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Our walk through Munchkinland continues... The path at center is one that connects with Marvel's World. The Story of OZ is a darkride that recreates many of the scenes from the 1939 musical, using animatronics and projection screens (our version does not...) Where it all begins...the start of the Yellow Brick Road... On one of the rooftops there is a birds nest and a 3D sparrow...this bird was modeled for me by CTRSind for our RCT3 version of this park years ago! Surprisingly I was able to figure out how to import it into Blender and the TMTK Editor to use here once again... Thank you CTRSind! Munchkin City has a host of dwellings and shops. Here under the windmill is the Mayor's office... Just across the Rainbow Bridge is Unc Numkie's Burgers. Unc Numnkie was well know for being a Munchkin of few words..."Eat...Drink...Pay" could be considered a lengthy conversation from him and represented his business mindset well... Glinda The Good Witch has arrived in her pink bubble to welcome those who "dropped in" to Oz... "Munchkin TeaTime" is along the waterfront... We'll quickly pass that gruesome scene of the Gale house with some Wicked Witches sister's legs sticking out from under and instead hurry on down the Yellow Brick Road...up ahead I see the Munchkinland Waterworks coaster... There's more to see coming up...

Luckily there's a few off-grid TMTK pieces in the Workshop that make it a lot easier! Plus I first built it upright, then rotated parts of it to their final position, so I don't claim any special skill! LOL!

Unfortunately Planet Coaster doesn't have in-game re-colorable brick paths like I think we had in RCT3, so we had to go with pathcovers. Trying to line them up with an in-game path under them was a royal pain, so we decided to just run the Yellow Brick Road down the middle of a wider path. That of course brought on it's own problems with trying to create angles and curves on the TMTK pieces and then discovering that the terrain the path was on had to be relatively flat or level at least in width... Thus why the YBR as laid out isn't perfect, but at least it gets the idea across... I never thought of termite mounds! LOL! I need to play Planet Zoo...

We'll head back to the main entrance to The Land of Oz...over the rainbow. There's several other paths leading there from Professor Marvel's World or the Gale Farm, but this is the main one... The Rainbow Bridge is right behind Miss Gulch's decrepit mansion. The horse-drawn trolley makes a stop there as well... The rainbow I used for the paving as well as the two rainbow arches were Workshop finds. I just tweaked everything to fit and added the 'clouds'... You can also access Oz the same way Dorothy did, by exiting the Twister Ride in the Gale Farm and crossing a smaller version of the Rainbow... Where you exit through the living room of the Gale home... That Twister lifted up the Gale house and took it for a ride before dropping it somewhere else... Oops! Seems it dropped right on top of someone! Seems like the Coroner has already been here... Let's skip that grisly scene and head back over to the main bridge. This definitely isn't Kansas anymore! Next time we'll explore the wonders of Munchkinland...

That "GoldRush 1853" concept is one I also was interested in a couple years ago (before Rose Lake, DA America and now Wonderful World of Oz...). I had even gathered a few structures I thought might work. If I remember correctly, this was a concept by a Canadian designer, he actually had a website with more images and other park concepts and designs he had come up with... EDIT: I had the site bookmarked: https://lancecardinal.blogspot.com/2011/11/goldrush-theme-park-concept.html

It actually takes skill and patience to terraform and make it look natural, especially when placing a ride underground- something you are a master of!

Bravo! Well deserved!

Congratulations Cody!

Well done!

Thanks so much! While truthfully this darn near took a decade to build, the recognition for finally actually FINISHING IT is much appreciated!

Well deserved!

Congratulations and sincere thanks...no one else was brave (?) enough to set up another forum where I could continue to post after shyguy's closed... Others may well blame you for that but I appreciate it myself!

This whole ride is really well done!

Obviously he's been moonlighting at other farms! Wages in Kansas for farm laborers are sadly low it seems...

The twister I shamelessly borrowed from TommyT 067's "Tornado Chasers" bench. I saw his video and it had some of the most realistic looking tornado effects in Planet Coaster, really well done. I could never come close myself, so one of the twisters ended up transported mysteriously to Kansas. A huge thanks to TommyT! Here's his video if you haven't seen it before... And yes, I made the bubble! Took some trail and error to get it not only the color I wanted, but to be transparent while still being visible. I'm still kinda surprised that it turned out! LOL! I had just one of the flat 2D cutouts of Glinda inside, until Citytrader came up with the bright idea to use Cinderella - which works perfectly.

Some of the best stuff comes from there!

Love the Las Vegas sign!

