Hey ParkCrafters! 😀

So, I thought I'd introduce you to the park projects that I shared on SGW a while ago, and I finally had some time to find the pictures, and picked a selection for you. Unfortunately some are smaller than the others. I'm also not sure if all pics were actually shown back then on SGW, so there might be exclusive "new" stuff in there. :)

In my years on SGW, I have presented more parks than the ones that I will show here, but these three were my favourite projects that I'm going to show:

• Three Mountains Park (on SGW around 2011-2012)
• Tauber-Park (on SGW around 2013)
• Jolly Hills (on SGW around 2014-2015)

I will split my presentation into four posts, which I hope to publish throughout the upcoming weeks. Two for Three Mountains Park because it was such a big project, and then one for each, Tauber-Park and Jolly Hills. There's also another park that I wanna show which I did with Planet Coaster, I guess I will share this one in the Planco forum after I'm done with this thread.

So let's begin… with:

 

Three Mountains Park

Part 1: 1970-1994

 

I usually present my projects in chronological order of the park's fictional timeline, and Three Mountains Park was no different. The park began in 1970 as a small amusement and wildlife park in the countryside, located around and within three mountains.

One of my biggest passions around presenting my parks is doing so with maps and flyers, so we're beginning with the one of the opening year:
 

 

 

There was a big hotel at the entrance, Hotel Marina Star, located right at a big pond. 

One of the oldest highlights was the Flume Ride:

A few smaller rides were added to the park in the mid 1970s, and in 1978, the first themed area of the park opened its gates: The "Alpendorf" (Alpine Village), featuring a roller coaster and a swing ride.

In 1983, the first coaster with inversions came to the park: Quetzal, a corkscrew coaster. Those with less desire for thrill could take a relaxing time on the rowing boats on the neighbouring lake.

As usually, the park added a few smaller rides and attractions in between the highlights. The next big thing was the iconic dark ride of the park: The Fate of the Stranded Strangers - a very scary ride, which arrived in 1987!

The themed area "Mayaland", with the corkscrew Quetzal, got the Condor in 1988, and was completed with the water ride Tikal in 1989.

In 1990, the African themed area opened with a Topspin, followed by the Batoka River Rapids in 1991. I'll share a picture of these in the second part soon.

The biggest highlight of the last century however was the iconic Maharaja Mine, which replaced the old Wild Mine in 1992…

 

 

…and this completed the Oriental Valley. Here it's in its full glory by night, ca. mid 1990s:

To be continued. 🙂
 

Hey, TrimoParks (I still think of you as Elch 🙃). I'm familiar with your Planet Coaster creations, but I don't think I was at SGW when you posted these early parks. So I'm glad to see them now!

That plaza came out awesome in your Alpendorf section, the diagonal buildings add so much instead of just staying on that dreaded RCT3 grid. Also that Quetzal coaster of yours looks seriously cool, love how it looks next to that lagoon. These are some gorgeous shots!

Wow!! I love the attention to detail that you have with your parks. I can’t wait for more!

Good to see some of the old SGW projects return in some form, even if it is just an introduction to your work. Makes me excited for more and happy to see another member of the SGW community posting.

Some of those pictures are so crispy and fantasically themed - I thought I was looking at a PlanCo topic for a second! I think my favorite from that post is this one:

On 10/3/2023 at 1:30 PM, TrimoParks said:

 

On 10/4/2023 at 12:15 AM, JB said:

Hey, TrimoParks (I still think of you as Elch 🙃). I'm familiar with your Planet Coaster creations, but I don't think I was at SGW when you posted these early parks. So I'm glad to see them now!

Hey @JB! No problem 🙂 Yeah, it's been a while since I have posted my RCT3 parks. Glad you like it 😀

On 10/4/2023 at 4:41 PM, wolfpaw said:

That plaza came out awesome in your Alpendorf section, the diagonal buildings add so much instead of just staying on that dreaded RCT3 grid. Also that Quetzal coaster of yours looks seriously cool, love how it looks next to that lagoon. These are some gorgeous shots!

@wolfpaw, thank you so much! Yeah, the grid in RCT3 was probably the one of the biggest downsides of the game compared to Planet Coaster. I nearly forgot about this lol

On 10/5/2023 at 4:04 PM, jaronimo.mov said:

Wow!! I love the attention to detail that you have with your parks. I can’t wait for more!

@jaronimo.movthanks, I hope I can deliver! 😀

On 10/7/2023 at 3:40 AM, Cody said:

Good to see some of the old SGW projects return in some form, even if it is just an introduction to your work. Makes me excited for more and happy to see another member of the SGW community posting.

Hey @Cody! Thanks for your comment. I am also very happy that some familiar names from SGW have found this place, and hopefully more will do so in the future. 🙂
 

On 10/11/2023 at 6:55 PM, Kablary said:

Some of those pictures are so crispy and fantasically themed - I thought I was looking at a PlanCo topic for a second! I think my favorite from that post is this one:

@Kablary, thank you, I appreciate it a lot, especially because Maharaja Mine was my own favourite ride from the whole park, this means a lot for me. Maybe I will recreate it in a future Planet Coaster project.

