Tony Hawk's Big Spin

Tony Hawk's Big Spin

Infobox roller coaster simplified
name = Tony Hawk's Big Spin


caption =
location = 1. Six Flags Fiesta Texas "(pictured)" 2. Six Flags St. Louis 3. Six Flags Over Texas 4. Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
type = Steel - Spinning
manufacturer = Gerstlauer
lift = Chain lift hill
status = All: Operating
opened = 1 & 2: 2007 3: May 17, 2008 4: May 23, 2008
height = 1,2, & 3: convert|53|ft|m|1 4: convert|49|ft|m|1
drop = 1, 2, & 3: convert|27|ft|m|1 4: Unknown
length = 1, 2, & 3: convert|1351|ft|m|1 4: convert|1302.5|ft|m|1
speed = 1, 2, & 3: convert|31|mi/h|km/h|1 4: convert|34.2|mi/h|km/h|1
duration = 1, 2, & 3: 1:51 4: 1:00
restriction = convert|42|in|cm|1|lk=on

Tony Hawk's Big Spin is a Gerstlauer spinning roller coaster at Six Flags Theme Parks. The rides are located at Six Flags Fiesta Texas opened March 10, 2007, Six Flags St. Louis opened April 2007, Six Flags over Texas opened May 17, 2008 and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom opened May 23, 2008.

The ride has been billed as the "total Tony Hawk experience" and is designed to have the look and feel of a giant red-and-black skatepark. It offers a full extreme sports experience, with monitors in the queue lines displaying highlights of the history of action sports and a large spinning Tony Hawk figure crowning the ride, as well as Tony Hawk's Big Spin merchandise available at the ride exit. The original 2 rides at Fiesta Texas and St. Louis as well as the ride at Six Flags over Texas are exact clones with heights of 53 ft and speeds of 31 mph. Discovery Kingdom's ride is a smaller more compact model that is approx. 40 feet shorter in length and stands 49ft tall and travels at 34.2 mph; it replaced Zonga, which stood at the location until 2006.

The ride is named after the skateboarding trick of the same name, which is a body varial with the skateboard rotating fully once, or 360 degrees.

Tony Hawk’s Boom Boom HuckJam toured through several Six Flags parks in 2006 and 2007.

Auxiliary equipment

Because of the unusual car design, traditional track-mounted cameras cannot be used with Tony Hawk's Big Spin. The latest installation, at Discovery Kingdom, instead uses a wireless video system permanently affixed to each car. Six Flags contracted with CDR!de, a coaster memorabilia company, to install and maintain the system.

External links

* [http://www.sixflags.com/fiestaTexas/rides/TonyHawksBigSpin.aspx Official Six Flags Fiesta Texas website]
* [http://www.sixflags.com/stLouis/rides/TonyHawkBigSpin.aspx Official Six Flags St. Louis website]
* [http://www.sixflags.com/overTexas/rides/TonyHawksBigSpin.aspx Official Six Flags Over Texas website]
* [http://www.sixflags.com/discoveryKingdom/rides/TonyHawksBigSpin.aspx Official Six Flags Discovery Kingdom website]
* [http://www.tonyhawk.com/ Official Tony Hawk website]


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