September 1, 2025

Six Flags St. Louis - Fright Fest Prep

  

Fright Fest preparations are in full swing at Six Flags.  Clowns will be located near the Log Flume

They have a little more room to work with this year since they took out a planter here

Hopefully they can really pump in the fog

The scary silo has been installed near Mr. Freeze

Appears that we have a purple people eater chair this season near the arbor tunnels

The first arbor tunnel appears to be troll themed again this year

A look at the decorations

The big troll is in the clearing between the two arbor tunnels

The second arbor tunnel is going to be themed to spiders

That is a lot of spider webs

More webs just up the hill from the Thunder River entrance

The Vampire area near Miss Kitty's Saloon

The straw maze for Boo Fest has been installed

Decorations installed on the National Park train stations

Fence decorations in National Park

Creatures of the Corn maze being installed

Zombie mine worker near Mine Train entrance

Slaughter House maze entrance

Zombie area decorations near Chop Six restaurant

Zombie area

Zombie area

This will apparently be the Fright Fest mega store this year

Going into the Gotham City area

More Gotham City

Gotham City

Stage being set up for Dead Man's Dance Party

Cemetery installation in Palace Gardens

Cemetery installation in Palace Gardens

Cemetery installation in Palace Gardens

Jingle Mangle maze set up

More of Jingle Mangle

Wheel Park

 


Welcome to St Louis Union Station

Home to the newly named Wheel Park

The park originally opened with the St Louis Wheel, a giant observation wheel that soars over the Union Station canopies

In addition to the Wheel there was a Carousel and a Mini Golf course

This summer, the park began an aggressive expansion plan that saw three new Zamperla rides added to the park, along with Carnival rides and a few additional amenities. 

The first ride you encounter on this new park spur is the Wave Carousel

Next is the Flying Louie, a giant rocking ship

Finally, the third ride in this new addition - and the newest roller coaster in the state of Missouri, the LOCO MOTION

The LOCO MOTION is a family spinner coaster

The front cart of the 4 car train is themed to a railroad steam engine and the other three carts are passenger coaches.  The carts can free spin during the ride creating a different experience every time you ride

While the layout might be short in length, currently they are sending the train around for 3 laps

The new additions opened to the public over the Labor Day holiday and appear to be a major hit with visitors.  We imagine that this area will be quite busy on days when STL City has a home game




August 8, 2025

Lost Island

 

Welcome to Lost Island Themepark in Waterloo, Iowa

The residents of Lost Island were putting on a show about the lore of the park in the front entrance area

Heading left first we entered the Mura section of the park

The award-winning dark ride Volkanu calls this section home

A trackless dark ride in the middle of nowhere Iowa.  Yes this is real

Rokava is next door.  Just a very bizarre ride

The newest addition to the park is Fire Runner, a RMC Raptor

They went hard with the theming in the queue line

This was a perfect addition to the park.  The station looks great

Love how it swooped over the station and close to the roof decoration

 
Other rides in this section include Shaman's Curse - a disko coaster

Mura Fury - a Zamperla Discovery Evolution

Next was the Yuta section which is headlined by Matugani

This hydraulic launched Intamin looper is a lot of fun

This dig site is called Pengali Ruin

Yuta Falls is a large log flume style ride with two lifts and drops

Kukui Station is the park's bumper cars

Moving into the Awa section, we see the Nika's Gift Carousel has finally arrived

Alzanu's Eye is the park's ferris wheel

Views from the Eye - here's Matugani

Fire Runner

Nopuko

Huge crowd today (unfortunately the park was really dead)

Zulawa Wave

Eeki Eeki Escape

Sea Swell

Awaati Water Battle

Akua Water Maze with Whale Bone Cafe in the background

Udara section

Skyborne Drop Tower

Nopuko Air Coaster - Vekoma SLC and one of the worst coasters out there

Amara Aviators

Dream Spinner

The park's kiddie coaster is Lokolo

Some of the junior rides in the Tamariki section

That concludes our day at Lost Island
Until next time