Park / Archicon

07-March 07

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Kumba Offline

After nearly 5 years of being in the works RCT Fusion's massive club park Archicon is finished! Now this is not your normal park, by any means. The styles and areas in Archicon are very diverse, I mean the grand total of builders is approximately (we lost track a little, lol) a stunning 22, now thats what I call a group park.

There is also some sad news. This will be the last RCTF park. The club has decided to close it's doors due to a consistent decline in activity and enthusiasm for group parks. I will miss the club very much and was happy to help finish Archicon and enjoyed my long stay with the club since it's heyday back in the RCT Innovation days. To my follow club members, I hope you enjoyed working with me, I enjoyed working with you all. A huge thank you needs to go out to Austin Powers and Gymkid for setting the club up and an equally big thank you to Buckeye Becky (AP's Mom, FYI) for her ongoing support, leadership and management of the club and website.

More info on Archicon and the end of RCT Fusion can be found here.
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Carl Offline

RCTF is closing! This is super sad news! And yet, you picked a good time to go out, with the completion of your park that you had been working on since the beginning, very fitting "wrap-around" story line. Four years on a park, wow, makes the time spent on some of our club parks look ok, right, ekimmel Well I hope some of your Fusion members remain active in RCT, maybe ekimmel and I could convince you to join RCTA and infuse some new life into our club.
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Levis Offline

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

RCTF is gone ..... a well we still have Architects, Fury and Majesty (and Recon ? ).
posted 17 years ago
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Trajan Offline

I thought I'd never see the day.

I'm glad it's finally done. Thanks RCTF for a good run, sorry I couldn't have been there for longer. You did good, Kumba.
posted 17 years ago
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Six Frags Offline

I'm missing one name in that area above the 'download here' link
So that's 22 members that built on a park

It's really sad to see RCTF go, as it was one of the last classic RCT clubs from the early days.. I had a blast in the club, made some good friends, had a lot of great chats with them and enjoyed building parks with all of you.. The RCTI sunday evening chats were classic too, and I really enjoyed them way back.. The site with all the club parks over the years prove what an outstanding club RCTF/RCTI was, and it wouldn't have happened without Austin Powers/Eric and his mom, (Buckeye) Becky..So a huge thank-you goes out to them...

Now let's get that NE group park finished!

SF
posted 17 years ago
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RCTNW Offline

Although it is sad that yet another club is closing, what really has changed? Aside from Archicon, when was the last club park released? Again this goes back to the community is changing around us and so has the focus. I myself have played a major role in completing three club parks with RCTM and they are VERY time consuming. A few years ago, it took only a few months to complete a large club park, now it can take a year or in most cases, even longer. Look at the solo parks that are being released right now, they are relatively small in comparison to what they once were. “Times are a changing”

The good news here is just because RCTF is closing the doors, the active members will remain active. So in reality, nothing has really changed to those outside the club. I will miss the discussions we had within the club, but we still stay in contact through other means. What I do like about this was that RCTF did not go out silently but rather with a fitting end with Archicon.

I would also like to thank AP and Becky for ALL the hard work they put into the club! Even though I joined very late in the game, I could see the dedication they put into it. I would also like to thank all the current RCTF members as it was a blast to be a part of it all.

James - rctnw
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JDP Offline

Really sucks there closing. Its really shutting down the rct community with groups closing like this. Oh well. Ill check the park out later, looks pretty good.
-JDP
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ekimmel Offline

RCTF is closing! This is super sad news! And yet, you picked a good time to go out, with the completion of your park that you had been working on since the beginning, very fitting "wrap-around" story line. Four years on a park, wow, makes the time spent on some of our club parks look ok, right, ekimmel Well I hope some of your Fusion members remain active in RCT, maybe ekimmel and I could convince you to join RCTA and infuse some new life into our club.

Yeah, join us! We can offer free hosting..
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Gwazi Offline

I need free hosting.

But I'm already in a club...
Edited by Gwazi, 07 March 2007 - 08:23 PM.
posted 17 years ago
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Lloyd Offline

This park really showed its' age! It was fun to look around for a little while, but i think it's more about what the park signifies, end of an era etc...

Still a shame to see the club go, not that i knew much about it.
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JDP Offline

I only seen half of the park. But i must say 5dave and RCTNW, that hybird wooden coaster was pretty sick. I tried that once before by only painting the supports gray but never really tought of doing it custom. Nice work on that. Everything else just seem nice. Ill go back and check it after school.
-JDP
posted 17 years ago
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Todd Lee Offline

Can't wait to check this one out over the weekend. (no time right now)Too bad about the club disbanding, but as previously stated, what's changed? They haven't been active for a while. Nice work getting this done, that's quite an accomplishment!
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penguinBOB Offline

i remember doing an entrance area to this park a really long time ago. good times. i wonder if it is as awesome as i thought it was. ha
posted 17 years ago
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RCFanB&M Offline

It's a shame RCTF is closing but, like Levis said, there still are some clubs alive.

This huge park was nice...It's good to see another release by the club. To be honest, I think that this park doesn't reache the quality that it would reach if it was re-built by some Fusion members these days, everybody have improved so heh...it's an obvious fact.

Anyway, maybe, from now...all the people who was a Fusion member (X, Metro, Kumba, etc) will have more time for focusing on their solos...I don't know...

Anyway, congrats for every Fusion member (and Becky and AP) for everything you did for the club and hope to see you around here.
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JJ Offline

damn, gonna miss rctfusion, very sad news indeed
Congrats on the SRU
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Mama Bear Offline

That is disturbing news........The RCT community really is changing, isn't it? But you are right James, most members will stay active of course. I agree on parks taking much more time to finish nowadays. Standards did get higher, obviously.
I still have hopes that the Masters Palette, the "monster" production of the RCT Masters, will see the day of its release. Since the park is more than 85% finished I think it should.
It's great RCTF did finish their club park and is able to release it as a farewell. I'm looking forward to see it!

Mama Bear
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lucas92 Offline

This park shows its age. Nice park. Sad that rctf closes its doors.

Ps. Who got the name for this park? Actually, in french, it means 'really, really stupid'...??
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Carl Offline

I think the name is short for "Architecture Convention"
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gymkid dude Offline

Sorry to hear about RCTF closing. However, despite this news, it's really hard to think of the club as a 'failure'. Sure, I ditched you guys and RCT in general. Sure there was never any huge revolution that took place. But we did make a lot of good parks, get a lot of good parkmakers, and I made a lot of friends in the process. Reading Becky's summary of the club history made me proud to be a part of it. A ton of the current NE parkmakers are ex-Fusion members. And many more are/have been among the leading non-parkmakers for a long time.

It was a great group. Running a club is hard, especially keeping one active and productive. I'd say it was a success. *am on Spring break dont have RCT disc will comment later*
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Trajan Offline

Sorry to hear about RCTF closing. However, despite this news, it's really hard to think of the club as a 'failure'. Sure, I ditched you guys and RCT in general. Sure there was never any huge revolution that took place. But we did make a lot of good parks, get a lot of good parkmakers, and I made a lot of friends in the process. Reading Becky's summary of the club history made me proud to be a part of it. A ton of the current NE parkmakers are ex-Fusion members. And many more are/have been among the leading non-parkmakers for a long time.

It was a great group. Running a club is hard, especially keeping one active and productive. I'd say it was a success. *am on Spring break dont have RCT disc will comment later*

Agreed. The club had an AMAZING run, from the beginnings of the days of the Station. There aren't a lot of clubs who can even challenge us in our success.
posted 17 years ago
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