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When I was a kid, elephants were my fav animal... My dad says that it was because of the Tarzan Movie, which came out when I was about 4yo. So, my mom who, besides being a gorgeous woman, is a biologist, she had an ilustrated encyclopaedia. I remember that huge book and spending the whole afternoon when I came back from school looking at their pictures! Between its pages, I found a depiction of the proboscideans evolutionary tree... If elephants were my favorite animals, when I first saw Gomphotherium or Deinotherium, my childish mind blew up! When I started building the MegaTusk Plaza from the Thawed Out Park, I found several names that unlocked soooo many memories from those years! The six proboscideans I found and chose for the MegaTusk Plaza were: - In representation of the Palaeoloxodon genus, Khaydar's Sicilian Dwarf Elephant, made with BlueFang's graphic model. - Khaydar's Moeritherium, made with ZT Thailand's model. - Hendrix's American Mastodon, made with the ZT2 graphics. - BlueFang's Woolly Mammoth, modified with VNDragon's combined realism hack. - Khaydar's Stegodon, made with Bill's model. - Deinotherium made completely by Khaydar! I started the design and building of the MegaTusk Plaza in an early stage of gameplay, because I knew it would demand so much space. Actually, the first idea was that the three bulky gates were the entraces for the road of the proboscideans, but at the end I figured out how to save space for it, making the third one the entrance for the cats area. I may guess that, at least Stegodon, Mastodon & Dwarf Elephant have base data of the original Mammoth file, because they behave almost the same. You can't notice on the screenshots, but their exhibits were built and re-built several times! The gameplay extended more than initially tought because of that. A little loss of attention and their exhibits got overcrowded or too dirty and they started smashig everything! It was a real challenge having them fully confortable as I built the other zoo areas, but hey! That's no complain! If dealing with actual elephants is a whole headache for the zoos nowadays, I can just imagine hoy tough would it be if they might actually have extinct proboscideans! That makes the experience quite realistic! This is the last post I make about Thawed Out Park. I don't know if you'd like for me to upload it, so you may take a look at it on your own eyes... But i find it quite hard, most because of the whole sea of UCIs it has. I'm now working on the next projects. Unfortunately, or fortunately, IDK, I got sick since last friday. This is the 4th time I have a round with covid... I already won against it three times. A fourth one is just for keeping the custom! 😹😹 I'm apart from work at least during this week. A good thing has to come up from these cloggy-nose days, so I'm taking advantage making new stuff! Have a nice day! Until next empty zoo!

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