The Joker- SFGADV Construction Tour March 13th, 2016!

[TTD03]

Hey all, I just got back from a fun afternoon at Great Adventure today! I went on a construction tour of The Joker, as well as some other fun stuff too! Let's begin!

Our tour began by walking by the old Chiller site. Not much to see here, just a pile of dirt. As to what is coming? The park knows, but wouldn't say.

We then moved on to see The Joker trains and chassis! These are the very first public pictures of them! They look great!

^ This picture is special, can you figure out what else is going on in it?

After viewing the trains, we headed over to the construction site. While on the way, we noticed that the Big Wheel was partially put back together. The park said it won't be ready for opening day on the 23rd. They said it will be ready during or after Spring Break.

Next, we made it to the site! Here's the view from the fountain! It looks great as you are entering the park!'

We then were allowed to free-roam the site for 15 minutes. We weren't allowed to go "under" the coaster, so no pictures from there exist, but here's the rest from all angles.

^ Notice how massive the chain lift motor is!

^ I finished off the walk around with a selfie!

We then moved over a few feet and talked about the re-theming of Blackbeard's Lost Treasure train to Harley Quinn's Crazy Train. The ride has been painted a red and black color scheme, and the new ride sign will be up soon. The ride won't open on opening day, but should open at some point during April.

^ I noticed Sky Screamer testing while looking at Harley Quinn's Crazy Train!

After Harley Quinn, we headed over to Grannies' Kitchen to have a Q&A with our Park President. We weren't allowed to take pictures or video, so nothing here. We didn't leave the Q&A empty handed though, the park gave each of us a one time exit pass for The Joker when it opens! Thanks Great Adventure!

And that concluded our tour! I'll be back on opening day on March 23rd!

Thanks Great Adventure for a fun tour and afternoon!

I think I'm the only one that loves the green/purple rails. I love it on the SFDK Joker too. Someone back me up.

[TTD03]

I love it too.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Yeah I don't lol the red and purple was better. Also doesn't the park already have a Dark Knight coaster?

[TTD03]

^ Yes.

[Paradox]

I can't wait to see the queue overflow every day because SF thinks a low capacity ride will run fine with their operations.

Coasterkidmwm wrote:

Yeah I don't lol the red and purple was better.

I think you mean red and yellow, and I actually liked that color scheme better too. What I should have said is that I generally like the whole 'two different rail color' idea, given the colors are good together. I think it could be put to good use in the future.

[Metazoanhaddock]

GerstlCrazy wrote:

Coasterkidmwm wrote:

Yeah I don't lol the red and purple was better.

I think you mean red and yellow, and I actually liked that color scheme better too. What I should have said is that I generally like the whole 'two different rail color' idea, given the colors are good together. I think it could be put to good use in the future.

Though I agree that I too love the multi-color scheme, I have to disagree and be in the extreme minority here in that I personally love the purple and green (my two favorite colors, shocker, right?) much more than the red and yellow, as it made it look like a coaster sponsored by McDonalds IMO....

[mkingy]

Nice construction tour update TTD, I have to agree the green and purple look pretty good!

[Paradox]

Metazoanhaddock wrote:

GerstlCrazy wrote:

Coasterkidmwm wrote:

Yeah I don't lol the red and purple was better.

I think you mean red and yellow, and I actually liked that color scheme better too. What I should have said is that I generally like the whole 'two different rail color' idea, given the colors are good together. I think it could be put to good use in the future.

Though I agree that I too love the multi-color scheme, I have to disagree and be in the extreme minority here in that I personally love the purple and green (my two favorite colors, shocker, right?) much more than the red and yellow, as it made it look like a coaster sponsored by McDonalds IMO....

Fun fact someone found out that the Total Mayhem colors matched perfectly with the colors of the left and right twix advertisements.

The green and purple is growing on me, it works in the context of the joker / batman theme. I really disliked the red and yellow though.

[Coasterkidmwm]

I'm just having trouble with two rides in the same park having two different movie Jokers on them.

[TTD03]

^ It's supposed to be the same Joker.

[Coasterkidmwm]

They're portrayed very differently and just irks me. It fits in with the B:TR style they had going initially much better than the current Dark Knight Coaster, but to me it's like they failed to be redundant. I've never picked up a comic book in my life and managed to notice because it's that glaringly obvious.

It's like Islands of Adventure having a Spiderman ride themed to this:


And another one themed to this at the same place:

^ His move is hilarious! He shows how to sneak a camera and get busted soon!

Is there an opening date set? I'm assuming not with the park...

[mkingy]

New spiderman sucked so bad.

Coasterkidmwm wrote:

This is the clean image of "Tortured by the extreme force testing capsule at the g-force of 8!"