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Once you descend the mountain from Rapids Camp Crossing and enter the Baja Ridge themed area, you have completed your circle tour of Six Flags Magic Mountain. (Baja Ridge adjoins Six Flags Plaza, which is both the park's entry and exit gateway.) On this tour, I saved the best for last, the infamous X--No Limits roller coaster. It's infamous because it turns blasé, seasoned coaster fans into screaming scaredy-cats. But who am I to talk? I'm telling you this at the prompting of my friends who have actually ridden X, because I, myself, have never summoned up the nerve to try it!
This coaster boasts a 200-foot first drop down, which you soar at 76mph. Those two features by themselves would make for an adrenaline-filled ride, but that's only the beginning. The train itself has a unique shape. The individual cars stick way out from the center of the train, and each car SPINS INDEPENDENTLY of both the train AND of all the other cars! Thus, not only are you dropping and zooming on this ride, but spinning forwards or backwards at the same time! (Which way you spin at any given moment depends on gravity, as you ascend, plunge, veer right, or hang left.) As I photographed X, the riders screamed nonstop throughout the whole length of the ride! I'm so envious of them. SOMEDAY I'm going to get the courage to board this mean machine!
The other coasters in Baja Ridge are wild, but do-able. There's the Viper, which came to the park in 1990. Its green-and-orange trains loop and corkscrew around a steel track, traveling at 70mph. That one, I enjoyed. Its attractive entry building fits in well with the Mexican-Baja California theme of this "land." The third coaster in Baja Ridge is Revolution, which was actually the first looping coaster ever built, the park claims. It's 113 feet tall and travels at 5mph. Personally, I won't be going on this ride again. It just doesn't give a smooth ride. I like to dip and plunge, but I hate to bang and bash! But, try it--YOU might like it!
If you're hungry while in Baja Ridge, you can eat at a branch of the chain restaurant, Panda Express. Now, as you might know, that's a Chinese restaurant, so what it's doing in Mexican-themed Baja Ridge, I'm not sure! But the food is good, just like the food served at any other Panda Express in town.
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