Negative-G - Six Flags St. Louis Opening Weekend 2016

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The Boss is Six Flags St. Louis' problem child. It is very picky about how it runs as it can go from smooth to rough in a few weeks and it is temperamental where it comes to cold when everything else is up and running.

Maybe the Boss needs an epic spanking and "attitude adjustment" as it is the "emo" coaster at the park.

I was told a while ago that The Boss was down about 40% of Six Flags St. Louis' operating season due to temperatures as it will valley somewhere on course if it is not warm enough. With that in mind if I were a betting man I would certainly put my money on this troublesome coaster getting a steel makeover sometime in the future.

If those behind such a move want to talk Bond and I have some interesting ideas for what to do. Start out with an inverting first drop, turning the hill up into the mid course into a half vertical loop with a roll into the brakes, a zero gravity stall replacing one of the airtime hills and end it all with a helix turned on it's side at sixty degrees to give it a wicked finale.

Heading over to take Mr. Freeze for a blast I noticed that a lot of the trees and shrubbery between Thunder River and the coaster had been removed in the off season.

It was the end of the day by the time we headed to Freeze. Unfortunately as we were next in line something happened and the ride went down when the train was back in the station. For whatever reason the transfer table was stuck in the middle and the ride had to be evacuated. As having an engineering mind I loved how the engineers at Premiere Rides made it so all they needed to do to evacuate the ride stuck in that position was to lock the ride out, unhook the control panel, hang it on the wall and take the railing out making it so so riders were able to walk right off.

As the park was about ten minutes from closing the likelihood that it was down for the count was high so we headed out of the park for an evening of hanging out before coming back for day two.

Greg was ready to roll for day #2.