Negative-G - Six Flags Discovery Kingdom 2019

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The Joker roller coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, California

The Joker removed the wood rails and with some thirty two hundred feet of steel added three inversions and the kind of violent airtime that Rocky Mountain is known for.

The Joker was really a lot of fun and I wish I was able to get more than just one ride.

Unfortunately Joker only had one train running and it kept braking down like the rest of the park so it was a little miracle that we got to ride it at all.

The Flash Vertical Velocity roller coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, California

Another ride that was among the many that were having issues was The Flash: Vertical Velocity. This is a weird ride that really looks like fun. It is an Intamin designed "impulse coaster" like Vertical Velocity at Six Flags Great America. It is an inverted coaster that uses a magnetic launch to propel the ride back and forth on the track. This one has seen heavy modifications from the way it was when it originally opened in 2001. Basically Six Flags built the ride without the proper permits from the city as a result the front spike instead of heading straight up now heads out at a 45 degree angle and the back spike was shortened. I've heard that The Flash is a really fun coaster but it was not for us this trip. Oh well I guess The Flash and Harley Quinn will have to be gotten the next time I'm out here.

The Boomerang roller coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, California

Oh, finishing it up we finally got on Boomerang. It was just like all of the other Boomerangs that I have been on.

That's all for our time at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. The park has a fantastic collection of rides and looks wonderful but at least on the day we visited they have some operational problems that needs to get worked through. Hopefully we were just unlucky because it would be a shame if such a good collection of rides was wasted especially when other parks in the chain have been passed over for investment when this park has steadily been on the receiving end of big investment.

Even though it became comical seeing how everything we headed to broke down it was a fun afternoon and a great way to kick off our trip. One park down...ten to go. The next stop is California's Great America.