Oh my, Chris! You and Terry both narrating makes me laugh! In a good way! Lol

Barracuda opened in 2001, and was originally set to be built by B&M.



However, they charged more than park management was willing to spend--about 10 times as much--so they went with H&M instead. Not the popular clothing store, but Hall & Mongoose, which consisted of a guy named John Hall and a mongoose.





Somehow, the two of them built the entire coaster in just 45 minutes. Aside from a few wheels falling off the trains during the initial tests due to misuse of scotch tape, almost nothing went wrong before the ride was opened to the public that same day, and there were only two fatalities before the ride opened including the mongoose, whose name was also John Hall.





The coaster is named after the deadly fish, which lives in the lake that the ride overlooks. The name is appropriate because A) It's known for successfully preying on larger roller coasters by ripping off chunks of track and B) About 8 percent of the riders are barracudas. They don't prey on guests, but they don't pay admission, so they're not considered legal patrons. At first, ride operators would see them and say "Get back in the lake!" and it would work, but eventually the barracudas would initially refuse, so all Barracuda ride operators were required to carry swords. Since weapons are expensive in the lake, only the wealthiest of barracudas could afford to carry them, so this reduced ridership to about 4 percent fish.





Eventually, ride operators stopped carrying swords due to rampant pacifism, so ridership jumped up to about 35 percent. This is when management built the electric fence between the coaster and the lake, which reduced ridership to the 8 percent it is today, as only the barracudas who are smart enough to go around the fence, minus the ones the train runs over, make it onto the ride.





Brookwood Express holds the world record for most fish run over by a single ride, with 271,684 as of February 2016.

Looking forward to the next coaster This one had me lying so low in the weeds, I bet it's gonna ambush me. You'd have me down, down, down, on my knees now wouldn't ya? Barracuda

Happy St. Patrick's Day from Brookwood Gardens! And thank you to everyone who helped Brookwood Gardens earn its first victory!





In the early 80s, management had designed a basic layout for a small looping coaster and wanted to hire Anton Schwarzkopf and his team to build it. Unfortunately, but nonetheless very predictably, his fee was significantly higher than what the park executives were willing to spend. The man who took the job was an Irish roller coaster manufacturer by the name of O'Shaughnessy, who was not only the spitting image of Schwarzkopf, but used identical coaster-building techniques.





Because of this striking resemblance in both appearance and roller coaster engineering, both he and his rides were almost always mistaken for Schwarzkopf and his creations respectively. It's estimated by some sources that close to 20 Schwarzkopf coasters were actually built by O'Shaughnessy, but nobody has been able to prove this theory or identify exactly which coasters he built, so he is only credited with building one roller coaster.



Fed up with the entire world mistaking him for the German engineer, O'Shaughnessy painted the coaster's loops and trains, which both come in a set of three, after the three colors of the Irish flag, and he named it after his home town so that everyone would know that the man who built the coaster was Irish. These decisions did pay off, but not in the way that he had initially hoped. When he stood near the ride exit, impressed patrons would shake his hand and say "You've really outdone yourself this time, Mr. O'Schwarzkopf!"





Before this ride was built, the space was occupied by a WWII fighter jet that had flown the wrong way and took a nosedive into the ground and burned down all the surrounding trees. In 1967, another WWII fighter jet crashed into the remains of the first jet when the pilot allegedly discovered that he was flying his plane 22 years too late, saw the crashed plane and tried to land on it, believing it was an incredibly small landing strip. This still doesn't explain why he tried to land directly on top of the other plane. Regardless, all the remains were buried in 1972 when a meteor landed on them. Archaeologists, WWII historians, and the Department of Consumer Affairs excavated the entire area to salvage all parts of the missing planes, which they should have just done before the meteor landed but never got around to it. Since the meteor landed within the park's boundaries, it was legally the park's to sell, so, after nearly 50 years of using the lake as the park's main source of fresh drinking water, they built an underground reservoir after most of the archaeologists had cleared out of the area and covered it with concrete and, on the surface, top quality dune sand imported from the Sahara Desert. Both decisions turned out to be beneficial, as salmonella-related deaths went down 90% from the previous year, and the roller coaster won "Best Sand" at the 1983 Roller Coaster Terrain Awards (or "Terry" awards for short).

