Parks [WIP] Nathan's World

[Clrun4]

Hey people !

After making random rides and several "isolated" themed areas (meaning just having an area in the park), I've decided to make a full theme park, all by myself.

No real guideline for this one, as I didn't want to copy something that already exists, but obviously you'll see there is some inspirations frome here and here.

Why Nathan's World ? Simply because I've started this project in June, when we were still expectating our son. I'm pretty sure you can guess his name.

So yeah, this park was created "for" him (or as an excuse for playing a lot), and since he has born now, progress will be very erratic as I don't have much time to play PlanCo.

So, what's the park looking right now ?

The entrance, which is also a small hotel.

Chilling on the lounge terrace

The main suite of the hotel, with a view over the main street.

The back of the entrance

The main street. On each sides of the main building are the pathways to the hotel.

On the left side are some toilets blocs, and some snacks (on the castle). On the other sides are shops (the white building) and a restaurant called Victoria's Hall
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After the main street, there is a castle ... maybe some of you have already seen that.

But there isn't a lof of them having a Dive B&M making a plunge into it !

Anyway, I'm still "meh" about this building. It's a bit too big, and I dunno what to do with the interior, it's a bit empty.

So, while I'm figuring it out, came with one of the first zone, and it's star ride :

Yes, a Vekoma mine train, and yeah, it goes on a tunnel underwater !

That's if for now ! If you have some ideas, thoughts or anything else, feel free to tell them !

 

[gecaum]

Very nice !

 

[Cosmic Cow]

Amazing! That tunnel is a very cool idea.

 

[Clrun4]

Thanks guys !

The mine train got some care !

 

[RyRy2312]

Look great so far dude

 

[wowman]

nice. lots of different themes packed into that small space

 

[Clrun4]

Thanks guys !

As I said in the first post, updates will comes very randomly.

But, I had some times to play these previous day, so here we go !

By now, I regret I didn't plan the zone, as I'm struggling to integrate a flum ride ... But I will figure it out eventually !

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[Clrun4]

Very late update on this park.
Between my work and my babyboy, I don't have so much spare time to play, and neither to post pictures of the park. But, as it has been nearly 5 months since the last time I went here, I made a huge progress.

First, the Alpine County area is done. The second area, Jungle Forest, is done too. The third area, Lebanon, is ... done as well !
I even made a car park, and some revamp to the entrance and the inside of the castle located on the main street.

So, here are a few pictures of what have been done so far

As I said, 3/4 of the park has been done now.
I'll continue on posting here updates of the already made parts, but, as a teaser, you can have this picture :

And for those who aren't afraid of my terrible english, and who would to see in video what the park looks like, you can have a visit of the entrance and Alpine County (including POVS) right here :

Source: https://www.youtube.com/embed/uhMgZFGy8Vw
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[Clrun4]

Hey everybody !

Introducing the 2nd area of the park, Jungle Forest (got no inspiration for names, sorry).

This area is located on the right side of the park, juste behind the main street. Again, it's a very green zone, but not the same atmoshpere as we go into a tropical vibe. I wanted the area ot be divided in 2, as we got one bit where I tried to have a feeling we're deep in the jungle (like in the Polynesean zone of PortAventura) and the other one to be more beach-y.

In terms of ride, there is a merry-go-round (the small one), one of the 2 stations for the boat ride (which will be use as a transport), a pirat boat, and last but not least, a Screamin'Swing and a Xtrem Spinning Coaster Mack without inversions. Most of the layout of the Dive Coaster goes trough this area, despite it belongs to another theme zone.

Wanted to make a terrace on the beach. IRL, I think there'll be issues with security but it look good. The other part of the restaurant dresses like a pier.

The Swing machine and the boat ride station

Random stuff as the zone was in construction
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The main attraction of this zone is the spinning, a double launched one. FYI, I struggled a lot with this. First, I went for a smaller spinning (the Maurer one), but it didn't work. Then I went for the Mack one (Sorry, I didn't remember the names ingame), but I thing I changed the layout 5 or 6 times before having something working and that I like.
Anyway, Kahuna's the name, and I very like it !

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And for your enjoyment, here's one fiexed Pov of the coaster, Kahuna !

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]Source: https://youtu.be/oYMjZ_YM0GM[/youtube]
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[Clrun4]

Hey everyone, welcome to Lebanon, the third area of this park !

