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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. ROAR is a wooden
roller coaster located at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo,
California. The coaster has twenty-two crossovers and a 200 foot roofed
tunnel. ROAR is a near clone of the wooden roller coaster of the same
name at Six Flags America; however, it features a different approach to
the lift, an added bunny hill within the tunnel, and an added bunny hill
before the final break run. The ride was also designed on land that
slopes about ten feet up between the station and the end of the lift.
GCI asked Six Flags if they could customize the design for the
topography because if not the station would be over 20 feet above the
ground. So the end result is that drops and dips on the station side of
the coaster's layout are several feet lower than its East Coast
counterpart. Six Flags Discovery Kingdom's ROAR was also designed with
smaller and tighter turns than ROAR at Six Flags America. The change in
design allows for higher lateral g-forces and an increased sensation of
speed.
