[NL2] Sunny Skies Park (Download availible!)

[FLIPDUDE]

So obviously, all of you know about, or possibly have been to, Sunny Skies Park.

But how many of you really bothered to learn it's history?

 

Back in 1887, an at the time young man called Jeremiah P. Heartline moved to the states with his family, using what money they had to build Heartline Farm - Which soon grew to be Cedar County's 2nd most successful Ferret Farm!

 

People came from high and low to the farm for some R&R, staying year round at the farmhouse, which doubled as a Bed and Breakfast, and would host the annual Pumpkin Rolling festivities.

 

Demand was so high that soon enough they had to build two extra cabins for wayward travelers to stay in. Therefore DOUBLING their occupancy!

Yes, it was a farm, a bed and breakfast, and for two months in one unfortunately hot winter, a failed ski resort.

 

But everything changed when the fire nation-- I mean, when Jeremiah decided to expand and build some attractions for the little ones.

At first it were some playground attractions, a petting zoo, a merry go round, but soon enough he had built the first miniature railway this side of the Sidewinder river.

 

The train, which ran the edges of the property, gave tourists a beautiful view of a big old pile of nothing. But would occasionally be used as transportation back and forth from the cabins, which were in a more secluded part of the woods.

 

 

In the 40s the railway park had become a true tourist attraction with people flocking from 7 counties over to see the biggest twister rollercoaster seen in the area, designed by Jeremiah himself, who insisted on a crazy notion that a rollercoaster be designed according to the "heartline", instead of curving around the center of the track. It's original name - The Heartliner, was soon changed to The Lantern after an unfortunate copyrighting incident involving Jeremiah's 1st ugly divorce.

 

This created what was at the time one of the wobblier, yet smoothest layouts for a coaster of it's kind. Of course, you all know that due to poor maintenance since the buyout, it is now hailed as one of the worst maintained jackhammer-esque rides on the planet.

 

In the 70s the park was built by FaCorp, the camping giant which had recently started buying out amusement parks. They expanded the park into a camping site, and added theming, also expanding the scenic railway's layout into a full circle.

Not much remains of what was then the Medieval section of the park.

 

The park started expanding east, becoming a same old FakeLand duplicate we've all seen a million times before, and is therefore not pictured here(or in the simulation file attached, for that matter).

The park's western side remained the authentic lakeside campground it had always been.

 

 

Until Atomica was announced.

In perhaps one of the most controvertial moves in the modern day amusement park history, Sunny Skies Park announced a multi-million hypercoaster to be built over the historic section of the park, not only tunneling THROUGH the historic Lantern coaster, and robbing it of it's control of the park's skyline, but also essentially forcing the removal of the campgrounds, and being built right over the picturesque Lake Anton.

 

Fans of the park's historic side battled head to head with Amusement Park Afficienados cheering on the exciting fresh thrill ride which the area sorely needed.

This caused a delay in construction, and ironically enough, ended up to a revisitation of the project plans, making the coaster even bigger and more obnoxious than before.

 

Nowadays most agree that Atomica is probably what saved the park when the annual Pumpkin rolling festivities were moved, robbing the park of much income, and is one of the more exciting rides around, people coming from far and wide to marvel at it, ride it, and just look and be amazed that it somehow DOES pass clearance testing.

 

Hopefully you've all grown wiser and will enjoy your next trip to Sunny Skies Park even more!

 

 

Download link:

http://www.themeparkreview.com/game_exchange/track.php?id=3081

Edited January 25, 2014 by FLIPDUDE

[Midgetman82]

First of all, you're about to get me do a full PhotoTR on a park that doesn't even exist! Second of all, this is the first official NL2 "Park" I've downloaded so far, ever, and it looks amazing!

 

Atomica looks and rides just like how a real B&M would perform with silky smooth transitions and airtime galore, and the interaction over and under the lift hill was definitely something I haven't seen done before! The wooden coaster was also really nice, albeit Jeremiah created one very wild wooden coaster. The only downsides to both are that the Magic Lantern's braking distance goes straight into the station and would probably be too dangerous for a double train operation, and Atomica's brake run runs really fast and could probably be slowed down to the same speed as the station.

 

Other than those small things, I love the park and really admire the miniature train that runs all around scenery and through tunnels. Something very calming in a park with two crazy roller coasters! Love this!

[Projektion]

I haven't been able to download it yet, so I haven't been able to check it out properly, but from looking at the pictures, the mcbr on atomica seems too high. It just seems off putting and odd.

[FLIPDUDE]

^^Thanks, MM! Glad you liked it and I appreciate the in depth review!

 

^From what I recall, Goliath and Titan have similarly tall MCBRs. (As well as other coasters that aren't B&Ms). I kind of like how intimidating it feels on those. This was on purpose.

 

What trouble are you having with downloading the park? If the server is the issue you can also get it here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pd0a1fawfx7ckm4/Sunny%20Skies%20Park.nl2pkg

[Projektion]

^ I'm not having any trouble, I'm just not at home at the moment and don't have access to NL2. Probably should have worded it a little better.

 

I realise other rides have high MCBRs, it's just in all the pictures where you can see the MCBR (minus the last one, it seems to look fine it that one) it seems strange seeing an mcbr dominate the skyline just as much as the lift hill.

[Loefet]

The problem is that the link in the first post is wrong, it points to the edit post page of some post or something, no idea really.

Go to the exchange with this link instead to find the download: http://www.themeparkreview.com/game_exchange/track.php?id=3081

 

A lot of snaking on the woodie, but it was in total a bit much for my computer so I can't really make a great verdict of the whole thing. Looked alright though.

[Invertalon]

Pretty cool park... I really dislike the use of drive tires on the MCBR's though... Especially on the B&M. I could see it being possible on the woodie, but still. Big peeve of mine considering most rides, especially all B&M's don't use drive tires... Just add a slope to it instead of using tires.

 

Woodie had a nice layout... Some little tracking oddities for a wood coaster (banking/heartline issues) but overall was a nice ride. It had a more modern layout, so to me did not fit the "history" of the park. The B&M layout I really liked overall.

 

Good job!