SFDK 3/27 & 3/28

[bobbinbop20]

my wonderful off season continues with Six Flags Discovery Kingdom this time. This park is actually quite impressive, not because of the coasters but how much there was to do other then coasters, as im sure many of you know they also have animals at this park. On friday the park wasn't crowded at all and lines were short, but on saturday that place was a mad house! strange enough the lines were not even long, i guess because there was so much else to do at this park.

Ride Count:

-Boomerang (I Finally got one! and I LOVED IT) - 3
-Cobra (kiddie) - 2
-Kong (SLC) DEATH DEATH DEATH!!! the one i rode in mexico was much much better - 1
-Medusa (floorless) smooth as glass - 6
-Road Runner Express (other kiddie coaster) - 1
-Roar (my first GCI, it was great! And also my 50th coaster) - 4
-Tony Hawk (I liked the one in Texas better) - 2
-V2 (I really love the 45 degree tower!) - 29

Before pictures, a quick story about the interesting "deal" we found while staying in a San Francisco hotel!

The Intamicy kit!

Whats an Intamicy kit you ask?

scroll down and see for your self!


and the best part its only $10!!!


See! (the last one on the list)

That was Probably the Highlight of the trip! And now onto some pictures of actual coasters!




we decided to go to this first because we knew everyone would flock to medusa


as you can see this is the old sign from when it used to be identical to our V2


I knew it would be empty on this side of the park


on our second day we just rode it for a full hour in the morning without leaving to walk around. they got 14 cycles in an hour


The money seat was definetly seat #20, it provided some awesome hangtime on this part of the ride


Next was Roar


This ride was actually very fun


Them be millennium flyer trains


Agreed!


extreme


Lift hill shot




The park was divided into three sections.... sea....


....Land....


And...Sky!


Medusa was very smooth and fun


The only down side was this crew SUCKED!! They were mean, slow, and just overall pathetic.


They were even sending off trains with full rows empty when there was a line!


overall these people earned my worst crew of the year award.




Floorless!


This was a great first drop


That loop is HUGE!


Why are these signs always so wrong? Even with the horrible ops it was only like 7 minutes from that sign...


Tony Hawk's Big Spin


My very first one, and i love it!




The weird thing was when we were next to ride it broke and they made everyone leave, i thought i would never get the chance to ride a boomerang...


But I did! the real question is, is the train going forwards or backwards? hmm i guess will never know


Do all boomerangs have this cool teeth catch car thing?


The other Vekoma ride at the park was just god awful, i think i can honestly say that was the worst rollercoaster ive ever been on, i liked the one at six flags mexico a hundred times better, this was just like death.


This was one of the kiddie coasters for my credit whore self


and this was the other


I love how there's so many rows


I really loved this thing!


The park was really beautiful


One of these was my favorite and one was my least favorite. can you figure it out?


More rides on V2 or V1.5 or whatever you call it


Incase you forgot who created this ride.






Incase you didnt figure out by now this is what is different compared to our V2


I Love these! get soaked then go dry off on Velocity, sounds good to me


Since the parking lot is like a mile away they have trams




And now for some pictures of the animals they have there



This was the Shouka Killer whale show.


We ended up seeing it twice because it was hot and there was shade and somewhere to sit.




uh a little help here please!?










Hello im a dolphin, Whats your name?


elephant!


yes they gave elephant rides.... for 10 bucks.


They had these crazy squirrel looking things that were all hyped up on cafeine


grrr




I swear this thing was dead


funky face


lazy


the Tunnel of death


The End

[demonbulleagle]

Wouldnt the tunnel of death be that SLC you rode?

[bobbinbop20]

haha no that SLC was just DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH and more DEATH!!! the tunnel of death didnt harm me in any way, so therefore it is quite different

[demonbulleagle]

ok... gotcha...

[bobbinbop20]

yeah dont ever ride an SLC! and if you must, make sure you ride it in the front so its less rough

[Ilovthevu']

I don't feel pain and torture of an SLC (SFKK, and former Gaugea Lake), but I get the feeling of what just happened. Maybe, it's the spacing of those rides, and that's why I feel that way. It's just one element after another after another.

For Batman, I see the first loop, than I see this straight track, and I see another loop coming up. Take a break, and go around in a helix, and here comes another element (wingover) followed by more break, and than another element (wing part 2), and than you are done.

So, did you like that V2 better than our V2, or is our's better in your opinion? I'm a ride person more than an animal person even though I do like to go to the zoo's. Without the heavy discounting, a Six Flags park is like $54.99 for ours, and that to me is too much money to not get that many roller coasters, some flats, and animals. The animals I feel I can just go to the zoo, and that place is not only a place to go most of the day, but it's much cheaper. I like animals, but I just rather have rides than animals.

I have been to Busch Gardens, and if I lived in that area, I would probably go there as often as Great America because there are hardly any flat rides, and it doesn't have 12 roller coasters (It has 6). It's a good vacation park to go to, but it just doesn't have that many rides over there.

[bobbinbop20]

^hmm good question im not exactly sure which V2 better,I did really like theres and the barrel roll type thing was awesome, but i would have to go on ours a few more times to know for sure (iv'e only been on ours 5 times and the one there 29 times) I do like the color scheme on the one there better though.

And yeah i wouldnt pay that much to go there either but ive already got well over my moneys worth for my 2009 season pass so i dont have to worry about admission

[UWW-10]

Did SFDK finally decide to keep the wheel covers off of V2? I know for a while they had them on and there were pictures floating around the internet with them on. I know SFGAm has/had them but never decided to use them due to the fact that they just got in the way considering they are always changing/roating the wheels...but they did look kind of cool.

[Ilovthevu']

^For the rcdb.com photos, in 2002 they don't have them on it. Maybe, it was only the first year (2001). These pictures they don't have them on either.

[bobbinbop20]

yeah there was no wheel covers