Roller Coasters at Six Flags St. Louis Ranked

Roller Coasters at Six Flags St. Louis ranked from least to the best. Here we will examine all nine coasters at the park. So let’s take a closer look and see which ones you should ride once and those you need to save time for a marathon.

Roller Coasters at Six Flags St. Louis: Before we begin

 A couple of notes on the list:

1. Insert an obligatory statement about how these are just my opinions and might (will) differ from others.
2. This list will be with comparison in mind. You can click each coaster’s link if it is full reviews of each you are looking.
3. Six Flags St. Louis is my home park. You will always see your home park’s coaster collection differently than a destination park. So keep that in mind. Now let’s get to ranking the Roller Coasters at Six Flags St. Louis. 

9. Pandemonium

Pandemonium is not what I am looking for from a roller coaster. I’m not big on spinning out of control, and I like a long train to sit in the back. However, despite personal preferences, Pandemonium is fun as a family coaster, just as long as the weight is evenly distributed, so it won’t spin out of control. There is a lot of fun to be had on this spinning coaster. However, this one is not for me.  

8. Boomerang

Boomerang often gets dumped on by enthusiasts for being cloned to death. A common complaint about Six Flags St. Louis is that it has a lot of cloned coasters. However, I don’t think Boomerang is a bad roller coaster. I think it’s fun, simple, and at times forceful. This one in St. Louis has a hard snap when the train catches on the second lift hill. Usually, I ride it to experience going through the loop backward.

7. Ninja

Ninja is the most infamous roller coaster at the park. Known for being rough and with enough head banging, you will need Tylenol after riding. But, of course, that is just silly nonsense. No one would claim that Ninja is world-class, but it is still a fun classic looper.

I give the slight edge to Ninja over Boomerang, but since I have been riding Ninja since I was a kid, I have some heavy nostalgia for it. With its compact layout, Boomerang isn’t as fun as Ninja. Worth the ride just for the first drop if you sit in the back! You might get a headache, but hopefully, you’ll have fun.

6. The Boss

If there is a coaster at Six Flags St. Louis that could give Ninja a run for its money on being infamous, it would be The Boss. Loved by some and loathed by many. I find myself somewhere in the middle on The Boss. I love its secluded setting but hate how rough it has become. When it opened, I loved it. Now I wish that RMC would come in and do their magic. Still, in a park plagued with cloned roller coasters, the Boss is, If nothing else, original. When they built Boss, the park was trying to develop a signature ride. While it hasn’t aged well, I love how out of control, and unrefined this coaster is.

5. American Thunder

American Thunder is an air Time Machine, with comfortable trains, by far the smoothest of the wooden coasters in the park. It even has comfortable trains with restraints that don’t get in the way of enjoying the thrill. A good number of enthusiasts pick this as their favorite coaster in the park. However, I tend to appreciate wooden coasters more if they are taller and have an out-and-back structure. Also, I hope this changes, but it has seemed in the last couple of years that American Thunder is not riding as well or as fast as it used to. Still, American Thunder is great for precisely what it’s trying to be.

4. River King Mine Train

The River King Mine Train originally opened with the park on June 5th of 1971. While not being the most forceful of coasters in the park there is something about this Arrow Mine Train. It has a great setting with long trains that you constantly see children learning the love of roller coasters on. Being as it was my first roller coaster there also is sentimentality that I have for this one. It has a great finale with a tunnel. Every park needs an arrow main train. Six Flags St. Louis has a great one. While this is very mild it does fit in well, since the park doesn’t have a kid coaster. This one is a great in-between. Fun enough for everyone but great for a kid’s first roller coaster.

3. Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast

Cracking the top three is Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast. This ride is exhilarating and very intense. I love every single element of this Premier Rides launching roller coaster. It would be my top roller coaster for the park if it weren’t for its short ride duration. While its length is a problem, it isn’t a fatal flaw. Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast is a roller coaster that I will often marathon. That backward launch never fails to thrill. The first element out of the station, the inverted top hat, is one of my favorite elements on any coaster. Lastly, you have the frightening feeling of looking downward as the coaster is propelled up the spike at the midway point. Too short but a rush that you must experience.

2. Batman: The Ride

Six Flags St. Louis often has a joke about its coaster collection referred to as “Attack of the Clones.” Since this classic B&M invert is my second favorite coaster in the park, I understand that joke. Batman is at almost every Six Flags park. While it may not make it unique to this park, it is still nevertheless a great roller coaster. This coaster has a decent amount of theming in the queue and Forceful inversions making this a blast every ride. Batman never gets old. The second inversion, the Zero-G Roll, is one of my all-time favorite moments on any roller coaster.

1. Screamin’ Eagle

The Screamin’ Eagle is my favorite roller coaster at Six Flags St. Louis. This 1976 ACE landmark Coaster was a love-at-first-ride and is still my favorite in the park. Built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company and designed by John Allen, who set out to create his masterpiece. From its first drop, there is no slowing of pace as you traverse this out-and-back L-shaped track. While its roughness turns some off, I find it’s the right amount of roughness for a wooden coaster. It will not kill your back or neck; it adds character. I have probably ridden Screamin’ Eagle somewhere close to a thousand times. This one gets better with age. With its minimum height requirement of 42 inches, this is a great coaster to get young kids obsessed with roller coasters. It had that effect on me. 

Final Break-run

The General public’s favorite coaster at the park is Batman. No coaster has more people pass through its gate as Batman. You never hear complaints about Batman from guest getting off of it.

Coaster enthusiasts who visit choose either Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast or American Thunder. A minority, but the very vocal group also proclaims The Boss as the clear winner. Then you have a couple of old souls like me who are having non of it and say Screamin’ Eagle. There is a lot of diversity in opinions about this collection. No consensus exists. 

Roller Coasters at Six Flags St. Louis may suffer from too many clones, but I find the collection rather good. I think it needs a signature coaster to put this park on the map. A B&M Hyper or an RMC conversion of Boss would do the trick. Though if you follow this park as closely as I do, it will seem very unlikely that a massive investment like that will be incoming. 

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