order to faff longer, we popped on the wonderfully named Magic Fish ride, one of those Wave Racer things which was reasonably enjoyable.

Afterwards we sat in that pathway leading to China and mused until Khan roared into life, and we duly skipped the queue twice before doing exactly the same on Shambhala once it had opened (because who DOESN’T love staggered openings?).

The Spanish Goons were out in force!

It was VERY busy

Venturing into Mexico wanting some El Diablo times (and being denied), we decided to faff around for Templo del Feugo and it’s first show at 12. We quickly did the Spinny Serpent Sombrero ride nearby and joined the queue for Templo.

Let in at 12 we ventured through the well-themed queueline and to the batching area to wait for the show to begin.

And waited…

And waited…

30 minutes later the doors opened and the show began. This was a rather bad introduction to this attraction for me, but the actual show made up for it by being equal parts entertaining and being at a Rammstein concert (all it needed was Feuer Frei!). There was rapturous applause at the end, very contrasted to Armageddon at Paris where the reaction was sobbing from children. A must see show.

It was now lunchtime and time for the Sesame Street Halloween show, so we did both at once. It wasn’t very good although the hostess improved things somewhat, as was the fact that both Bert and Cookie Monster looking excessively high throughout. Afterwards we ventured back to China for 2 more goes on Shambhala before our next show began, the Rock Symphony, which began with a full advert for the .REC maze, possibly terrifying all kids in the audience. The show was quite good, with the usual stunts and stuff usually saved for Ice Shows and the like, and a particularly annoying theme song. However the standing ovation it received from the audience was entertaining as hell. The applause just refused to stop for ages, then people stood! Me and Mark found this absolutely hilarious.

After the show we hit up Khan again, before heading to El Diablo and then Stampida’s red side. I suggested the Log Flume as I’d never done it before and it was weird, clearly inspired by Dragon Falls’ massive long and dull turn and the top throughout the entire course.

Shopping followed before dumping it all back in the hotel for a quick chill and more faff.

ZZZZZAP!

Back on park, it was back to China (again) and a good old fashioned ‘whore the B&Ms until it gets dark and then use our front row passes’ time! We did Khan 5 times and Shambhala 6 including the front row on each during the space of a few hours. Both were running insanely well during this time, Khan especially since it decided it wanted to be like Nemesis for a night, whilst on Shambhala we spent most of our time being blinded by the cameras.

Eventually we got to 9:30 (so about 3 hours of B&M whorage) so it was time to head back to the entrance and see if we could use our front row go on Baco, but it was shut due to the Parade and Lagoon Show. So we thought, sod it and found somewhere to sit to watch both. Before that though there was the Rather Gay Vampire Show, which involved some dodgy musical numbers for some reason. Oh well.

The Parade was pretty basic, with various actors and floats, probably the most disappointing show in a way but then again we were sat right at the end of the course which may have made a big difference.

The Lagoon show was interesting, starting with a World of Colour rip off, then fire, then a Dragon, then Jet Skis, then a Tron Man with those water jet shoes. It was all very weird and then it kind of just ended. Bonus points for setting the lagoon literally on fire though, if only it had spread to Baco…………

And that was it, an OBSCENELY long day at the park but god those night rides on the B&Ms were absolutely fantastic. And with some rather entertaining moments throughout the day as well, it was depressing that we had one more day left and it would involve Baco…