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Free Willy was filmed on Mexico City, check.

posted 19 years ago by jl_crazyman88
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I met Keiko more than once when I used to live in Mexico City, when I was maybe 2 years old, 3 years old, I dunno, but I remember I met him, he whale. It ws the coolest wahle ever.

And parts of the film where filmed in Mexico City, in an amusement park which is now one of the biggest in Latinamerica and the world, it was before Reino Aventura, and in 2000 became Six Flags, after a bankrupt. All the scenes of the training and the accident and the whale-show, where filmed in the interiors of Reino Aventura, now Six Flags. I still go to Six Flags, is one of the biggst amusement parks in city.

When, if you read this, like to come to Mexico City, go to Six Flags Mexico, and in the dolphin show there is the place where Free Willy was filmed.

Too bad for Keiko's death. It was the coolest whale ever. Lucky I met him.

[–] ooohhhmmyyyy 18 years ago

I thought it was filmed in Oak's Park here in Portland but the dolphin tank was filmed somewhere else because there is no tank in Oak's Park. I been there.

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[–] p_pizor 12 years ago

Which is why the OP specified that all the scenes *of the training tank area* were filmed in Mexico. Oaks Park (no apostrophe, by the way) does not have any kind of marine section. The general amusement park shots were shot there, and Jesse riding across the bridge is in downtown Portland (the building with the two tall glass towers is the Convention Center here), but the tank stuff had to have been filmed elsewhere, there is NOTHING like that at Oaks Park.

[–] mistyinseattle 18 years ago

hey i saw keiko in newport, oregon after they relocated him...it was really cool. anyway, they filmed a lot of this movie in portland, astoria and warrenton in Oregon...and anacortes, washington...which is like the mecca of oracas...the shots of the oracas in the wild jumping around is from the anacortes area. watching the movie (havent seen it in years) just made me appreciate this beautiful state (washington) even more!

[–] Squirrowl 17 years ago

in my chilhood I was every 2 or 3 months on Reino Aventura (now Six Flags) to visit Keiko and you can go so close to the water tank and almost touch Keiko...

actually I remember all the drama here when Keiko goes to Oregon, people was on the streets to see Keiko on the water trailer and all the kids was crying on the streets.