Today, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom hosted an exclusive media-access construction tour of their latest roller coaster, Joker. Slated to open later this spring, Joker is a 53 mph Rocky Mountain Construction roller coaster that features a 78° drop and three inversions in its 3,200 ft track length. Media outlets were able to take an exclusive behind the scenes tour and take a closer look at the trackwork.

Here’s a view of the coaster’s lift hill from the parking lot. The chain has been successfully testing all week.

Joker’s first drop is looking great!

The entrance to the step-up under-flip inverted roll looks to be very smooth and will provide some intense g-force.

The inversion’s exit is much more interesting as it looks to provide serious lateral airtime.

Joker continues into the inverted zero-g stall heavily banked.

The inverted zero-g stall will provide sustained hang time on riders.

Joker continues through an outward banked airtime hill into the ride’s signature breaking wave.

The 3,200 ft track also features an “Asian camel back” airtime hill, one with two airtime moments in the same hill to match the humps of Asian camels.

Another look at the Asian camel back and hill underneath.

The completed track ends at this low overbanked curve but resumes shortly after Joker’s zero-g roll.

Joker’s last airtime hill and brake run are now complete.

In addition to this, the Joker himself appeared on-site to reveal the ride’s lead car! We have a video of the event below:

The lead car looks outstanding!

The green train is on the tracks and has made preliminary tests across brakes.

Joker’s queue has been extended past the edge of the old Roar queue, with more switchbacks added than before.

As well as this, the station has been painted and is beginning to near completion.

We were also given an exclusive first look at the station for Joker. Look at that detail!

A look inside Joker’s gift shop reveals a brand new structure.

Another look inside Joker’s gift shop.

This concludes our Joker update! A huge thank you goes to Nancy Chan and the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom staff for making this happen.

What do you think of The Joker? Will you ride in 2016? Let us know in the comments below!