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Golden Gardens - A Nolimits Park

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Posted January 18, 2020· Edited January 18, 2020

Golden Gardens

After four years of constant tweaking and extreme nitpicking, Golden Gardens is finally ready to be showed off. What started as a small park, inspired by Alton Towers and Knoebels, has evolved into one of the largest projects I have ever done, as well as one of the largest Nolimits Parks to date. I am extremely excited to release content from inside the park as it has been under wraps for years to date. I hope you all enjoy Golden Gardens as much as I did working on it.

Park History

Robert Golden, who worked on Wall Street as a stock broker for 30 years, decided to retire and move away from the bustling streets of Manhattan. He had been living in multiple vacation homes throughout the eastern seaboard, but finally settled down in a newly constructed estate located in the New York woodlands. Nestled quietly in a valley, with over 400 acres of land to his name, Mr. Golden began to explore various entertainment options to bring to his estate. In 1970, Golden announced the opening of Golden Gardens, an outdoors family entertainment complex, located right in his own backyard.

Golden Gardens was known for many years as a quiet outdoors retreat for families featuring hiking trails, waterways and zip lines. Once Golden passed away in 1977, his gardens went through years of disrepair. It sat without a true owner due to legal troubles. In 1985, it was finally fully inherited by his oldest son Lucas Golden. After his father's death, Lucas set out to fulfill his father's dream, which was to provide a world class destination right in his own backyard.

Lucas added new carnival rides and arcade games, along with the park's first roller coaster in 1986. After years of being a local destination and a smaller thrill park, Golden wanted to finally go big. The park held a major announcement in Summer 2009, and it was announced that a new ten year, $250M plan to redevelop the gardens would start for the 2010 season. This would include record breaking roller coasters and new infrastructure. With the 10 year plan wrapping up, Golden Gardens has established itself as a world class destination for families and thrill junkies alike.

Ride History

In 1994, Vekoma built the park’s first family coaster. Opening as Iron Horse, this mine train features two lift hills, and multiple wave turns. It is currently the oldest operating roller coaster at the park and is a family favorite.

The 2004 season was a splash at Golden Gardens as the park added the Appalachian Falls boat ride. Giving riders a splash of wilderness.

For 2005, Great Coasters International constructed the Pioneer. A twister design with pops of airtime and plenty of lateral forces that’ll send you buckling around form start to stop. Enjoy a view of the park’s skyline atop the panoramic lift hill.

In 2009, the Gardens saw a new family addition that was built by Gerstlauer. Fireflier, which is a standard family 360 model coaster. The ride is situated in the Appalachian Village section of the park.

In 2011, B&M was brought in to build the Appalachian Flyer, themed around vintage stunt flight. A wing coaster that features 5 inversions and a top speed of 62mph. This one is a big hit with many of our guests, be sure to get in line quickly before the grounds get busy!

In 2013, Premier Rides made its debut at the park with the introduction of Water Snake, a Skyrocket II model, the parks first and only launch coaster to date, located on the Leiwich River in the Wilderness Trail section.

For the 2016 season, it was announced that Rocky Mountain Construction would be making its way to the park to build The Mountaineer. It is the tallest, fastest, and the steepest hybrid roller coaster on the planet, featuring a 213ft lift, 91° drop, speeds of 78mph, and 3 inversions. Inspired by the very mountains that surround it, the ride is truly a one of a kind experience and won best new ride of the year in 2016.

In 2018, the park went even bigger, building their newest coaster with a 220ft lift. River Rampage is a huge Mega Coaster from Intamin which features heart pumping twists, turns and plenty of airtime. As you crest the top of the lift you’ll have the best view of the wilderness surrounding the park. Make sure you hang on for those rapid transitions!

For 2020, the park is in the final year of its 10 year revitalization plan and celebrating its 50th anniversary. Announcing Octane, the parks largest investment to date, and the tallest and the fastest giga coaster in the world! At 96mph and a staggering 330ft drop, fuel your inner speed demon and race to new heights, only at Golden Gardens.

I do have plans to release it in the next month or so. Will need to clean it up a bit and take out some things that slow it down in the simulator.

Posted January 21, 2020· Edited January 21, 2020

I'm kind of glad you're back since I can call you out on
this again. It seems pretty relevant to bring it up since you seem to have done it again on Octane.

Projektion posted on January 20th, 2020

I'm kind of glad you're back since I can call you out on
this again. It seems pretty relevant to bring it up since you seem to have done it again on Octane.

Correct me if I am wrong but I just finally finished a very large project, with 9 roller coasters, which as a whole boasts about 175 different elements. Instead of saying something positive..really anything..you call me out on a singular thing that yes, does indeed draw inspiration from one of your rides. I'll be sure to cite Schwarzkopf or Beecher next time I use a loop.

Posted January 21, 2020· Edited January 21, 2020

it isnt inspiration though, its an exact copy of the element - i noticed in seven nations germany right from the get-go that you had save-element-ed projektions giga, which is plaigiarism

Olmisery posted on January 21st, 2020

it isnt inspiration though, its an exact copy of the element - i noticed in seven nations germany right from the get-go that you had save-element-ed projektions giga, which is plaigiarism

How is making an element based off an element someone else made in a roller coaster simulator plagiarism? This is No limits not the music industry. Plus it's not even like said element is anything unique or never seen before, it's literally just an overbank.

Sounds to me like ppl are making mountains out of molehills. Personally IDC if anyone copy and pastes individual elements from any of my own rides. AFAIK it is impossible to copyright individual turns, overbanks or inversions, especially if you are probably going to have to do manual tweaking anyway with the entry and exit, unless it's a Schwarzkopf or older Arrow. If anyone were to copy an entire layout, then I could understand the outrage.

Great job on your park Tyrush.

It's a bit ridiculous to say that it's okay to directly copy someones work and paste it into yours. It doesn't work any differently than how it does with copying text, music, or any other medium. If you directly steal it, it's plagiarism.

Posted January 22, 2020· Edited January 22, 2020

Look, What you've made is really awesome, but it's really obvious that you've just taken a part of Projektion's ride and passed it off as your own. Just give him credit for his work and we can all enjoy your work without any further drama.

If you want to dispute this, you can send me the file, and that way I can reassure everyone that this isn't the case by showing how they aren't the same in the editor

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