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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Six Flags Holland

Ok so this is a very expansive and sprawling park, yet nothing is filled in, the rides are so far apart from each other that there’s a ton of land to fill in. The objective isn’t hard, like the other parks, but it did take me 27 game years to finish this park. I also decided at the beginning that I wasn’t going to buy any land, there’s a ton of land for sale but there’s not enough types of rides to fill in that much space.

I started by reconstructing the entire park from the ground up, all of the pathways needed to be changed, a lot of rides needed to be moved. I started by completely reimagining the entrance and working it into the lakeside to the east, keeping the town/building theme but scaling it to RCT, adding lots of trees and bushes. Next to the entrance I added a version of Xpress, but made as a corkscrew coaster.

I built a second railroad, both railroads go in counter clockwise circles around their respective halves of the park. The area with the boomerang got remade, to be closer to the carousel and the now larger food court. The entire promenade up to the Ferris wheel has been redone, now leading up to an observation tower. The Ferris wheel has been moved to the lakeside. The area around the space shot and enterprise has changed, now a boardwalk following the train tracks. Condors layout has changed slightly, the area around condor and Goliath has changed, many more courtyards and plazas added. The area between Crazy River and Flying Dutchman has been turned into one large western themed area, including the swinging ship, which is now been moved, the lake being occupied by a Splash Falls. There is an Area 51 type area in the back corner, with a tiny launched giga (Lost Gravity) wedged into the very small corner. I wanted to challenge myself and see if I could create a coaster in that tiny space.

The entire area around Robin Hood has changed, there is now an entire castle themed area inside Robin Hood’s layout, where the graviton and haunted house have been moved to. It is a dead end, but guests don’t get lost. The largest coaster in the park is now a B&M hyper named Drako, a double out and back coaster that crosses the lake at the back of the park. It’s blood red and 6,178 feet long, with speeds of 75mph. There is a launched giga over the rapids ride, which became bigger and more twisted than I anticipated. Also a pirate themed floorless coaster on the lake with 8 inversions.

All in all this park was not hard, but was a matter of blending areas from the original park and using them to accentuate the newer rides. This is the final park I’m doing from this series, I have no interest in the time twister parks, I think the scenery in them is ugly. I’ve had thoughts for years of doing a ‘revisited’ series, but that’s for the future. All in all I finished Six Flags Hollands with 45 rides including 14 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Six Flags Belgium

The strangest and most bizarrely laid out park yet of the Six Flags parks. The objective was easy, just continue advertising and marketing and you’ll have the amount in no time. The part I’ve never realized about this scenario is that the entire left side of the map is for sale (and parts of the right side) but it’s 100$ per square….which made this take a very very very long time.

The most major change through the entire park is the path layout. There’s no need for every path to be 4-5 tiles wide, so I’ve shrunk them all down to 2-3 wide. I’ve also reduced the amount of paths. The entrance section is condensed, less paths. Carousel moved, food added, courtyard in front of train station. Vampire was moved between the entrance and the river, an out and back B&M is in place where vampire used to be. Cobra is in the same place, magic carpet was moved, a mini giga coaster was build over and adjacent to the rapids, a skyride and walking tunnel was built across the lake. A new railway station was added on the west side of the lake. Turbine and flash back are untouched, but the railway and pathway surrounding the flume have been adjusted, allowing room for a massive double launch giga coaster to circle the peninsula.

The entire profile of the east side of the park has changed, the area around the top spin and enterprise has changed, the scrambler and swinging ship were moved to this area too, creating a garden area with a few flat rides and the Cheshire cats. The corkscrew, loop garou, and calamity mines layouts were adjusted, the area around the Ferris wheel was flipped, the pond replaced with a skyride station.

In the new land in the west includes 7 new coasters, 4 of them being B&M coasters (twister, floorless, mini hyper, flying) also includes an air launch coaster that returns through a dark ride. This whole area is lightly themed to a Lost Forest. The back corner feels a bit messy with 3 huge coasters next to each other, each with different themes, but I get tired of flat areas.

All in all this park was super long but very productive, it’s year 33 so that tells you how long it took to buy the land, which I won’t be doing for Holland. I’d say about 70% of this park is perfect in my mind. I’m very happy with it. I finished with 48 rides including 18 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Panda World

So to be honest I started this park a couple years ago and got bored with it, leaving it half built. It’s simply a flat park and they don’t give you enough ride types it was boring. When I came back to it I had already finished Magic Mountain, Over Texas, and Great Adventure. So this is a quick pit stop before moving onto the European Six Flags parks.

The entire park is supposed to be themed to Pandas, but the park is probably 4 times larger than what it should be. Therefor I had to think of this park on 4 times the scale. I decided to theme it to animals. The front of the park is themed to pandas, the far left is themed to tigers, the middle is themed to lions, and the far right is themed to elephants. Giving all 4 areas 4 different landscapes with 4 different monorail stations. Perfect.

