Medusa (Off-ride HD) Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

Offride footage of Medusa at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, CA. Don't forget to like and subscribe!
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Opened: March 18, 2000
Type: Steel - Floorless Coaster
Manufacturer: Bolliger & Mabillard
Designer: Werner Stengel
Model: Floorless
Lift/launch system: Chain lift hill
Height: 150 ft (46 m)
Drop: 150 ft (46 m)
Length: 3,937 ft (1,200 m)
Speed: 65 mph (105 km/h)
Inversions: 7
Duration: 3:15
Capacity: 1600 riders per hour
G-force: 4.5
Height restriction: 54 in (137 cm)
Trains: 3 trains with 8 cars. Riders are arranged 4 across in a single row for a total of 32 riders per train.
Medusa is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard, Medusa opened in 2000 as the first floorless roller coaster on the West Coast. The coaster features seven inversions, a 150-foot (46 m)-tall lift hill with a 150-foot (46 m) drop, and the first Sea serpent roll element ever built on a B&M coaster. The ride is the longest coaster in Northern California at 3,937 feet (1,200 m) long and is notable as having one of the largest vertical loops in the world at 128 ft. It also shares the height record in Northern California with another ride in the same park, The Flash: Vertical Velocity, at 150 feet high.
The ride starts with a large left-hand turnaround out of the station and onto the lift hill. At the top is a B&M pre-drop followed by a right turn. After that is the large 150' drop which achieves the same height as the lift hill despite the B&M Pre-Drop by dipping below ground level into a pit. The drop is followed by a 128' vertical loop. Medusa then features a dive loop to the left and a zero-G roll. The ride then enters a Sea-Serpent roll. After a very quick breather during the mid-course brakes, the train whips into a twisting left-hand drop into a flatspin under the brake run. The on-ride photo is taken directly after the first flatspin. The ride then travels through an inclined helix to the left before diving into the second flatspin. The ride's finale is a quick 85 degree banked helix to the right before a quick S-Turn, which creates the sensation that the train will run into one of the lift supports. Then, the ride will either glide into the brake run and travel back toward the station, or may come to a sudden stop if it is operating with three trains and another train is already in the station.
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[@danielhalpert03]

Remember them times when Six Flags had Zonga

[@sanfranciscobayarea1060]

Yes

[@ThrillsofColdplay]

I love the sound of the Zero G Roll on this coaster

[@HumanStateOfEmergency]

Yeeeesssssssss me too!!!! I want to know if it's just the catch dogs slamming as an anti roll back or of it was actually just designed this way as a sort of sound effect

[@hola-ct9ox]

Second favorite ride at my home park. First being joker but I love how Medusa looks.

[@lulsaint6174]

hola can’t put joker over medusa for me love all my discovery kingdom coasters and rides

[@switchmintty8772]

0:53 YES! The picturesque loop!

[@willthecreator]

It’s crazy to think this would be just another coaster at Magic Mountain

[@fredcrosby6382]

We are lucky to have any at all this was originally just a animal and sea park. I can’t wait to go to Magic Mountain one day all the coasters look awesome!

[@NickFlightX]

Thats uhhh... quite the interesting sound it makes on the Zero G roll. Never heard that when I have visited.

[@quix9556]

NickFlightX I think it’s new wheels. You hear that sound on newer B&M built coasters, especially wing coasters like Gatekeeper when it goes through its rolls.

[@anthonymowry2067]

Idk honestly but I think it’s made that noise when it first opened I think it makes that noise to get it thru the zero g roll so it doesn’t roll back

[@anthonymowry2067]

NickFlightX the only time your able to hear it is when no ones on it when people are on it the screaming takes over the sound

[@tismejaytee]

Merry Christmas!!!

[@Sam-il5yw]

Coaster Fusion you too!

[@agt7532]

Medusa at Discovery Kingdom should also get renewed like Six Flags Great Adventure.

[@jmorris22me]

Alot of empty trains, maintenence or guest illness? Lol

[@c_enthusiast_x2747]

Either maintenance, or coastercrutchfield arrived when they were doing test runs before the park opened.

[@deathandbananas2152]

Remember them times when Six Flags had Zonga

[@supercobraz2788]

Yes