Universal Hawaii
By JKay
Added on Saturday, 16 June 2007
Once upon of time, before he was a number one
seed and stunning people left and right, JKay was a kind of annoying
member who picked fights with Nemesis Chris. How times have changed…
now he’s a future parkmaker and master of the epileptic park. And what
better a way to give people seizures than to make a park with the
colorful, tropical connotations of Hawaii?
If
you can’t tell this is JKay from the entrance, it’s probably not worth
trying to figure out, because this just screams it. It’s like you’re
dropped into a world of stereotypical oversensory anime. Hot pinks,
oranges, yellows, and green abound, and the tropical atmosphere is
thicker than dried molasses on an old carpet. And while this would
probably normally be called unrefined and dumb-looking (and some still
might call it that), JKay somehow makes it seem so fun. It’s definitely
vibrant and festive, and quite interesting to look at.
The
ride is called Eye of the Tiger, but this looks more like Alice in
Wonderland’s Chesire Cat gone disturbingly wrong. It’s certainly the
freakiest thing I’ve ever seen in RCT, but it’s just another example of
JKay’s stunning creativity (or should I say insanity?). But once again,
there is so much here. JKay lathers and lathers and lathers theming
into his work, and sculptures like this are just one example.
Death
Shroud, mingling within Caspers’s Haunted House of Mystery, is an
omnimover type ride that expresses JKay’s dark theming skills. I wish
it was a bit bigger, because it’s really well done. And if you’ve seen
his Halloween QftB:X park, you know he does spooky themes
extraordinarily well.
The Makalo Resort takes center stage in this screen. The resort is set
right on the shore and I can just imagine the awesome view guest would
get looking out the window at the breaking waves. If the ocean is not
your thing there are also a few tennis courts were guest are able to
use to. If you enjoy really wild water there is also an excellent water
park (off screen) adjacent to the resort.
Here we have the parks pair of Men In Black (MIB) coasters that weave
there way around the massive high tech looking building that encases
them. This is where you get a good example of some classic JKay park
making, you have the awkward coasters and the amazing structure that
only a madman like JKay could make.
Finally we come to Shrek: Journey to Dulak where JKay shows us just how
much green can be jammed into one area. He does manage to pull off the
look really well and although you really can't call an JKay coaster
amazing or realistic he did use some strange yet very nice track
elements here to improve the coaster.
Overall, this is a most fun-looking park that
really harkens back to the days of playing RCT for fun and not just for
Spotlight. There’s a nice sense of scenario playing and sandbox filling
that makes the park dynamic and a joy to explore. No doubt JKay is a
weird one, but that’s what makes his parks memorable.