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Nice to hear that it is almost done. Cant wait.
-JDP

Love it.

Hmm, it's not the best screen you've shown, but it's pleasant.

There's a bit too much of the same texture in my eyes. I think that you should add something different to that building on the left especially.

The mini game stall is good, like that.

All in all though, other parts of the park interest me more.

there has to be a better way to do that star.

"Painfully" bright is the wrong way to describe it, more like fantastically bright! (That means I like it)

Been doing some more work, so I figured I'd post a screen or two. Hannah Barberra Land this time around...


First of all, I <3 hpg


Scooby Doo's Midnight Manor Maze


The Olde Timers let peeps drive around a fake looking farm on a dirt roadway. The best part about the ride is that in real life the peeps would get dripped on by the LightHouse Falls boats directly overhead.

Enjoy, and as usual, feel free to comment and criticize. Thanks.

This might be one of the parks I'm most looking forward to right now. Great stuff.

I really love the farm and car ride, although I hope you're planning on changing the purple track to something less noticeable like a brown or grey. The Scooby Doo thing is nice, although I was hoping you'd do a shooting dark ride like the Scooby Doo rides at Carowinds and KI (and I'd assume the other parks). Still, a cool idea, although I think you could maybe expand the manor just a bit.

Nice update, though... really looking forward to this.

i like the barn structure and fields. the scooby-doo thing, though.... firstly, the placement of a creepy manor house on the waterfront is questionable. maybe in a bayou or some equally creepy woods, or on top of a craggy rock outcrop? secondly... the manor's a rectangle. You could do so much more with it. have a greenhouse the maze goes through, or make it an interactive house walkthrough.. mostly just make the house less squarey and more fun to look at. Some creaky boards and vines along the side would add a lot.

I really love this park anymore. I am just really starting to love your style of work. Great job. And I <3 hpg as well. His parks logos are the best because he made one for my SAP&R park I have going. Thanks again hpg!
-JDP

Looks good

Butt that Grizzly (Son of Beast) looks F*cking great!

Thanks guys for the replies...

cp6: Thanks man, glad to hear you're enjoying it. With the car ride, I had it brown at first, and I even tried a grey, but to me it just didn't look as warm as I wanted it to for a kid's area. Technically, the most accurate way to make a car ride would be to use steeplechase track as the guide rail (which would probably be cement in real life) so I'll probably fool around some more with different shades of brown and grey to see what works best.
As for the Midnight Manor ride, I would have loved to do a Sally dark ride like most former Paramount Parks had, however I already have Stunt Man's Challenge, which is an interctive laser ride. Oh well.

][ntamin22: Thanks for replying. Glad you like the farm area and the barn (car storage area). With the Haunted Maze though, I think you're not looking at it enough from an amusement park standpoint. http://www.coasterim...d/pics/ot24.jpg
An amusement park would neve theme a family ride to the point of creating an entire artificial water source for no other reason other than to make the ride look scary, when in reality, it's supposed to look cartoon-ish to attract kids. As for the actual mansion, I have no specific excuse for why it would be boxy. But why would it need to be extravegant? The actual building serves no other purpose than for storage and to draw guests, and the maze is the true attraction. I appreciate your suggestions though.

JDP: The funniest thing about the logo is that I never even asked him for one and he pm'd it. I opened up the pm only to see a logo that looked 100% percent like what I imagined for the park. That's why I <3 hpg. As for the park, I'm glad you like it man. I think it's funny that most of the people who seem enthused about this project are who I view to be more realistic parkmakers, and still some people argue that there's no real difference between the two different styles of parkmaking.

~CF~: Thanks man. Glad you enjoy Grizzly. You seem to be one of the few haha.

Again, thanks for the comments.

That last screen makes me cry!

Tears of Joy :')

I think you should use more vines on the haunted mansion.
This park is looking very good though.

yeah FINISH THIS NOW.
its amazing :]

Still alive.


Thunder Run Arrow Dynamics, Utah

Yeah, nothing too special. I just want to let you guys know that this project is still very much alive, and I do plan to finish it assuming nothing prevents me from doing so. This is a screen shot straight out of the park's guest spot. I did make Thunder Run, but not much else in this particular area, so I tried my best not to show anything else except the actual coaster. Feel free to comment and criticize as always guys.

Probably the most disappointing screen Ive seen form this park. I can appreciate the work that went into the log flume, and it looks great, but it needs more. I would suggest adding some more grass to the picture, and adding some custom supporting to both the flume and the mine ride. Great potential here, but it just doesnt seem complete to me.

that about covers it, i think.

Eh, I don't really agree, but I can see where you guys are coming from. Honestly, I don't think the screen lacks any substance in particular (it's a mine train built into a hill, there's not going to be much theming or foliage). As for the cutom supports, I did some. For Thunder Run, they just looked disproportionally huge so I got rid of them. For the log flume, I think I might go back and reconsider the supports--they would look pretty good now that I think of it haha.

Oh, and I want to make it especially clear that I did not make the log flume, so please don't give me any credit for it. Do, however, feel free to admire its awesomeness. Thankyou.

I definatly agree that it's lacking atmosphere here... Too much DIRT!

But I guess it's an unfinished screen anyway.

I like the coaster track, just on the merged flume you need a catwalk on the slide lift to cover the part were it turns to log flume, coz atm it looks like water would fall off.