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The Communications Pavilion, where they showcased modern miracles like television... My reduced version is just inspired by the real one... A Workshop find that fits in beautifully as a refreshment stand... Leading away from the Trylon and Perisphere was The Court Of Nations, large buildings shared a number of national pavilions under their roof... Countries could use one or more spaces for their national exhibits rather than constructing a free-standing pavilion... At the end of the Courtyard loomed the United States Federal Pavilion... Based on the real one... Heading down from the France Pavilion took you to the lakeshore... Hmmm, that one poster rings a bell...Disney synergy perhaps? Here we find the New York State Pavilion...also home to Billy Rose's Aquacade... Looks like they are rehearsing for a Little Mermaid number... The Aquacade featured the largest stadium at Disney's America, the pool floor could be raised to provide additional dry seating or performance area... High diving took place from the flanking towers... Stadium's main entrance... Located behind the stage was the New York Fair Boat Dock connecting to other points around the lake... Waiting area... Period photos... Stairs and ramp leading to the upper level on other side of the stadium...

According to an old floor plan, the Blue Ball on the Zoological Pavilion was labeled as a "bathysphere", so likely themed to deep sea creatures...

Next we have the Automat...the pinnacle of speedy cafeteria design for the Modern Age... Yes, patrons merely insert tokens to make their individual selections from a wide choice of tasty options... Across the street is the stately Pavilion of the Dominion of Canada... Which features a second entrance across from the UK Pavilion, it's Mother Country... Based in part on period artwork... The Kodak Company had numerous Photo Spots scattered around the fairgrounds... The Electricity Pavilion featured an entrance through the spillway of a hydroelectric dam... Another Tram Spot serves this area... Speaking of which, here comes one now! The engine was based on a farm tractor found in the Workshop... And the real-life inspiration... Up ahead we can see the symbol of this Fair...the Trylon and Perisphere... Disney's America's versions are at a reduced scale, but still tower over the park... (Due to limitations in the TMTK Editor, the Trylon is made up of seven sections, each 8 meters tall...) Even at that height they are no match for the real ones! Next we'll visit the Court of Nations and prepare a visit to Billy Rose's Aquacade...

In case anyone is wondering about some of the strange country names and flags, I researched what was authentic for 1939. This was just before World War II and the many changes to countries names, flags and political systems. I also tried to find company logos, artwork and such that also were from 1939. Thus why there ended up being hundreds of TMTK items I made... There were also changes at the Fair from 1939 to 1940...for instance the Soviet Union had a huge pavilion for the first season...it was torn down and they instead used a small space during the second. Nazi Germany was not there, the Empire of Japan and Kingdom of Italy were. Since this is a part of a modern theme park in the present day (Disney's America...) but is themed to 1939, I tried to hide anything dated after that, but of course modern fixtures and conveniences would, in fact, be there...

Just outside of the spiral ramp of the "Road to Tomorrow" at the Ford Pavilion near the UK Pavilion, was as stop for the Fair Tram. The Westinghouse Electric Exhibit was a popular site as it featured "Electro - The Moto-Man", a robot that talked and even smoked a cigarette... The United States of Brazil (as it was known then...) had a popular exhibit. Designed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer (Niemeyer went on to design most of Brasilia, the new capital...), it contained exhibition gallery, shops, a cafe, performance stage and an outdoor garden area with many tropical plants... This Pavilion is special to me as I currently live in Brazil... Inside there's a selection of authentic art from that period by Brazilian artists... Interior garden, fish pond and then caged toucan's out front... Photos of the real pavilion I based mine on... Behind the Brazilian Pavilion was an exhibit sponsored by the New York Zoological Society. They displayed a live Panda from China, penguins, aquariums with fish from around the world and many mounted sea and shore creatures... Even before Disney, they still had you exit through a gift shop... Adjoining Brazil was the French Pavilion. The lower floors held historical and art exhibits, on the roof was the famous "Le Pavilion" Restaurant, which after the fair moved to downtown New York City as was a famous dining choice for years... The main lobby... Elevator to Le Pavilion... Restaurant interior with panoramic windows looking over the park's central lake... Open air rooftop seating...great place to watch the fireworks (for an additional charge of course...) From the front of the France Pavilion there is a path leading down to the shore and the site of Billy Rose's Aquacade Stadium... The SkyWay to the 1876 Centennial section of the park has a station here... Behind it is a Kiosk (in multiple languages) selling souvenirs... Things to remember your trip to the Fair by... Here also we find another hot dog stand, this one with the low dome copies the original design... Next up...The Automat, Canada and the Electricity Pavilion...