Congrats to Brookwood Gardens on their first Build-It! win, now the Dublin Devil has a Terry for the Best Sand in 1983 and a Build-It! win in 2016.

With the release of the 6th roller coaster, G-Launcher, we at Brookwood Gardens can officially say we're halfway done with showcasing this project. The coaster get better from here, we assure you. Well, almost.



After their first successful coaster release of the 21st century, management realized that, in order to keep up with current roller coaster trends, the next coaster they built would have to be a launched roller coaster. Initially, they had hired Vekoma to construct the track, but they quickly vetoed the offer when they found out that they would literally be working for peanuts.





Instead, the track was built by Jicama, which was a small ride manufacturing company based in Mexico and founded by an engineer/yam farmer named Pachyrhizus Erosus, an immigrant from Ancient Rome.







In addition to the LIM-powered launch, which was originally planned to be at 75 MPH, the initial layout contained three inversions, it had one of the most spectacular stations in the world, and the original name for the ride was "H-Launcher". The "H" stood for Hydrogen, which is the power source management proposed Jicama use when building the launch system.







One thing we know from roller coaster history is, any time a ride manufacturer builds a roller coaster for the first time, something bursts into flames, and considering that Jicama was really more of an agricultural firm than a ride manufacturing company, and that Mr. Erosus was really more of a tulip than a ride engineer, this attempt was no exception. The first hydrogen launch caused the station to blow up massively and the train cars to disconnect and spew out in various directions. While four of the train cars landed in the lake, two of them simply did not. One of them fell onto Overdrive Junction and had just enough momentum to win the current race by half a second. The other landed directly in front of an oncoming Brookwood Express train, where it was pushed around the park all week without anyone really noticing, except for one go kart driver who leapt from his kart prematurely and landed in the empty train car. The explosion actually saved his life, as had the train car not been there, he would have landed directly in front of the oncoming train. Regardless, since the car was pushed around the park for an entire week, the coaster holds the second place trophy for most fish runover by a single ride due to the barracudas who try and cross the track.









After the explosion, hydrogen power was deemed too unsafe for the ride, but seeing the train fragments burst in such a volatile manner reminded management of a grenade, so the ride was renamed "G-Launcher" in honor of grenade launchers. Since the restraints were badly damaged in the fire, the inversions were removed and the launch speed was reduced to 59 MPH, and the power source was shifted from unsafe hydrogen to a much cleaner source of energy, nuclear power. The small, man-made reservoir underneath the ride is used to keep the reactors cool enough to operate the world's only nuclear-powered roller coaster without melting down all of Brookwood Gardens and the surrounding area.

but if it were to melt down Terry, how far away from the park would the radation spread? 5mi, 10mi, 320.8438mi?

Terry Inferno I"m Very Very Impressed by your work for i Am also A Die Hard RCT2 Fan But do to work has had me lack of time to work on Any of My Park's and with Summer quickly approaching i will be very busy until Fall until then Keep up the Very Impressive Work Looking forward to Downloading your Park And PS thanks again for sharing all your wonderful photo's best of Luck to Ya.

@Pineracer, there is no knowing how powerful the nuclear reactors truly are since they were built by robots who have taken a vow of silence, but you should be safe from radiation as long as you don't live within a thousand-mile radius of the state of Oklahoma.

@CarnivalGuy135, thanks!

Here's Oklahoma Rodeo:





Just like the old adage states "Everything's bigger in Texas", park management deduced that the inverse must be true in Oklahoma. So if a cowboy-themed roller coaster built in Texas is the size of a standard roller coaster, one built in Oklahoma must therefore only be half to two-thirds its size. This was the explanation management used when asked by local newspapers why they were building a wooden roller coaster only 2,000 feet long and fewer than 50 feet high. "If you count the amount of wood used to build the structures around the ride, it's closer to 3,500 feet of wood." This statement, from Brookwood Gardens' only CEO, who is forced to remain anonymous, was later proven to be false when covert operations revealed that almost all the structures around the ride, with the exception of the station, were built from fortified plastic. In fact, in many instances, buildings are used in place of wooden supports, so this coaster technically uses even less wood than a standard 2,000-foot wooden roller coaster.





