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^Kings Island isn't that bad! It wasn't Wallygator where they closed up the restaurants early and the wooden coaster was so bad I though it was going to shake itself apart. And the people weren't as rude in the park as the 12 year old French kid at Disneyland Paris that decided to use my shoulder as a chin rest like I was a doggone statue! Terry

^Ha! We're on the same wavelength! I couldn't find any popcorn, so I had to settle for Sun Chips. Knew this would be a lively, lovely topic. Is there anyway we can sticky this as a reminder?

Did you really look at 257 pages of boobs? You say that, like it's a bad thing. Hi! Terry "Gay man" Weaver P.S. There's probably some bad boobs in the bunch that you probably don't want to see. You know like Cher, Barbara Walters, or Rosie O'Donnell type boobs.

Can we get Sam's take on both parks? Oh, he's busy playing pool.... When I was a little biddy boy My grandma bought me a cute little toy Two Silver bells on a string She told me it was my.... Can you feel the love? Parks should get along and love one another, even if it's on the downlow... wait...

Larry, your post had good points and I agree. A lot of the top 10 parks, or anything is so subjective so it's really not really worth arguing over. That said, is there any particular list that the majority of people follow? I think both parks have their good points and bad and I would definitely visit either one of them again, especially since both of them have new coasters coming out next year. Terry This is for Wes: I see it now.

^^Don't follow up an apology with a cut boo. It ends up an "apolo-lie". Anyway, don't fight kids... unite! Really, it isn't that serious; but I get a kick out of these type of threads. Terry "I need popcorn" Weaver

I played around with the eurofighter as well and it was pretty cool. I guess I have to wait until the first to get the new texture though... I have a place I want to put it in my new park. I think it would make a great first ride as the guests enter the park. I used a few of your modded ride events in my park and that was some great work as well. Speaking of which, you wouldn't have the GermanTaco ride event beta downloaded? I with his site down, I have to ask around! Terry

^I think he's one of the animatronic characters in the game. The volcanoes were modified by DasMatze to be ride events so they begin erupting at different points in the ride. Also I added a angry gorrila sound effect for the demon's roar... it's actually pretty scary. Speaking of DasMatze, I have to see if I can get his new eurofighter model....his site is temporarily down... and see if maybe he has the beta ride events. I think the water explosion would look good on the drop into the water I posted. Oh and I did smooth that section out so it isn't as blocky. Terry

^I see why it was posted as well... not necessarily dumb, but someone needs to turn on their tact filter before making comments. That or maybe someone has such low self esteem that they feel they have to put others down to lift themselves up. Sing with me... You are beautiful no matter what they say Words can't bring you down You are beautiful in every single way Yes, words can't bring you down Don't you bring me down today... Terry "Aguilera" Weaver

Well I did a bit more work on the hell and Waterbearer scenes... This scene is a bit better with the water and fountains. Next the waterbearer scene needed a bit more attention. I had a problem with homegirl keeping the hellfire at bay with a pitcher of water. C'mon gal, get this together! I added some custom scenery waterfalls and fountains. This is the overhead view before I removed the top part of the waterfall due to the line showing. The new scene involves a up close and personal flyby before leaving the scene. Still didn't add to much lava yet. The banked curve near the demon is still there. The escape from the demon encounter was changed a bit. The initial confrontation didn't last long and you didn't see him. You blinked and you missed it and it was on to the next part. Next a bit of a teaser for Act 3. Where are we anyway? Now the scene is close to being finished.

^Thanks! Quick question for anyone: Does anyone have the beta for GermanTaco's Ride Effects? I figure I would ask here before trying elsewhere. His site is down right now and some of his effects look pretty cool. Terry

Well, you know I was speaking to others about unfinished parks so I didn't want to be a hypocrite. I do have a small path, a parking garage and a trash can, so if you want to split this out to it's own thread you can. You can name the thread in honor of my RCT1 parks from the nineties... Terrance's Debbieland: Twin Castles. I showed my friend the initial coaster layout with minimal props and he said he would never ride it! I wonder what he'll say tonight when he see's the what I've added. Oh stats-wise: (before most of the hell edits and Waterbearer scene) Excitement : 9.64 Intensity: 8.10 Nausea: 4.23 I think I'll try to update the Waterbearer's scene with some additional effects for the next update. Terry "didn't know you guys would eat this up. It's my first custom scenery park" Weaver