Citytrader wrote: Wagi is also too modest to mention that he did this entire area himself, and it's only about 20-30 tiles deep! That's all the room I left him! He did ask me to tweek it, plus it up or whatever, but I think I moved one bush and that's about it! And he still has a ton more to show you guys!!! (Actually 'modesty' had nothing to do with it...I just forgot to mention that I was the one to blame... ~Wagi)

The Ford Pavilion was a showplace for Ford products. While I've modeled the building I only added the one main ride - "Road To Tomorrow" - where people could ride in new Ford automobiles on a track around and through the Pavilion Building, ending in a corkscrew path down to the loading platform. In the real version each car was driven by a chauffeur - you were just along for the ride and they didn't have to worry about bashed cars... There was also an exterior garden area with a stage and other exhibits inside which I did not attempt to model... This butted right up against the edge of the bench, so I tried to mask it with the in-game urban building cut-outs...seems to work anyways. Here's what the real Pavilion looked like... Across the street from the Ford Pavilion was an unusual one...the Wonder Bakery, where they actually made Wonder Bread every day of the fair that was sold there and throughout the New York Area... Artwork of the real pavilion my version is based on... https://imgur.com/nVbsXzvhttps://imgur.com/nVbsXzv Next up, the imposing Italia Pavilion, sponsored by the Kingdom of Italy (remember, this was 1939...) Photo of the real one...I had to make walls textured with static water to create the stair-step waterfall on the tower... The British Pavilion. For the Fair they brought over a copy of the Magna Carta for display... The Fair grounds were close to an urban area, so that's an elevated section of the subway in front... The real Pavilion.. Fair Information Booths were scattered around the grounds... Next to the Italia Pavilion was the dome of the US Steel Pavilion...(a repurposed Workshop find...) Next we'll visit Brazil, France and the Zoological Society...

Been a long break! Citytrader has been busy and I have pretty much retired from the game, but I did open up the next bench today and took some screenshots! Now if my joints can hold out long enough to post them here... This part of the park came along when Rich suggested maybe we could add a small copy of the Trylon and Perisphere, the symbols of the 1939/1940 New York World's Fair. Well, the 'small copy' became a multi-piece structure (which is still a small version of the real one...), and then I decided I should make a structure or two to go with it...a few months later and we had some 20+ pavilions and structures and I'd filled in the back third of the bench... Due to the limitation of the game (and not wanting to add even more TMTK items to the list...), most of the buildings are not duplicates, but rather homages to what appeared at the fair. There's also a number of fantastic structure found in the Workshop, a few I tweaked, others are pretty much as they were originally designed. A sincere thank-you to those who share their work with all of us! I've added a handful of period photos that show what I based my designs on as well. So, here we go... Tour The 1939/1940 New York World's Fair We last left the Depression Era and the small town farm...ahead we see a bridge creating an overpass... And we come to one of the main gates to the Fair... Ahead is a small fountain representing the world gathering together to celebrate. Behind looms the massive Ford Motors Pavilion... To the right is Hot Dog stand for those famished after the long trip to the fairgrounds... The lower part of the stand is based on an actual entry in a contest to design vendor stands before the fair opened, there's another copy elsewhere in the park with the original low dome as well... Next door was the Hills Bros Coffee Pavilion...upstairs is a coffee lounge with a Middle Eastern Art Deco feel to match their mascot... Next is the Fair's Administration Building... Based on the real-life original. I clipped the image, skewed it and used it to make a decal in the TMTK... Fair cabs - motorized pedicabs - were available for hire to save your feet from the long distances... Based on a advertisement from the Fair... Beechnut - makers of the chewing gum and other things, had a pavilion dedicated to a miniature circus... Yes, there really was such an exhibit... A wonderful Workshop find repurposed as a Coke Pavilion...

