QTXAdsy
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Alright, here I'am on here to put my old RCT3 topic from TTF, which I can say now has an update! For those who didn't know, I had started the topic about a year ago, but gave up when not many where keeping a close eye on it. But now with a sudden burst of confidence, I'm ready to give it a second go and in future remaster the park, though that'll be later, so we might as well start off from the beginning of the park as we head back to 1989...
1989
At a time when many national landmarks are being pulled down, one such place escaped from demolition. This place was called 'St. Adams Castle'. The castle is located directly right in the heartland of Fife and has remained disused since 1971 when the then owner of the castle, Lord Edwards, was killed when the second floor he was on collapsed, From then on, nobody decided to help out the troubled building.
The building itself was first built round about in the 1300's as a watch tower for incoming English by St. William Adams, the building itself grew overtime in a rather impressive castle overlooking the Fife countryside. Then in 1986, a family business man named Brian Morrison, who had been a long time fan of the then young Alton Towers, decided to create the Scottish answer to the Towers by buying the land at SAC (As it became it's popular nickname by coaster enthusiasts) and turning it into a rather large, yet smaller park, like Alton Towers. The Council themselves were up in arms about the idea of a large park being built in the area, but after a long battle, the park was Brian's.
The first thing was create a stylish entrance plaza as the photo's below show.
The large track piece here is from a Vekoma SLC type, this piece of track however is to symbolise the beginning of a long friendship between SAC and Vekoma.
The entrance to the park, with the fact that Vekoma being a dutch coaster company, ironically, the building design for this section of the park were in fact from Dutch construction type!
Inside of the plaza, the attention to detail is very well shown with the large rock face of the castle in the background.
And a final shot from the castle ramparts, the castle itself will unfortunately not open for the public as it is a dangerous structure, maybe one day in the not too distance future it'll open up to the public...
I'll be putting up the next parts on seperate posts, just to milk it on users here.
1989
At a time when many national landmarks are being pulled down, one such place escaped from demolition. This place was called 'St. Adams Castle'. The castle is located directly right in the heartland of Fife and has remained disused since 1971 when the then owner of the castle, Lord Edwards, was killed when the second floor he was on collapsed, From then on, nobody decided to help out the troubled building.
The building itself was first built round about in the 1300's as a watch tower for incoming English by St. William Adams, the building itself grew overtime in a rather impressive castle overlooking the Fife countryside. Then in 1986, a family business man named Brian Morrison, who had been a long time fan of the then young Alton Towers, decided to create the Scottish answer to the Towers by buying the land at SAC (As it became it's popular nickname by coaster enthusiasts) and turning it into a rather large, yet smaller park, like Alton Towers. The Council themselves were up in arms about the idea of a large park being built in the area, but after a long battle, the park was Brian's.
The first thing was create a stylish entrance plaza as the photo's below show.
The large track piece here is from a Vekoma SLC type, this piece of track however is to symbolise the beginning of a long friendship between SAC and Vekoma.
The entrance to the park, with the fact that Vekoma being a dutch coaster company, ironically, the building design for this section of the park were in fact from Dutch construction type!
Inside of the plaza, the attention to detail is very well shown with the large rock face of the castle in the background.
And a final shot from the castle ramparts, the castle itself will unfortunately not open for the public as it is a dangerous structure, maybe one day in the not too distance future it'll open up to the public...
I'll be putting up the next parts on seperate posts, just to milk it on users here.