I think I would call the police on that one. She can explain the thought process that when into that gift with them. That's foul. Terry

I'm using the x-tastics fire set... but obviously not enough of it. Right now I'm putting in the set pieces to see if I like them, then smoothing it out and cleaning it up. Until then, it's a blocky world! I will work with smoothing the ground down where I can once I finish. I will say when the coaster is riding through the scene, there's more than enough fire and lava to go around! Certain scenes and transitions will be enclosed and hidden, so you shouldn't be able so see them from other parts of the ride. The Waterbearer scene is down there in hell (guess that's where one of the workers took it... he was moonlighting!), but it's hidden from view, even when you are looking at it from above. Part of Act One sits on top of Act Two, so I have to finish the latter before I close if off. Also I need to practices with the sets for making cliffs and rocks as that will help with some of the blockiness. I have to get my castle building skills together too... right now the first part of the ride looks like the Harry Potter building at IOA. I made a torture room scene, but I didn't like it so I took it down. That is, the computer crash helped me out. One of my custom scenery sets didn't like my hack-mac setup (yep I'm too lazy to switch over to the XP so I've been playing around with running RCT3 and expansion packs on the mac... Parallels was ok but mouse control was horrible so I used another trick and that worked... unfortuately it still saves everything as Soaked so I can't load parks with the wild expansion... but as long as I can use the rides and scenery, oh well). But that's when I focused on the hell and Waterbearer scenes. Right now it's a LOT of trial and error as I get used to using the custom scenery. So far I put about 4 days into it, which is lot for a 5 minute ride! Yesterday I started working on it at 10am and the next thing I know, my roommate is calling me for dinner! Terry

^You guys better stop pumping my head up with these compliments! I'm not doing anything special, just dropping the custom objects and laying out the coaster. I will say I'm much better at putting together a coaster than when I first played RCT1 and stayed up until 6am... and I had to work... and it still wasn't right. Anyway, I think I'll keep the layout secret. After all, what's the fun in a POV if you already know what's gonna happen? I was originally going to put together a Rockin' Rollercoaster type ride set to circuit music... I have the songs for the mix but I need to put them together. But that ride and the one I'm working on belong to the same park. The story is basically a castle is inherited by a jetseting party boy and his first order of business is to have a big welcoming party... hence the original coaster. However, the castle contained ruins that legends say was protected by two mystical statues. These statues are said to keep the spirits of evil from escaping into the realm of the living. During the renovation, one of the statues was lost at the location of the ruin... The workers have been reporting strange events, but are shrugged off as hallucinations. On the night of the party, a few people sneak off and wander into ruins... Anyway, that's the gist of the ride. It's time for bed, but I have a few more pics to share. The Waterbearer sends us away from the evil realm to safety. Or did she? I'm thinking not, since I still have Act 3 to do. I'm not psychic, but I think we're going to get caught up in a battle between good and evil... Things were looking bleak for us, but I think we found the other statue... "The Waterbearer"... The second act of the ride is somewhat a secret, but you can see that all hell has literally broke loose! I ran the coaster in POV mode and I thought it was pretty good. But I think it's a bit hot for the riders, so I think we need to cool them off...

^I'm on my mac too and I have most of the custom scenery, although I had to install it on my PC using the version I bought a a few years back first and copy it over. I bought the Soaked addon for the mac though. It's a shame Aspyr didn't do the Wild addon though.

^ & ^^ Thanks! I finished the layout today and started adding scenery to other parts of the ride. I hope to finish one of the other dark ride rooms today. A nasty spirit stands between you and the ride station. Wait... is the station on fire? Oh noes! I ran the stats on the coaster and for a 4 1/2 minute ride, I got about 58 seconds of airtime! That'll get you out of your seat! You may not be ready for this nasty airtime surprise... "Bones" looks like he's hungry! Ok, now that I fixed the problem, it's going into the crooked hallway. Should look good once I start hiding the other coaster tracks... but the I doubt the peeps have time to see them! The coaster roars out of a corkscrew and into a crooked hallway. (Ok, ok... it valleyed here and I took a pic! It still looks good and scary though!)

