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Park_155 Aurora's Bay

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  • iris%s's Photo
    Only the third person to ever win 2 spotlights, and coming off the most downloaded park in NE History (Disney Dreams), congratulations PyroPenguin for winning the NE spotlight again, this time with Aurora's Bay!

    Excellent coasters.
    Excellent theming.
    Excellent everything.


    Great job.
  • Caddie Gone Mad%s's Photo
    HELL YES!

    Can't wait to check it out.
  • Dirk Pitt%s's Photo
    Wow this park was beautiful! I once saw this park in the testing stage but this is even better!!
  • Tommy%s's Photo
    All I can say is: :0 OMG :l33t: Christmas present 1/??? :yup: :OMG: :D
  • mantis%s's Photo
    I'm in love with the Drachenshire area - maybe an old theme, but beautiful. Not too keen on the way the areas worked out (the drachenshire and nahatuku should be switched round to split the similar pathed areas) but I appreciate how this wasn't really planned. Terras Labs are astounding, and the various water height transitions are something you don't see too often on water rides. I also like the shooter - although pyro should have made it brown like FoRCT said :p

    Kalakahuna isn't the best area, but still has a.....something.....that makes it pleasant. Nothing approaching the genius of 'Diamond in the Rough' is present in any of the coasters in this park except the mine train - with a dragon sculpture to rival NeViS's in Tales of Camelot.

    Well done Pyro, and next time we manage to bump into each other on AIM I'm hoping to see some rct2 work :)
  • posix%s's Photo
    An amazing park!
    It's just pure perfection...
    beautiful theming, great architecture, nice ideas, brilliant coasters and very detailed...

    Terras Labs is one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. No one ever used rides as architecture that well.
    Drachenflug is my most favourite Invert I think.... just too nice not to love it ;)

    I can't really say much that makes sense so I'd better stop here.

    Congrats Pyro and thx for letting me test it.


    Hope u'll hit us with RCT2 very soon.
  • The Drizzle%s's Photo
    Well became one of my favorite parks even though it was unfinished and now that its done, it moves up to my #2 park spot (Behind BGL and in front of DDI)

    Great park Pyro

    BiO :flame:
  • natelox%s's Photo
    it was okay, there were a few things i disliked. i guess i'm feeling critical today, so i'll babble about the park:

    the architecture was plain, and was very repetative with many virgina reel awnings. Roofs never changed shape. it seemed messey in areas and over treed in others. The watershortage didn't help matters either. No coasters really stood out IMO. I have a mega pet peeve for coasters with extreme ratings.

    maybe my views on parks are changing, perhaps only NE's members views on parks are changing, either way, RCT2 and me shall be an interesting experiance.
  • Caddie Gone Mad%s's Photo
    HOLY SHIT!

    Amazing Pyro, amazing.

    Only thing I disliked was the flyer and the area around it. Just not my cup of tea.. Oh well.
  • Pawn%s's Photo
    Terras lab=best themed area I've ever seen. Period. I cannot imagine a better way for you to pull this theme off. Pure genius.
  • Evil WME%s's Photo
    i guess i was one of the only ones that was kinda critical about this park.. (coz of Nate i couldnt say THE only one :-/ ) here was my review.. hope u dont mind me posting this.. otherwise id just be commenting on sumtin ive commented on allready..

    Evil WMEs quick Walkthrough of Aurora's Bay


    A bland Entrance area (6.0) awaits u to begin the adventure.. soon u see the
    entrance coaster, Typhoon (6.4), incredibly intense launched ride that is
    themed tropically..

    then we enter Terras Labs (8.1) which was great but soooo big.. it was
    whatcha call overdone. some amazing themed gents and flats... and then one
    heck of a watercoaster, Expedition Terras (8.9).. just totally hits the
    spot, amazing theming, architecture, and the ride is very nice too.. luv the
    waterfalls etc :)

    Drachenshire (9.3) is what amazed me most.. till the cobra roll, Drachenflug
    (7.4) was near perfect, the two helixes just lasted way too long for me..
    Dwarven Mountain Mining Co. (9.1) wasnt the greatest ride ever.. but the
    theming was what i call perfect.. architecture, atmosphere, and placement..
    very very very good. and the smallest area of the park and MORE than enough
    ;-)

    After the great Drachenshire we come to the Nahatuka Oasis (6.5) the last
    area of the park.. tho the theming made it ok, i absolutely detest the
    layout of Black Magic..(4.9) the architecture, theming and all was very
    nicely don but the pure ride design looks copied and looks like shit. the
    ride itself blocks a lot of view too, something i particullary hate. the
    theming around the area was perfect for the particular theme.. but the area
    was sooo large it became VERY repetitive. You can also try laying down on
    the amount of bushes as the whole park is rocked and overbushed severly.
    Nahatuka Tombs was nice.. and u got the most talent for these kind of rides.
    the rapids was awesome as well.. however.. Makosarike (5.9) was not all so
    hot.. this has to be a realistic park judging by its many buildings etc..
    but an 8 inversion flyer is far from realistic.. the ride again is kinda
    "saved by its themingg" but i hate the second inversion (or the second half
    of the 1st) as it just looks ugly.. tho it has 8 inversions u seemed to try
    to hide them, which was also something that i kinda hate. the best coaster
    designs look good on flat green grass.