 

Thanks to everyone once again!

So, in the meantime, I actually got back to work on my big Planet Coaster project, after a three years break. I really hope to be able to post new projects in the future, but we'll see. Btw, sorry for the different picture sizes here. I know it's not ideal.

And now let's get back to…

 

 

Three Mountains Park

Part 2: 1995-2011

 

The mid 90s saw the addition of a few flat rides. And in 1999, the park's new highlight was the wooden coaster King of the Mountains.

 

 

Together with the frisbee Storm and the Lone Pine Lodge (a restaurant):

 

The Lone Pine Lodge from outside…

 

 

... and inside:

 

A few years later, the next major coaster arrived at the northern edge of the park. The teaser was all about a highly venomous snake coming to Three Mountains Park.. the Boomslang, name giver to the ride. Here is a shot together with the Batoka River Rapids (a river rapids ride from 1991)  below.

 

Iceland came to the park in the mid 2000s. The highlight was the water coaster Snæfell, inspired by Journey to the Center of the Earth. After the lifthill, the boats dropped through the name giving volcano, passed by the famous giant mushrooms and dinosaurs, and finally splashed into the water.

 

Some more Iceland impressions…

 

 

Remember Hotel Marina Star from the beginning? The hotel finally closed in August 2008. Large parts of the structure were kept and now used for the main entrance, a monorail station, shops, restaurants, and more. The pond got transformed into a big plaza for the new main entrance:

 

The Park Explorer, the new monorail, also had a second stop next to the north entrance of the park:

 

In 2010, the anniversary year, a new fun coaster came to Three Mountains Park: The Unbelievable Journey of Lord Cannonfort, or just "Cannonfort" - to make things easier.

 

In 2011, when the park finally reached real time, a final small flat ride was added, and I believe this was the end of the thread back then. 

I also found this map based on a screenshot from above, with some of the major rides mapped:

 

And this was - in very short - the history of Three Mountains Park, name giver to the imaginary "Trimontis" park corporation, later renamed to Trimo Parks - and that's how I chose my (new) user name. 🙂

Coming soon: The history of Tauber-Park

I think I would enjoy the Icelandic section of the park best, especially Snæfell. Journey To The Center Of The Earth is one of my favorite Verne stories and films (1959. The 2008 version with Brendan Fraser is OK too.)

Is the park entrance sign ("Three Mountains Park") custom scenery? It looks great! I've never seen it before. 🏔️🏔️🏔️

Well, it's about time that I continue my thread here! 

But before, let me type this overdue answer:

On 10/14/2023 at 4:05 AM, JB said:

I think I would enjoy the Icelandic section of the park best, especially Snæfell. Journey To The Center Of The Earth is one of my favorite Verne stories and films (1959. The 2008 version with Brendan Fraser is OK too.)

Is the park entrance sign ("Three Mountains Park") custom scenery? It looks great! I've never seen it before. 🏔️🏔️🏔️

Oh yes, I think we share the fascination about that story, as I loved both, the Jules Verne book as well as the classic film from 1959. Didn't watch the modern version yet. :)

But to answer your question finally: Yep, I made my own CSO of the logo, just for myself for this park, it wasn't released on the CS Depot. And yay for the three mountains emojis :)

 

And now, let's jump right into...

 

Tauber-Park

 

This park is neither my biggest, nor my most detailed, but for some reason, it has a very special place in my heart. Maybe someone here will remember it from SGW. 

Tauber-Park is a small park, located in a valley in the German countryside. I have to assume that the exact story has disappeared together with SGW, but if I remember correctly, the park was founded in the 1970s.

An early postcard: 

 

The originally family-owned Tauber-Park ran into big financial problems in the 1980s, had to close in a very sad state, and was finally purchased in 1992 by the Trimontis group, which emerged from above described Three Mountains Park.

The now internationally established company put a lot of love into the park and reopened it in 1993.

Some impressions...

just behind the park entrance:

Looking over large parts of the small and cosy park... (this photo was apparently from a time before the chair lift to the upper area came to the park):

 

In 1995, the most iconic ride in the park's history opened: Grotto Cruise. 

Grotto Cruise is a rapid river with large parts inside a rock massif, and mixed scary and fantastic elements:

The area with Grotto Cruise and the log flume from above:

A few more shots of the park from above...

 

The whole park from above, including the upper area on the top of the hill to the left, which featured a family coaster and a dinosaur dark ride.

Here you can also see the boat ride on the lake.

And finally, one of the main characters in my Trimontis / Trimo Parks universe must not be missing:

Here's Christine Metzger, head of the German parks from 1995 onwards, proudly presenting the new coaster in Tauber-Park (in the background), at some point in the early 2000s, if I remember correctly.

Hint: Christine will later play a certain role in another park, coming to ParkCrafters very soon. 

 

I love the forested hillsides. They add a lot to the park's setting.

This is awesome. I love the detailing in each park! Nice work!

These are seriously awesome screenshots, some of the best from RCT3 I've seen lately! Amazing work on everything, it's all so beautiful and excited to see more!