Wowman

love the Joker ride and look

Another overall shot looking back towards the start of the jeep ride.

Heading back to the station area at night.

Center part of the temple mountain nearing completion. Looking down on it.

Hey - that looks like my stone bridge....sweet!!!

The entrance to one side of the walkways between the two habitat sections and looking over the main habitat.

The "Vegas" neon section at night.

Here is what the temple is looking like (not finished yet) as you approach from the west via boat, and the east via train.

BTW - I like this darker format much better

some more

here you go - enjoy

As I age, and my kids are grown, I have scaled down my Halloween activities. Maybe the grandkids will light a new fire under me. But back in the day..... My city I lived in had a Halloween House decoration contest/tour. It started with maybe 10 house and over the years bloomed to like 30 houses. Several of us were in in it for many years and had some very elaborate displays. The city put together a list of the houses, a suggested map, etc. I would win awards and trophies every year. It was lots of fun. A lot of work (standing out there every night for about 2 weeks, in the cold pouring rain sometimes). My basic theme was dead pirates. I had several life size skeletons dressed up Hollywood style in old rip and torn pirate clothes. One was in the tree hanging lights, another on a keg holding a lit torch, another sitting on a treasure chest swinging his riches around. A few were animated. There was a graveyard with another leaning against a headstone. Theatrical lighting, smog, fake fire pots, etc. The best was that I dressed up as a pirate, in a very cool Davy Jones mask and would stand at the edge of the display acting like an animatronic figure...and doing jump scares to the kids and moms as they came to the house. It was great fun. Some years I had other family members dress up as well. Some people would sit in chairs with their beers across the street to watch me scare people. On weekend nights we would have a line of cars 50 or more waiting to drive by and jump out to check out the display. I used to have to buy over 600 pieces or more of candy to give away on Halloween night, People would come from all around. I will have to dig up some old pics and share them.

I was going crazy trying to figure out what the problem. Thought it was my rendering going amuck and then finally realized it was that workshop item with hundreds of lights.

This particular section is a graphics nightmare. You will see with the videos, there is heavy pixel issues here (you can see it in this shot a bit as well) I assume to high quantity of individual lights that are part of each of these buildings. They all over lap light rays and the PC just can't handle it very well.

Having fun on the rope bridge. Climbing Mound

Looking down as you leave the big city at night.

looking down at the temple being pieced together. more

Looking over the habitat.

Driving through the big city at night.

Here is a better angle to show the true forced perspective better.

one big happy country

Looking down on this side of the habitat.

The Redwood forest at night.

Starting to add the forced perspective temple (Temple of Doom) on top of the mountain above the nine coasters. This was a workshop item that I ended up cut and pasting several pieces in repeated patterns to make the temple even more spread out. Still needs to be placed in final location.

yes. the animals hit them around and that one found its way into the water. I would have to manually reset it to make it go back to the ground to be used.