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SIX FLAGS FIESTA TEXAS
San Antonio, Texas
Six Flags Theme Parks
 Park News - (12/13/2024) Six Flags Fiesta Texas has made an interesting announcement today. The park’s currently Goliath roller coaster will be transformed and given a new identity and theme that will be a much better fit for the section of the park where it exists.
For now it looks like the Goliath logo has simply been attacked by something with large claws, which is a tease to the transformation to come, as Goliath will become Chupacabra, named after the legendary latin beast. The ride’s entry plaza will be rethemed, and based on how well the park improved their Poltergeist launched coaster, I think we’ll see some great features to come as Chupacabra makes itself at home within the Los Festivales section of the park over the months to come.
For this, I’m grateful to Six Flags Fiesta Texas for once again, standing apart from the rest of the Six Flags chain to become something more unique, with more non-generic ride names. The use of the Goliath name always seemed a bit “off” to me personally for a B&M Inverted that in all reality was just another clone of Batman: The Ride. Six Flags first coined the use of the name Goliath for several of their various Hypercoaster style projects, starting with the original Goliath at Six Flags Magic Mountain in 2000, followed by others like Goliath at Walibi Holland in 2002 (then Six Flags Holland), Goliath at La Ronde and Six Flags over Georgia in 2006. Then things got a little weird when the chain slapped the Goliath name on the Fiesta Texas inverted coaster in 2008, on a relocated Deja Vu coaster at SF New England in 2012 and lastly, on a custom RMC Topper Track wooden coaster at Six Flags Great America in 2014.
So for this move, I applaud. Love live Chupacabra!
(11/22/2024) Six Flags Fiesta Texas has announced the return of the park’s popular Mardi Gras Festival event in 2025, taking place each operating day from Jan. 18 through to Mar. 16. The park will be home to beautiful parade floats, music festivity and classic Cajun cuisine, and all the fun is included with your regular daily admission.
Look for more details to come as the event gets closer, but in the mean time you can also enjoy the park’s Holiday in the Park winter celebration taking place on select dates starting tomorrow through Dec. 23, 2024.
(11/17/2024) Something new is in the works for Six Flags Fiesta Texas for 2025. Nothing is known so far, but filings with the local agencies show paperwork for a $1.5 million project has been filed that will take up 3,000 sqft of space, and is listed simply as “New Project”. According to the local media, the last $1.5 million project filing they saw was done back in March and was for the current D.C. Universe expansion now taking place, including three new small rides. The timeline on the paperwork says it will begin the first week of December and is expected to be complete by March 2025 for whatever it is.
Since the previously mentioned D.C. Universe expansion project for 2024 is obviously not going to be fully complete until the 2025 season, I’m thinking that there really isn’t a huge reason to bring even more new rides online for 2025, unless this is some kind of upgrade or enhancement to one of the park’s existing attractions. And speaking of upgrades, it also entirely possible that this could be something more of an infrastructure upgrade for the park, such as a new or upgraded dining facility perhaps. Just something to think about…
(10/6/2024) DC Universe Construction Update
(8/29/2024) A few more Six Flags theme parks have officially added new Chaperone Policies over the past several days, ahead of the start of their Fright Fest haunt events. Six Flags Fiesta Texas confirmed on social media that they would put one into effect starting Saturday, Sept. 7th, 2024.
According to the statement, the Chaperone Policy goes into effect at 5pm until closing on Fright Fest nights only, allowing guests age 15 and under to remain in the park only if they are with a chaperone who is at least 21 years old. The chaperone here can accompany “no more than 10 guests age 15 or younger per day”. Underage guests found in the park without a Chaperone will be ejected from the park.
(8/12/2024) Six Flags Fiesta Texas has confirmed their special attractions for this year’s Fright Fest. The list of new IP-based haunts includes The Conjuring Universe and Stranger Things, along with Slaughterhouse 6 Extreme, Twisted: Theater of Torment, Trapped and The House of Houngan - Curse of the Rougarou.
Admission to the haunts will require a Haunted Maze Pass or you can also purchase a bundled admission to the park that includes Haunt access.
(7/12/2024) There has been a lot of talk on social media about the status of the Kid Flash coaster at Fiesta Texas once again. Most of this talk mentions that the coaster valleyed, and some even say it started to de-rail once again, but I think that later part maybe false. There is a photo of the train in question going around, stalled on the tracks, and surrounded by staff, and looking very much like the first car is turned off the rail, as if it de-railed. However, you will notice that all of the Kid Flash passenger cars only have one set of wheels on the back-end of the car, and that the trains use a “zero car” in front to serve as the front wheels of the entire train. In the photo going around, you’ll notice that the zero car is missing, as it was removed from the rail, which of course is going to cause the lead passenger car to look like it about the fall off the rail as well. I wasn’t there of course, but my assumption is that they were removing the stalled train from the rail, car by car, and had just started with the zero car when the photo was taken.
