SIX FLAGS SAINT LOUIS
& Six Flags Hurricane Harbor
St. Louis, MO
Six Flags Theme Parks
 Park News - (2/3/12) Odd rumor time for Six Flags St. Louis this week, as a reader wrote in to tell us an interesting new rumor. They claim that in order to try and increase capacity on Pandemonium, the park may try to add a magic carpet style loading platform which would allow for the cars to slowly move through the station but never coming to a complete stop. Universal Studios Florida has used this concept with good success with their Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit coaster as well as the Harry Potter ride, and Disney has used this concept with a number of their own dark rides for decades with great success.
(10/18/11) Check out this great video showing Rescue Workers training how to perform swift water rescue training in the river rapids ride at Six Flags St. Louis.
(8/31/11) I’m told that Sky Screamer was back up and running once again at Six Flags St. Louis this past weekend. From the reports sent in, the actual motion programming of the ride has changed a little bit too.
(6/17/11) A quick review and pics from Sky Screamer at SFSL can be found over at Negative-G this week.
(5/13/11) A new progress report from Six Flags St. Louis can be found at Coaster101 this week.
2012 - Bonzai Pipeline - (9/2/11) Hold the phone on the Bonzai Pipeline, the Six Flags Marketing machine has fooled us by using the word ‘loop’ one time too many in their hype script. It turns out that the Bonzai Pipeline is the exact same capsule drop slide that was added to Hurricane Harbor in Chicago in 2011, and is NOT an AquaLoop. Riders will drop and then go into a 360 spiral only… not a loop. I’ve also added the video below.
- (9/1/11) Bonzai Pipeline has been confirmed for Hurricane Harbor, a pair of slides that will stand off the fun by putting you in a drop pod six stories in the air, where the floor will drop out from under you and send you for a spiral at 40mph through “290-foot clear tubes” that will let everyone watch you shoot by.
2013 - The Boss Rehab - Rumor Only - (1/16/12) I’ve got nothing solid on this, but I’ve been sent a couple of rumors suggesting that Six Flags St. Louis may be thinking of performing some kind of improvements on The Boss for 2013. I really don’t think we’re looking at another Texas Giant style conversion, but given than the park seems to have had a great experience with the Millennium Flyers used on American Thunder (aka: Evel Knievel), I could see them possibly looking into a GCI re-tracking and purchase deal for new Millennium Flyer trains. Of course, the rumor could just be about the purchase of Topper Track as well… so anything is possible at this point. It’s just a wild rumor, but I’m keeping my ears open.
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