Well I spent most of the day with my experimental fantasy dark ride/coaster (and typing on my new apple wireless keyboard... it's so tiny!!), and realized how hard this is! I'm still working on getting the coaster elements together, although I'm pulling 9's in excitement and intensity... and keeping nausea to a minimum. I still have the finale to work on, and then I'll work on the theming. Anyway, here's what I have so far: The next two scenes before the coaster drop are connected by the lift hill heading upstairs. This will have more stuff jumping out at the rider as they realize that entering a crypt wasn't on the list of smart things to do in 2008. ; The car heads to the next scene which I just started on. There's only a floor laid down and a few sound effects and music playing through hidden speakers. The cemetery doesn't need too much lighting, and the eerie winds helps the coaster ratings. Next, I had to test a few areas for lighting. I put minimal light in the ride station. This is about 20% done. Only one out of the first four dark ride scenes are close to being finished. It's about 70% enclosed... have to work on trimming a few sound effects for the grave yard and haunted house scenes. This was a place marker for a few surprise elements, but now it needs to be taken down.

This beat out the handkerchiefs I got every year from my grandma. (She assumed I wore suits to work every day. There's only so many pieces of fabric I can burn every year! I finally had to tell her so she could save her money.) I received the video tape for this a few year back. I have to wrap this up and send it to my best friend for his birthday. He managed to slip it back in my luggage last year!

^The thank you note: Terry "my exes know better" Weaver

Just to update, the gift my roommates gave me was actually the wireless keyboard I asked for. That Apple keyboard is TINY! I need to set it up before going to work. I also got some homemade spiced bread and a $25 Itunes gift card. Still going to L.A. next year though. I played a prank on my roommate with his gift; he likes his gift to be a wrapped surprise and got b@tchy when I wanted to give him the gift without wrapping it (you know, save the environment and my nerves since I do some of the worst wrap jobs on the face of the earth). So I wrapped a dead hard drive in a box and put then the envelope containing the actual gift on top. Inside the envelope (with a Visa gift card) I wrote: "I know you like surprises, so here it is: don't bother opening the gift box. Ain't sh@t in it." SURPRISE!!" I found the unwrapped box by the door last night when I got home from the guy I'm seeing new "family". Terry

I pretty much bought or won Christmas presents for this year: Won: Ipod shuffle Bought for myself via Auction: VIP Party Tickets to next years White Party Beach Ball Four tickets to a circuit party in 3 weeks Received: 8gb memory card Sad ain't it? My roommates got me something, but I doubt it's the wireless keyboard for my computer that I wanted. I think it's clothes... hope they included the receipt because they always buy something I never wear and eventually give away because they never get the size right. How hard is it to just give me a gift card like I asked for if they can't get the original request? A $30 visa gift card is better than a $50 shirt that's too big. I'm going to L.A. next year and avoiding the gift exchange. Terry

Legendary. Terry

Like Beemer said, it really didn't. I feel for you guys because there's a lot we could do that I don't see happening now. A lot of what we did was done outside: playing in creeks (and the occasional sewer pipe), Six Flags had dance parties on Fridays and everyone dressed up, and we used our imagination when playing games, such as playing the Hoth battle with our Star Wars figures in the snow. I think everyone now relies on electronics now; so when the power goes out, everyone goes crazy! But anyway the real reason for reviving this thread: Action packed karate! Those were the days! Anyone remember this game? We would play this while the teacher wasn't looking! My first home video game system. The controller/game system looked like a big beige brick!

^I bet these artists never would have guessed in a million years that they would have to peddle their music by being in a video game. Heck Aerosmith should remember when programs were written on stacks of punch cards and fed through a machine (ok, I remember it too in middle school... and the PET computer with the whopping 8k of memory ) . Terry "Karateka Anyone?" Weaver