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Thanks for the nice comments everyone - much appreciated! We'll continue down Royal Street...first these signs caught our attention... The Customs House was a Workshop find, based on the real building I believe...here it serves as a small museum outlining NOLA history... French influences abound, of course... Just in case anyone missed the smaller sign... Another wonderful Workshop blueprint which was transposed into a streetcar...named Desire (Yeah, I know the real one runs nowhere near this part of the city!)... Just past is Wharf Street... Home to some food vendors... At the end of which is the entrance to the "Search for Bonnie & Clyde" ride...and a good place for Cajun Fast Food! To the right there's a ramp down to the boat docks...The Cotton Warehouse holds the exit to Bonnie & Clyde... Not so sure I'd take a ride on the SS Leaky Boat... River traffic is building at this hour... Next up: A spin on the "Search for Bonnie & Clyde"...

You know, I think you're right, but yeah, it's been a few years! LOL! I think it was Kaleidoscope Piers...

It does, doesn't it? I actually found a couple New Orleans buildings that had a similar 'wheelhouse' on the roof. The original building is from the Workshop, I tore it apart and re-did parts of it, then added on the conservatory to the back, but the original work was really outstanding and just fit the Southern theme...

Well, first we need to finish looking around this park before doing anything else! Let's visit New Orleans in 1928...the Roaring Twenties! First stop, along the lakeside is the magnificent Big Easy Restaurant. Combining New Orleans wrought iron with Southern hospitalitry, and featuring both fine dining and a more informal space, they also offer special events in the spacious rooftop rotunda... Jazz quartets often play in the small gazebo outside... The lakeside view gives a glimpse of the ornate conservatory... Ceiling fans cool those dining below... Directly across the street is Parc Duc d'Orléans... Dedicated to Phillpe II, Duke of Orléans, who served as Regent during the early years of King Louis XV, and for whom the City of New Orleans was named... The water fountains are shaped like trumpets in a nod to the City's musical heritage... Next we'll explore the riverside, with the many warehouses. The Mississippi has a few boats working on it this morning... Just to the right is the bridge that leads to the Seaside Boardwalk section of the park... Royal Street runs along the river's warehouse district...on the left is a small museum showcasing the City's history... Crawdads and catfish is available to dine on at the Fish Market... Just ahead is the Krewe Warehouse, where parts of the Marti Gras floats are built... The Port of New Orleans is a busy place, and there's much more to see, but I see a famous streetcar headed our way, so for now...see you next time! (And yes, I know "Krewe" is mis-spelled on the sign! Yikes!)

There must be a serial arsonist on the loose!

Well, there IS a bit of vacant land left...but Rich would shoot me and the bench would slow down to a crawl! LOL! To be honest I HAD toyed with the idea of one more area...themed to 1950's era with Googie-style buildings and early space-age looks. While it just wouldn't fit on this last bench without breaking it, it's an idea that perhaps we'll revisit sometime in the future...

On Telsa vs Edison it's just a couple flat rides to bring in the peeps I'm afraid. The merchandise billboards are behind the glass on the in-game storefront windows...I blame Frontier for not employing proper widow-washing practices! "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" kind of rings a bell... I'll have to ask Citytrader if he read it when he was little too...was probably written on papyrus back then... Thanks for the comments JB!

Yes Sports fans, it's FINALLY come to an end...the very last bench of the Disney America park project! If you've followed along through all four benches up to now, well, congratulations, you have a stronger pain threshold than most! And yes, I know this is labeled "Bench Four" when it's the Fifth Bench released... It's a long and painful story as to why, but lets just pretend it never happened and just call this one 'the last', sound good? This FINAL Bench includes Enterprise 1885, representing America after the Civil War when the Industrial Revolution took off. Hundreds of thousands of new immigrants flocked to our shores. Then we visit New Orleans in the Roaring Twenties, a bustling port city with gin joints and voodoo practitioners. Then finally we take in Rushmore Station, a salute to our National Parks...and those Country Bears who inhabit them. So let's get started before another year goes by... We enter from Patriot Plaza, the central area by the park's entrance... We then enter small town America in 1885... There's stores on the left, outdoor dining on the right... Here is a tribute to Ellis Island, where thousands of immigrants passed through on the arrival in the United States... Our version also contains a museum illustrating where they came from... Now we'll visit some of the warehouses... China Warehouse being the main one here... There are also recreations of some famous structures connected to American ingenuity...Singers original workshop, Ford Motors and Edison's Menlo Park buildings.. Marvel of steam power provides some thrills here too... Ford introduces his original Tin LIzzie to the masses with The Ford Experience... "The American Experience" showcases the era's accomplishments... Next door "Telsa vs Edison"...which ride will YOU try? A modern department store from this era marks an alternative entrance to the area around The Industrial Revolution coaster... Inside the Department Store... There's a small food court along the way... Directions on where to go next... Down this hall... Passing through we'd come out in an Industrial part of the town...Wagi Woolen Mills...for all your itchy, scratchy apparel needs... Right across from Rich Mills... Ol' Hank busy shoveling coal to keep the furnaces burning... The entrance to The Industrial Revolution Rollercoaster... The factory the ride circles and enters is large... Ride station... (Nope, I didn't build the coaster itself, it's a wonderful Workshop find that strangely enough was also called "Industrial Revolution" that I just added more theming to...) Lift hill... Here we go! It's a little hot in here! Around and around and back to the station finally... A path under the coaster superstructure... Leads to an iron works... Inside we find a small food court and The Whip ride... While outside crews are busy stacking iron beams to send out by rail... Oil...Black Gold...Texas Tea as the Beverly Hillbillies used to claim... This path heads on towards Rushmore Station...we'll visit there a little later... We'll finish our visit to Enterprise 1885 and then it's on to our next stop...

