Park / The Black Lagoon

25-December 06

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Kumba Offline

The Black Lagoon

CederPoint6 or CP6 as he is sometimes known has been raising some eyebrows at NE lately, mainly in H2H4 where he collaborated with another hotshot parkmaker Geewhzz to make Kayte Ridge that toppled the porn packed, virus infested madness that was Internet City. Now CP6 shows up with a strong little park in The Black Lagoon that shows that he really does have some skills of his own.

Please post any comments you have.
posted 18 years ago
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Roomie Offline

Hey all
now this is a lovely little park
CP6 has been on my list of people to watch out for for years. And although small and certainly not his best work this park has some lovely features. The main 2 coasters are both well designed and i think would work well in real life. The rapids ride is also a lovely little ride.
The park however is rather small. And like blitz im still waiting for you to turn out an awesome full scale park

But i can wait...
Cheers
Dave
posted 18 years ago
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Carl Offline

Nothing better than a Schwarzkopf Terrain coaster, and Intamin sure makes good woodies nowadays, and a Vekoma LSM, you don't see too many of those nowadays, I've always been a big fan of Xpress @ Walibi World, so Id say you made excellent coaster choices in this park. The water slide complex was well done, and I thought your archy was above average too. Overall nice job!
posted 18 years ago
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X250 Offline

A fantastic little park, it has a great atmosphere and has a strong pirate theme. What really impressed me most was the coaster layouts, the wooden coaster had an unbelievable layout, as did the Schwarzkopf terrain coaster, which interacted very well with its landscape and surroundings. The LSM was extremeley cool, a bit wacky and unrealistic in comparison to the rest of the park, but that is what i like to see! I thought the park was very well laid out and organised, congrats on the runner-up!

-X-
posted 18 years ago
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Milo Offline

This was a very nice little park. The atmosphere and I love the archy. The realistic station buildings were cool and I loved some of the little details... like the burning town theming on the river ride and the working water slides. Nice job and congrats on the Runner Up!
posted 18 years ago
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Gwazi Offline

I love Pirate themed parks/areas, and this one is surely up on my list. Maybe second to IoE's entrance area. I didn't like Smuggler as much as the other coasters, but I loved just about everything else. Great work!
posted 18 years ago
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RCTFAN Offline

Aww man i've been waiting for this park ever since you pm'ed me about the Sky Swat! I love it, congratulations!
posted 18 years ago
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CedarPoint6 Offline

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Here's a few things about the park that might be worth noting.
It was started around October 1st of 2005 with that little flat ride in the second plaze area from the entrance. I wanted a flat surrounded by path, so that's what gave this park its start. I'm very proud of the wooden coaster as I think that layout turned out very nicely and offered a great place for the rapids to sit. I wish I could have thrown some more walking areas back there, but unfortunately it was just too cut off and I didn't want to ruin the harbor with a bridge or some huge tunnel. The Schwarzkopf was originally intended to have a loop, but after building and re-building, I finallly got a layout I liked... just without a loop. So it stayed. The Vekoma was at one time enclosed up until where it currently drops out to the cutback. I wanted an underground coaster that would theoretically be themed and stuff. But throughout testing, Tom DJ (I think it was) mentioned that that was awfully boring. By then I couldn't change the layout so I had to work out how to land black that area to make it look sort of natural. The layouts pretty awful, imo, but it fits the land with maximum trackage. The water play structure was one of those last minute things (last thing I made) to increase the amount of time people would look at the park. As it was earlier, that area was just a solid coast. But I figured it needed a bit more. I still have some reservations about how the architecture and theme were developed, but I've rambled for far too long now.

Thanks for the comments! Hope to hear some more.
posted 18 years ago
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CoasterForce Offline

yeah this park was lovely, CP6. there was a very fine sense of elegance throughout, and it very much reminded me of metalface's stuff. there was something special about this park that was refreshing. it was neat, refined, and it conveyed what it needed to convey. it seems very few parks have that.
posted 18 years ago
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Panic Offline

In spite of it being pretty small I really found this park quite lovely. I wish there was like an island with a fortress in the middle of the water, possibly with a mine-style coaster going through it, and that the rapids had some sort of central big drop; but other than that it was great, great stuff.
posted 18 years ago
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Ride6 Offline

Nice park. More correct in size for it's title than Chapel's too. The coasters were all classy and the selection (Schwarzy, Vekoma LSM and an Intamin woodie) was brilliant; however, I thought both of the steel coasters were a little on the slow side. The water slids added a cool spash over in one corner and were a pleasent suprise when I just sorta "ran into them". In terms of architecture and such I felt the buildings around the waterslide complex best invoked the real ones that you see at similar places.

Both water rides were good, with the chute-the-chutes being absolutely top notch in terms of layout. It all builds up to that drop, I love that.

Somehow with this release you've still got the cloke of the Dark Horse thing going on too, which I think is great because now you can come back and suprise us again.

Best of luck.

Ride6
posted 18 years ago
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