Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast

Mr. Freeze opened in 1998 as the first major addition to Six Flags Over Texas's new Gotham City area, using a Premier Rides linear induction motor system to launch riders from 0 to 70 mph in 3.8 seconds — a technology so new at the time that LIM reliability issues delayed the ride's originally planned 1997 debut alongside the film Batman & Robin. The launch shoots trains through a themed tunnel and up a 218-foot spike tower before sending them back down and through the circuit a second time facing backward.

In 2012, Six Flags flipped the physical orientation of the trains themselves and renamed the ride Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast, so that the launch that had originally sent riders forward now launched them backward through the tunnel first. That configuration lasted a decade before the park reversed course again in September 2022, restoring the original forward-facing launch and reviving the ride's original Mr. Freeze name and logo.

Rather than settle on just one direction, Six Flags began operating the ride with mixed train orientations in mid-2023 — one train launching forward, another backward — letting guests choose which version of the experience they want in the line. Themed around an animatronic Mr. Freeze inside a fake ice cream factory called Snowy's Cones, the ride remains one of the more elaborately staged launch coasters in the park's lineup.