I am returning after a long hiatus to a park I'd been working on for quite a while when Jurassic World first came out; I was a bit burned out by some of the limits on aviaries and lagoons, but the aviary update has drawn me back in.

While my park is a very long way from finished and still has many areas that are extremely rough around the edges, including a few zones I want to redo completely, I want to share what I have so far and some of my thoughts on where I am going.

Welcome... To Jurassic Park: Los Angeles!

The entrance (like almost every part of this park) isn't quite finished, I want to flesh out the plaza in front of it, add shade structures and queues in front of the ticket and membership booths, etc; but I am very, very happy with the bones of the structure.

The entrance is very much modeled on the real world entrance of the Los Angeles zoo, and in fact the whole starting zone is in some ways modeled on the Los Angeles Zoo both as it exists today and as in its master plan.

I am aiming for a high budget, highly themed Jurassic Park that might have been built near Los Angeles in place of JP San Diego in a slightly alternate timeline and never suffered any significant disasters. I will lean heavily on the JP theming with some allowances for time passing and modernization bringing us closer to the Jurassic World style.

The entrance is the main thing I wanted to show off so far - the rest requires significant work. But there IS quite a bit of it that's at least got placeholders in to save space for future ideas... Maybe I will talk about some of those soon.

Very nice! "Gulch of the Gore King"? That sounds...... interesting. ;-)

9 hours ago, JB said:

Very nice! "Gulch of the Gore King"? That sounds...... interesting. ;-)

So, I was going for a scientifically accurate late Cretaceous Laramidia entrance, modeled on LA Zoo's planned California Natives zone. (California for the most part was underwater in the late Cretaceous, but the bits of it that were above water would have been part of Laramidia, the western half of what would become North America).

As such, I was using specific dinos from the area with stand-ins from the game. In this case, Albertosaurus stands in for Lythronax:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lythronax

Lythronax means "Gore King" hence the name of the area.

But... you aren't the first to point out a certain.... meaning... I have to admit that I don't really see it (and I don't know if I want to!) but I'll probably end up changing it. Especially because I ended up revamping the single species Lythronax habitat into a complex of habitats.

The park's looking great so far. The entrance is especially well done.

This reminds me, I have plans to visit LA Zoo, hopefully before the year's end.

Also, great to see another JWE3 park here at the forums. My Primeval World needs some competition.

Edited June 26Jun 26 by shyguy

So as I was going over the park I realized it's a little plain in many places; I need to do another pass adding light poles, decor on them, warning signs, security cameras, maintenance booths, etc....

I also need to redo most of the exhibits I've already started. The two smallest ones are probably the closest to done; the big plesiosaur tank is good but the viewing galleries are barely started; the predator habitat I am redoing as a predator and prey pair of habitats; and the aviary needs to be completely redone now that we have better terrain tools in aviaries.

The aviary I'm especially excited for, I want to make a kayak tour through a deep, deep canyon with quetzalcoatls flying overhead.

And I blocked out a backstage area but I haven't actually done anything with it yet. That's another major project.

All that just to wrap up what I've laid out so far - I have ideas for a couple more zones beyond the Laramidian native entrance.

We've renovated the underwater viewing of the elasmosaurus/libonnectes habitat near the entrance, as well as the surrounding plaza.

The habitat will also be viewable from a stadium up above the water, although this part is far from complete.

Tucked away down here, you may notice a classic Jurassic Park gate, its doors shut.

Beyond the gate is a long access tunnel straight through the side of the hill.

Eventually, this will lead to where much of the park's infrastructure will be. For now, all of that is placeholder stuff necessary for the park to function with the gameplay elements I have turned on.

Bonus shot from the underwater viewing for Serpents of the Seaway:

While this part of the zoo is far from complete, this little exhibit is a personal favorite of mine.

I do want to add some outdoor feeding and enrichment for the Diabloceratops; expect that to come soon.

Construction of the entry plaza monorail station is continuing at a rapid pace!