Fox

This area is really nice!

On 10/16/2025 at 4:49 AM, Wabigbear said:

RONNIE'S!!!

This is the Fox Style Parks I remember, very detailed, colorful and full of life! That first building is gorgeous, but the double-decker takes the prize.

Ah, you sotted that. Yes it is a hint as to what is to come. I updated the Ronnie's Logo, what do you think?

The updates that PC 2 allows are really great, as is your ability to still capture the same spirit. I appreciate how close you are staying to that model you made so many years ago while taking advantage of what technology allows you to use to bring it to life in these games.

Let me tell you about my park, or start to any way.

Highland Lakes has a history that goes back to the gold rush days in California but the most relevant portions of the history where when the property briefly served as a fair grounds. The pavilion, which we call the Field House most of the time now, and the Fright House during Haunted Highlands, dates back to this era. Today however the only portion of the structure that dates back that far is the castle like original entrance. The current venue seating arena has been restored to it's original footprint and hosts a circus most of the year, during the Highland Music Festival it serves as one of the stages and most recently James Hype headlined.

Since those early days, let's just say things changed a little bit

The park is the largest park in the Fox Amusements chain, other than California Spectrum which, is multiple attractions so, as a single park it is the largest and likely always wil be. The park was fairly substantial when Fox Amusements acquired it but it has been expanded many times since that time. There are 15 major roller coaster, numerous other rides, theaters, pavilions and other entertainment. If we get into more of the history we will cover why there are 15 major coasters. The park expansions were the reason for the massive parking structure, this replaced parking lot space that was re-used for more attractions. (On a fun note this is the first time I ever bothered to include any parking infrastructure in any park I have built in Roller Coaster Tycoon or PC games.)

This is the entrance plaza, This is the 3rd entrance the park has had, and the second in this general location. The original entrance still stands, the original buildings are still in the park although one was moved to a different location. The old entrance area is now used for a stage area during the Highland Music Festival. The entrance was moved to this side of the park not long after Fox Amusements purchased the property, it was part of what was then a strategy to expand the park as an amusement park and it allowed for greater crowd flow. The current entrance was added a few years ago because the previous one was no longer adequate for the parks size and amount of visitors. you can see, it will be fairly difficult to get this area too congested.

I mean, look at all this space! This was mostly all parking lot before.

Maybe the most unique train station you will find in any park that has a train. Pardon all the fog, these photos were taken at Halloween time and we transform the town square into The Magician's Square every year. (For those who know this park was my first RCT3 park, it started out very small and became huge, and this is a re-imagining of it in PC1.This station, is a massive improvement over what I had in the RCT3 park. Much smaller in scale for one, and a far better design, but in some ways it pays homage to the RCT3 version. I spent a lot of time on this, and reworked it a few times as we had more content and better scenery items in the game that could get me closer to what I wanted. )

I am running into technical difficulties uploading any more images so, maybe this is a good time to stop for now. Let me know if you want more history... I don't want to be dull.

Mr. Wonder has an advanced copy of Planet Coaster 3. Well, that figures! Very fun to see new renditions of what is by now very familiar territory!

A lot to catch up on, love the idea of using an unbuilt park concept.

I am fighting some battles with this park, like how to finish the front of this building.

Somethings came pretty easy though, like the double decker carousel.

Very nice work!

Thanks everyone! It's been fun going back into the park, I had been missing it. I have way too much work into it and may never finish it since I can't seem to stop finding things to improve every time I go in. I think there is a metric ton of fog emitters, and the janitors are especially creepy this time of year.

Did I wake this topic up? you can say yes my ego i already way out control and thus, not your fault..

I woke up this morning to no power true story, totally convinced I was going to have to become the Road Warrior...Since I was 12 I have thought this was coming.... and damn it it did not turn that the reality was, not yet. So I am still here and as far as I can tell so far, so are you . So how are you? I am fine, Thanks to those who have said Hi so far, you may want to join them if you haven't yet we never know how long we shall be here...

Good use of color here and there, makes it interesting!

You may remember me, or if not Hi there.

Some of you I have known through various forums and Discord for, a long time. For the rest of you, I am not as bad as they say I am.

I do something completely different to earn a living, but I grew up fascinated with parks, carnivals, fairs and the like, I always liked how things looked at night the best and thus, you will note I tend to put a lot of thought into lighting and you will see a lot of nighttime screen shots from me.

My style was more around amusement parks and that is what Fox Amusements initially was, but its been shifting to more themed and higher quality in the parks for a while now, going back to RCT3. I am sure I will bore people with that at some point if I get into the history of Fox Amusements and why they are, how they are.

I had been poking around here for a while, thought since I recognize several names why not just get on board!

When I was pretty young, I was with my brother at Adventureland in Iowa I think it was the year they opened The Tornado which at the time was the biggest wooden coaster in Iowa, may still be. We were in line to ride it and behind us weas a group of older guys, I think there were three or four in their group. One of they guys named Leon was scared to ride The Tornado we could hear his friends saying "come on Leon you got to ride this thing!" and more conversation like that the entire time in line. Leon on the other hand kept saying wasn't going to ride, I think he was hoping there was a chicken exit at the top of the ramp, he kept saying "No way man I ain't getting on that thing!"

Once we got to the top of the ramp and were next to get on a train these guys were right behind us, My brother and I were in one of the first two seats, the group of friends behind us and Leon, did not make his exit. All the way up the lift hill he was scared out of his mind. After the firs drop though he started to have the time of his life. "Everybody put your hands up!" he yelled at the top of the second hill, "Put em up again" at the top of the third hill. This wend on until the ride was over.

As we ere exiting we could hear Leon saying, "Come on guys we gotta ride this again!"

Something we have never forgotten to this day, we are both much older now but if we are at Adventureland together and getting on the Tornado one of us will quote Leon.

Great job on this! I can't imagine how long it must take to load that park up.

Haunted Highlands returns.

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Some are familiar with this project, its been on going for years now and I have been out of it for a bit to work on some PC2 stuff but jumped in again to transform the park for Halloween again. There is a whole history to this park that, maybe I will get into later.