Joker's Jinx
Specific Type: LIM Coaster
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Six Flags America blasted off its first season of operation under the ownership of Six Flags on May 8th, 1999 with the debut of what was then the park's fastest, first continuous-circuit launched coaster: the Joker's Jinx. With 2,705 feet of green track twisted insanely into a maze of twists, turns and inversions, the Joker made home as the centerpeice of the Maryland-based park's Gotham City sector. Joker's Jinx joinedSix Flags Fiesta Texas' Poltergeist in 1999 as the US' first LIM-launched continuous-track thrillride to see the light of day, opening three years proceeding the first LIM-launched coasters to go into operation - Paramount's Kings Dominion and Paramount's Kings Island's Flight of Fear. Engineered by Premier Rides, the 'Jinx utilizes the power of Linear Induction magnets to begin the ride out of the station by firing off a train load of riders to a clip of 63 miles per hour. And, this year, Joker's Jinx will be getting even wilder, with former over-the-shoulder restraints being removed in favor of a simple lap-bar arrangement.
Gothamites first find themselves entering a warehouse building converted into a funhouse by the Joker. Once aboard a yellow and pink train, the Linear Induction Motor launch does its duties and propels riders down a tunnel to reach the 63 mile-an-hour top speed just 3 seconds after leaving the boarding area. Reaching the end of the tunnel, the train rockets skyward into the Joker's twisted spaghetti-bowl of steel. Purple columns fly by within inches of riders as the track twists through the double-inverting 180-degree course-reversing Cobra Roll and dives down the maneuver's conclusion to immediately begin the third 360-degree vertical twist - the Sidewinder. The pace slows momentarily as the track wraps around to the coaster's highest point, around 540 degrees of curves leading to a straightaway through a series of rings. The speed begins to pick up again as the train plunges back down into the mayhemic curvature with a spiraling dive to the left. The train quickly navigates through a second dive and begins changing direction again with a Figure-Eight formation to ground level. After another banked curve, the final Corkscrew flips the track over once more and sends the train into the brakes. |
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