The coaster types nor the coasters themselves are revolutionary, there’s not a B&M available in this park, there’s only 11 coaster types available to you, 5 of those are wild mouse variants. I built 2 out and back twister woodies, a tiger theme and a jaguar theme, respectively. The centerpiece coaster is a Multidiver clone which I’ve recovered and rethemed. There’s an electric mine train coaster themed to bamboo, a wild mouse in the elephant section (obviously), a pretty standard corkscrew coaster (6 inversions), and finally an inverted wild mouse. I was really just trying to fill up space here.

All in all this park is one of the most boring in the series, clear to see why it’s a cute extra park. Mildly happy with how it turned out, but now that it’s out of the way it’s back to the Six Flags parks. I finished with 25 rides including 8 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Six Flags Great Adventure

This park is wild because it’s one of the biggest parks in the entire game, and the entirety of it is flat. Parks with lots of open land are hard for me because there’s too much space, but I had a plan of action.

I divided the park in half, and decided to ground the park in transit, with a transit hub in the center of the park. There’s one monorail going clockwise around the park, with 2 stations at the transit hub and 2 on either end of the park. This is for quick transit to get to the back of the park quickly. Then there are 2 trains in either half of the park running counter clockwise. This makes it easy for guests to get to any section of the park they want without walking there.

I’ve also divided the park into sections by path. The central promenade is grey pavement, the central loop paths are the brown stone, and the outer areas of the park are dark brown path.

Every pre existing ride has been tampered with by me. The skyrides have been extended. Great American Scream Machine had its station moved, its track layout changed slightly, and its entire grounds covered in forest. Note: the entire park is now in thick forest. Rolling Thunder had its layout very slightly tweaked so they would race better. Adventure raceway was moved next to the west lake. Medusa had its entire layout altered, its station moved, first drop changed, entire second half refurbished, also covered in forest. Runaway mine train was fixed to have a couple of steep drops, new station, condensed layout, and only run 2 trains. Both twister and buccaneer have been moved to other places in the park, as well as carousel and big wheel. Blackbeards Lost Treasure was moved and reconstructed just southeast of where it was, it fits perfectly between the transit hub and the skyride station. Skull Mountain was moved to the west a few blocks and reconstructed with a nicer facade, with more waterfalls in the front. Nitros entire layout was moved one block to the right so it was symmetrical with the skyride, also its station lowered and the layout changed slightly so it would be less intense. Rapids are relatively unchanged besides adding more rapids.

Everything else is new. There’s a total of 24 roller coasters in this park. I built a green stand up coaster next to great American scream machine (can’t believe the flying coaster isn’t available in this park), I built a green hyper coaster going out and back from the parking lot, coloring and naming it after Kingda Ka, so that there would be a massive hyper coaster to the east and a smaller hyper coaster to the west. I took a lot of names from past coasters that were at great adventure, so Ultra Twister is next to Jumbo Jet and Savajevo Bobsleds, Viper and Wild Rider are here too, but in different forms than their originals. I made a clone of El Toro in the back of the park, and I’m very proud of how it turned out. Even the station is a clone.

There are 3 coasters in this park with interlocking corkscrews, it’s just a fun shape to build and works really well with B&M coasters. I built a mild clone of The Chiller, but named them Frostbite & Flamethrower. Very fun coasters to watch. Jersey Devil is at the back of the park, but it’s in the form of an out and back twister wooden coaster, in all black.

This is a huge undertaking, and it took me 36 park years to comb through and rearrange everything in this park, I love what it’s turned into, it’s almost more of a Busch gardens style park, completely shrouded in woods, which makes all of the rides more exciting. I love the different areas I’ve created, with main courtyards in the center and then paths branching out into the corners of the park. Currently there are 6,000 guests in this park and I think that’s the perfect amount for this park. I’ve finished Great Adventure with 56 rides including 24 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Six Flags over Texas

I decided not to go in order, obviously, because I knew that if I did them in order I would lose interest and never get anything done. SFOT is an iconic park for me, and since I’ve been to this park in real life, I can tell you that the layout is hilariously wrong. Rides are closer to other rides than they should be, rides are missing, the park is much more compact than in real life, and there are many sections of this park I know existed in 2002 they just aren’t built in game.

I started this park by fixing the symmetry of the entrance square, things like that bother me, I’m never sure why parks in RCT are built so haphazardly. I moved the swinging ship in Spain to the side, added a circus, and added a train station to this area, making the total 3 train stations (2 felt too little). I did not touch La Vibora. The log flume had to be moved and rearranged a bit for pathway reasons, as there’s now a connecting path from Spain to Titan.

I lowered the station for Titan since the station previously was 30 feet high which is ridiculous, I reprofiled a lot of the ride too, adding some airtime hills. I redesigned the pathways and the area next to Titan, including it in a new area called Wild West. In Wild West there is a new mine train ride since the park wasn’t designed with the pre existing Runaway Mine Train, also a powered coaster called Rodeo.

