Friday at 04:58 PM2 days Author As threatened, er...promised...we now will explore Fantasyland. Now there's a name that the Imagineers should be proud of - cleverly combining 'fantasy' and 'land'...better copyright that real quick before someone tries to copy it.There are three ways to access Fantasyland - one by the Mickey Mouse Park Railroad, or one crossing over a bridge from the Fort Wilderness area, and another by land from Old MacDonald's Farm...Over the bridge... Or by land...just don't wake the dragon...We'll take the second route, the dragon is old and needs his frequent naps. I've nicknamed him "citytrader" for that reason...A festive village awaits us past the portcullis...On the left is Wise Owl Books...Just past it is Lil' Jack Horner Pie Co....thumbs not included.A little further along on the right is Little John's Food Court...On the left is our first attraction - Prince John's Bumpy Thingy which is a Whip Ride (only because the Dodgem's was too big for that structure...)Then we come to a side street on the right, on the corner is My Lady's Gowns and upstairs is Alan A. Dale's Music Shop...Then Merlin's Magic Shop...There's another entrance on the backside of Little John's Food Court here...Mad Madame Mim's Charm School...Maid Marion's Bridal Shoppe...Next door is Robin Hood's Archery where the young at heart of all ages can shoot deadly arrows...hopefully at the target and not each other...Across from that is Sir Goofy's Buffet...with all it's mac & cheese and chicken fingers goodness. Sorry, hadn't set the clock to noon when I took this screenshot, which is why the sign is so washed out, much like the lettuce at the salad bar inside...On the other side of Maid Marian's Bridal Shoppe we'll find Geppetto's Toy Shop...in the background is the other entrance to Fantasyland across the bridge from Fort Wilderness...Somebody's conscience is by the front door...Geppetto and his boys having a good time...We'll pause here...(no applause necessary nor encouraged!)(The size of this park really plays havoc with the textures on my computer, even when turned up high. As you can see some of the in-game pieces drop down in quality while the TMTK stuff remains fairly nice...I have removed everything outside the actual park boundaries on this bench, but it's pretty much now finished - thankfully!)
Friday at 07:08 PM2 days I will hold all applause until you say it is time. I need encouragement. This is a very charming addition, it carry's on the Disney pre-IP whore era feel. I am working very hard to hide my opinion of Disney parks today, I hope it is working. You handled the fairy tale theming very well, it is something I have never tried, and would probably not be very good at :)
Friday at 10:40 PM2 days I LOVE the look of Fantasyland! The crooked streets and thatched roofs really sell the fairy tale look and feel. I'm curious about the divider running down the middle of the bridge. I guess people going into Fantasyland would use the right half, while people exiting would use the left? Of course, Brits would do it the other way around. I'll be extra careful to not disturb citytrader from his nap.I like how you've incorporated many Disney characters into the scenes; the Geppetto window is especially nice. It's fun to see Robin Hood as an actual archer, not just as a stand-in to show the scale of the scene. ;-) And I like seeing the Sword in the Stone characters, they're often neglected."Somebody's conscience is by the front door". Smash that little bugger! (like in the original story.) He ain't good for nuthin' nohow! Pinocchio would have a lot more fun without him, says I. (I'm sure Pinoke would get used to being a donkey... eventually.)
Friday at 11:28 PM2 days I hope to see an aerial view of this land at the end. Looks charming. Edited Friday at 11:28 PM2 days by shyguy "...if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists." --Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)
Saturday at 11:19 AM1 day Author 11 hours ago, shyguy said:I hope to see an aerial view of this land at the end. Looks charming.I have one I can show now...It's a little hard to see the streets, so I highlighted them in yellow below. The red indicates where the Snow White walk-through path goes. In actuality the path across the bridge sould have lined up with the castle as the weenie at the end. But I had made the bridge first, then later placed the castle kinda centered in the corner, only after I had laid the rest of the path and placed structures did I notice it didn't line up the way it should have...At upper right is a back-stage area that serves this end of the park which is unfinished... As always, click on the image to enlarge it. Edited Saturday at 12:01 PM1 day by Wabigbear
Saturday at 11:56 AM1 day Author 12 hours ago, JB said:I LOVE the look of Fantasyland! The crooked streets and thatched roofs really sell the fairy tale look and feel. I'm curious about the divider running down the middle of the bridge. I guess people going into Fantasyland would use the right half, while people exiting would use the left? Of course, Brits would do it the other way around.I like how you've incorporated many Disney characters into the scenes; the Geppetto window is especially nice. It's fun to see Robin Hood as an actual archer, not just as a stand-in to show the scale of the scene. ;-) And I like seeing the Sword in the Stone characters, they're often neglected.Truthfully, it's just due to the scenery piece I used when first making a bridge there before I built anything else, it had the stone texture I wanted. Then later I then decided to widen it and just duplicated the bridge and slid the copy over. Being too lazy to delete those pieces, I'm claiming that the Imagineer's cleverly designed a stone bench running down the center to allow dozens of weary parks guests a spot to relax all at one time...I can't take credit for the buildings, most are Workshop finds, some I tweaked, some I recolored, some I left exactly as they were. The main problem was downloading a bunch of excellent structure, but then having to compare each and every one so that they were about the same scale. Many were scaled too large (which is always a problem in PC when they use 4m tall walls...), a few were too small, but there were many that were Goldilock's scale and just right. One of my favorite themes from the game too.Some of the signage I made should/could have been a little larger, but they work. I had to hunt down images of Disney characters from that era, which actually was a fun reminder of some of the films from years ago! The Geppetto's window is actually multiple pieces...a background image of the workshop, then Geppetto alpha figure and two different puppet alpha groupings. Viewing the park in-game the slight separation of the figures and distance from the background gives a slight 3D effect even through they certainly aren't 3D.
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