Built in 2004, the original name given to the project was "Oklahoma City Thunder", but local sources insisted that that name would never catch on anywhere. The new name came from feedback given by human crash test dummies, who stated that the ride experience felt like "someone twirling a lasso", which was ironic considering that, not long after the ride opened, one rider ended up being "roped in" and trapped by faulty restraints. Even though it's considered a family coaster, as well as the only coaster in the entire park that doesn't exceed 40 MPH (64 km/h), it's considered one of the most exciting rides Brookwood Gardens has to offer due to its completely unpredictable layout masked by a sea of plastic buildings. According to the rating system administered by the second installment of the Roller Coaster Tabulators--or "RCT2" ratings for short--Oklahoma Rodeo scores an excitement rating of 8.21, the fifth-highest in Brookwood Gardens. For a ride that tops out at 38 MPH and only lasts a minute, half of which is the lift hill, this rating is considered very impressive. A German engineer by the name of Wilhelm called the ride "a real mindbender!"

After a solid month of no updates whatsoever, Smoking Gun appears out of nowhere.









In the late 70s, Brookwood Gardens had been open to the public for nearly 50 years but contained no roller coasters that exceeded 50 MPH. With few new rides being built over the course of its first half-century, almost none of them roller coasters, park executives needed to act fast if they wanted to discontinue their long tradition of plummeting attendance.





Originally, a steel coaster was planned, but since steel cost money, and the park was situated in the middle of a lush forest, management chose the free road and hacked down a bunch of trees instead. The lumberjacks hired to carry out this task didn't actually know which land was owned by the park, so most of the trees they removed were cut down on government-owned land. This left local government officials stumped.





Fortunately for park management, this meant they could build a large roller coaster for practically no money. On the downside, most of the trees within the park were, naturally, still intact, so the ride had to be squeezed into the southwest corner of the park and built long but not wide to avoid cutting down more trees to clear a space. Management wanted to avoid the further removal of foliage for environmental reasons, and also because the lumberjacks were pretty ticked off that they didn't get paid. This is probably the reason why nobody initially told the lumberjacks the exact location of the park.





In 1979, construction was completed, and Smoking Gun opened to the public the next day. Attendance hit a record high that year, due to a combination of the new coaster and people's fears of a giant wagon lurking somewhere near the park being dispelled the previous year. Situated in the Wild West area, it was originally named "Gunsmoke", but CBS Productions didn't allow Brookwood Gardens to use that name, and they threatened to send Marshal Matt Dillon, whom they insisted was real, to shoot park executives if they didn't change the name.





Since its opening, it has remained the most popular wooden roller coaster in the park among thrill seekers due to its high speeds and large hills. It remained the fastest roller coaster in the state of Oklahoma until Brookwood Gardens broke its own record in 1999, and it remains the fastest wooden roller coaster in the state.





Another demographic this ride appeals to is classic western film enthusiasts, who are known for taking the ride a bit too seriously. Guests will often climb onto the track with loaded revolvers across from other guests on different parts of the track and declaring that this track ain't big enough for the two of them. As a result, Smoking Gun appropriately holds the world record for most guests shot on a single roller coaster. Sometimes, during one of these duels, neither guest survives, as after one gets shot, the other gets run over by an oncoming train. One guest fell out of a train and onto the track at the bottom of a hill, where his untied shoelaces and scarf wrapped around the rails and trapped him so that he was unable to free himself in time when the train came barreling down the hill.









Management has since used these unfortunate events as a positive advertising technique, claiming that there's nothing that encompasses the Wild West quite like getting tied to the tracks, run over by a train, and shot by an idiot in a cowboy hat.