Thanks for the kind comments everyone, they are most appreciated! I'm sure Citytrader will appreciate them too whenever he wakes from his nap...

It's a mix. The game provides quite a bit, and it's overall fairly well done, even if things like scale aren't always adhered to. There's also a huge amount of scenery and building parts created by players and uploaded to the PC Workshop (13,500 Toolkit items) some of which is breathtakingly beautiful, as well as entire structures people have uploaded. I use a combination on in-game pieces as well as Toolkit items made by others. And if I don't find exactly what I want I make it (658 objects I've made myself...). I have no qualms of using structures that others have made and uploaded blueprints of - there are gorgeous things I could never dream up myself and people upload them to share, so why not? In the early days of Planet Coaster, before custom scenery was available, people came up with some really inventive ways to use what WAS available in the game to create other stuff as well.

Citytrader wrote: Second of five benches of Disney's America created by Wagi and citytrader is released! The park is a monster and thus has been split into five benches. Bench Two part 1 takes almost fifteen minutes to load on my fairly new machine! This part of the park includes only the Saint Louis Exposition of 1904 and the Bountiful Farm area, which covers the Depression era. Bench Two Part 2 will include the 1939 New York Worlds Fair and that will be released. (promise!!!) This park is very graphics intensive. The files for the pictures are located here; https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/vsw8zyl9nx45otixahg39/h?dl=0&rlkey=aqzecujkitjb6ac449jlo9yz5 Most pictures have a DA prefix attached, so should be easily deleted if you wish to. The other benches may be released during our lifetimes, but no guarantees!!! Make sure you download Wagi's eight million pieces of CS developed for the park! There are quite a few bits utilized in this bench. Finally, a very special thinks to anyone who contributed time, effort, or ideas to our project. And of course any Workshop items we used. Here is the link to the park on the Steam Workshop; https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2833500360&searchtext=disney%27s+america Enjoy!

Bountiful Farms has a whole range of critters - horse, mules, donkeys, cows, bulls, pigs and chickens, so the fertilizer is plentiful and fresh! Watch where you step... However visitor's to Aunt Tilly's Bountiful Farms Country Buffet do not add to the manure pile... Hank the barber working late...that's Tootsie McGregor getting a haircut because she's too cheap to use the Beauty Salon upstairs by the doctor's office. Good thing she doesn't mind a short boyish bob during the summer, and it IS the current fashion... While the soda fountain at Woolworth's stays open until late - 7.30 PM! - for those young couples courting...

Citytrader wrote: The last part of Disney's America Bench 2 is a segway between the 1904 and the 1939World's Fairs. Representing the Depression era in American history, welcome to Leesburg, a typical rural community in the 1930's; Small town life is well represented in the bucolic area complete with livestock, a small main street, even a barn dance! A small boat dock connects to Lake America; The township's park is prepping for the big July 4th picnic; Remembering the fallen; At the edge of this small town is the state highway, and pass beneath the bridge, and guess where you wind up? Cool night shot...

The Suffragettes are based on the ideas for the figures Fisherman originally did, I just narrowed the skirts to match the style during this time period and added hats, signs and banners.

Citytrader wrote: Wagi mentioned the vignettes; They are great! Driving of the Golden Spike; Votes for women; And no caption needed for this iconic scene;

The bench Rich has the Japan Pavilion close to the edge of what appears on that bench, where in reality (PC reality anyways...) more of the park exists just past it. Here's a screen that shows a glimpse of how it flows together into the next area... And this from the opposite direction. You can see the lakeside path that leads past The Pike area of the fair and connects with the Colonial areas in the background... The fairgrounds is actually quite large around the central lagoon... These night-time shots show the size... In this last screen you can see a glimpse of several historical vignettes at far right that can be viewed from the parks steam trains...much like the diorama's found at Disneyland (but without a roof...)