    Overall (6.5) i dont know if this is perfection, as it contains incredible
    architecture and theming throughout the park, or shit as it contains only
    three different kinds of architecture and theming throughout the park. The
    coasters are definitely not great. Drachenshire was by far the best area
    becoz of the trees (what pyro has an area without jagged rocks?) i believe
    this will get prase from the majority, but people like Chauncey and others
    will bash it and i cant say they are all to blame..i havent been a real fan
    of DD, and this is most likely better then DD when i compare it but i think
    for ur next park it would be great if ud make about 8 themes on one map
    instead of 3.. i seriously think i would luv ur park soooo much more then,
    and ud better work on those coasters or let someone help u with them..

    plz dont flame me becoz of this review.. this is my opinion and i was asked to make this review for MY opinion.. it wasnt a praise pyro the penguin kinda thing (i think).. pyropenguin even said he agreed with most of it.. not sure if he actually meant it tho ;)
  • Scarface%s's Photo
    Great park and worthy of spotlight.

    Terras labs was one of my favourite area of a park ever, the amount of detail in some of them buildings was just amazing
    good job

    I wasn't too keen on black magic and the area surrounding it.
    I loved drachenshire, that area was very good and i loved typhoon (nice surroundings)

    well done pyro
  • mantis%s's Photo
    WME - you know the area with the woodie and the area with the flyer were different....?

    And also, you say Terras Labs water coaster was near perfection, yet give it 8.9? You need to sort that out/
  • rhcpraiders%s's Photo
    I found this park to be good, but not great. I think it did a great job of doing what it was trying to acomplish, but nothing more than that. I didnt really see anything special in this park, and therefore I dont particularly think it deserved spotlight, but then again, we havn't seen the runner-ups yet.
  • Micool%s's Photo
    Pyro, you shouldn't have even bought RCT2. :bandit:
  • Benni%s's Photo
    Very good park.... really amazing!!!
    My most fav section was "Drachenshire
    but also all the other sections were beautifull

    except the Terras Labs!!!
    I dunno why but I hate this section!
    Unfortunately this section is very big 8@

    Just my opinion...

    Pyro build things like "Drachenflug" that's great :OMG:
  • gymkid dude%s's Photo
    Dude.

    I like can't beleive this park.

    The Typhoon ride was great, with awesome theming! The flyer was AWESOME, i couldnt belevie that when i was looking at it. Terras Labs was unconventional, and you did great there. Drachenshire was Fabulous, probably my fave section behind the flyer area. It was great! Grr! Sheesh!

    This passed UIX as my #1 park ever. Best park ever made in RCT IMO. The best.

    Pyro, you must be stopped.
  • Evil WME%s's Photo

    WME - you know the area with the woodie and the area with the flyer were different....?

    And also, you say Terras Labs water coaster was near perfection, yet give it 8.9? You need to sort that out/

    a 8.9, in my counting scale, is near perfection.. 10 is usually not given, 9.5 rounds up to 10.. and then u have 8.9, a 9, near perfection.. 8.9s very high if u see a 6.5 as a very good rating.. i really think thats about the worst thing u couldve said lol, dont like my #s... oh well.. :lol:
  • DragonInferno%s's Photo
    I'm gonna have to say I was mildly impressed with this park. Sure the sections were good. But the roller coasters IMO totally ruined the park. I love coasters to be fast paced but, all the rides seemed to creep over hills and through inversions. Like I said earlier the sections were good but repeated too much. Overall, the park IMO wasn't bad, but good have been better.I guess it just wasn't my style.

    Creativity:8.0
    Coasters: 6.7
    Theming: 8.3
    Overall Score (not average): 7.2
    As far as my scores go It is very hard to get a 9.
    heres my scoring:

    1-2 needs serious work
    2.1-3 needs work
    3.1-4 okay
    4.1-5 average
    5.1-6 not bad
    6.1-7 pretty good
    7.1-8 good
    8.1-9 very good
    9.1-10 amazing



    ~Dragon :t2: ~
  • Blind Guardian%s's Photo
    Ummm.

    Good park. I thought it was was a bit boring, but... oh well.

    The coaster I liked most was the vekoma-flyer, it had a nice layout and beautiful landscape to fly through... however, the only area i really enjoyed was Drachenshire, the others were... umm... a bit boring.

    7/10

    Perhaps my view will change in time.

    MfG
    BG