Park / City of Dreams

13-April 04

51 Comments

Aeroglobe Offline

I really liked the balloon HQ and High Times City. HTC was probably my favorite area of the park, Automatic High is such an incredible ride. The balloon HQ is a good entrance, and the balloon itself is incredible. Also, Planet Express Delivery is another ride that I'll be adding to my favorites.

Great job, X, Mantis, and Toon.

AÃ©rÃ´glÃ²be
posted 20 years ago
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Panic Offline

Well, I'm gonna follow up on what Ed said here with my own view. I was blown away upon opening the park; it was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen in the game. The Buddha statue, the hot-air balloon, and just the cities in themselves were amazing. I must admit, you guys should be sci-fi writers for imagining futuristic cities sloping down to the sea, giant statues and hot-air balloons as transport, giant factories, and the like. I found myself comparing it to Cydonia City in a short time. But here is the only thing that I didn't like about the park, and why I still prefer Cydonia to it. As Ed said, the themed areas were noticeably separated, so that it didn't look so much like a City of Dreams, but five different cities brought together. I was more looking for a single city, with different sections, but still noticeably a whole. And probably on one basic landmass. The separation of the islands by water didn't help the areas blend together. I would have done a Chinatown, an industrial complex, etc., but all on one ground and separated only by gates and maybe creeks or rivers. I liked Cydonia more because the whole thing was together, emphasizing the craziness as a whole. This park was five different areas of craziness, but not a whole city of the same unifying insanity. This was the thing with Insania, too - if it had been on one map it would have hit me as a whole more, rather than sections.

If you ask me how I would have put something like this together, I would have done it maybe as land surrounding and sloping down to a horseshoe bay, with the themed areas separated on the land by gates and stuff, make it all look like different areas of one city (which isn't that hard, since cities do vary in looks throughout, and the islands basically all had similar terrain). Kind of in a Crepe Myrtle Islands shape. At the head of the bay on one side, put the hot-air balloon pad, and do some crazy bridge crossing the bay around there. That way it would have hit the viewer as a whole city, instead of five different ones. Still brilliant though. This was my personal favorite of the three spotlights.
posted 20 years ago
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JKay Offline

If this park were a woman, I'd marry it.....I have yet to d/l this park, but already know its amazing.....nice to see true RCT legends team-up for such an ambitious project like this, the results really do show true love for the game.....congrats x, toon, mantis....I might have to go buy LL just to see this park, simply amazing work....
posted 20 years ago
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bokti Offline

in parks like these, there are tons amount of work put into them. not only in theming, but in the landscaping(this park and WOMB come to mind) as well. and i've got to hide scenery and view height-marks on the land to actually see everything that's in the park. and i wouldn't mind that at all, if i didn't have to dissect the shit out of the entire park to see everything. i open it and the chaos seems to diminish a certain amount of brilliance in the park because i have to try and see what i could be missing rather than worrying about what i'm seeing. and that's why i dislike this park, and nearly every park like it.
i do have to mention Shangri-La though. that shit was nice. really, really nice. good work on that boys.

also, Automatic High was a good coaster.
posted 20 years ago
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sloB Offline

Everything in me says I should hate your invert, Toon.
But I can't help myself.

Fantastic work, Toon.

Oh yeah, the other area weren't to bad either.
posted 20 years ago
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Panic Offline

Well, this park has grown on me. I now think the island layout is fine. What better place for a city of the future, anyway?
posted 20 years ago
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Cap'n Quack Offline

City of Dreams rocked my world. The Giant Buddha kicked ass.It gave me a higher respect for LL parks. I would start making LL parks too if I could figure out how to get the Beast trainer to work so I could build rides through things.
posted 20 years ago
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][ntamin22 Offline

Get the Giant Sculptures tag on this stat
posted 11 years ago
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Liampie Online

That's the least I could do to honour this park.
posted 11 years ago
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Angroc Offline

Any chance someone can make a hi-res picture of this? : )
posted 11 years ago
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Cocoa Fan Offline

I love this park, although I could never understand why they made the suspension bridge gold. Red would have been lovely and fitting
posted 11 years ago
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AvanineCommuter Fan Offline

Sorry to bring up an old topic, but I don't have LL anymore and would love to see this park up close again... is there anyone up for making an overview of this legendary spotlight??
posted 10 years ago
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