I believe, and Shaggy can back me up on this, that the decision was made to add to the water park instead, due to recent additions down at Kentucky Kingdom.  Keep in mind that 1997 is when they added the wave pool, to what was then known as Water Works.  That was the first major addition to the water park, since they added Rushing River in 1990, the second season for Water Works, which opened in 1989.

On 3/8/2019 at 1:18 PM, disco2000 said:

KI WindSeeker is not at the FC pad...

I said they built it feet from it. Meaning near it.

On 3/9/2019 at 10:00 AM, CoastersRZ said:

I believe, and Shaggy can back me up on this, that the decision was made to add to the water park instead, due to recent additions down at Kentucky Kingdom.  Keep in mind that 1997 is when they added the wave pool, to what was then known as Water Works.  That was the first major addition to the water park, since they added Rushing River in 1990, the second season for Water Works, which opened in 1989.

That's exactly right.  Had nothing to do with Action Zone coming 2 years later.  Had everything to do with a desperate need to expand and overhaul the waterpark which was seeing lagging interest.  I would suspect they also wanted to avoid putting in 2 thrill rides back-to-back, and especially in very near proximity to one another.

 

2 minutes ago, Shaggy said:

That's exactly right.  Had nothing to do with Action Zone coming 2 years later.  Had everything to do with a desperate need to expand and overhaul the waterpark which was seeing lagging interest.  I would suspect they also wanted to avoid putting in 2 thrill rides back-to-back, and especially in very near proximity to one another.

 

It’s incredibly interesting that they had flexibility to call an audible like that.