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.

Download Here (1172 downloads)
< Prev   Next >