Spring 2024 DLC Speculation

A Latin American or Caribbean theme keeps getting suggested but I’m yet to see an example of what it could potentially include that we can’t already build pretty easily…. What kind of build pieces would you include in such a theme?
I think this could be a similar situation to the Africa pack, which added the North African theme, but if I remember correctly there was not a new wall set. It enlarged the plaster set and added new smaller pieces such as tiles, fences, doors, lamps, ornaments... However I also would prefer other theme for a scenery pack.
 
With all the dinos I have in the calgary zoo build equalling up towards 5000 pieces, I wouldn't be one to argue with some realistic sized dinosaur scenery. Giant bugs though? Let's throw that idea in the deepest pool of lava there is.
At the Australian Reptile Park there's giant spider animatronics, the centrepiece being a Funnelweb, there's also a wolf spider I think, but it's wrapped inside of a spider man comic, which I think was a nice touch.

There's also interactive elements next to spider exhibits, which is a bit of fun.

RCT3 Wild had the super giant modern insect statues, which I think is more the go to, rather than the Carboniferous ones, granted seems more of a Museum or Theme Park thing.
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At the Australian Reptile Park there's giant spider animatronics, the centrepiece being a Funnelweb, there's also a wolf spider I think, but it's wrapped inside of a spider man comic, which I think was a nice touch.

There's also interactive elements next to spider exhibits, which is a bit of fun.

RCT3 Wild had the super giant modern insect statues, which I think is more the go to, rather than the Carboniferous ones, granted seems more of a Museum or Theme Park thing.
The-Australian-Reptile-Park-4.jpg
Every day there is another reason why Australia scares me 😂
 
How about a final pack that would be both an animal pack (8) and an item pack (200). And which could be called "Zoo Essentials Pack". It would contain a whole bunch of objects to make zoos more realistic (we could add quite a few of your recent proposals) and 8 animals which are essential to zoos and which are missing from the game, for example:

  • Coati
  • Great White Pelican
  • Patagonian Mara
  • Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey OR Guianan Squirrel Monkey
  • Bush Dog
  • Ocelot OR Serval
  • Grey Crowned Crane
+
- Toucan (WE)
 
How about a final pack that would be both an animal pack (8) and an item pack (200). And which could be called "Zoo Essentials Pack". It would contain a whole bunch of objects to make zoos more realistic (we could add quite a few of your recent proposals) and 8 animals which are essential to zoos and which are missing from the game, for example:

  • Coati
  • Great White Pelican
  • Patagonian Mara
  • Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey OR Guianan Squirrel Monkey
  • Bush Dog
  • Ocelot OR Serval
  • Grey Crowned Crane
+
- Toucan (WE)
Is the Bush Dog essential?
 
Now that the DLC for JWE2 is out, I think we can expect a DLC announcement within the next few weeks. Previous spring DLCs have had a release window ranging from March 30 to April 12. Based on that, I think we'll get the ✨special livestream✨ on April 1, the 1.17 update and the DLC revealed on April 2, and the release of both on April 9.
 
Now that the DLC for JWE2 is out, I think we can expect a DLC announcement within the next few weeks. Previous spring DLCs have had a release window ranging from March 30 to April 12. Based on that, I think we'll get the ✨special livestream✨ on April 1, the 1.17 update and the DLC revealed on April 2, and the release of both on April 9.
I highly doubt any special livestream will happen, all streams were merged into the generic frontier monthly streams since the CM team for planet zoo no longer exists.
 
Every day there is another reason why Australia scares me 😂
It is one of the safer places, probably next safest after Europe & New Zealand, especially the south. As an Australian I've never been attacked by anything serious, or known anyone personally who has been (I got close to being bitten by a friend of a friend's dog a few times, it was only me he didn't like specifically). I live in Adelaide, but I did live in Hervey Bay, Queensland for a few years.
Redback spiders can be set up anywhere between two surfaces, up to about 40cm apart (their spiderlings carry on the wind, and are even invasive in Japan these days), but once you see them they're pretty easy to deal with, using a sneaker on the hand, being fairly slow. Often their web touches the ground, Ants being their main prey. One set-up behind the backboard of my desk at one point, so it's good to check before putting your hand in a crevice in general. Shaking out your shoes every day is also recommended, even though dangerous funnel-webs are pretty much restricted to New South Wales & southern-most Queensland.

Redbacks are the only spiders to kill someone in Australia in the last 40 years (despite Sydney funnel-webs being able to kill in 90 minutes), though seeing the man was cleared from hospital a few days before, prescribed antibiotics, and they were previously in a car crash, the secondary infection seems a significant part. A spider bite killed a teenager in the UK more recently, after discharging themselves from hospital.
If you get bitten by pretty much any spider it's quite painful, you will know very quickly, so you can get treated and get given anti-venom pretty quick. The same can't be said of snakes, a lot of the time it's a small scratch, you might not notice it if you didn't see the snake, and were doing yard work for example, robbing you of time to get medical attention.
Australian snakes are pretty timid, only generally biting when stepped on, or when agitated in their hiding spot (a burrow, or under sheets of metal for example). If they rush towards you, you just stay still, their hiding spot is behind you. They are all short fanged, jeans are generally enough to stop a bite connecting, but thick socks and boots help too on a hike.

I've managed to never see a wild snake, which is interesting, I was weeding in a National park for more than a year, though as part of a group. At one point I did get a couple metres from a Grey Kangaroo, possibly approaching my weight, before we noticed each other and it bounced away.
In terms of humans, fire-arms are restricted to permit holders, so gun violence is generally organised crime doing drive-bys on their competitors (getting the wrong house seemingly half the time, and rarely hitting anybody), but overall is pretty rare (farmers use guns, sometimes they get stolen)
 
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