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Darwood Grove by Kumba
Kumba has really been one of the most promiment members and parkmakers at New Element for the past few months. He's taken over H2H3 seemingly, with the help of nemesis chris, released lots of great preliminary entries for the Pro Tour, including the member-themed "X Gon Give It To Ya", his rapids ride, and his wooden coaster "The Zodiac" that earned him the birth. He's won seemingly endless amounts of Runner-Up parks, mostly in tandems...with Titan for "Tiumba: The Lost Islands" and PenguinBOB in "Iron Wood Valley". He's lead his RCTI club to great feats, and now he finally gave me a good reason to consider a parkmaker birth with this entry. After being completely puzzled to why he got so many votes in the Best Non NE Parkmaker poll, I was convinced that maybe he does have what it takes after laying my eyes on Darwood Grove. Some absolutely amazing ideas placed all throughout this park, with some cool extra bonuses everywhere, greatly improved architecture and coasters, and a complete originality that one wouldn't expect after looking at his old parks. While I know he was aiming for a top ten finish, he should be proud of Darwood, easily the best work to date, a great entry, and one that any parkmaker would love to have on their resume.
He actually used colour.
Good job.
more comments after my haircut @12:30. :-p.
Dino Digs: Love it. The colors work well together. The place ment of everything is awsome and the coaster is nice as well. My favorite part are the Dino sayings, those are hilarious.
Hell: Very nice area and really does bring out the hell theme but the architecture could have been a tad better. Very nice area though.
D.W.G. Training Base: Awsome. I tbrought out the Military theme perfectly. The Paratrooper ride was kickass.
Amazing work Kumba! I look forward to seeing your Bayfront park.
Anyways the bonus' don't stop with the park, im almost done with my own full park Walkthrough. btw good luck ever finding all the stuff hinned in the park, the hardest is a banner with "Bin Laden" on it, hey someone needs to find that guy!
The hell section was my next favourite part... the coasters were good, for a centre piece of the park they could have been a bit better perhaps, but I won't complain, they're nice enough. They did run quite slowly though, so perhaps you went slightly overkill on the other hacks around the track. Just the demon's in their cages would have been fine, that was a really cool hack although the others needed to be explained by the readme to understand. The foliage around the duelers is probably, I would guess, where Toon thought your park was slightly let down and I'd have to agree. It could have been better... also, I think Lucifer and Satan or Beelzebub might have been better instead of "The Devil". Still, the architecture was very nice and the cliffs you created on the side of the map using the cbass black panels were a good idea excellently executed.
For me, the army area was a bit of a let down... the plane was a bit unneccesary and not particularly well done imo, the tanks were a lot better. This area needed to have more rides for me... I know it's meant to be an army training camp, but you could keep that for, um, army training camp tycoon or something. For instance, the hangers, although realistic, were boring. The area just seemed a little bare in comparison the the rest of the park.
And you're right Kumba, for me this was the first entry that actually tried to win.
I think you probably deserved a higher ranking... although if that's not the case, and there's 11 parks better than this.... this is going to be one hell of a treat... and nice to see you opted out of that "break" for a few days, iris
The entrance was okay, I liked the colors and the waterfalls a lot.
The Army Base thing was pretty cool I guess. The obstacle course idea is great, and I applaud it. Cool shooting range as well.
Now, this is where it all fell apart.. The "Hell" theme. It was good and all, but it absolutely did not fit with the rest of the park. With all the hacks it slowed my computer down to a fucking snail's pace and everything.
The ideas are there Kumba, and you all made them look good. It was just the layout that totally ruined the fuck out of it (in my opinion). But still, a nice entry. Just don't mix random themes together next time.
It seemed that you had loads and loads of wicked ideas, so you tried to stuff them all into one park. Which made it too random. The hell area totally took over the whole park, and it was probably the worst section too (although, it was still excellent)
The ideas I enjoyed the most were:
The dinosaur eggs around the woodie. Fantastic
The Demons in the cage, although they got very annoying when trying to look at the army base area as you could hear this insane roar keep coming and going.
Parachute Jump (the idea, the plane looked a little off)
Assault course
The Tanks
The Dino section (to me) showed the best parkmaking ability I have seen from you. Excellent architecture, and very theme park like.....in fact, it reminded me a lot of tussauds architecture.....which can only be a good thing.
The best piece of architecture in the park though was the station to the devil vs. lucifer. Excellent, and those wooden track pieces worked a treat. However, a totally lame name for the ride. Lucifer is the Devil........so how can he be against the devil.......that doesn't really make sense.
