5 years??!! Totally not feeling old right now...
I have quite a few builds that I'm really chuffed with but I'll try and narrow it down to...erm...a few...
Park entrance (it's come a long way from what it used to be). Note the Fantasy Castle in the background - better known as the 'Pass the Park Castle', after last year's awesome project for which it was built:
Humunga - one of my oldest and more beautifully themed coasters, having been built way back in 2017, only more and more has been added to it over time.
Sakura Valley is undoubtedly my most beautifully themed area, inspired off my ever-growing passion for mindfulness, meditation and nature.
Palace Chang'e, in the background, unexpectedly lives up to its name with the temple silently drifting off towards the moon after dark!
While 'Vahylde: Attack On Hel' is a really great Viking themed dive coaster, it's the station that I'm most proud of, with some nice details and awesome lighting effects:
Pharaoh's Fury was another ambitious and off-the-ball idea and one of a few occasions where I had to push myself out of my comfort zone and try new things. This was inspired off Talocan at Phantasialand and features some great fire and water effects
On the topic of 'off-the-ball' ideas, while still rather simplistic, the station for my spinning coaster, Whirlwind, was a brilliant concept, utilising billboards and carefully placed lighting to create a really immersive forest setting.
Finally, of course, we have Talon! Obviously inspired off Taron at Phantasialand, this is still my most complex project to date, as building a compact coaster that interacts with terrain and buildings alike was not easy. And at the heart of this beast...the legendary Steampunk Dragon.
But if I were to select my overall favourite Planet Coaster memory, it's not actually within the game itself...but the community it spawned. Warning, it gets a little deep...
While my first year or so of playing Planet Coaster was enough to keep my mental health in check, it unfortunately wouldn't quite be enough once the narcissistic abuse I went through elsewhere had set in. However, all that would change in 2019; I attended the annual Efteling meetup not quite knowing what to expect...and before I knew it I was getting an overwhelming level of acceptance, love and appreciation. I never thought a gaming community would see the end of the worst of my mental health issues and I couldn't be more proud to label the PlanFam as the community that changed my life.
Thank you Frontier for keeping such a wonderful game alive and keeping this coaster nerd on his toes. Here's to another 5 years, and many more!