In the center of the park I’ve moved the Splash Falls ride to the back (East) side of the park, replacing it with a wooden twister coaster called Lone Star. Texas Giant has no chances except for the pathways and the scenery around the station and the train station. I’ve kept the building for Runaway Mountain but thought it was too dramatic of a building for the ride inside it so I redesigned it to be an indoor-outdoor double launch coaster similar to Verbolten at Busch Gardens, with the outdoor section flying over the rapids ride. There was no space for the power towers in their current spot so I placed them in the area behind the Oil Derrick. Shockwave is unchanged.

I’ve made the lakeside to the east of the entrance more enticing and enjoyable, adding boat rides, a fountain, and several picnic areas. Next to Judge Roy Scream I’ve added an inverted shuttle coaster, themed loosely off of Adventurelands Dragon, because it also is between a wooden coaster and a lake. The entire area around Flashback and the Bumper Cars is redesigned to have more of an old park theme, Missile Chaser has been moved here.

The lake where Missile Chaser was has been turned into a normal lake, next to it is a pair of very familiar coasters, a blue launched shuttle coaster called Frostbite and next to that a yellow inverted coaster called Longhorn. Wink wink. They’re a little too iconic as a pair not to at least give a nudge. I filled in the rest of the open area beyond bumper cars with a water coaster themed to medieval Merlin, a few flat rides, and the moved Splash Falls.

Overall this park was super easy, especially since there were fewer rides than SFMM, I made money much faster than SFMM too. This park only took about 20 years to complete. A lot of the existing coasters were built to my standard in this park, so I’ve mainly adjusted only pathways and the areas around these coasters, creating a perfect balance of old and new. I finished SFOT with 42 rides including 14 coasters.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Six Flags Magic Mountain

Well here I am after a 2 year hiatus, I decided to buy the expansion pack and to play with the extra perks. I needed something that was a little familiar to me and something that was more cleaning up a park rather than starting a park from scratch. So I chose SFMM first because I can beat it in 10 seconds (deleting 2 coasters and paying off the loan) and not have to worry about beating a park.

I started by raising the entrance price, making sure there were enough restrooms and food stalls everywhere, as well as making sure there were no dead ends or path traps in the park. I then started going section by section and beautifying the park, deleting paths, making lines neater, even moving rides across the map. I never deleted any rides though, as I wanted to keep all of the same rides in the original park. I did however rebuild rides with different stations, different entrances, even redesigning parts of Flashback and Ninja, and lowering the entire structure of Goliath by 30 feet so its station isn’t as ridiculously high as when you start. Gold Rusher had a major overhaul, redesigning the section before the lift, as well as the long finale so it was more thrilling. I found an odd glitch while rebuilding ninja, when rebuilding it as a new ride, one of its trains would spawn at the bottom of the first drop, valleying it as soon as it spawned. I somehow fixed this by reprofiling the first turn so it would spawn higher up the first drop, completing the circuit. Really strange glitch that I’ve never seen before.

After redesigning the entire park, I started adding to it. I wanted some brand new rides that aren’t at the real park, but I wanted some nods to the current park. There is a green B&M stand up coaster called Saguaro where the Riddler should be, but a different color pallet and a different layout. Next to it is a blue B&M invert where Batman should be, but a different blue with a different layout and theme. There’s a launched shuttle coaster called Full Throttle. Some brand new rides I’ve built are a wooden twister a la gravity group between X and the entrance called Sierra Flyer, a mini launched giga coaster called Grizzly which twist over the rapids ride, an industrial themed wild mouse next to Psyclone, a pirate themed area where the water park should be, including an inverted impulse coaster and a dive coaster, which intermingles with a river raft ride. Next to the pirates area is a castle themed area where the looney toons area should be, I’ve moved some rides around (Ferris wheel now on the mountain) and added new rides including an inverted wild mouse. The final pair of coasters I’ve made are a massive duo of a 200 foot giga coaster called Inferno and its wooden counterpart, Ember. These are built in the very back corner of the park in an odd diagonal patch of land, with Inferno crossing the station of Colossus.

Rides that I did not touch were Colossus, I thought about making it one continuous coaster but I thought that might make the intensity too high. Revolution is the same though I rebuilt it so I could redesign the station. X is untouched but its station scenery design changed. Psyclone is untouched as well, Deja Vu was moved 2 spaces towards the canal so I could fit a plaza in between them.

This park was extremely hard to manage, with only entrance ticket prices making you money, I couldn’t hire a lot of staff, so the paths were regularly a mess, vandalism happened frequently, and people would always get stuck, forcing me to create paths and create new routes all the time. I had to redesign sections for the handymen and mechanics, and I eventually had to hire a couple security guards. The key is keeping the handymen’s sections small, as this park easily could fit 6,000 people in it, so areas can get very messy very quickly. You have to use marketing at almost every moment if you want to get anything done, but it also brings more people in, and people never leave if you keep cash machines around. It’s a rough scenario.

All in all this park was therapeutic for me to build, and I’m very happy with the end result. I loved combing over every inch of this park and making it perfect in my mind. I finished SFMM with 5,800 guests, 65 staff, 60 rides, and 25 coasters (including duplicate/racing coasters).