This was my first trip outside of the state and first theme park besides Sfgam. I heard a bunch of other people saying how this park is so underrated and I see why. This park is well kept, clean, and the rides there not to tallest but the thrills there to me was outstanding. Boss was not opened all day dues to problems with the chain (That's what I was told by the worker). Mr. Freeze 2X 10/10, don't know why but this ride made me and my son nervous as hell before our first time on it, I guess LIM rides make me nervous, but anyway great ride, smooth quiet launch and fast and love the weightlessness on the straight before you go backwards, I heard we were supposed to get this ride in 98' but due to the problems with the LIMs they changed their minds, would love to have this in our park but capacity would be a issue since they were only running one train with 2 rows closed off and the train only seats 20. Batman (Mirror) 4X 10/10, this was weird at first cause everything is opposite of what I'm used to at our park but still great ride, I felt more gut wrenching on this one in the back then ours, the queue line just to walk to the ride ,TOO LONG, no shortcuts as you see in this video from Brad http://www.youtube.com/user/bp1191#p/u/15/zqH_z-QgvzU ,if full, will probably be 4 hours long, took like 10 mins just to walk to the ride, at least it has some graffiti. Ninja 11X 10/10, reminds me of Demon but better have to admit it as far as the ride goes. Love the end part, middle row hurt a little, back row great no head banging. Screaming Eagle 1X 5/10, rode it and it hurt my back, crazy fast ride that got rough half way through the ride. River King Mine Train 1X 5/10, my first 3 lift hill ride it's was ok liked the end part with the drop in the tunnel. American Thunder 6X 10/10 Very fast curvy fun ride loved it from start to finish especially 2 little hills and a nice bigger hill drop. Pandemonium 6/10 1X. Looking at from the queue it looked more crazier than Ragin Cajun but it was fun but not intense. Screaming Swing 1X 8/10. A whirligig for adults. Pretty High 200 ft+ and good view of the park. No line at first but it got bigger later in the afternoon. I wonder if we will get one of these, they seem to pop up all over the parks in the US. They had a ride like the Trailblazer which was pleasing since ours is gone. Only water ride open was Log Flume a mini Loggers Run that doesn't get you wet.
Pictures:
Welcome to St. Louis
Waiting for open while the skeleton looks over at us
Batman Mirror
1 half of the line
and here's more
Graffiti Ninja
Unfortunaely Clown Barf.
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These were at every ride.
What the heck happened to Supermans Head?
Definately going back, only complaint is the many hills you have to walk up in parts of the park.
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When BTR was built at SFGAm it didn't have much queue due to space, and they kept having to add queue anywhere they could squeeze it in due to the line being consistently massive and often stretching back into Orleans Place. Taking this into consideration, my assumtsion is that considering how ground breaking the ride was at most parks its at, SF decided that all the other Batman clones built in the mid 90s needed a massive queue, which many have been true at the time but now has become uneccesary (SFMM, SFSTL, SFOG, SFGADV all have significantly more queue space). Plus for the most parks lines would be consistently longer due to the parks not having waterparks and not as many rides with plateauing attendance. I think the million dollar question is why SFSTL didn't bother to make a way to skip the switchbacks in the garden.
Chang should have gone to SFSTL in my opinion. Would make a lot more sense than SFGAdv. Also would have been nice if SFSTL got SFMM's Deja Vu instead of SFNE.
Ive always thought SFSTL has stellar coaster collection for such a small park. Batman, Mr Freeze, Boss, Screamin Eagle, and the unique Arrow Mine train are all great rides and Evel Knievel is one of the best wooden coasters in the country. Plus the awesome dark ride and an Intamin drop tower. I could go to SFSTL multiple times every year and not get bored. What that park could really use is a complete retrack on Boss with new Timberliner trains, if that were to happen they would have one of the best wooden coaster duo's in the world.
Chang would have been a nice addition to SFSTL (or most parks), but in my opinion that ride would have made a better home at The Great Escape, considering that park's main steel coaster is a tiny relocated Arrow from the early 80s that does one loop and a double corkscrew. Would be a pretty cheap way to put in a skyline defining coaster that you know is going to be the parks most popular ride for many years. Adding to GADV, to me, seems like something to do since it's big and cheap may as well give it to the biggest market park and make a quick buck off that spike that's going to last for one season.
In regards to SFNE they definitely needed an awesome new coaster, that park only has 1 good coaster which is over 10 years old and has very respectable attendance. Would have been nice if they got a new GIB instead of taking out SFMM's, but it doesn't surprise me considering how much it cost to operate and it will probably save SFMM a lot of money without having any impact on their attendance. Though it is really bizarre the highly promoted best coaster park in the world is losing one of its best coasters, that will catch a lot of the public there off guard.
