Six Flags St. Louis-anything?

The park owns a lot of land on the east side of the park see satellite photo here http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addressimage.aspx?t=4&s=11&lon=-90.675303504475&lat=38.5131989803667&alon=-90.66710025&alat=38.50481237&w=2&ref=A%7cWorkman+Rd%2c+Eureka%2c+MO+63025.

As for anything currently happening the answer is no, any construction would probably have to wait until after Fright Fest. Both the Haunted Hayride and the Terror Train use the land where this rumored coaster would be and both are going to be a part of Fright Fest.

^Nice picture. We enthusiast find weird ways of spying on our parks.

You are probably right too about waiting until after Fright Fest, but who knows. Batwing Fan made a really good point that the fencing may just be for employee and guest safty. I know that many of the Six Flags parks increased ride perimeter security this past year, due to a few unfortunate events at the beginning if the season. I think all of this speculation is going to give me a heart attack! It would be nice, if they were getting a new ride, to get the public excited about it. Start putting up signs during Fright Fest and have one of those naming contests over the winter. The more anticipation that they build, the better.

STLCOASTERGUY77,

Get a grip dude. You, and the vast majority of the peeps on this site do NOT have a clue as to what the park SHOULD look like, or what good attendance is. Your not old enough(according to your profile) I dont want a flame war, and don't mean to down you personally. As an employee of Six Flags and a park patron since 1974(came to St. Louis on vacation, have pics to prove it! ;) ) I can tell you that the parks looks have declined greatly in the last 10 years and needs LOTS of TLC. I can also tell you that there were many improvements over last winter, but many more are needed. Screamin Eagle is abismal looks wise, regardless of how it is running. Please paint the old girl and replace her lights. In its glory days a night ride on Eagle was as coveted as a night ride on Beast or Legend. Flying through the woods with the lights chasing you with an early summer fog was incredible.

As far as attendance is concerned, Swoosh is right. Although the park seemed busy, attendance was only average or worse for the last 5 years, and horrible for the hay day of the park. In its hay day mid week the parking lot would be three quarters full and weekends would be packed. Now three quarters full on weekend( without concerts) and less than half, closer to one third mid weeks. Unfortunately this was before you were born, and long before Premier bought the chain and it was almost a given something new was coming every other year, if not every year.

Six Flags St.Louis is still one of the cleaner, nicer parks in the chain, but is a long way from the way it used to be. Attendance is a long way from where it used to be. That is the point Swoosh and I was trying to make.

So everybody take a deep breath, check your facts, and patiently wait for, as Playa said, the announcement of F:TR! ;)

TLC or new rides? The park got both this year in the form of 2 reborn woodies. I can understand why the GP does not appreciate that, but enthusiasts too? As far as I am concerned, SFSL did about as well as I could have hoped for this year, but with the reactions I'm seeing, it is no wonder to me most parks defer woodie maintanence.

Very true. Boss rox my socks. In the terrain woodie category, it's *almost* better than the Beast. SFSTl's woodies are superior to those of most SF parks.

RavenTTD,

I can't speak for others, but you missed MY point.

My point was I was happy about the fixing of the 2 in my opinion very good woodies, but was, and still am dissapointed in the lack of visual improvements. A first impression can NEVER be had again. A lot of people will have a bad impression of a park if the first thing they see is a very bad looking wooden coaster, even though it rides very well, and buildings with peeling paint and missing boards. They may have a great time that day, but the thing that will keep popping into their head, by human nature, is how bad the park looked. Same thing if they had a bad experience with an employee, that is what they will remember.

sfstlcoasterguy77, I don't hate the park and I will admit that angnjc hit the nail on the head in his (her? sorry I'm not for sure which one it is as I don't know you) response. I would love for the park to return to its former glory that it once had. The park is still one of the cleanist in the chain, just (like I stated above) the infrastructure needs some work. Also before the park gets another coaster, they need to work on upping their number of flat rides.

+Danny, that was uncalled for. I'm not sure why you thought you needed to post what you did, but that is your perogative. Just be careful, people might start to think you're a troll if you keep posting like that.

I think CO hit the nail on the head about the new ride.

