Mr. Freeze (Six Flags St. Louis)
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| Location | Six Flags St. Louis |
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| Type | Steel - Launched |
| Status | Operating |
| Opened | 1998 |
| Manufacturer | Premier Rides |
| Designer | Ingeniuer Büro Stengel GmbH |
| Model | Shuttle |
| Height | 218 ft (66 m) |
| Length | 1,300 ft (400 m) |
| Max speed | 70 mph (110 km/h) |
| Inversions | 2 |
| Mr. Freeze at RCDB Pictures of Mr. Freeze at RCDB |
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Mr. Freeze is a steel roller coaster at Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri. It is a mirror image of the coaster by the same name at Six Flags Over Texas. It uses a LIM launch system to accelerate riders from 0 to 70 mph in 3.8 seconds.
Riders enter Mr. Freeze through an abandoned ice cream factory, Snowy's Ice Cream Factory. Quickly they discover an underground experiment has taken place by Mr. Freeze. Mr. Freeze, himself, sits in the station above both trains, overlooking riders. Riders board an experimental machine, a missile set to freeze Gotham City.
In June 2006, all Premier LIM rides underwent emergency inspection and were closed. This includes Mr. Freeze in both St. Louis and Arlington, Texas. They were closed because of an accident on Batman & Robin: The Chiller, a wheel bearing cracked and caused the train to come to a grinding halt on the lowest part of the track. This problem apparently existed on all of Premier Rides' coasters with booster LIMs. New wheels and bearings were ordered and have been replaced. Even though Mr. Freeze was closed for the 2006 summer season, it did reopen for Fright Fest in October.
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