The Ride
On May 8, 1999 Six Flags America reveled their newest creation for 1999. Joker's Jynx was the newest creation for Premier Rides. This tangled mess of purple and green steel launched riders at 63 mph, in a matter of three seconds. Just twenty day later Six Flags Fiesta Texas' own twisted launch coaster opened, but this time it was called Poltergeist. Poltergeist launched riders 60 mph, three mph less than Joker's Jynx, but it's 2705 feet of yellow and green track loomed above the quarry walls daring people to ride it. Throughout the layout rides are taken head-over-heels four times and expeience 4.5 G's.
The Experience
Riders board one of the two Premier trains and secure the lap bar that holds them in place. Once they are secure the LIM's propel them out of the station, down a yellow piece of track reaching 60 mph in 3 seconds. The trains reach the end of the lauch track and are catapaulted into a twisted mess of yellow and blue steel. The first element that Poltergeist's passengers face is double inverting cobra roll. At the conclusion of the Cobra Roll the track twistes into the third elementm the Sidewinder. Riders get a breather as the track wraps around the highest point of the ride. After navigating the 540 degrees of spiraling curves leading to a straightaway, the trains pick up more speed and dive down a spiraling dive to the left. The trains drop down a second dive and manuever a Figure-8 inches from the ground. One more banked curve awaits and the final inversion, the Corkscrew, flips the trains onto the final brake run.
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