This should have been a spotlight... and now it is. The people of NE have spoken and Now, (Only 3 years later...) aero has his Third NE Spotlight with what might be his best park ever. Not many other parks have recreated the Disney atmopshere anywhere near as well as aero21 manages to in Disneyland Mid-America, an incredible double map resort, featuring a classic Magic Kingdom style map, along with the recently popular DisneySea style map Imagi-Nation.

One of the best rides in th park is the creative "Journey to Atlantis" submarine, which houses a pair of great simulators located in the Tomorrowland area of the park The area comes equipped with it's own looping Space Mountain, a fast paced "Space Transport 3000" (with rotating station!) and a very clever Space Station Restaraunt. This park also sports one of the most impressive buildings ever seen in RCT, located in the Imagi-Nation map: aero's version of the "Tower of Terror". It's sheer size is enough to leave anybody wide-eyed, but it's incredibly detailed and fits the ride extremely well. One of the best things I've ever seen in RCT, great job aero. Finally, we get a look at the American Waterfront area of the Imagi-Nation map, again pulled off better then any other Disney park I've ever seen. Captain Hook's ship takes a different approach to ship making in RCT, and is a definite success. Even cooler, is looming in the background, the fabled "Villain Mountain" water coaster. The Downtown Hollywood area of the park is barely noticeable in the lower right of the picture. The ideas in this park were really ahead of it's time and would stand up next to even more recent Disney works by the likes of Meretrix and the master of Disney, Xcoaster. The 3D Muppet show, the Tigger bouncer, the Wright brothers plane, The detailed track facades, and even horses parked on posts outside the stage show. You were ahead of your time aero.

Overall the more I look at this park I am stunned it did not win spotlight, it's one of my favorite LL parks of all-time. Lucky for aero there is strength in numbers and once a year we let democracy rule at NE and the people pick the spotlights and in this case the people made a great choice by putting DMA up with NE's elite!