Overall, by far your best work to date Kumba, and congradulations for exceeding mosts' expectations.
Metro
"Hey Kumba wake up the park is about to open, gee I can't wait its..." *PUNCH* After trying to wake Kumba up from a long nights sleep Penguin_BOB was knocked cold by Kumba who then said "Im slepging bitcht!" and then drifted back to sleep...
About 5 Hours later Kumba woke to find BOB looking scared in a corner of Kumbas office in "The Darwood Grove Suites" Kumba then said to BOB "What time is it? its opening day right?" "yeah it is Kumba, and you slept late, the park opened 5 hours ago" BOB explained, "Why did'int you wake me up?" asked Kumba, BOB replied "well i tried to.." *PUNCH*
Kumba then walked across the glass floor of the main deck of the hotel and looked out at his park packed with people. After taking a long look Kumba headed down to have a good look around and go on a few rides. Right before entering the Dino Dig's Kumba came across Austin Powers, Supertrooper, Titan, Six Frags, Steve, Tyandor, Indy Jones, CBAT, Xophe, Mad Dawg, Drew, Jacko Shanty, Angle and SirSpinster. "wow im glad you all could make it" said Kumba, AP then said "Yep the whole club is here, we are gon' have a blast, Supertrooper got us drinks at the *burp* bar" sure enoght when looking closer Kumba noticed all the guys looking kinda drunk, Steve fell over and hit his head on the footpath, Jacko was vomiting, and Six Frags was peeing his pants for some reason... Kumba quickly walked away from this scene and Entered "The Dino Digs"....
The first thing he did was make a quick stop at "Digs Gear" at get a soda and have a quick look around. "Hey Kumba whats up?" It was Blitz-Sama with Coaster Ed right next to him. "hey guys whats going on? how do you like the park?" "Well I did not finish looking around but im gon' go now" said Blitz. He then ran out scraming MALA!!!, fell into a tar pit and died. Me Ed & sruged and headed to "Tar Pit" after a short fun ride on that we headed towards "Rex Gon' Give it to Ya" an awesome Wooden Coaster of Kumba's. Ed stoped as he saw Corkscrewed up ahead takeing Pictures of the Huge Dino Coaster, just as Kumba & Ed where going up to greet him a Dino Egg hatched and Corky was eaten alive by a new born Rex Dino, "OMG" said Kumba "I don't think People are good for a baby T-Rex" Ed agreed "Yes your right, poor baby, I hope he is ok" Soon Kumba and Ed were waiting online to go on "Rex Gon' Give it to Ya" when Kumba noticed a tall blond haired guy, Evil WME. Kumba asked "Hey Evil, what do you think of the park?" he replied "Bloody" and walked away. "Wow Kumba these people don't seem very social" said Ed while looking straight up into the sun. It seemed Ed had lost touch with reality and had move moved for a long time, so Kumba went on by himself. The ride on Rex was amazing, being the parks owner has its perks so Kumba got to stay on and go 28 times. When finally leaving Kumba noticed a small crowd in a circle and headed over to see what was up. It was Outlaw, Mysjivis, Fatha' and Mavrick all freestyle blazeing each other. Mys was crushing Fatha' then Outlaw septed in a beat Mys, then he killed Mav, and seemed to think he was the best, but then Kumba steped in.. " Ok bitch this aint no movie but, i'll spit on your shoe's ah no sandles for real *huck**patoie* I really don't see how I was the only one to beat you, this is part 2 your in my world and wounlt live throw the sequille" Outlaw looked very red, the he spontaneously combusted, and it was clear that Kumba had kicked his ass, again.
After rideing both of the rides inthe Dino Digs Kumba moved onto the hell theme. Then right by the Station building for The Devil vs Lucifer Kumba saw Nemesis Chris with his girlfriend, lieghx, and Metropole. "Hey Kumba whats up. This place is awsome we have had lots of fun here today, just its really hot and im thirsty" said NC at the same time as he looked longingly at the bottle of water in Kumba's hand. "Tell you what NC i'll trade you this bottle of water for your girlfriend" NC did not think about it to long, he pushed his girl over to Kumba and took that water "I think this is a great deal" said NC "so do I" said Kumba whille looking at NC's grilfriend's brests. Kumba and his new little friend then headed off to ride Both Duelers, right as Kumba was about to get on line he heard some say "hi" behind him. It was Iris the owner of NE "Hey Kumba I really like this park, great job with this hell theme" Kumba replyed with a "thank you" Iris then looked unsure and said "um, do you have any change you can spare?" Kumba seem suprised "Ah no, but here, you can have this chick" and NC's girlfrinend walked over to Iris who pushed her over a guard rail and into a fire vent "Yuck that bitch had like 4 frecles on her huge tits" he shot Kumba a brid and left. Kumba then enjoyed a bunch of rides on both of the massive duelers.
