The Joker's Joyride

The Joker's Joyride is a stand-up roller coaster at Six Flags Over Arizona.

​Statistics
The 4,307-foot-long (1,330 m) Joker's Joyride stands 156 feet (48 m) tall. With a top of speed of 65 miles per hour (105 km/h), the ride features six inversions including a 124-foot-tall (38 m) vertical, two dive loops, an incline loop and two corkscrews. The vertical loop featured on The Joker's Joyride wrap around the lift hill; Kumba at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, The Riddler's Revenge at Six Flags Magic Mountain and Banshee at Kings Island are the only other rides in the world feature a loop of this kind. Riders of The Joker's Joyride experience up to 4.2 times the force of gravity on the three-minute ride. The Joker's Joyride cost $14 million to build, making the biggest investment on an attraction at the park.

The Joker's Joyride operates with three steel-and-fiberglass trains. Each train has eight cars with four seats in a single row, for a total of 32 riders. Riders are secured by an over-the-shoulder harness. Although The Joker's Joyride is a stand-up coaster, there is a small bicycle seat on which riders can lean. The configuration of trains caters for a capacity of 1,610 riders per hour.

​Manufacturer
The Joker's Joyride is one of five Bolliger & Mabillard roller coasters at Six Flags Over Arizona, joining Batman & Robin: The Challenge, Raging Bull, Superman: The Ride of Steel and The Flying Beast.

​Theme
As the name suggest, The Joker's Joyride is themed for Joker. The track is painted green with purple supports. The trains are painted green, red and yellow and seats were colored purple with yellow over-the-shoulder harness. As the Joker was an archenemy of Batman, The Joker's Joyride is located appropriately adjacent to Batman & Robin: The Challenge, in the back of the park. The Joker's signature logo is featured on the coaster's logo. The hip hop music that played on the loading platform is Why So Serious? by Hans Zimmer.

Ride experience
The ride begins with a right turn out of the station. Once the train ascends the 156-foot (48 m) chain lift hill it goes through a small pre-drop, before dropping 146 (45 m) on a banked left turn. It then enters the 124-foot-tall (38 m) vertical loop which wraps around the lift hill. Two dive loops follow, the second of which also wraps around the lift hill. An incline loop is followed by two right turns that lead up and into the mid-course brake run. After dropping out of the brake run, the train immediately enters a corkscrew to the left. A series of direction and elevation changes lead to a second corkscrew, the inverted part of which is just above a portion of the queue line. The track then turns to the right and enters the final brake run before returning the station.