Again, just pointing out another likely possibility, instead of something more dramatic like a de-rail. Of course, this is also happening because the Kid Flash rides did suffer from some similar problems in the early days as well, so it is easy to assume that it may have happened again. But the question is… just what is the future going to be for this unique family coaster?
There is an early whisper going around that Six Flags may be looking into the possibility of just removing Kid Flash (and it’s cousin at Six Flags over Georgia) by the end of the year if necessary. Some of this rumor coming to light now may also be a sign of early influence by the new Cedar Fair run management team, post-merger. Cedar Fair is well known to run their parks and rides to a different set of standards than many of the old-school Six Flags parks.
The timing is also interesting as well, as both Kid Flash coasters did not open to guests at the Fiesta Texas and Georgia parks until the last few months of 2023. Considering that the coasters have been closed far more than they have been open ever since the park’s were “handed the keys” to operate them, I wouldn’t be surprised if some kind of “Lemon Law” clause in the contracts were coming up at the 12-month point, allowing Six Flags to demand their removal if they can’t be made to operate in a reliable manor.
With that in mind, I’d keep an eye on both of these rides when visiting the parks over the next few months for signs of any activity.
(6/23/2024) The latest update from Six Flags Fiesta Texas confirms that the “commissioning process” for the park’s new collection of water slides as well as the updated Wonder Woman “2.1” updates (with new trains) are now almost complete. I’d keep an eye for all of these additions to be open very soon.
Meanwhile the parts and pieces to the park’s new monorail and Nebulaz rides were also reported as arriving last week, so work is moving forward on the park’s update to the DC Universe themed zone and attractions as well. Speaking of the new Monorail… enjoy the little video clip below to see just how that project got started.
2024 - Kid’s Waterpark Expansion - (6/1/2024) While we’re discussing work taking place at the park, a few pictures showing off the progress of the new waterpark expansion has also been posted. The park hopes to get this expansion finished and ready to open before the end of June.
The waterpark expansion was announced oroginally as a 2023 project, but it appears to have been pushed back to become a 2024 project.
(12/11/2022) The park announced seven kid-friendly slides coming to the White Water Bay waterpark. This includes a KIDZ TornadoWave, KIDZ Tornado 12, KIDZ MiniRiver slide, a pair of KIDZ OctopusRACER slides and a pair of KIDZ ProRacer slides.
2024 - Wonder Woman Improvements - (6/1/2024) Good news from Six Flags Fiesta Texas, as the park has reported that the second train for Wonder Woman has now arrived on site, and that crews are soon to arrive on site to begin the testing and programming needed to re-open the ride for the season with the new next-generation trains. They also confirm that the third new train is expected to arrive in the next week or so as well, as they work towards re-opening Wonder Woman by July 1st.
(3/21/2024) Six Flags Fiesta Texas reports that the assembly of their three new roller coaster trains for Wonder Woman has begun, and they are expected to arrive at the park later this Spring. If all goes well, they are hoping to have it reopen by Memorial Day Weekend.
(12/22/2022) Wonder Woman: Golden Lasso Coaster will be getting some big improvements to improve the train and comfort of the ride, based on the improvements made to the latest version of the Raptor coaster design as seen at the Wonder Woman coaster that opened at sister park, Magic Mountain, earlier this year. So look for an improvement described as a ‘huge upgrade’ coming to the Wonder Woman experience as they retire the original “prototype” trains from use next season.
Late 2024/2025 - 3 New Attractions and DC Universe Expansion - (11/30/2024) One of our readers stopped by Six Flags Fiesta Texas last week and send back a great collection of photos showing off the state of the expanded DC Universe area’s new and rethemed attractions. Unfortunately, as you might expect, Kid Flash is still down, but the rest of the land looks spectacular, with brightly painted spot-on DC Comics themed attractions everywhere you look, including a beautiful photo of the new Metropolis Transit Authority train on the tracks!
(10/6/2024) Things are still moving forward with the construction of the updated DC Universe land at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. Obviously the park missed the summer season with this, as I previously expected, but we may see it ready to open just before the end of the year at least. According to the latest photos posted to Twitter by the park President over the past week, the power bar is now being installed along the track for the Metropolis Transit Authority, construction on the queue theming for Cyborg Cyber Revolution has started, and the tower for the new Shazam! Tower of Eternity ride has also been installed.
The park also opened their new Daily Planet building this weekend, which serves as both a retail and drink shop, as well as the entrance to the Superman Krypton Coaster.