After Kumbas awsome rides on both duelers he started to make his way over to "Soul Mixer" a crazy hacked custom Thrill ride. On line Kumba saw to his suprise Mantis standing infront of him. "Hey Mantis whats up" said Kumba. "Not much just enjoying the park Kumba" Kumba and Mantis talked for a bit then enjoyed a great ride as each of their cars just missed each other. After the ride Mantis headed over to the Dino Digs, and Kumba made his way to "The D.W.G. Milatry Base" on his way out of the the Hell area of the park Kumba saw SA and Joe Holland lighting blunts over a fire vent and walked over to say something. "SA, Joe you know the park rules on smokeing weed" SA then said "Yeah you get to take the first hit" and he passed Kumba the blunt.
Kumba had just enterd the "Army area" as many call it, when he saw an odd sight, fellow RCTI member JKay on a leash, led by a women Kumba assumed was his wife. Kumba when to "Basic Training" first and made it under the barbed wire without a scratch, them over a few walls and across the ropes, Kumba soon picked up his M-16 and started takeing out targets, up ahead of him Kumba saw Marshy "training" and trying to shot targets aswell, Kumba looked around to see if anyone was watching and then blasted Marshy's head off. Kumba steped over Marshy's dead body shot some more targets, went down the flying fox and throw the monkey bars, and coz he could skiped the underwater part so he could stay drie. After a great time at the park on opening day it was getting late, and the park was about to close. For the park's closeing Kumba got the best Guy their is to help with that Mike Robbins, and he and Kumba both showed the guests out.
Kumba watched all the people leaveing, Kumba triped Toon on his way out, saw JKay being wiped and eating out of a doggie bowl, saw iris picking up lose change off the ground on the way to untie his bike, AP and ST helping the wasted RCTI members teter out, SA and JH eating doritoes, Ed blindly feeling his way out, NC walked into a wall then offered to trade one of his kidneys for a season pass, and Penguin_BOB heading to his car in the staff area. And Kumba was left to ride the rides all night long.
j/p
I think you meant "whipped" there, unless someone was wiping my ass while I was eating out of the doggie bowl...
A nice read Kumba, I really can't wait to d/l the park now!
None the less the number of jokes and stuff made it entertaining enough.
Now I'll be off the see this park you speak of.
ride6
I agree that this is the first entry that looked like it was trying to win. It shows on every 1/4 tile that you wanted this prize and you pushed aside two parkmakers and a crowd of other skilled opponents. Well done.
ride6
ps- You got Tooned!
So true
(wtf...i complimented Ride6 AND Kumba's parks?
Side note...lucifer and the devil are the same fucking person.
Let me type that so you can understand:
lifucrer and teh divel is het mesa kfuingc persno!
I loved the opening shot with the trapped souls, soul mixer kicked my ass, and the paratrooper plane grabbed my balls and wouldnt let go.
Looks nice from the screenshots.
BchillerR
The Hangers both have stuff inside, cool stuff IMO aswell...
Anyone figure out that hack on "busted ride car" yet?
The landscpeing in hell is ment to be very baron.
Why no comments on "The Olympics of Hell" I liked that part most in the park, and btw if you think I ripped of Fatha's DMM by useing barrel's as seats thats not true, I added them in DMM
Sorry about the loud ass rides, I think a warn you about them in the read me, BTW Read it! and the FAQ.
Im glad you guys like the Dig's I enjoyed them the most and it was the first area of the park I did.
And lastly about the random themes, yes they are random, if you do not like it sorry, but BP, Kumba's Creation and whatever other muilt-themed parks I do will be random coz that way I get to build what I want to and im not gona build in a way I do not enjoy.
Keep the Reply's comeing. Im very happy you guys all liked it so much.
Anyway, Kumba knows exactly why he got Tooned and I stand by my rankings. I knew I was doing it to him when I placed him this low too. Funny thing is Kumba and I get along well, so at least he knows its not some personal vendetta.
At least I show up to defend my rankings...VTD? Are you out there?