2013 Galaxyland reconstruction in Blender

[bennyspaceman38]

Ive been working on this project every so often when I'm not doing anything else. In leu of Galaxyland getting Hasbro'd, and my love for everything space, I've decided to recreate Galaxyland from 2013 in good ol Blender. This place was my childhood, and I think its a fun way to archive it
Do you know how much of a DEEP DIVE ive had to do to find references for some of this

I'll probably post updates once in a while as I add more.

The big blue cubes are Decor placeholders, the black cubes are ride placeholders, and the yellow cubes are statue placeholders.
Most of the things in here either dont have textures or are using solid colours as temporary textures, trust me that big pink wall will have some pizazz once i get to it

None of the coasters have supports at the moment. They will have to be manually placed and theres no WAY im redoing all that if i end up having to move a coaster/the track
Also all these rides are made via crazy eyeballing. Theyre not perfectly accurate. I know the max height of the space shot and the mindbender and thats IT


Some screenshots of the current layout I have going on




The Solar Flare and its fully rigged mechanisms




The Space Shot in all its glory (+a screenshot from a seperate blender file where I was seeing how well textures would work)




If you ever want to see closeups or different angles of something feel free to ask

 

[bennyspaceman38]

Update: One and a half new rides have been added!

Sonic Twister (I have yet to add the lights because the Blender file is becoming a bit much, and im skipping those on rides for now)



Swing of the Century (WIP)
I hated getting those swings to work AUGH THEY TOOK 2 AND A HALF HOURS JUST TO RIG. This one is going to stay like this for a long time. Texturing this would mean i would have to make a bunch of mini paintings. Same excuse about the lights as the Sonic Twister. My Blender file crashes enough as it is.

 

[bennyspaceman38]

I lied. Swing of the Century has been completed. Plus, lights were added to the Solar Twister and the Balloon Race is being started.

I appreciate the art this thing used to have, but man, there was so much ART I had to cut corners and have them repeat
Ignore the couple of swings that are clipping out of place

 

[bennyspaceman38]

This park has so much junk in it oh my goodness my pc

Anyways, Balloon Race and Cosmic Bounce are done.





I feel like im posting too many screenshots

 

[bennyspaceman38]

Nothing huge this time around. I've been mostly adding pillars, stairs, moving fences and rides around to properly fit, and other small improvements. I had gone to the park a few weeks ago to go take photos of random spots nobody ever takes photos of, lol. Turns out i had to move around a couple things.

I finally figured out a good rig for the Orbiter car, though! Also I made a statue at one point. I did also start the carousel, but I haven't gotten around to finishing it.



Made a not-so-shiny render with my shiny new car

 

[bennyspaceman38]

I didn't realise how many cars the Autosled had.
Fought with this thing for two hours trying to make the cars all move at the same speed and stay the same distance apart.

 

[bennyspaceman38]

Shiny new render guys
Plus a nice new sign for the swing of the century
I also did start on the bumper cars but i got very distracted by making new rigs for the rides. I think i might ignore the bumper cars and carousel and make mindbender cars instead lol. Then i can stop having cyan cubes fly around on it at mach 3.