OldFarmerDean Posted August 22, 2016 Report Share Posted August 22, 2016 So on Sunday 21st August 2016, me and EC! as part of our California trip, visited our first theme park of the trip, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom... I'm not the best at explaining things or going into detail, so here's an overview of the park and our day, and some pictures, Enjoy! From the outside the park looks incredibly compact, a bit like Thorpe Park... But once inside, even though some of the coasters are bunched together the park is surprisingly big to walk around. The park is visually stunning and very well kept, and just in general looks really nice, unfortunately the day felt a little ruined by the reliability (or lack of) of the park, with V2 not opening and remaining closed for the rest of the day, along with some other smaller rides, though only one actually being advertised as closed originally. The new RMC The Joker kept breaking down all day, as well as some of the other rides and their main water attractions, and their star flyer, it really felt like a bad day at Thorpe Park, luckily for us we had a Flash Pass and got on all the coasters (except V2 of course) and done The Joker and Superman twice.. Which I'm so glad we done as these two were really the standout rides at the park, actually incredible! Superman I had pretty low expectations for as it was a short compact ride, but the launch was so forceful and the twisted compact layout really packed a punch and will be in my top 10 somewhere... The Joker easily goes into number 2 in my top 10 (not beating Shambhala), it is actually amazing, the speed of it throughout is so relentless and out of control, and the airtime even in the middle rows literally chuck you out of your seat like I've never experienced before (the closest to it is probably Grand National at Blackpool on back row, just not as painful). The B&M floor less, Medusa, I found to be a bit rough and just meh. Kong, the Vekoma SLC was horrendous, worse than Infusion at Blackpool, it closes after today to get the VR makeover. So overall a nice park, let down by its reliability, but really really glad we visited, and made a bit of a dent in my Top 10... With so many Californian parks left to go I wonder what UK rides will even be left in my Top 10 by the end of it aha! Thanks if you actually made it down this far haha! EDIT: I read back through and realised I said I'd try and keep it quite breif... Oops lol! CharlieN, EC!, pluk and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC! Posted August 22, 2016 Report Share Posted August 22, 2016 Other then with Medusa being rough and meh as I thought it was quite good and not rough at all, I agree with all of this I'm sure I will write something in the future, but I'm not good at type writing on a phone so I will leave it till after the holiday OldFarmerDean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted August 22, 2016 Report Share Posted August 22, 2016 I didn't even consider this park when I was over there for some reason. Looks pretty decent! Must get me on an RMC at some point. OldFarmerDean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark9 Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 I liked Medusa I like Discovery Kingdom as well. I felt it was a tad a shame that Roar got RMC'd, it was a pretty good and wild woody and had itself only just been refurbished on my visit in 2014. OldFarmerDean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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