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Six Flags Magic Mountain adding BMX stunt show in May

Mat Hoffman's Danger Defying Daredevils at Six Flags Magic Mountain

Mat Hoffman’s traveling team of freestyle BMX, inline skating, skateboarding and motocross daredevils will take up residency this summer at Six Flags Magic Mountain.

Starting Memorial Day weekend and running through Labor Day weekend (May 23 – Sept. 7), Mat Hoffman’s Danger Defying Daredevils will take over the former Batman Begins stunt show theater (soon to be redubbed Street Sports Action Theater).

The interactive show, with three daily performances, features an extreme sports storyline told amid a series of ramps, rails, half-pipes and a “Globe of Death.” The 20-to-30-minute show concludes with a motorcycle stunt-jumping spectacle.

Mat Hoffman's Danger Defying Daredevils at Six Flags Magic Mountain

For the uninitiated, Hoffman is an X Games multi-medalist and former touring member of Tony Hawk’s Boom Boom Huck Jam who also has a pair of eponymous videogames bearing his name.

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— Brady MacDonald, Los Angeles Times staff writer

Photos: Mat Hoffman’s Danger Defying Daredevils

This entry was posted on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 7:24 am by Brady MacDonald and is filed under California, Family & Kids, Los Angeles, Magic Mountain, Theme Parks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

4 Comments on “Six Flags Magic Mountain adding BMX stunt show in May”

Matt Says:
April 28th, 2009 at 11:51 am
was six flags unable to come up with a dark knight show?!?!?! I dont want to see BMX X Games crap at a theme park that bores me.. zzzzzzzzzzzzz lol
phil Says:
May 24th, 2009 at 11:58 am
are u serious. these batman guys are doing fake stunts while the riders in this new show are actually doing stunts that can kill you. go to disney if you want to see a fake show like batman
Kenneth W. Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
this looks cool six flags needs to have more things like this and not the batman stuff thats all stupid i dont care if the little kids like bat man everybody loves real antertainment such as this whats next an proffesional motocross race there/Here…
Ryan C. Says:
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Obviously you don’t check up on your history of Six Flags. Batman and other DC comics characters have been the backbone of Six Flags for over a decade and have brought the parks rating very high. Any time your bring this Xtreme crap it never last. So when the wise up they will realize what families want when they go to theme park. Beside who do you think brings the money into the parks families or teens?