That’s right. Roller Coaster Tycoon is heading to the silver screen.

Sony Pictures has purchased the rights from Atari to produce a Roller Coaster Tycoon movie. What exactly will the movie be about? We’re not sure either. However, we do know that this could be huge for the Roller Coaster Tycoon community.

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 was released nearly 6 years ago and hasn’t seen any new updates since the Wild! expansion pack was released in 2005. Could this bring new players to the community?

We’d like to hear your thoughts on this. It could potentially great, or disastrous, for the RCT Community, especially RCTLounge. Would new players catch on to Custom Content? Or would we step back in time and start seeing un-realistic coasters with nothing but in-game scenery?

Leave your thoughts in this thread on the RCTLounge Forums. Not a member yet? Join today!

…and here they are:

(Click to enlarge and see the amazing detail, it’s worth it!)

Discuss this on our forums or comment below!

Simply go to a Spotlight, click on the “Watch the Video” button…

And the YouTube video will automatically load and play in HD! (if available) You can even go full screen! You can click on the video itself to view it at YouTube. Talk about easier to watch videos!

We hope you enjoy this exciting new feature on the RCTLounge Spotlight! (We are currently working on adding videos to older Spotlights. We hope to have them all indexed very soon.)

-Doug, RCTLounge Technical Administrator

If you don’t know yet, we are a member of the Amusement Park website and show network 1scream.

1scream is currently doing a survey to find out what our potential visitors are interested in and what we should adapt our content for. Please take the few minutes to help us build a network of websites and shows unlike any other before.

You can take the survey here.

Make sure you tell your friends, and Retweet this status on Twitter.

Thanks,
Doug, 1scream Owner and Founder

Change of Ownership

Starting February of 2010, RCTLounge will be owned by the newly formed 1scream Network. 1scream is an online network of roller coaster websites and shows focusing on Amusement Parks and Roller Coasters. There will be no changes in staff, however the site will be hosted on the 1scream server to keep costs down. We will begin moving to the server in pieces so we don’t disrupt any activity on the Forums.

New Rules and Terms of Service

We are currently drafting new rules and terms of service that will go into effect February of 2010. These will help clarify the confusion often on what is acceptable and what’s not, and it allows you to know better about what goes into moderation decisions. When these go into effect, all members must abide by them or not use our services. Not following the terms of service will not be tolerated in any way.

New Official Contest, Theme It!

We’ve launched a huge new contest called Theme It! Theme It! is a monthly contest that challenges participants to theme a coaster or ride to specific guidelines. You will be given a park file with a coaster or ride, and you will be given 20 days to theme it to the guidelines for that round. Theme It! is a fun and fair contest that is officially managed and endorsed by RCTLounge. Make sure you check out the Theme It! Forum for the latest on each round!

Design Refresh

It is in plan to have a design refresh in 2011. We’ve already started with our new logo we launched in November of 2009, and if everything goes to plan, we will have a huge new design in store for the site. You’ll see more interactive features on the Spotlight and general improvements in the site.

It’s going to be an exciting year for RCTLounge! We’ve already had two great years, and we hope this third one will be just as great! Keep posting on the forums, and if you haven’t joined yet, make sure you do so you don’t miss out on the most active coaster simulator community in the world!

We have decided to cancel the planned hiatus. We will explain below:

Why are you canceling?

We have determined that the site does not need to be closed while we re-work our rules, guidelines, and such. The hiatus would have been nothing to do with technical issues. We will only close the site down from now on if there are technical issues/updates that need to be done.

Is there anything new planned still?

No, not at the moment. We have a new design, and features possibly, planned for next year, but we do not expect any big new features within the next 6 months.

Doug will also be leaving the moderation team. He will only be on the Management Team for technical aspects of the site. Please only contact him for technical issues.

Thanks for your cooperation, and we hope you’re excited as we are!

RCTLounge Team

Discuss this Announcement

The ride I am choosing to review today is one of my personal favorites in a decent amount of time, the name: Collosus (although it should be spelled Colossus) Fire Dragon created by Weshowns. The name is of course, taken from the famous Shwarzkopf looping coaster at Lagoon, an amusement park in Utah, but the similarities stop there.

At first glance, you see a beautiful red Arrow coaster snaking through a tropical forest located on an island, creating a highly photogenic ride that’s easy on the eyes. At second glance, you can tell where the inspiration for the ride came from as it has the unique drop the likes of which were only found on the late Drachen Fire coaster at Busch Gardens Europe.

On to the in depth review! Coming off the lift hill, you go down a miniature steep drop that throws you, with decent speed too, into the dive loop which kicks the ride into gear. Following the dive loop plunge you are slammed into a very well paced vertical loop keeping you on your toes. After the loop, you make a quick ascent which if made in real life, would fling you out of your seat at the top in full force! Now it’s on to the 270 degree spiraling drop which keeps you off balance and wondering what the heck this crazy ride will do next. To keep up the ride’s blazing pace and pure insanity, Weshowns hits you with an airtime hill. I must say that airtime and inversions is a really good combination and he was very smart to take that from the Drachen Fire book (well and his own creativity). The ride is finally starting to hit its resolution as it throws you into one of its 2 corkscrews and snakes around the mysterious tropical terrain. The snaking is the part where you really get the feeling that while the end may still be near, this ride is still in control and you are subject to its will (alright that sounded pretty nerdy). Up and down a u-turn hill, and you go through the 2nd corkscrew and the ride’s last inversion. After a quick little twist the ride hits the breaks and your bout with Collosus Fire Dragon is over.

Now you may be wondering why I picked a decently small Arrow to review, and the answer to your question would be, ’simplicity.’ This ride is not a really flashy, “oh look at my pretend originality and Vegas editing skills” kind of ride. No, it lets its genius layout and great supporting do the talking for itself, the nice scenery was just a compliment to this stand out ride. It stuck to realism, but gave me element combinations that I had never seen before. Because of that, it earns nothing less than high approval from me.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcztSSWnMig&feature=channel_page

Thread Link: http://rctlounge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3487

Nice song choice too by the way!

So start sending in your review ideas and this blog will thrive like it will supposed to!
-Thanks for reading,
Atem122

Picture without Anti-Aliasing

What Anti-Aliasing does is it slightly blurs the edges like your eyes do in real-life. It gives your picture a much more cleaner, realistic feeling.

To use Anti-Aliasing, first click on the Tools & Options icon (the tools and floppy disk). Then click on tools. Select the display options (glasses), then select the highest level from the Anti-Aliasing drop down box. Depending on your graphics card, you can get up to 8 levels! Remember, the higher you go, the more lag you get. It’s best you only use Anti-Aliasing when you take pictures.

Here’s what a picture with Anti-Aliasing looks like:

Picture with Anti-Aliasing

See, doesn’t that make a difference?

Hope this is helpful to any of you out there that haven’t discovered this great feature!