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Park News - (4/11/12) According to the local news Bonzai Pipeline is expected to open on May 26th and the new Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast will open on May 5th.
    (4/10/12) Negative-G has posted their own review of the new Season Dining Pass available at Six Flags St. Louis.
    (4/5/12) Six Flags St. Louis will be testing out the brand new Season Dining Pass. Your cost will be $59.99 and it will include a lunch and a dinner meal during every visit to the park as an exclusive add-on for Season Pass Holders. Click here for all the details on included menu items and participating park restaurants.
    In other news, I’m hearing that the park may be preparing to close down the Water Street Cab Co. bumper car ride for good in the near future. The rumored replacement may be a large haunted house attraction that wouldn’t just be for Fright Fest, but to be open for most of the season. If I’m not mistaken, I think Six Flags over Georgia attempted that as well several years ago too.
    (2/17/12) Just a quick update… I’m told that the “What’s the Hold Up” robbery on the train was actually tested out during Fright Fest last fall. The crowds were very receptive to it and it was decided to make it a season long extra attraction for 2012.
    (2/10/12) I haven’t mentioned this before, but if you check out the SFSL entertainment page, scroll down to find the entry for something called “What’s The Hold-Up?” and click on it. You’ll find that the park is planning to have some kind of bumbling robbers performance on the park’s Steam Train ride. And before you ask... no... one of the train robbers will not be played by Mark Shapiro (Queue the Rimshot!)
    (2/8/12) The latest word on the Pandemonium rumor says that if they do upgrade the station to allow for the cars to slowly crawl through the station while loading/unloading, they may not add a Magic Carpet alongside them. It seems Six Flags tested this kind of modification last season on the Gotham City Gauntlet wild mouse coaster added to Six Flags New England last summer with great success in terms of increasing the capacity of the ride.
    (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.

2012 - Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast - (4/30/12) World Series MVP for the St. Louis Cardinals, David Freese, was on hand to take one of the first rides on the new Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast. Check out the 1 minute interview followed by a reverse POV of him riding the coaster, followed by a few more fun angle views of the ride in action.

    (3/23/12) Six Flags St. Louis has also confirmed their own version of Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast, along with a chance to ride along with David Freese from the St. Louis Cardinals.

    (3/22/12) SFSL has posted a teaser video which seems to be about the rumored Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast. While it’s hard to tell if the train has been turned backwards in the video due to the quick editing, I did notice a new Batman logo on the front of the train that didn’t used to be there.
    (3/20/12) Screamscape sources tell us that things are going well to make way for Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast. While it has not yet been officially announced, sources have confirmed not only seeing a train on the track backwards, but that they have begun testing the ride at night. So if you happen to be near SFOT or SFSL after dark… keep your ears open.
    (3/13/12) There has been some good traction on the Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast rumors this week. Guests to visited SFOT over the weekend for the start of that market’s Spring Break, confirmed that not only was Mr. Freeze closed, but there was a sign at the entrance of the closed ride stating that there would be an exciting announcement coming soon. On the rumor mill side of things, the good news is that when the trains are reversed, they will still keep the same lap-bar restraint system and not add over the shoulder restraints as they did on Superman: Escape from Krypton at SFMM.
    (3/9/12) Strange rumor coming from Six Flags St. Louis this week… and I’ve got to wonder if the same thing is planned for SFOT as well. If the rumors are true, Mr. Freeze will get a little change this season and possibly see the trains turned around backwards for the 2012 season. Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast?

2012 - Bonzai Pipeline - (4/20/12) A few new pictures of the Bonzai Pipeline have been added to the park’s Facebook page, providing us with a different look at the project and surrounding area.
    (4/10 /12) One of our regular readers who visits Six Flags St. Louis often has sent in a few new pictures of the Bonzai Pipeline under construction.
    (3/29/12) Construction pictures of the Bonzai Pipeline at SFSL have been posted to Facebook this week.
    (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.