This area is located on the top right of the park, just over the jungle land.
I'll be honest, I copied myself for the theme, as I already did a lebanon theme zone in a previous park. In fact, 3 buildings are blueprints from this ancient park, and the Inverted Station is a redo of a previous one.

The intamin Drop Tower, the food court and the little building who houses games are the ones I copy and paste.

As I said, this station is a redo of a previous one. The main difference is the older one was for an hyper B&M and this one is for an Inverted. I also tried to make the building more realistic and detailled.

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For the rides, there is the Drop Tower of course, but also a Ballon Race. On the pictures you can see a Disk'o that just been thrown away afterwards. It's the junior Boomerang who took its spot.
There is also a kid playground (unfortunately not functionnal), the Inverted B&M, Kashmin and a raft ride.
And a surprise later in this post.

Here is a Pov of Kashmin, the inverted coaster !

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]Source: https://youtu.be/ZnI5lGnByw4[/youtube]
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The main idea was to have a ride having great interactions with the area. Dunno how many times I did the layout, maybe 5 or 6 times, especially the part with the second loop.
I also made a stagging building with transfer tracks for the ride.

And then, I found it was a shame having the main floor of this building empty, so I came up with a solution.

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]Source: https://youtu.be/9Lnp7G4Blrw[/youtube]

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And the last ride of the area, and the last one that I made, the raft.
This nearly was a Water Coaster, but I went for a good ol' rapid ride instead. Better that way IMO.

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]Source: https://youtu.be/3m6kHPFkxPI[/youtube]
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I'm afraid you may get drenched !

This area was quite long to make, and sometimes a pain in the .....
But I'm very happy how it turned.

Thanks for reading, and I leave you with some aerials shots !

 

[wowman]

wow - big and great update

 

[Clrun4]

Slow progress one the park recently.
I live in France, et we're in lockdown, and all the schools and nursery are closed. So we have to work frome home and take care of our 9 months old baby, letting me very poor time to play on the computer.

Anyway, right now, I'm trying to progress on the last area of the park, but there was several things that I've previously made that I'm able to share with you.

I had a problem with the terraforming, following a change in the map style (these hideous green cliffs). Made a step backward, and it's all good now.

Then, I had some fun creating a car park and the access road !

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I deleted the old guest spawn point, and changed a bit the entrance so it would fit better with the car park. Hid the spawn points in the car park so it feels more "alive"".
Put some easter eggs there and there too, for no reason other than I find it funny.

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Then, I realized something a bit dumb.
I took care of having disabled access for all the rides (all the exits of the rides are made of slopes instead of stairs), but to enter the castle, you had to climb stairs... and there was no other way of getting in the park itself !
So, at the end of the main street, right at the bottom of the castle, I made 2 little pathways, flat, for everyone to access every part of the park.

Speaking of the castle, the interior has been completed, the back has been improved and some lightnings have been made. I also finished the hub underneath the Dive.
I also made a removal system for the log flume, which also acts as a theming element, as this point feels a bit empty.

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Speaking of the Dive, I never really spoked about it. It's called the Highness, a poor joke about the fact it's high, and it's located in the tiny fantasy area that also includes the castle.
61m tall, 2 inversions, a massive Dive Loop and a Zero-G-Winder. It also have the signature Splash Zone and it's very inspired by Baron 1898 at Efteling for the lift hill and the small Dark Ride section right before the climb.

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As usual, a raw POV (and laggy, sorry) of the beast.

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And, teaser alert, here's what I'm currently on.

Edit : links fixed !

 

[Clrun4]

Oh dear, It's been 3 months since the last update !

Between the game and my personnal life, I have been quite busy these days. But hey, I got some fresh news !

FYI, on sunday, it will be a year I'm working on this park ... Didn't really saw the time fly. But, I'm closer to the end than ever !

Still on the last land of the park. But this was (and still is, not finished yet) a hard work !
If the previous areas were massively green, this one is not. Obviously, putting some trees and rock is faster than covering the whole area with buildings.

As you see, there is a lot of inspiration from a well-known german park. I tried my best just to get inspiration, and avoiding pure copy.


Welcome ladies and gentlemen to HoorWerk, the Steampunk area of Nathan's World !

Wanted to do an entrance à la Studio 1 at Walt Disney Studios, but with improvement
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My main idea was to go on a city-area. Took some times to made up my mind between a futuristic touch or something else, and then, saw Rookburg at Phantasialand and went for it.
In the area, you will find 5 rides, including 2 coasters, 2 flat ride et one mystery ride. Plus some snacks and restaurants. Plus an hotel. Plus the 2nd station of the boat-ride.
The first coaster is a kiddie, located in Grand Chinatown Park.

