With the rather excellent museum out of the way, we headed to the south of the city avoiding a number of closed section of roads (there was a lot of roadworks here) to the final Six Flags park of the trip. It was a little strange to be finishing the chain so early into the trip, a sign that we were soon going to be heading off piste with regards to the major parks in the country.
and today being a Saturday the park was pretty busy and this was the crowd when we arrived at midday. Last time Christof and I came here this park was hot and humid, today was just hot. We were now used to the heat in these places, we were grateful that we didn't have to walk through the eternal wall of heat we had last time. There was no issue getting with our passes here, clearly the registration we'd done last time had worked fine.
We split up with Tal and Thomas beginning their run around the park to attempt to get all 9 rollercoasters in the park.
Just prior to the trip we'd heard of an accident with the park's boomerang ride where a car derailed, so we weren't expecting that to be running.
Christof and I started the day with the one that we couldn't get on our last visit because it had just been built and was undergoing testing. At the time it was it had an Evel Knievel licence and name, but that had now passed and the ride was called American Thunder, not as strong a name.
There was a bit of fuss with me not being allowed to take my bag in so I had to find a locker and throw it in there, something I had to do in the other Six Flags Park. Any opportunity to get you to part with more cash and they'll take it. Rather than pay for the locker on each occasion I decided to leave it in there for longer and pay less.
As for the ride, it was really really good with a layout remaining low to the ground allowing for lots of twists and turns, but not violent or painful in doing so. Yay for maths!
It's not clear if it's the force of the electricity would do the ejecting but I like the idea that having done that you'd then be prosecuted, like rubbing salt into the wounds
We headed for Chiller next but that broke down just as we got into the car. The ride operators implied it happened quite a lot and they were confident it would reopen.
Art Deco Diner
The park has a Batman inverted coaster. I didn't bother with it but it was apparently running well.
This park is also experimenting with VR, this time putting it on their Ninja corkscrew coaster which I recall last time was really rough so much I figured the name was short for "Neck INJury, Aaaargh". We'd come back to ride this later in the day.
A couple of times each day we passed this meet and greet that would turn into a dancing thing. Quite absurd and I really felt bad for the staff made to dance in those hot suits.
This park has also has a new Justice League attraction with a noticeably longer queue than in Texas perhaps indicating poorer operations as the ride should just eat people up. This was confirmed when we got near the front of the line and saw a member of staff chatting on his phone when he should have been handing out the 3D glasses. Needless to say after one hour of queuing we only rode this once. Part of the queue was also from people leaving the closed Chiller ride, this sits opposite the entrance they would have walked back out of. Also the elements in the ride appeared in a different sequence to the Texas one.
Apparently the park no longer issue ride passes where they've had to close the ride, so we would have to queue up again. Boo!
Any attempt to fleece their public more and you can trust Six Flags to take it!
Some of theming was a little bit odd to say the least.
Some odd Ginger hipster, even creepier looking than Mr Six (whatever happened to him)
Chiller reopened and we did get to ride it. As with the other one, it's a pretty intense coaster with a great upside down top hat, and I think this is probably the best coaster in the park.
I'm guessing that this was her idea more than his.
Towards the back of the park they've installed one of those Larson Loop "Rollercoasters", conveniently located in front of the boomerang which was closed; not a surprise.
The park is blessed with a little bit of shade towards the back of the park, so consider coming back here if it gets too hot. Having said that I think the park is hot all the time. I think the Starflyer had been added since the last visit.
I'm not sure Tal and Thomas would come back here for just this!
Onto the VR and this ride worked off two distinct queues. Those who did want to ride with VR, which took obviously longer than those who didn't. To try to reduce the queue line they were working on a time slot process where you'd collect a ticket and come back. I think that kind of helped but took away the spontaneity out of riding.
The VR was OK, with the same Independence Day theme as at Six Flags Over Texas but a different layout to that ride due to the ride having a different layout.
I didn't ride the mine train today as it wasn't particularly memorable the last time I rode it, the best bit being some kid comparing its slowness to his friends mum.
Our last coaster of the day was the old wooden coaster at the back, Screamin' Eagle and this was holding up really really good.
The tap water in this park was way over chlorinated. The cynic in me says it's to encourage the sales of bottled water.
In another example of a licence ending, Pandemonium was Tony Hawk's last time we were here. We who had ridden it didn't bother this time.
The best themed Loony Tune ride.
For the Schwarzkopf fans there's one of their Enterprise rides at the rear of the park.
There is a third wooden coaster in the park called The Boss which is tucked away at the rear of the park, so far from everything else that we didn't bother going near it. There's a rumour that it might get the RMC treatment in the next few years.
and that was Six Flags St Louis and all of the Six Flags park for this trip. It was much more pleasant this time and easy for us second-timers.
Coaster of the day was Mr Freeze.
From here we took a long drive North up into Iowa close to Adventureland, our next park for our next day.
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