[ivi] YasuragiForestTrail
A few days ago some of you may remember I posted my latest efforts at a new theme room in this section. After a few responses it became blindingly clear what this room was missing and as a result making the room look drab and incomplete...
Before:
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/461/bambookk6.jpg
So, as I like every room I unveil to be absolutely perfect according to my own tastes I did a bit of remodelling and came up with this revised version :D
After:
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/8762/bamboo2us6.jpg
Many thanks to Loz for his suggestions made for this room and his help on passing judgement on the changes :D
Bit of history and information about this one:
This latest room appeared from a trip to Epcot back in July, those of you who are familiar with Epcot will know that it has an amazing/huge World Showcase section of the park surrounding a lake. There is a Japan section which we had a good look around while we were there. Habbo released the Japanese range when I got back and I put 2 and 2 together and came up with this room.
This is quite easily the most expensive room I have ever built and I don't intend to design anything that will cost me this much in the future because I get started to realise this room was all about the rares and not about making use of the useless in terms of norms. :P
This room was also quite a pain to build. The first problem was the fact that you cant put anything on bamboos, pets and your Habbo can walk through them but you cant place anything on them, so I had to find a way around that. Relating to the first issue, there was the problem of hiding the Jade Dragon somewhere in the bamboo without leaving a large gap. Finally, I decided to put in a spare trax machine I had kicking about and add a few jungle sounds fora bit of atmosphere, the problem came when I tried to hide the machine. :(
Theres a couple of other things I would like to make obvious about this room too. I did a bit of research into a few Japanese words (used a translator I found on Google :P), Kumori was the original word I chose which means 'shadow', that was rather dark for the new room re make so I changed it to Yasuragi which means 'Peace' :). The crocodiles also have authentic Japanese names. Katsuro is a masculine name and is an alternative spelling to Katsurou meaning 'victory' (katsu) and 'son' (rou). Hanako is a feminine name meaning 'flower' (hana) and 'child' (ko). Katsuro also appears to be very lazy when compared to Hanako and spends most of his time in his bed. :P
My next room is already in planning and lets just say it will be a little more 'eco-friendly' *hint* ;)