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The kiddie goes for an asian theme, just to match up with the trains. Also, it was the first part of this land I made, wasn't totally sure about the theme at the time. But, the idea to have like a mini Central Park in the middle of the fictionnal city pleases me. Wanted to have a kiddie to have a good balance between all the coaster.

Next to it is the boat ride station for HoorWerk.

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Made a cover for the whip, the smallest of the 2 flat rides. In the area, after the fire station, is a restaurant.

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On the other side is a discovery, surrounded by this building (no other pics as I'm trying to keep some surprises)

For the other coaster and the mystery ride, I'll show them in an other post !

 

[wowman]

wow - this looks great

 

[Clrun4]

Thanks for the replies !!

As always, updates aren't very regular but with the holidays, I simply got no time to play.

Anyway, the park has come to an halt. Not because of motivation issues or something. It is finished !!!

After 14 months of build, I've reached the end of this project. Still have to make a few videos about the park and that'll be it.

Anyway, before that, we stayed halfway on our discovery of the HoorWerk area.

I obviously ommited to show you the 2 main rides. But you got a teaser on the last pictures.

Ok, so there's a flying coaster roaring around the area. I can't say I wasn't inspired by FLY at Phantasialand (but the whole area is very inspired by Rookburgh, so ...) but I tried to change a few things.

SteamFlyer will take you for a fly around HoorWerk, going through several buildings. There is a little Dark Ride section at the beginning.
A small launch will take you to the vertical launch, before being propelled at 60m high and reaching a top speed of nearly a hundred km/h.

A Pov, including the queue line, can be seen here :

Source: https://youtu.be/PYLfshCoffA


Of course, the whole area has been finished with some touches here and here.

If you saw the Pov, you may have noticed that the coaster goes through the hotel, but mainly, it does a corkscrew in the middle of a huge building.

This building is Horogium, the Time Machine !

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It is a Tower Of Terror-like ride. The storyline is simple. This is a huge Time Machine, and you'ill be invited to perform several "jumps" in time. On the queue line, you'll maybe recognize to others rather famous time machines.

I spend a really huge amout of time on this build. Dunno of how many pieces it is made of, but nearly 10 000, in 9 buildings.
Only one side is functionnal, as the triggers were a pain in the a** to programm. Also, as my computer is reaching its limits, I choose to have only one side with the ride, and the other as an empty shell.

As usual, here is the pov of the ride :

Source: https://youtu.be/850hi-aDi_8


I'm rather happy with the result, except for the lightning that is sometimes messed up, but there is very little I can do about it.

I stop here for now, but there will be another update soon, as some extras have been made since.

See you !

 

[Clrun4]

Final update on this park.

Finally came to the end, after nearly 14 months.

As I wanted the park to be quite realistic, I made a few backstages areas. Ok, IRL, I dunno if it would be enough for the park size, but honestly, as I don't enjoy building backstages as much as themed areas, I went light. It's more to get the illusion the park is a 100% fucntionnal.

I then realized I did quite a mess with the hotels.
I made 2. The first one is located at the entrance, so you have no access issues.
The 2nd one on the other hand, is in the steampunk area, as is the Charles Linberg hotel at Phantasialand, which was a serious inspiration.
But at Phanta, the area and the hotel are just next to a road.
Mine ? At the other side of the park, surrounded by backstages... So it wouldn't be acceptable for guest to travel through the backstages, or to carry their luggages all across the park.
So, I retrofit the 1st hotel with a place where both hotel's guests will arrive. People just leave their stuff that will be bring to their rooms with the little gold carts I made.
You can also take a boat to go directly at the HoorWerk area to catch the hotel.

Lift available if needed
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To end with sytle, it's been a while since I wanted an Hyper B&M on this park.
Hesitated dor a while, then struggled to find a good spot for it.

And there it is ! Located in Alpine County, on the other side of the river, very close to the car park, here is Sequoia Drop, a massive 91m tall ....Intamin Giga Coaster !!!

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And that's a wrap.

Here is the Steam Workshop link for Nathan's World.
Please be warned that it is a quite massive park, take care if you have a small Pc spec.

Thanks you so much for your messages et for having reading me, and see you next time !!!