H2H5 / [H2H5] Round Robin | Round 2 | Match 2

Round Robin Annotations The poll will stay open for exactly 120 hours. You can only vote by entering BOTH vote codes you find in the custom message of the parks. If you are a member of a team that is in this match up, you can not vote and will automatically see the poll outcome. You will only receive a vote code if you are logged in with a forum account. Only members registered before 3/11/09 will be able to vote. Round 2 | Match 2
Hurricanes "ImaginIt" (RCT2)
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Alpha Legends "Peublo Canyon Boardwalk" (RCT2)
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Match Decision

The 120 hours voting time for this poll have passed. Here are the official results of the match. > "ImaginIt" 29 64.44% Fisch, JDP Park Votes Vote % Creators "Peublo Canyon Boardwalk" 16 35.56% Panic, Ride6, zodiac

is that unfinnishedness i see?
review in a moment

EDIT: of course not.

2 great parks, quite evenly matched.
i loved the adventure rid in pube canyon. aswell as the shootings star and the woody.
well done on that park.

i found the hurricanes park slightly busy, and shogun i think it was called, was abit thrown together if you catch my drift.

my vote goes to alpha legends

Edited by SSSammy, 09 May 2009 - 02:33 PM.

A great matchup this, bound to cause a bit of a stir.

In the end I went for the Hurricanes. The woodie in Peublo Canyon Boardwalk is epic and one of the best rides ive seen in a long time.
The setting of the park itself is also awesome and the broken dam is a great idea. However when i first opened the park i just thought. wow another unfinnished park
I know its meant to be a canyon but it doesn't stop it from feeling like a bit of a cop out. The other side of the river just feels bland. Sorry guys. you can moan that the id call the grand canyon unfinished. But it doesnt make good RCT viewing for me.

ImaginIt is another good solid park without being anything great. Shogun is superb and held my attention for quite some time (as any good ride should). The woodie was ok but nothing special. I felt parts of the park like the entrance area were a little Sterile. However the Japanese area is excellent and the station for Shogun is big and bright without being overpowering.

Unfortunately Alpha's if you had a little bit more substance and less of that unfinished feel the park my vote would have been for you all the way. but ImaginIt just provides a more complete package.

Roomie , what makes you think it's unfinished?

Alpha Legends -

hmm. not sure about this one. i liked Red Rock Falls and Talisman (other than the lift) both a lot. they were really cool and had some good interaction. other than that though, it just lacked a refined, cohesive feel. everything felt unfinished. the ICBM and the Pueblo ruins both were great ideas but lacked in execution and it seems finishedness as well. it looks like it could have been a great park, but just did not feel done yet.

Hurricanes -

i really enjoyed watching this park evolve. the atmosphere and architecture are gorgeous, and the rides are really fun to watch. still a few areas that i see could use a tiny bit of refinement, but nothing major. good work guys.

EDIT: yes i know the Alpha Legends park was finished, i'm just saying it didn't have that feel to me.

Edited by Gwazi, 09 May 2009 - 02:36 PM.

Alpha Legends:
Hm, i wasn't sure if it's unfinished or not...but what i can see now, don't really impressed me, sorry. On the one hand there are really nice supports on Shootingstar and I really like the idea with the broken dam, but on the other hand I can see odd landscaping and atmosphereless.
The exploration coaster is a nice idea and well executed. One thing which payed my attention was the broken dam and the bridge. Well executed. Talisman and Red Rock Falls have a good layout.
All in all i excepted more from you.

Hurricanes:
When I saw the overview I just thought: "Woooow". Then I opened it and thought: "Woooooooooooooooooow". What really impressed me was Japan. A awesome coaster and godly theming. The station of it was brilliant, too. What I didnt like so much was the layout of Patriot, doesnt look so good. Moreover the atmosphere in the "Entry Plaza" was great.

It was an easy vote for me, I went with the Hurricanes 'cause of the great theming and the great layouts. Unfortunately it was a "going on" with your week-1 park, Hurricanes.
Alpha's park has a good idea, but doesnt impressed me so much.

Hope you understand my opinion.

^just shutup.

from the overviews this looks its gonna be a hard choice.

this was really so hard to decide for me. i think imaginit has overall more to offer and is fun to look at because the peeps can access all the rides. at the same time though, i found the park a little hectic and confusing. like too much stuff was squeezed into too little space.

peublo canyon at first looked completely inferior, just because it was like half of imaginit. i must say i thought it wasn't unfinished though? to my impression, the little buildings that weren't part of the boardwalk looked like some "left to rot" homes that are either really old or never got finished during construction. then the wooden was just so awesome. i also liked the colours and landscaping very much somehow.

although feeling sorry for the hurricanes, i ended up voting peublo!

if it IS finished then i retract my statement
but change it to i voted for Hurricanes because the alpha park feels unfinished

Looking at them initially, I thought I'd like Pueblo Canyon the most. It did turn out to be really interesting to watch. The wooden coaster was impressively large and managed speed well, although I certainly cringed to see it with a GCI label. The park itself was very nicely done, especially with the use of land height variation. That's always hard to do, but you guys managed that really well. Nice ruins and the bridge was pretty impressive too. I wish on that explorer ride, you would've remembered to actually put tunnel entrances so you didn't smash into the wall every time. I'm assuming that's an oversight. The effect of the drained river was accomplished very well. I thought the architecture, mostly, is what brought it down. I'm trying to better put it into words, but it felt either too underdetailed or with superfluous stuff attached to it.

