The Joker will have your mind and body twisting, turning and rolling over with his jinx...
The Joker will have your mind and body twisting, turning and rolling over with his jinx...
Theme Park | Six Flags America |
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Park Area | Gotham City |
Type | Rollercoaster |
Audience | Thrillseekers |
Opened | 8 May 1999 |
Manufacturer | Premier Rides |
Model | LIM Coaster |
Height | 79 ft |
Length | 2705 ft |
Inversions | 4 |
Max Speed | 60 mph |
Duration | 1 minute |
The Joker's Jinx is a rollercoaster at Six Flags America, taking Batman's enemy supervillain and criminal mastermind The Joker as its theme.
The ride is a launch coaster from Premier Rides, which uses Linear Induction Motors (LIMs) to accelerate its train from 0 to 60mph through a tunnel and into the ride's twisted green and purple ball of track.
During the ride, visitors journey through a cobra roll, sidewinder and corkscrew inversions. It's a great fun ride experience, although the coaster has developed a small amount of roughness and sideways wobble over the years.
The layout and ride system is very similar to the two Flight of Fear rollercoasters at Kings Island and Kings Dominion, although their spaghetti ball tracks are enclosed inside large warehouses rather than being outside.
Joker's Jinx looks very impressive, and is a decent ride for Six Flags America. Despite the bit of roughness, it's definitely worth taking a ride while at the park.
The Joker's Jinx
Ride station
The spaghetti ball of track
Climbing up and around
Sidewinder
Mid-course
Weaving in and out
Train on the brake run
Returning to the station
The ride sits in Gotham City
View from the park railway