Gemini78
11-23-2008, 02:52 AM
After almost two years of not doing much at all in RCT2 I've decided to pick the game back and once again try my hand at park making. About a year ago I started working on a landscape that I had codenamed River Bend, and decided that finishing that would be a good place to pick back up. Earlier this week I finished work in the scenario editor and have moved into game mode, and I am very pleased with how the park looks so far. With this park I decided I would venture out of my usual focus on rides and into beautiful landscaping with a variety of flower beds and trees. You'll quickly notice this new focus as soon as you start looking through the screens.
River Bend Park originally opened as a horticultural park in the late 1800s, and with the advent of the roller coaster, the city owned park decided to invest in a sprawling twister that would go through the woods on the right side of the park entrance. Named the Timberline and built in 1920, this coaster helped keep interest in the park throughout the depression and into the 50s. The park was soon abandoned in the late 60s as interest had dropped, and the city was lacking the funds to maintain the park. In 1978 it was discovered that the abandoned land had been the subject of negotiations between the city and a private real estate investment firm that wanted to turn the former garden park into a housing and retail development. Some young local enthusiasts had recently stumbled into the abandoned park and discovered the Timberline, now being overtaken by the forest. This discovery and subsequent inquiry into the history of the ride sparked a desire to save the park and the roller coaster once they heard of the negotiations with the investment firm. Together with the help of local historians as well as the elderly and their children who had fond memories of the long forgotten park they put enough pressure on the city to stop negotiations and to search for someone who would help invest in restoring the park to its former glory. In a hopeful turn of events, the same real estate investment firm came in to take the bid on restoring the park and the roller coaster, so long as they could receive any profits from the roller coaster operation. The city agreed and the restoration project started. It ended up taking almost five years to reclaim the gardens and the Timberline, but by 1985 the park reopened to a wave of enthusiasm and renewed interest, even drawing visitors from surrounding cities as much as 3 hours away, becoming a tourists attraction for those staying multiple days for conferences or sporting events. In 1996 the investment firm that helped to restore the park took full ownership of the park with plans to add more amusements while preserving the classic gardens and forests.
There's a brief history on the park, and the screen shots are below. The entrance plaza style probably will look very familiar if you saw my last project, Idlewood. This is really my first attempt at landscaping to level that I'm attempting here, so forgive me if it isn't as amazing as I think it is. Hope you enjoy the first look at my reentry into the world of RCT2 park making, River Bend Park.
River Bend Park originally opened as a horticultural park in the late 1800s, and with the advent of the roller coaster, the city owned park decided to invest in a sprawling twister that would go through the woods on the right side of the park entrance. Named the Timberline and built in 1920, this coaster helped keep interest in the park throughout the depression and into the 50s. The park was soon abandoned in the late 60s as interest had dropped, and the city was lacking the funds to maintain the park. In 1978 it was discovered that the abandoned land had been the subject of negotiations between the city and a private real estate investment firm that wanted to turn the former garden park into a housing and retail development. Some young local enthusiasts had recently stumbled into the abandoned park and discovered the Timberline, now being overtaken by the forest. This discovery and subsequent inquiry into the history of the ride sparked a desire to save the park and the roller coaster once they heard of the negotiations with the investment firm. Together with the help of local historians as well as the elderly and their children who had fond memories of the long forgotten park they put enough pressure on the city to stop negotiations and to search for someone who would help invest in restoring the park to its former glory. In a hopeful turn of events, the same real estate investment firm came in to take the bid on restoring the park and the roller coaster, so long as they could receive any profits from the roller coaster operation. The city agreed and the restoration project started. It ended up taking almost five years to reclaim the gardens and the Timberline, but by 1985 the park reopened to a wave of enthusiasm and renewed interest, even drawing visitors from surrounding cities as much as 3 hours away, becoming a tourists attraction for those staying multiple days for conferences or sporting events. In 1996 the investment firm that helped to restore the park took full ownership of the park with plans to add more amusements while preserving the classic gardens and forests.
There's a brief history on the park, and the screen shots are below. The entrance plaza style probably will look very familiar if you saw my last project, Idlewood. This is really my first attempt at landscaping to level that I'm attempting here, so forgive me if it isn't as amazing as I think it is. Hope you enjoy the first look at my reentry into the world of RCT2 park making, River Bend Park.