Your exactly right John. But that's the whole problem, the project was moved up a year because Arrow had stated that they were ready.
I remember when I first heard the rumors flying around the park(while I still worked there) that SFMM had signed on to bring the first 4D coaster to So-cal in 2002. I was shocked when they announced it as part of their 2001 linup, because from what I had heard, Arrow hadn't come close to testing one of these on the type of scale that SFMM obviously wanted. When I heard the word "prototype" in the same sentence as "200 feet", the first thing I thought of was PKI's Son Of Beast. Why they would annouce a project so large and give it the typical six month building window was beyond me.
Of course I figured the park and Arrow knew what they were doing, and I believe that "they" thought they did also.
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