Negative-G - Six Flags Discovery Kingdom 2019

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The Kong Roller Coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, California

Across from Medusa sits Kong. We tried to ride it six different times and five of them we were met with this sign as the ride kept going down.

On try number six right before calling it a day we finally got the credit.

Kong is a little bit of a park that I never got to experience other than walking around the abandoned remnants of it.

Kong originally opened at Nashville's Opryland USA Theme Park in 1995. It was one of the first of the suspended looping coasters manufactured by Vekoma and also was the last ride added to Opryland before that parks owners decided to rip the park down, pave over most of it and open a generic outlet mall next door. We visited the Opry Mills Mall once and there was nothing even vaguely unique about it. The sad thing is that they could have had the mall and the amusement park. The problem was Opryland needed to add rides as shows were not bringing the crowds in and they really didn't want to try. Opryland's six coasters were sold to Premiere Parks (who later purchased Six Flags) and moved up to the closed Old Indiana Fun Park north of Indianapolis for future use. Only the Hangman/Kong and the Rock N Roller Coaster (now the Canyon Blaster at The Great Escape) ever ran again while the rest of Opryland's coasters were sold for scrap.

Like many I am not a big fan of Vekoma's suspended looping coasters. I'm not a fan of all of the head banging but they have a fun layout that could be fun if ones head was not slamming back and forth against the restraints.