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14-May 14
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Fred's Ultimate Coaster Kingdom
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Looks nice, if not a bit flat. I'd try to remove the supports on the woody if you can too.
Have to do the lamps and banks, trash bins yet. Guess it'll make it look less flat if they are there. Why should the supporters of the woodie go? It would be floating...
I'm not really sure that the wooden coaster is even necessary to be honest. Rockwork isn't great; there's no real form to it at the moment, just a stack of rocks on top of each other.
Other than that, it looks quite good. I enjoyed much of Plopsa Brittanica and hope that you are able to finish this park.
I'd like it if it was an actual coaster, would make for some fantastic interaction (I might use that idea in a park I'm planning actually). However, as it is, it kinda looks like useless trackitecture. I get what you're trying to do, I think, but it just serves no purpose other than to say 'Hey look, we have rollercoaster track above the entrance!'. I almost feel like it'd be better if you made the track yourself and made it look fake.
The building itself looks nice, very Cedar Fair/Six Flags-esque, which I assume is what you're going for considering I can see four out of six flags in the screen. The ticket booth is quite nice as well, although I think you could improve the railings and queuing system for the booths a lot.
The table and chairs area looks absolutely huge, and I've never been a fan of tables and chairs spread out like that, I like them on every square because it just fits the Rct scale better imo, but I know not everyone thinks that way. I am a little scared that the area will be a bit too big though, but I'll have to wait and see as to whether that's the case.
But yeah, overall, a good start, I'm just not keen on the useless coaster track atm.
So if I use an actual coastertrack it looks useless, and if I build it myself with scenery it wouldn't look useless?! Seems like a weird reasoning to me. It is there because the last two words of the park are 'coaster kingdom' and I want to see the visitors seeing a wooden coaster track when they enter the park. It's not there to show off...
I suggested to kill the supports because they look glitchy and messy. replace them with something custom, so it looks nicer.
also, what I think Rawry is saying is that seeing real coaster track gives the expectation that this is a real coaster, and it'd be disappointing to us and to guests to realize that it's not, but it it were more obviously fake, like the fake woody track in DAW, that expectation is no longer there, so it still gives the same appearance without the disappointment.
This is exactly it, yeah. The fake track, as seen in DAW, also has a much better scale for an entrance I think. Just try it and see if it works, if you prefer it with actual track then stick with that.
I actually like the coaster track on the roof. I mean, it's quite clear that it's not an actual coaster (from my perspective and the perspective of park guests), yet it establishes the theme of the area and adds some nice curves - I think Thorpe Park (irl) has/had a piece of coaster track over the car park entrance, so this is not uncommon practise. Apart from that, I think the colours here are very welcoming and calming, and I think you've got the detailing on the buildings just right.
Yeah I like the coaster there a lot too. Doesn't Six Flags Magic Mountain have that over their entrance too?