Getting Recon on Six Flags St. Louis for April trip...

[Ilovthevu']

^About Mr. Freeze supposedly launching backwards, I was trying to figure out what's the purpose of that? It goes backwards and forwards already. Forwards first, and than backwards... Mr. Freeze is a shuttle coaster and launches forward at first, goes through a top hat, goes through some curvey track, and than it goes vertical in the air, and than goes backwards. The biggest difference with the train first coming out backwards I see is that on the vertical "spike" in the air you would be facing towards the ground longer. This is comparable to Deja Vu's / Aftershock's first lift hill. If you haven't seen Aftershock or Deja Vu, here's a good video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSRjS1Ifah4

For that vertical spike also on Mr. Freeze, their are magnets up there, that push you up a little bit. It doesn't hold you in place (like V2 used to hold the train up there), but it's pushes the train up a little bit, and than it eventually goes. The launch for Mr. Freeze to me doesn't seem as fast as Vertical Velocity though, but Mr. Freeze is just an awesome ride.

[BLADE]

This sounds like some idea they got from Magic Mountain's Superman. It would provide a different experience. Getting launched backwords on Superman at MM was awesome.

[Sporlo]

I would guess that the spike will be a lot more terrifying (for those people who are actually terrified by roller coasters ), because those magnets that accelerate you upwards break the natural parabolic movement, so the riders will lurch forward relative to the train, so people will think they're going to fall out of the car (similar to the forward lurch you got in V2).

To be honest, you could argue that having ANY ride go backwards doesn't really do THAT much to the ride. It's always the same layout. But it's always good to mix it up, and probably any ride would benefit from a reverse ride just from the novelty factor alone.

[BLADE]

St. Louis could have 1 train forward and one backward too. Magic Mountain said they may do this in the future to Superman.

[Johnny.Ink]

I'll make sure to let you guys know if Mr. Freeze is backwards or not...

[BLADE]

Screamscape just posted today that a backward train has been testing at night. He had the same post for both Mr. Freezes though.

[Johnny.Ink]

Screamscape just posted today that a backward train has been testing at night. He had the same post for both Mr. Freezes though.

Where's the other one at?

MTA: Nevermind. Read, Six Flags over Texas. Hopefully it's open when we go in April. Sounds like a rush.

[Johnny.Ink]

Hey guys-

sorry I haven't written up the trip report yet - work and life have kept me hopping.

But, the park was a blast, and the rides were very fun. I'll try to write up the trip report this weekend.

Thanks for all the info!

[BLADE]

Can't wait!