Stratford Fair By ToonTowner Added on Saturday, 16 June 2007
A park about Shakespeare?  Normally, that wouldn't sound quite that exciting.  But when the park comes from the masterful touch of Toon(Towner), you're bound to find some unexpected surprises quite pleasing to the eye.

First on our epic tour is Birnam Wood, home to Toil and Trouble, an intensely thrilling B&M floorless coaster with a unique vertical drop through a fountain followed by a huge vertical loop, a similarly towering dive loop, cobra roll, zero-G-roll, and a corkscrew to round things out--all without the hindering qualities of a mid-course brake run.  Chaotic and harrowing, it's a great analogy for the turbulence that is Macbeth, and the surrounding ambiance of the area certainly marks out the tragic qualities of the play for which this area is modelled.

Brighter pastures, however, can be found in Caesar's Rome, home to Iago, a compact B&M inverted coaster that flies by the many buildings of classical antiquity. It's the setting that places this ride apart from many other "compact style" inverteds.  Beautiful vegetation and theming boldly portray the grandeur of this mighty land, and Toon certainly does a great job of capturing this grand environment.

A lovely theater lies near the front of the park for those less interested in rides.  Shakespearean comedies and tragedies alternate each day, and it's a fun way of incorporating education with entertainment.

Jumping back to Rome, we get a closeup of the statues, shrubbery, and architecture that make this an absolutely blissful place to stroll through, relax, or just admire the views. 

A sojourn to the Denmark wilderness brings us to Rosencranz and Guildenstern, the hapless, bumbling duo featured in Hamlet. This pair of dueling modified fishhook coasters offers a unique thrill and somehow aptly symbolizes the fate that is to befall both former friends of Hamlet.

Finally, Prospero's Island brings us to the headquarters of The Tempest, an Arrow out-and-back hyper coaster that sprawls all the way past the Caesar's Rome section.  In contrast to some of the other areas of the park, this area exudes an almost odd peace and serenity, but of course, the action-packed, airtime-laden Tempest coaster quickly puts to rest any expectations of that.

Overall, this is certainly a fine piece of work.  And in RCT LL, no less--something most people do not connect Toon with. Needless to say, though, Toon is more than just an RCT 2 messiah.  With Stratford Fair, he shows he can certainly rock it without the luxuries of custom scenery objects as well!
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