(8/31/2024) A great look at the construction taking place right now at Six Flags Fiesta Texas’s DC Universe new attractions area has been shared on social media this week. Make sure to check out all three images in the post.
(7/19/2024) Six Flags Fiesta Texas President, Jeffrey Siebert, has posted some photo updates showing off parts and pieces of some of their new DC Universe attraction pieces arriving at the park (including the Metropolis Monorail trains) as well as a look at the construction site itself.
(3/2/2024) While Six Flags Fiesta Texas has been hard to work on their DC Universe expansion project that will see three new rides added and see thematic upgrades to several more, it sounds like this could be an ongoing construction project for much of the 2024 season. Thus far the park’s focus has been in the upgrading of their existing rides to fit the new DC Universe related names and theming, but much like last year, construction on the three new rides seems to just starting as we enter March.
You may recall how the racing/dueling Kid Flash themed coasters did not open until October 2023 season. Now the local news reports that based on the permits filed with the city, the work on the three new rides is just starting now and has listed the expected completion date of October once again. In fact, new pictures posted to Facebook confirm that they are just now pouring the foundations for the Cyborg and Shazam attractions this week.
(12/10/2023) New layout concept art for the upcoming DC UNIVERSE at Six Flags Fiesta Texas can be seen below. This includes the official layout for the Metropolis Transit Authority (with station artwork) as well as logos for all the DC UNIVERSE area attractions.
(9/4/2023) Some new images of concept art for the Metropolis Transit Authority coming to Six Flags Fiesta Texas have been posted to Twitter, including a look at a proposed track layout. Keep in mind that they say these are just design concepts only shown here, so the final layout may be different from what is being shown at this time.
Screamscape has also been informed that all three new attractions coming in 2024 are being sourced from Zamperla Rides. With that in mind, I’m expecting the MTA to be a custom version of Zamperla’s “Aerial Ride” attraction system that will use a four-car train system instead of individual ride cars.
(8/30/2023) Six Flags Fiesta Texas has confirmed that the park will feature the largest DC Comics themed area of all in 2024 when they add three new attractions and re-theme several others nearby to DC comics characters.
The new rides will be:
Metropolis Transit Authority - a 16-passenger relaxing sky train aerial tour 17-feet above the DC Universe aboard Art Deco covered monorail style trains.
Cyborg Cyber Revolution - a themed Zamperla NebulaZ flat ride
Shazam! Tower of Eternity - a 70 foot rotating family drop tower experience
Meanwhile the DC Universe will be filled out by the newly rethemed rides:
Bat Girl: Coaster Chase - formerly Streamliner Coaster
The Penguin: Gotham City Getaway - formerly Rambling Road
Supergirl Sky Flight - formerly Sky Screamer
Green Lantern Emerald Flight - formerly Stunt Pilots
Poison Ivy Toxic Spin - formerly Sky Searchers
Plus the six existing DC Universe themed attractions: Kid Flash Cosmic Coaster, DC Super Villain’s Swing, Joker: Carnival of Chaos, Superman: Krypton Coaster, Batman: The Ride and Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster.
(8/17/2023) So what’s going on at Six Flags Fiesta Texas? It appears that school is now back in session in Texas and the park has moved to a weekend only schedule, allowing construction for various projects to begin. Based on some speculation and photos shown on Facebook, one line of thought is that in addition to removing at least one ride, a small number of the park’s rides may also be moving to new locations within the park to allow for future growth plans.
(7/16/2023) More clues as to what Six Flags Fiesta Texas is up to for 2024 have been being posted to Facebook on a regular basis, but a few readers and I spotted something of interesting in the Clue #15 post showing off the artwork in the office gallery.
What am I talking about? Take a look at the picture of Park President Jeffrey with a big Fiesta Texas painting behind him. Now take a look below that, along the bottom left edge of the photo. I clearly see the Six Flags Fiesta Texas logo in the top corner of a photo showing off what appears to be a Premier Rides SkyRocket II roller coaster with green track and a purple train. Now the colors could be photoshopped to be any color really, but Green and Purple is a classic Six Flags combo for a Joker themed ride. Long time visitors will remember that Fiesta Texas used to have a fun Joker themed coaster, complete with a funhouse themed queue. With Batman now in place along with coasters themed to Superman and Wonder Woman, I’d say it is long past time for The Joker to return in an all new form.
Side note: my first instinct was to say that it was Zombie Ride from Bosque Magico, which was taken down and in need of a new home, but RCDB now lists Zombie Ride as reopening at Salitre Magico in Colombia sometime later this year. So if this is really what is happening, then it should be a brand new ride.
Of course Jeffrey could just be trolling us all hardcore, knowing we would see the coaster.
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