The Joker Roller Coaster at Six Flags Great America Amusement Park

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The Joker is a roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Great America, Six Flags New England, and Six Flags Over Texas. Built by S&S Worldwide, an American ride manufacturer, the coaster is one of their "Free Spin" models. Since 2016, Six Flags has installed The Joker in four of their parks.

The Joker
Joker (Six Flags Over Texas).png
The Joker at Six Flags Over Texas
General statistics
Type Steel – 4th Dimension – Wing Coaster
Manufacturer S&S Worldwide
Model 4D Free Spin
Lift/launch system Chain lift hill
Height 120 ft (37 m)
Drop 54 ft (16 m)
Length 1,019 ft (311 m)
Speed 38 mph (61 km/h)
Inversions 6 (2 track inversions)
Height restriction 48–76 in (122–193 cm)
Trains 5 trains with a single car. Riders are arranged 4 across in 2 rows for a total of 8 riders per train.
Flash Pass available
Single rider line available
The Joker at RCDB
Pictures of The Joker at RCDB
Riders zig zag along the track while flipping head over heels up to six times throughout the ride in a somewhat uncontrolled manner.[1] Six Flags started installing more after the success of Batman: The Ride that opened in 2015 at Six Flags Fiesta Texas.[2][3]

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History Edit

When originally announced in September 2015, The Joker at Great Adventure was given the name Total Mayhem. Then on January 27, 2016, Six Flags Great Adventure renamed the coaster after the DC Comics villain Joker.[4][1] The new title on the coaster brings the total number of DC Comics themed coasters in the park to seven, the most of any Six Flags park.

On September 1, 2016, Six Flags announced that Six Flags Great America, Six Flags New England, and Six Flags Over Texas, would install the roller coaster into their parks for the 2017 season.

The night before opening the roller coaster on May 20, 2017, Over Texas hosted an all night private event which had The Joker opened only to the event attendees. A storm that was producing strong winds came into the area which triggered the ride to halt while in operation while eight passenger were onboard. During the stoppage, the storm got more severe preventing the ride to be fixed soon, so the park called emergency services to come help rescue the passengers that were on the ride. The rescue operation took over three hours bringing each passenger down individually the 120-foot tall roller coaster while the storm was overhead. None of the riders were injured that night and the park suspended the roller coaster operations on the following day for safety inspections.[5][6] The Joker officially opened to the public a day later on May 21.[7]