Now...the big event everyone's been waiting for, but just didn't know it!!! The release of DisneyAmerica Bench3 - Victory Field, Boardwalk, Col. Parker's Circus, and Walt Disney Studios! I feel like Vanna White unveiling the puzzle... "THREE???" you ask..."but the thread title said it's Bench FOUR!" Yes, you are correct. Originally Bench One was the front of the park with Colonial America, the Native American area, etc. Then Bench Two was to be the St Louis and New York World's Fairs...but we ended up having to split that bench in half - 2a and 2b. So this is technically the FOURTH Bench released but is labelled Bench THREE. See? Didn't that make perfect sense??? I didn't think so either... So I went back and edited the thread title...happy now? Ok, for Bench Four Three FIRST you'll need to download the ever updating download with billboard images found HERE: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/tm77xikv2wasflya6eg8m/h?rlkey=vmcoro8ss21dnmwprnd742402&dl=0 THEN you can download the bench on Steam HERE: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3013441676 No doubt there will be a bunch of TMTK items it will want you to download before you can explore the bench...if you haven't already downloaded them as I'm sure everyone already has! Stop rolling your eyes...

I can't take credit...it's actually 4-5 different castles from the Workshop, all kit-bashed together to make it. There's multiple flat rides in the courtyard inside, and there's a water raft ride that encircles (and goes under...) it.

Thanks everyone - much appreciated! It's funny, I don't think either Citytrader nor myself had even opened this park since before we worked a bit on Fisherman's Rose Lake project 2-3 years ago, so when I dug the bench out and opened it the other day I was reminded how much work we had already put into this park...and it's not finished yet! The nice thing is that there are now TMTK items available that we didn't have before to do things we want, and I can also now create items myself (although I'll not be making 300+ objects like I did for our DisneyAmerica...). Another area of the park which is nearly complete is the Haunted Forest...home of the Wicked Witch of the West. Here the Flying Monkeys carry you around and above the Witches Castle...

While our DisneyAmerica Mega-project is finally just about finished (seriously - elephants carry to term and give birth in less than half the time...), we have a couple other projects that have been sitting on the back-burner for ages as well that we are finally able to continue. One of our favorites I worked on today in fact, and took a screenshot to share to prove that we're hard at work - well, I am at least - Citytrader is napping - I really should hold a mirror up under his nose to make sure he's okay...at his age one never knows... Anyways, a glimpse from The Wonderful World of OZ...

It's a type of ivy growing up this walls...(see, I have experience coming up with excuses! 😄 )

Congrats Cody! You'll do a great job!

I love that loop around the geyser! I don't think I've seen that large galley boat before...that really looks cool! Perfect night-time lighting...as always!

Thanks for all the comments everyone! The building behind the circus leading to the corral areas is admittedly weird looking. Directly behind the circus area are two train tracks, so originally I was trying to come up with just a smallish backstage area, but then wondered how they would get animals and such back there, so there is a series of ramps leading from the area, over the tracks, and then back down to ground level. You can kind of make out the roofs over the ramps in the next to last screenshot above. Realistic? Hardly. I don't think getting a two ton elephant to willingly walk up and down ramps for two performances a day plus a matinee on weekends would be that easy! Perhaps there's also an industrial-strength service elevator inside as well... LOL!

It's frustrating when the textures on some of the Planco stuff degrade when the park gets to a certain size...yet the textures for TMTK items remain sharp´, even if they use smaller textures. I understand the reasons, but doesn't change the fact that they look like crap after a certain point! (And our texture setting in the game are cranked up too...). As for the outdoor pens for the animals, I actually imagine Disney wouldn't use live trained animals in any circus show in this day and age, the circus would be more like a Cirque du Soleil show without the animals. But this is a tip of the hat to the historical circus in the States from years ago, especially the Toby Tyler era. We can always pretend they are animatronics!

We're pretending it never rains nor snows here at DisneysAmerica...😜

Great beginning! I also love that entry building, with the mountains in the background it really suits the park logo...

Great spot to use those flats, they make a great backdrop...

Midnight at the oasis Send your camel to bed...

Found more information: Behold Electropolis! A bright, bold vision of the American age of innovation. Rising like palaces from the greatest World's Fairs, the towers and structures of Electropolis stand for high voltage stories and high-powered thrills. The inventions of great American figures carry you swiftly and smoothly throughout this sparkling testament to the power of American genius. https://www.americanheartlandthemepark.com/electropolis

From the few images I've seen, it seems Eletropolis is kind of a weird Art Deco area, not sure what connection it has to actual areas of the country or that Route 66 travels by. Maybe it's supposed to be futuristic? There's a coaster that seems to fly down one of the main streets, then loops around some sort of tower in the lake, but other than that I'm still guessing! LOL!

Some of the Oklahoma Parks planned areas... Still a few areas that we can't see close-ups of...

I always temper any excitement for these announced parks when I recall DreamVision SoundScape's plans for parks in Alabama and Texas a few years ago...the drawings looked cool. Unfortunately it was a fraud, a Ponzi-scheme that ended up sending the guy running it to prison... At least this Oklahoma project seems to have talent from Disney behind it...we'll see!