Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Tony Hawk's Big Spin Coaster

[Noobitizer]

Hey guys it me Charles, Im one of the rides supervisors who ran tony hawk for media day. Let me just say that it is nice to hear that everyone is enjoying Tony Hawks Big Spin. Its been close to 5 years since we received a new coaster and I know a lot of people were bummed to hear we were getting a "Family Coaster". Tony Hawk however won't disappoint, its a great coaster and we are very proud of it. With the way Discovery Kingdom has been improving I hope many more of you will come for a visit and see just how much has changed.

 

-Charles

[Coaster Palooza]

^^^^Scott, that is a great video of THBSC and Guy Fieri. Nice job!

 

^Charles, great to hear from you on here. We are hoping to have many more visits up there this year.

[RcMannAE86]

Our crew! John, Charles, Mike, and I don't know the operators name because he had his jacket on. Hi Guys! Great job today. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow...

 

Haha, my name's Kevin. Glad you had fun... We're all really excited for opening day... good to hear you'll be back.

 

Haha my name is Ryan not John too but glad to see you there! Opening day was awesome... Can't wait to see you back there again to spin some more!

[Goliath513]

Sean, Kelly, Eric, Ryan- It was awesome meeting up with you all for Coasters After Dark. Too bad you were still working Ryan. Tony Hawk's Big Spin was great and is a nice solid addition to the park!

 

Adam- Too bad we didn't met up for the night time riding.

 

 

My pictures along with my ride review, along with R.C.'s pictures and ride review can be found in my opening day photo TR thread here.

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43858

[thrillgeek]

^Thanks Sam. Yeah that would of been nice but we left early.

[EastCoastn07]

Our crew! John, Charles, Mike, and I don't know the operators name because he had his jacket on. Hi Guys! Great job today. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow...

 

Haha, my name's Kevin. Glad you had fun... We're all really excited for opening day... good to hear you'll be back.

 

Haha my name is Ryan not John too but glad to see you there! Opening day was awesome... Can't wait to see you back there again to spin some more!

 

LOL Ryan, you beat me to it. Didn't even know you were a member of the site.

[Voyage_luvr]

It's not quite as cool as the one at Six Flags St. Louis, but it looks very nice. I liked the little skateboard you got in the goodie bag, that was pretty neat. Thanks for posting this.

[Coaster Palooza]

^^I have to say that I hate messing up names and other facts. I'm sorry I messed up the names, misspelled sushi, and probably didn't get the wasabi quote right. I need to write things down next time. I hope this didn't come off as sarcastic, I am truly sorry about this.

 

It was a really great event and I loved going to Coasters After Dark the next day. SFDK is doing a great job!

 

Thanks so much everyone.

[spellgo]

I will hope to visit Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in a month or two to experience Tony Hawk's Big Spin... As well as to get it''s credit.

 

Anyways, last year I went to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and visited the indoor theme park, Galaxyland inside the West Edmonton Mall.

 

They recently opened Galaxy Orbiter when I was there and I was able to experience my first spinning wild mouse type coaster. Galaxy Orbiter is created by the same manufacturers of THBS, Gerstlauer.

 

It will be interesting to see how this model from Gerstlauer is like. Based on the looks it has more elements than Galaxy Orbiter.

 

Although, what made Galaxy Orbiter unique is that it was custom built (obviously) to fit inside the indoor park of the mall.

 

If the post still exist, check out my trip report to Galaxyland in Edmonton, Canada which was posted last year.