Thanks for the kind comments - much appreciated! Citytrader and I trade off working on each bench. On this one Citytrader had laid out most of Main Street and it's structures, then I pretty much created the entrance area, the parking lots and part of the the backstage area. At one time the entrance had a very different look - I had the idea to have a sub-area devoted to MGM and Hollywood - guests would even enter a version of Grahman's Chinese Theater to access a studio tour showcasing the making of the Wizard of Oz (you can still see glimpses of this idea with the collection of soundstage buildings). Then we decided to scrap that idea and concentrate more on following the Goddard Group plans for the park. Once I finished the front part of the park, Citytrader tweaked things there and finished off placement of the Main Street buildings and started building Gale Farms and Marvel's World areas along with Munchkinland. Once he was done we traded off, I added a structure or two to his work, then added some details to his great base structures. Yes, we do tweak each other's work, but our styles are pretty much in sync anyways so it's always an improvement to the others work. Since we needed to break up the park into multiple benches (mostly due to those 'details' I sometimes get carried away adding...LOL! ), it's allowed each of us to work at our own pace on different areas. For instance, the Haunted Forest area I've been working on, along with the Emerald City bench while Rich has been doing great things on the Yellow Brick Country bench. Works out great because it allows us to do things like create TMTK items for the park as we go (now at 535 pieces...yikes!)

I'm wondering if maybe even covering the white door surround wouldn't help? The blue doors aren't so bad, I think it's the contrast between the white and the blue that stand out perhaps?

Really well done! I like the interaction you have going between different rides and attractions - the boat ride and the cars along with the train for instance. Your structure building skills aren't bad at all! I don't see boxy buildings and you vary the height and layout quite well, and that's what takes it up a level. If I could offer just one suggestion? The in-game service doors (the white surrounds with a blue door and light above it...) I personally think distract from your theming and the over-all look...they kind of stand out. One could swap them out for a different style, or keep them but add what many theme parks do - a wall to block the view, or a recess in the building to move the door a bit out of sight, maybe mask them a little with some climbing vines or even just an awning over them - any of those would help it to blend in a little more and allow the eye to focus instead on all the other spot-on things you have going... Great job so far...keep it up!

Thanks for the kind remarks gentlemen! To finish up our look at Main Street Kansas, here's some night-time images... Dogs are not allowed at any Gulch owned property or facility... Gulch Savings & Loan... If Gulch Bank won't give you a loan, there's always the handy Gulch Pawn Shop next door... Justa Momento has a little more period-appropriate sign I made... The Baum Museum... Kansas Cases and Bags... Hamilton's Department Store... There's still a rack of Dorthy Gale dresses on sale...wonder if they have my size? Candle-light dining at Bert's Cafe... Anyone with a desire for late-night screwing or cleaning their pipes is in luck at Thorpes... Grab a half a roast chicken and a gallon of milk after you're done next door at the Mercantile, or get your teeth straightened at the dentist... Make sure you're always on time at our watch repair shop... The Railway Express Office anchors the end of this block... Almira Gulch is so cheap she eats her nightly meal of cold oatmeal and saltine crackers by lamplight in her room - the rest of the house remains unlit and unheated...

Sorry about the pause... I came down with pneumonia and had a lovely two week vacation in the hospital. But I'm back! We'll continue our stroll down Main Street Kansas... Just past Hamilton's Department Store we find the American Florist shop... In the middle of the street is the memorial statue to L. Frank Baum... Just around the corner is Bert's Cafe... Thorpe's Hardware is next, where you can pick up your Wonderful World Of Oz-themed souvenir can of 10-40w oil or find the right tool to tighten your nuts... The County Notary Office... The town Mercantile for all your grocery needs... A Dentist office and a small hotel for travelers to this fair city... Watch Repair Shop is next door... The Railway Express Office ends this block... Almira Gulch's Mansion dominates the end of the block as she does life in the county. Her infamous bike stands ready... Miss Gulch doesn't welcome many visitors...

It's not your unparalleled building skills, nor your mastery of lighting, it's plain and simple your imagination that I'm most jealous of! You not only come up with fantastic theming, but I know few who have your skills at combining individual parts to create such a whole. It's been a pleasure to watch progress on different parts of this over the years, and this video is a wonderful testament to the work and creativity you've put into this (and all your other projects...). Bravo. Bravo indeed.

They're all playing poker in the backroom...

And here, as threatened promised are some night screens for this same section of Kansas... Hat's Fantastic Millinery Shop... Hailey's Haberdashery... The Hungry Dragon Chinese Restaurant and Sushi Palace... MGM Grand Theater... One can almost hear the sticky floors... Kansas Chocolate Shoppe and the Coffee Shop and Bakery (I'm kinda proud of how the chocolate and coffee shop signs turned out...) Baum's Wonderful World of Books... Fully detailed interior... Ray's Barbershop...fully detailed billboard image. and City Drug... Now...don't wander too far off 'cause we still have a whole 'nother block of shops to look at! But we'll take a break so yer eyeballs can rest from all this awesomeness...