Mr. Freeze in March, 1997

This Web page discusses the Construction Watch observations during March, 1997 for the new Mr. Freeze roller coaster being installed at Six Flags Over Texas.

Construction Progress Watch... March 1997

As of March 8, 1997, the concrete foundations for the acceleration run and the tower were in place, although nothing of the structure is completed above that, besides re-bar. The structural tubing for apparently much of the tower and the crossties at least for the acceleration run track are laying on the ground nearby, and are painted an "ice blue" color.

The coaster's loading station will be just on the other side of the railroad track across the new steam railway station, thus just to the left inside the new entrance to Good Times Square (the opposite end of that themed area from the existing Flashback coaster). The Mr. Freeze station thus occupies the area just inside where the entrance to Good Times Square used to be.

The actual tower will be at the extreme northeastern corner of the park, north and east from the Mini Mine Train (which is temporarily out of service during the construction of Mr. Freeze) but currently all that's there and in place for the actual tower proper is a very beefy-looking triangular hunk of concrete tubing sticking out of the ground.

As of March 28, 1997 the track through the acceleration tunnel (whose framework steel is now up) appears to be mostly in place, and the first portion of the steel tower framework is up. You can see the first portion of the track in the photo here, which pretty quickly after it comes out of the acceleration tunnel makes a sweeping curve to go straight up. Nearby on the ground is what appears to be the next section of track, which starts the twist which will put the train on the inside of the inversion curve as it gets closer to hugging the vertical steel column numbered 1 (as of this photo, the track is just sweeping straight up). In the photo above, numbers 1,2,3 show the three main columns of the (still quite short, compared to what they will be) triangular tower. Number 4 is near the end of the acceleration tunnel. Number 5 is the top of the "Air Racer" airplane ride, and number 6 is the "Oil Derrick" observation platform, towards the north center part of the park.

Compare the above drawing of Mr. Freeze (and its distinctly vertical tower) with the comparable new coaster going in at Six Flags Great Adventure, "The Chiller" artist's conception drawing below. On "The Chiller" note how the blue track has a similar wide loop with straight vertical sides, but not co-located with the main vertical tower as for Mr. Freeze. Note also the similarity with the red sweeping curve for The Chiller, and compare that with the similar element on Mr. Freeze, where a similar-looking curve is found just before going up the tower for the "big" run.

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Artist conception images and drawings are copyright Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc. (C) 1997, Mr. Freeze and related elements are property of DC Comics, (C) 1997. The rest of this page (including my own original photographs) and all linked contents originating with me are Copyright (C) 1997 by Gordon E. Peterson II, all rights reserved worldwide. Last revised May 10, 1997.