It was pointed out that "Mickey was in Disney's Fantasia, yet he wouldn't be 'born' until 1928. This Exposition is set in 1904... hmm" I use the same excuse as to why Mr Toad's Wild Ride, which was set in the early 1900's, or Mickey's Philharmagic, set in the current time, exist in a Medieval Fantasyland themed to the 1500's or so. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Citytrader wrote: Back to the Louisiana Purchase Exibition of 1904 as imagined by the Disney team! The Pennsylvania State Exibition building; A classic Cignet ride; The imposing Palace of Fine Arts; The Magic Whirlpool ride; To be honest, there is not a ton of information on the interior of this ride building. You went through a whirlpool and then saw various tableaus crypticly named things like "demons kindergarten", "bridge of sighs", and "dance of the phosphorescent phantoms", most probably painted backgronds with lighting effects. But here at Disney's America, Wagi has created a homage to the classic film Fantasia! The eerie entrance area! All Aboard! A dark and scary graveyard! That mountain looks familiar; Who is that on top of the mountain?!? Thank goodness we escaped from there! Wait, do I hear water? Look out! Buckets and buckets EVERYWHERE! The final area of Embassy row we will look at is the Japan pavillion, located right on Lake America. No captions needed here! Next up, one of the quieter corners of Disney's America!

Yep, the Alps are indeed cutouts. Surprisingly similar to what they used at the actual fair in 1904! And yes, they are available in the Workshop... The Autobus is modeled on one they actually had at the fair...well, as close as I could make it anyways... I didn't try to replicate too many actual fair buildings, they were huge and very ornate, but hopefully you'll get a feel for the real thing on a smaller scale... Also used a number of buildings from the Workshop, either whole (like the Siam Pavilion or Grand Carousel building), or parts of (like the rotundas on the sides of the central arch...).

Citytrader wrote: Continuing past the Pike, Embassy Row comes into view. Countries from all over the world came to Saint Louis to exibit. The building of the Kingdom of Siam; This structure houses the Netherlands and it's beautiful tulip beds; One of the larger exibits was the German Pavilion, with a recreation of the Alps, Biergarten, Restaurant, and lovely scenery; Tired feet? Try riding one of those new fangled Autobuses, guaranteed to get you around the park at six miles an hour! Filming a commercial for Disney's America; The Grand Carousel is one of the highlights of the St. Louis World's Fair! Here's another great shot of the Biergarten! (See what happens when you leave him unsupervised??? Get's things all out of order... Wagi) The Cascades spill out from under the Festival Hall down into the lagoon;

Citytrader wrote: Jim Key really was a wonder. There are some excellent articles out there about him and his trainer William Key, and a movie is planned with Morgan Freeman starring. it is said that President William McKinley saw Beautiful Jim Key perform at an exposition in Tennessee and declared, “This is the most astonishing and entertaining exhibition I have ever witnessed.” The horse did a lot more than stomp his foot. He picked out letters on a board to spell out words, and answered math questions the same way. So even if he was trained to do it, he was pretty smart to remember it all. Continuing down the Pike! Hereafter was a ride through Heaven and Hell; Next to the Hereafter was the Wireless Telegraph tower that broadcast all the way to Pittsburgh! The Battle Abbey had large tableaus of great military battles throughout history. It was one of the only attractions that lost money during the fair; The large two level Popcorn Hall;

Actually most of The Pike was Rich's work in this section, I just filled in a few spots! While this is not a 'totally faithful recreation' of the buildings of the 1904 Fair, hopefully we've been able to create something in the same style. This was a fun, yet challenging, part of the park to create...

