http://cincinnati.com/blogs/ourhistory/2012/05/02/frontier-worlds-done-in-by-kings-island/

Foo! They shouldn't lay the blame on KI. It looks like there were buckets of other factors in play as to why Frontier Worlds didn't come into fruition.

Besides, a description of the park sounds too much like a walking tour through a James Jarmusch movie.

^No...the biggest reason was indeed Kings Island. I do remember seeing an interview a short while back about how the original managers of Kings Island were so upset about this new park that they, "made a few calls" and essentially ended it.

But hey, that was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 40 years ago!

Yes. I saw them "fess" up to that. It would have been a real boon for northern Ky...

Imagine if it had went through would Kings Island still have made it? Or would this be the park for the whole tristate?

Besides, a description of the park sounds too much like a walking tour through a James Jarmusch movie.

Wow...what a flashback.... the first movie I ever worked on was "Mystery Train". Jim called it "A Tuesday Night In Memphis" while we were shooting it.

Nice random reference!!

^No...the biggest reason was indeed Kings Island. I do remember seeing an interview a short while back about how the original managers of Kings Island were so upset about this new park that they, "made a few calls" and essentially ended it.

But hey, that was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 40 years ago!

Seems also in part to Fess Parker's surly personality.

Snowman, I love the movie "Dead Man". Robert Mitchum talking to that bear killed me.