![]() ↑ "Six Flags Discovery Kingdom to Combine Popular DC Rides Into New DC Universe Themed Area".↑ "Rejected Amusements: V2 Vertical Velocity at Six Flags Marine World".↑ "V2 Vertical Velocity Coaster Reopens at Marine World".↑ "Vertical Velocity To Angle Riders In New Direction".↑ "A-Z Coaster of the Week: V2: Vertical Velocity".↑ Six Flags Parks M-Z (June 6, 2001) - Screamscape (Wayback archive).↑ "Straight Up With A Twist At Six Flags Marine World".↑ "V2: Vertical Velocity - Scream Machine".In each car, riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows, for a total of 28 riders per train. The coaster opened with yellow track and blue supports, later being repainted to featured orange track and purple supports before recieving its current scheme. ![]() The supports were repainted once again, this time to yellow. įor part of the 2016 season, V² was closed for unknown reasons.įor the 2019 season, the ride became part of a new area called DC Universe and the name was changed to The Flash: Vertical Velocity. Originally, the ride had yellow track and blue supports. įor the 2007 season, V² was repainted with red track and maroon supports. These modifications were carried out by Valley Iron. To lower the height, the front tower was tilted to a 45-degree angle, creating the first twisted in-line rollback in the world, and the reverse was tower lowered to 150 feet while still being vertical. During the 2002 season, the ride was temporarily closed while the track was shortened from 186 feet to 150 feet. Whether youre visiting for the day or planning for season-long thrills. Eventually, the park chose to modify the ride. The official Six Flags app allows you to make the most of your next visit. Six Flags had to either modify the ride's height, or remove V² completely. Even though Six Flags Discovery Kingdom advertised the ride's height as 150 feet, authorities could tell that the ride was in clear violation of the height limit. However, this violated the city of Vallejo's height limit of 150 feet. When V² first opened, it was 186 feet tall and both sides of the track were vertical. The ride was set to open on May 24, 2001, but the opening was delayed to June 8. Six Flags Discovery Kingdom announced the addition of V² in early 2001. ![]() It was built by Intamin and opened on Jas V²: Vertical Velocity. Overall this is an awesome change for SFDK.The Flash: Vertical Velocity is a steel launched shuttle inverted roller coaster located at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California, USA. Being on a wrist, you can't really miss the buzz whereas when the device is buried in your pocket, it's much more difficult to notice it. It also made knowing when my reservations are ready much easier too. Now the device sits on the wrist while we ride. No longer do we need to keep my Flash Pass in a pocket and worry about it slipping out on a ride. I'm not sure if this is due to the newness of the device and we're just not used to it or what but the workers at the front mentioned that others had complained about this as well.īut this form factor is so much better than the previous QBots and this alone outweighs any of the benefits. We also thought that it was difficult to actually make the device register our swipes. We thought it was a natural gesture for most things but cancelling and changing a reservation felt a little funny, having to swipe up 5 times to get it to take was a little strange. Six Flags Discovery Kingdom currently offers Four types of tickets: Single Day Tickets, Season Passes, Flash Passes, and Group Tickets. Actually, you won't tap any buttons at all on the device touchscreen or not but instead swipe. Whereas before, you'd interact with the UI using the buttons on the device, now you'll swipe and slide through the UI to reserve times with the watch's touch screen. So usage is pretty similar to the old QBot systems with a slightly different interface. But they're here and we think that they're a big improvement! These passes are fairly common throughout the rest of the chain but had yet to make their way to SFDK. Today was the first day SFDK used Flash Pass watches as opposed to the classic QBot Flash Passes.
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