Citytrader wrote: Bench Two of Disney's America is not very large, in fact it only covers two lands, but they are very impressive lands indeed! The bulk of the work on this bench was done by Wagi. I think I created the one popcorn cart in the corner! Seriously, this bench will hopefully transport you back in time to the amazing World's Fair of Saint Louis in 1904! Still considered one of the greatest World's Fairs of all time, and it actually turned a profit! The Disney Imagineers worked tirelessly to recreate the essence of the Fair. Guests start their journey by crossing the river into the fairgrounds; They then arrive at a reproduction of the Pike, a mile long cavalcade of wonder and whimsy, where you could witness Creation, go to the Afterlife, travel by balloon to the North Pole, follow a river through the Tyrolean Alps, or travel by rail through the wilds of Siberia. Here are a few attractions painstakingly recreated for Disney's America; Ride through Siberia by train; Dive into the depths of the ocean on the Submarine Ride; Meet Jim Key, the educated horse. His promoters claimed that the horse could read and write, make change with money, do arithmetic for "numbers below thirty," and cite Bible passages "where the horse is mentioned."

As I noted in the first thread on this park, Disney's America is a park based on the unbuilt Disney America Park planned in Virginia. Citytrader and I worked on a version of this park in rct3 years ago, and decided to try it again in Planet Coaster. Rather than recreate what Disney had planned, we decided to expand upon those original plans, dropping some and adding many others. For one thing we decided to highlight several exhibitions - World's Fairs - held in the US that came to symbolize the country as it was and how it imagined itself to be in the future. The first fair was the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia which celebrated the nation's Centennial. Many different inventions were on display there, even the arm of the Statue of Liberty was on display before it was erected in New York harbor. The second World's Fair was in 1904 in St Louis marking the Centennial of the Louisiana Purchase from France, and the third World's Fair was the 1939-40 New York Wold's Fair, marking the 150th anniversary of George Washington's first inauguration as President of the United States. It was also the first Fair to focus on the Future "The World of Tomorrow" Other events and eras we touch upon include "The Golden Spike" celebrating the completion of the trans-continental railroad, the Woman's Suffrage Movement, The Right Bros at Kitty Hawk. We see the Great Depression, the rural farm-life of the 1930's. Walt Disney is celebrated with the Hyperion Studios campus. Ocean-side amusement parks and boardwalks are explored, along with a visit to that Great American Show - The Circus. The Greatest Generation is viewed at Victory Field. We cross the heavy steamship traffic on the Mississippi River and visit New Orleans in the 1920's where Bonnie & Clyde lead us on a chase. Past the Big Easy restaurant we circle back to the Halls of Ellis Island where immigrants from around the world first stepped on American shores, then on to Enterprise, where industry revolutionized the country. A short journey from there and we visit Rushmore Station, a tribute to our National Parks and the "Wildest Show in the Wilderness" - The Country Bear Jamboree. So now we'll continue our tour with Bench Two of Disney's America...

And that concludes a tour of Disney America Bench One.... Citytrader wrote: First of three FIVE benches of Disney's America created by Wagi and citytrader finally released! This park is very graphics intensive. The files for the pictures are located here; https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ymdqt1svuojzxtz/AAAZIP9gfD1nCgCyK3PoOIUPa?dl=0 Most pictures have a DA prefix attached, so should be easily deleted if you wish to. The park is a monster and thus has been split into three FIVE benches. Bench One takes almost fifteen minutes to load on my fairly new machine! This part of the park includes the Entrance area, Liberty Square, Sleepy Hollow, 1876 Philadelphia Exposition, St. Louis 1804 including the Lewis and Clark River Raft ride, Native America, and 1849 the Gold Rush. The other two benches may be released during our lifetimes, but no guarantees!!! (They were released, no guarantees that the two AFTER that will be, although they are almost entirely done...) Make sure you download Wagi's eight million pieces of CS developed for the park! Not a lot is needed for this first bench, but moving forward... Finally, a very special thinks to anyone who contributed time, effort, or ideas to our project. And of course any Workshop items we used, which are referenced throughout this thread. Please like and comment! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2557021966