After we brushed off the radioactive dust from visiting Times Beach, we headed to Six Flags St. Louis.
With limited time to "enjoy" the park before the Fright Fest starts at 6pm, our aim is to ride all of the roller coasters in 6 hours.
It is difficult to know which rides will have the longest queue lines, which will be the most popular, and which we should head for first. We pick Mr. Freeze because it is a short, unique ride and I think they can only run one train on it. It is closed when we get there, so we move on to the biggest wooden roller coaster on the list, The Boss.
The queue line walk was amazingly long. With the wood they used they could have built another wooden roller coaster.
The ride was fast, crazy, out of control, and very smooth. What a fun ride it was. At nearly a mile long it rivaled the length of the queue line!
We didn't want to have to come back to the back of the park again, so we got back in line and rode it again.
From there we just proceeded around the park in a clockwise direction hitting all of the coasters.
Pandemonium was next. It was a large wild mouse coaster and the cars were allowed to spin as it went around the track. The ride is never the same when you ride these.
Their first wooden coaster here was called Screamin' Eagle. It was built way back in 1976 and was the last coaster designed by the legendary John Allen. It too was very fast, but not nearly as smooth as The Boss.
We walked by this cool water ride where the riders and spectators fire water canons at each other.
The Ninja was a roller coaster that had previously been at Expo 86 in Vancouver BC. We choose not to ride it because these types of coasters give us a headache.
The line for Batman: The Ride was over an hour long so we opted for the single rider line. We might not get on the same train with each other but at least we'd get ON the ride.
You sit on this ride like you're on a ski chairlift. It has a huge swooping drop, a loop, and a couple of corkscrews. Very fast. Very intense. Very fun!
We took a short break from the 82 degree heat and had an ice cream before heading over to try Mr. Freeze again.
It was open this time but the ride was almost an hour long. The ride was new to us so we got in line and waiting our turn. I really like this ride but Karen thought it was fast and too short, not enjoyable.
You sat in a regular coaster car but the train was on the track backwards. The train was blasted out of the station backwards at 80 MPH. You did a couple of huge swooping banked turns (one upside down) and then went forwards through the whole thing and back into the station.
Our last ride of the day was on the woody, American Thunder. This was probably my favorite coaster of the day. Fast, twisty, and smooth as silk. For a wooden roller coaster to be this smooth was amazing.
We left a little after 6pm but there were plenty of people to take our place.
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