Six Flags New Orleans

Here are some pictures of Joker's Revenge during Fright Fest.

Probably one of the last times it will be photographed in Texas.

Although the info on RCDB is correct more often than it's not, you can't rely on it as an official source. It's just a web database and the guy maintaining it relies on whatever information people email him.

It's certainly POSSIBLE that there's another homeless Vekoma ride like Joker floating around, but my bet's still on JR being moved.

Terry Cruise said:
I've ridden Joker's Revenge at SFFT and they always ran the trains backwards. That is how it was designed from the beginning.

Incorrect. Six Flags bought the park right when they were installing Joker's Revenge, at that point and time, the ride was going to be called something with Boardwalk in the name, I have forgotten the name. Then when SF bought the park, they bought 2 Arrow trains, and retrofitted them to run backwards, to give a twist on the ride, and make it more marketable.

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Duane (of RCDB) is usually pretty good at not putting stuff on RCDB unless it's been confirmed to him in some way or another. If it's on RCDB, it's true.

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Jester is one of the best original coaster names for along time, I had that name in RCT! Shame about the ride though, it's got rough written all over it.

Nessy: Ride of Steel said:

Terry Cruise said:
I've ridden Joker's Revenge at SFFT and they always ran the trains backwards. That is how it was designed from the beginning.

Incorrect. Six Flags bought the park right when they were installing Joker's Revenge, at that point and time, the ride was going to be called something with Boardwalk in the name, I have forgotten the name. Then when SF bought the park, they bought 2 Arrow trains, and retrofitted them to run backwards, to give a twist on the ride, and make it more marketable.
If Six Flags changed the ride while it was being installed then it never ran trains forward. It ran trains backward from the beginning because that is the way Six Flags designed it. What part of my post is incorrect?

*** This post was edited by Terry Cruise on 11/15/2002. ***

Terry Cruise said:

If Six Flags changed the ride while it was being installed then it never ran trains forward. It ran trains backward from the beginning because that is the way Six Flags designed it. What part of my post is incorrect?

You answered your own question. "If Six Flags changed the ride" then obviously the ride hadn't been designed by the manufacturer to run backwards. The ride was purchased with the intent to run it in the normal direction but Six Flags decided otherwise. Just because it never ran forwards, doesn't mean it was designed to run backwards.

It's obvious the ride wasn't designed to run backward? With so many Vekoma coasters that run backward, why is that obvious?

Perhaps it was designed to be inverted and Six Flags installed it wrong.

Terry Cruise said:

It's obvious the ride wasn't designed to run backward? With so many Vekoma coasters that run backward, why is that obvious?
Perhaps it was designed to be inverted and Six Flags installed it wrong.

If the ride was designed to run backwards, I'm sure the trains would have been manufactured that way and would not have had to been modified by the Six Flags maintenance staff.

Opryland / USAA purchased the ride to run in the normal, forward facing position.

Was JR originally one of the old corkscrew coasters from Oprylandif so which one was it?

They had two corkscrews at Opryland,the first was Chaos by Vekoma,the other was Wabash cannonball by Arrow,I'm thinking JR was probably the original Choas coaster from opryland

No, Joker's Revenge was purchased new from Vekoma. Opryland was still running when the coaster opened at Fiesta Texas. Up until this summer, Chaos and Wabash Cannonball as well as other coasters were sitting in the remains of "Old Indiana Fun Park" in Indiana. Also, Chaos was a totally different type of coaster. I believe it was similar to Mayan Mindbender at Astroworld but am not sure. It did not have any inversions.