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Cocoa Go to post #791114
that mint green color is so soft and nice
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Cocoa Go to post #790864
Incredible work. I want to start this review with some personal context, however---
late 20 to early 30 -ish-year-old americans grew up in a very particular era for the disney parks. the films weren't doing excellent, attendance was spotty, and the future of some properties (eg, paris) was genuinely in doubt. I know this is very hard to believe looking at disney today, which has grown into one of the largest media monopolies and whose parks are so expensive and so crowded that you might as well just visit them on streetview instead. But back in the late 90s and early 2000s, disney was practically giving away tickets to draw middle-class american families to orlando. This is why my family, living in kansas city, spent many winters down in florida visiting the theme parks.
to say they left a large impression on me would be doing them a disservice. as a toddler I spent literally every day in the playroom with the brio wooden trains, imagining scenes of elaborate train bridges over canyons. to see these 'railed narrative experiences' come to life in btmr, or in the peoplemover, the disney train, the epcot ball ride, winnie the pooh, etc etc... it was genuinely mindblowing. there's a home video somewhere of me in line for the disney train, jumping up and down frantically, and I don't think i've ever been that excited again in my life. I can still remember the feelings of the 'power of the theme park' that i felt as a kid when i close my eyes, and its rooted in the magic kingdom. For those crusty pessimistics to whom disney and their parks have now become symbols of modern capitalist control, I hope maybe you can reserve some warmth for those of us who grew up with something special here.
so let's take this into rct history, where all of us weirdo obsessive kids congregated. the last real magic kingdom attempt was what... highball's magic kingdom? in 2005! 19 years ago. I remember as a newcomer to nedesigns, furiously downloading past parks until I had seen them all, desperate to find someone who had done disney right. and don't get me wrong, I genuinely love some of those early attempts (looking at you, tilted acres). But as I got more experienced with rct, I realized that it was not really ever well-designed for disney. In many ways, RCT and its default themes and textures and ride selection is very catered towards the UK theme park scene which chris sawyer lived in. It is very hard to pull off some classic disney attractions with old school ncso, something which I always saw as a real loss to the game. and this was clearly echoed by the community, who despite ocassionally showing exciting screens, never put their money where their mouth is. 19 years without a magic kingdom! (except for louis's april fools prank...), arguably the single most important theme park in the world! I think many older players like me, until maybe the last few years, thought that the will and the way was just never going to be there for it.
Which brings us to this release. I think its unlucky but understandable that people will want to compare it to pac and airtime's (as-yet-unfinished-and-unreleased!) attempts. But that has always been the crux of being the best rct parkmaker---finishing. And you really did it---a detailed, expansive magic kingdom, with fresh ideas and remixed rides and pieces of nostalgia from your own magic kingdom memories (eg that candy castle). I really can see myself in this park, as a kid, frothing at the mouth. I think you are owed massive applause for reminding me of the feelings that drive me forward in my own parkmaking.
I understand very well the 'release blues', both in rct (where harsh criticism and comparison abounds) and in other creative enterprises (where usually deafening silence abounds). But I think you have made something special here and I hope after a bit of time you'll eventually feel the same warmth about it as I do.
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Cocoa Go to post #790851
he's maked!
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Cocoa Go to post #790764
I really love parks called [member]'s [parkname]. wonder who was the first to do that
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Cocoa Go to post #790678
i like it---but if i was nitpicking i would say the b&w umbrellas and the simple fence are not working for me. probably its a combo of the thick black deco trim and the relatively unadorned bars that feel a bit sloppy. maybe something a bit fancier, and a with a bit of extra warmth in terms of colors?