The Hurricanes had an interesting park. There was a lot to look at, although too much in a lot of cases. I like detail, but this was hectic and felt very much like there were too many ideas for too little of a space. That said, what was there was very nice. Some of the buildings seem a little small, but they all had a pretty nice amount of detail on them. The coasters were decently strong (for the most part), and there was quite a lot of color usage, which always looks nice over stuff that's primarily gray or brown.

So in the end, I went for the Hurricanes. They were interesting parks, although neither had a large amount of wow factor. That said, they were better then a lot of things, and fun to look through.

My vote goes to ImaginIt

The left side of our park consists of wild red rock terrain plus the bed of a lake that recently drained very fast. Our parkmakers pulled off that vibe perfectly. Are you going to criticize the Grand Canyon for not feeling "finished" in the way that Main Street USA is?

Everything was finished in Alpha Legends park...what are you smoking Roomie?

@Panic - that wasn't the part that felt unfinished to me.

Edited by Gwazi, 09 May 2009 - 02:56 PM.

Fine i have edited my post slightly to make the point better.

The left side of our park consists of wild red rock terrain plus the bed of a lake that recently drained very fast. Our parkmakers pulled off that vibe perfectly. Are you going to criticize the Grand Canyon for not feeling "finished" in the way that Main Street USA is?

No but I wouldn't choose it for a setting for an RCT park if i was going to have just one side as the canyon itself.

I think both parks are good.

ImaginIt -
Lovely Park and I actually like how busy it is. I personally Love your style of building so much so I actually couldn't get enough of the archy. The different areas were nice and the coasters were nicely themed and strong. Shogun was really really good, achingly beautiful surroundings with such a nice atmosphere.

I like the fact you can turn the park any angle and find something new every time. The work you must have gone through to overload this park with details. Pretty amazing for a week 2 park.

After this I think the park just needed a few small touches or wow factors to give it that extra impact. That’s about it I can't really mark it down for anything else.

Pueblo Canyon -
The overview was nice and that looked like a nice concept from the forums. I opened it however and was disappointed on some of the aspects of this park.

Let's start with the good. I liked the architecture on the pier and I like shooting star a lot. I couldn’t get into the woodie as much as I'm weird like that. I did like how you moved the layout around the map to repeat some former drops twists and turns for an interesting ride. That shows great skill and good coaster building.

The pier itself was pretty week. I just couldn't relate to your architecture or find any atmosphere from it. The broken dam and bridge behind were well executed and I think the park could of benefitted from more of a central piece of the dam breaking as it was nice to look at.

The dam excavation ride was also very nice and as a guest that would of been brilliant to take a scenic tour around the parks landscape. One peeve of mine was the underground building with the wooden coaster catwalk. it was just really ugly and looked rushed. I don’t know the landscape of this whole park was brilliant but like others I'm feeling a composition with nice work but not as finished or refined as it could be.

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I'd like to know my point of view if I wasn't on one of the teams but I'm sure I would have still voted for Imaginit.

Overall Pueblo had a better concept but it wasn’t executed to the potential it could of been.

ImaginIt had a standard concept but the approach was a lot better plus the architecture was much more superior to Pueblo. I could imagine myself in that park and that's something I like in RCT-creations.

Evenly matched park in the fact the concepts could of been better but ImaginIt has a finished, refined beautiful outlook. The Japanese area was OUTSTANDING.

The Hurricanes park felt really small, copied and like it had no plan or theme what this park was about.. I mean, what does "ImagineIt" mean..

Our park was finished, had a clear theme and was well executed..

So my vote goed to Alpha Legends



SF

ps, that woodie has to be the best wooden coaster like, ever!

I want to apologize for the slightly dick comment I made earlier. I just think people should be aware that our park would (in my opinion at least) look very, very finished in the nice aesthetic theme park sense if the reservoir was still filled. And that's kind of the point.

Edited by Panic, 09 May 2009 - 06:56 PM.

Frags you know I like a good debate with you.

So now tell me how was our park copied? Also to clear up any confusion ImagineIt asks guests to let their imagination become reality.

Your park I agree had a superior concept yes, but the execution was weak. By this I mean as I stated above that I just couldn't find myself to like some of the architecture. It needed something more.

However looking at your park again I'm in love with the spiral coaster and the architecture in front of that is gorgeous. Who ever built that congrats. I just wish the park would of had more of that in it.

I just felt the Japanese area was like copied of Louis! design (Emperor).. Like with those sharp roof corners.. And that entrance area was also copied from a certain persons park which he has used over and over again..

Anyway, I think both parks parks have their ups and downs so it should be a close vote..

SF