Check your PMs, Nike logo. ;)

+Danny

CoasterMatt - I agree with your assessment of the employees as they seem to be working really hard this year to make the park better, with the exception of BTR crew which takes forever to dispatch a train and is always stacking (to their defense, Raptor was stacking a lot when I was at CP).

+Danny, we're cool again.

-D

To settle the boundry dispute and how much land the park owns. I have a picture from a few years ago that was taking form Eurekas city hall. Unfourtunatly I dont have a way to post it. So if anyone would be kind a nice to please contact me.

But to give you a rough Idea how how much they own. Go from the orignal image posted above and from the west go east all the way over till you see the ball feild (owned by the park) in the link below All the land around that feild and in between is owned by the park except for that strip with those homes.

So out side of buyign out those houses the park wont get to much bigger.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addressimage.aspx?t=4&s=10&lon=-90.6626872546708&lat=38.507867110313&alon=-90.66710025&alat=38.50481237&w=2&ref=A%7cWorkman+Rd%2c+Eureka%2c+MO+63025

ANd since we have a nifty little satilite image, lets play a game. Who can find the two rides and name them that are in the grave yard now and in 2002. These two rides came to the park but where NEVER installed.

six flags is for gays and lesbians right?
I heard the owners were satanists and originally wanted to call it 666 flags. Is that true? I've been there a couple times and just thought they should plants some tree and pull out the carnie rides to make room for some decent coasters.

That joke(?) went right over my head although I don't *think* I needed a backboard to make it plop back in and accept it as one. ;)

+Danny

This is the Six Flags St. Louis dump/graveyard area.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addressimage.aspx?t=4&s=8&lon=-90.6705232072634&lat=38.5170237498674&alon=-90.66710025&alat=38.50481237&w=2&ref=A%7cWorkman+Rd%2c+Eureka%2c+MO+63025

The two rides up there are some type of an inverted swinging ship and I think a Vekoma Air Jumper (Time Warp). The freefall ride from Six Flags Astroworld is still somewhere at the park.

Partly right, the picture you have is of grave yard #2 it houses the two gient swinging ships to the left. (I have pictures if your interested). And to the center is the old space shuttle from SFGAM.

And the first generation free fall is laying in a nice pile below the containors in grave yard #1. Its jsut to the west of the current picture. Those are the only rides that resided in the grave yard since 2000.

It is not the old space shuttle ride from SFGAm., Power Dive is still sitting in the "dump/graveyard" area at Six Flags Great America. The only other SF park that has had one of those Intamin Space Shuttle rides removed is Six Flags Magic Mountain, a long time ago in 1993 for Batman: The Ride in 1994.

All I know is the ride showed up in spring of 2001/2002 (for get which one memories a little hazzy) And ever since its been sittign in our yard. the thing looks like a striped down verson of it, like the skin was ripped off. The only reason I thought it was Power Dive was because it showed up jsut after it was removed.

Go here and download the pictures, then unzip the file to see photos of the Power Dive at SFGAm. sitting in the dump/graveyard area, along with the Sky Whirl cages and where Shockwave currently sits. http://whiskerscomics.homestead.com/files/Defunct_Rides_at_SFGAm.zip

I like how this thread changed from "What's going on at Six Flags St. Louis" to "What junk does your park have?"

Its so sad to see that park of the park with no trees and flat land there just begging for a new huge coaster or even a new area of rides. It really hurts me. Anyways, I think we all know that the attendence isnt as good as it used to be in the old days, nothing is as good as the old days. The economy has changed. Also CoasterMatt is right, the park is a locals park, people go there for concerts and a day of fun on the weekends, and all the teens and some families go to the park on weekdays in the summer. You can tell because when the weather gets real nice, and certain coupons are availible, the park fills itself up. And this year the park did well on those busy days filling coasters to max capacities. Overall in comparison to last year, this year has been great. Come on 2005!!

I've noticed the park is a lot more crowded because BTR is always crowded all day even on weekdays unlike like 2003 when I got to keep riding on it over and over. I think my record on it in a day is 13, and it sucks that I can't do that anymore. I don't really care about that as much as I did in the beginning of the season because I've realized that our park has been making progress.