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The Joker is an upcoming steel roller coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. The ride which will open in Spring 2016, replacing Roar, a wooden roller coaster, by putting a new steel track on top of Roar's wooden support structure. The hybrid roller coaster is themed to The Joker, a villain from DC Comics. Joker is designed by Alan Schilke and will be built by Rocky Mountain Construction. This will be Rocky Mountain Construction's first coaster themed to a superhero or villain. The wooden Roar had been constructed by Great Coasters International and opened on May 14, 1999. ==History== Six Flags Discovery Kingdom announced in July 2015, that they would be closing their wooden roller coaster, Roar, giving riders about a month to get their last ride in, before closing on August 16, 2015. On September 3, 2015 Six Flags announced that they will be revamping the wooden coaster, ''Roar'', into a steel track coaster, to be called ''The Joker''. The renovation would be performed by Rocky Mountain Construction and would feature the I-Box steel track on all of the original wooden coaster supports, ''Joker''-themed trains, and three inversions including the first ever ever step-up under-flip inversion. The new ride will open for the 2016 season.〔 ''Roar'', had been constructed in 1999 by ''Great Coasters International''. When the coaster debuted it was the first wooden roller coaster in the park with a height of , a first drop of and a top speed of . The wooden roller coaster had a similar layout to Six Flags America's version but was shorter in length due to the location at the park. Roar consisted of two 12 car Millennium Flyer trains which helps give the sensation of a steel roller coaster utilizing the classic wooden style design.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.greatcoasters.com/index.php?p=trains )〕 Six Flags in 2009, begun work with an Idaho-firm ''Rocky Mountain Construction'' who helped replaced the wooden track on some of the company's wooden coasters with a new steel I-Box track, retaining a wooden support structure across the United States and Mexico. With the success of the new steel roller coasters, the company looked at Roar which would benefit with the overhaul. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Joker (Six Flags Discovery Kingdom)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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