Please slide the pics around and check them out . If you like them or have any ideas/comments please feel free to speak up. I look forward to it.
Just as a note the placement of the maple, blocko, etc. stores came from a few different post suggesting that those stores where located in the Towne Centre Springfielde Glenne shopping mall which has been featured in the show as an upscale shopping mall for the wealthy. The stores maple, blocko where featured in the show at Springfielde Glenne mall. On the map that we all use to base our towns on the the Springfielde Glenn is located right next to the Spinster City Apartments. You see it listed as the individual stores on the map like abercombie and rich, or victors secrets .... instead of the towne centre.
I'm glad to see some more people thinking about following the guide. :-)
@PiperWyatt fair warning, if you follow the guide, you will be enticed to get premium guide buildings all of the time. :twisted: on the bright side, you won't care as much about getting silly things that don't pertain to the guide, like saaaaaaaay a 300 donut whale. :P I certainly don't envy those poor souls who feel the need to get absolutely every premium thing in the game.
@anabugatti02 you are one of my favourite neighbours now. :thumbup: Your town is beautiful, and your following of the guide is on point. I love that you are willing to share on here, as I have always done my best to encourage other participation on this page. This thread would be twice as nice if you were able to post town panoramas.
I haven't been able to get that elusive waterfall yet, but you are already getting credit for the placement.
Thank You! I love the game its so much fun, thanks to all my neighbors... I have stolen even the smallest of ideas trying to continuously improve my Springfield. I hope, some one finds the pics useful... maybe grab an idea or two from them. The reason I initially posted them however, was to help encourage others to post a pic. Springfield showcase.... right... well, COME ON READERS! I would, and am sure everyone else would, like to see what other people are doing in their Springfields.
Hello,
Just wondering if the Bad Dream House is on the Springfield map? I can't seem to find it so I'm delaying on buying it.
No, sorry its not on the map... its referred to like many items as non canon ( may not have actually happened). Its ultimately up to you. Personally with non canon items/buildings I choose to tuck them into inventory until the correct event/time. My layout prevents me from having the cemetery and the dog track displayed at the same time. So, a lot of buildings and items get swaped out in my town. Or! a person could always substitute like, the fireworks testing range located on the map in SE4 or the fireworks factory located on the map in SE6 with Giuseppe's work shop and barge, which does not have a location on the map but fills a hole. So, I'm saying if an item works for you in your town, to each their own .
Currently Bad Dream House .... Scaring Unsuspecting Guest every 24 hours earns 500 cash and 45 xp.
I'm glad to see some more people thinking about following the guide. :-)
@PiperWyatt fair warning, if you follow the guide, you will be enticed to get premium guide buildings all of the time. :twisted: on the bright side, you won't care as much about getting silly things that don't pertain to the guide, like saaaaaaaay a 300 donut whale. :P I certainly don't envy those poor souls who feel the need to get absolutely every premium thing in the game.
I know xD I still have about 950 donuts left, for Christmas and I will buy donuts here and there, but I wont ever have a perfect Springfiel like yours or anabugatti's, but I can try, right xD
I also still dont have all the land (Really far away of ), but after the Halloween event is over, and I nuke my SF, I will start building from left to right and expanding SF along the way (much like U build your SF ) So expect to see some picture around the end of november (It's a while, I know )
@PiperWyatt can't wait to see the screenshots, I bet your town will be great!
I have to say though I actually have been thinking of nuking my town for awhile. I will wait until Halloween is over, place things I have been meaning to and put off but, even then I'm pretty sure I'm nuking it. The pics I posted where the first I've taken of my town, although I've changed it slightly like the champhitheater at the port entrance and the drive-in location, its basically the same. Don't know yet but I find myself wanting to blast it more often than not, I think I can make it better.
This year for Halloween I was able to make a much nicer panorama with my larger tablet screen, and without that Halloween fog from last year. There is still a darkened border around the screen which is the worst, but I was very careful this month to get all my screen snaps bunched together, so that the darkened border would be overlapped. I cut out the sides of all my screen caps, like cutting the crusts off a large platter of PB&J sandwiches. Aside from that, the fall colour trees are a much better option than just no leaves at all. My north facing houses aren't exposed to being just backward facing houses with a bunch of leafless trees in front of it. I thank EA for making this event more panorama friendly.... Still though.. that darkened screen border is just... the worst.
I'll get right to the point. On the whole. this was not a guide-friendly Halloween. All of these items are either non-canon, or from recent episodes. And now there are way too many pumpkins.
All that stuff on the left will be going to storage soon. I will however be keeping the tentacle tree out, as that comes from an old episode where Mr. Burns and Smithers hide Nuclear waste in a tree. I'll have to find that episode to get more inspiration on that setting... I think it was by a lake... or maybe just somewhere in the woods. But regardless, this tree is one spooky thing that is canon, and not specific to Halloween.
I can't find any information on the Make-A-Thing store, and it is definitely not on the guide, but it does make a convenient north-facing building.
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The only building we got this Halloween, that can be found on the guide is the Drive-In theatre. There are plenty of people in the Springfield Showcase who have had their own custom Drive-in theatre made from scratch, typically with the white fences. I've seen some really creative ideas, using items to make something appear on the screen, like billboards and the film set. Making one for myself has been on my agenda for quite some time, but now I don't have to because Halloween has brought us a premium drive-in theatre.
Of course that doesn't mean your own made-from scratch drive-in theatre has to be dismantled, because according to the Springfield guide there are in fact two drive-in theatres. One is a little bit east of the Hungry Hun and north of Lugash's Gym. The other is all the way up in the top right corner of the guide, where there is barely anything at all.
I chose to put my premium drive-in where there was barely anything at all, mostly for that very reason. I also have two other reasons. First reason is the land expansion space where the other one is, happens to be where two of my double-lane roads intersect, leaving no room whatsoever to put a decent drive-in. I even Bought that $62000 piece of land because nothing will be there for now except double-lane roads.
The second reason is the premium drive-in looks more like a small shoddy drive-in theater, and that matches the description of the Route 18 Flea Market & Drive in Theater, seen in the episode where Troy McClure Marries Selma. Troy actually proposes to her at this drive-in, while rein-acting his own proposal to Miss Piggy from a muppet movie. It definitely is the cheaper drive-in, whereas any made-from-white-fences Drive-in would be bigger and more likely be the standard Springfield Drive-In Theatre. I won't be making a second drive-in, but for the rest of you, having both drive-ins is certainly an option.
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Another great thing about having the Route 18 Flea Market & Drive In Theater is now I get to have a flea market. You might ask me what would I make a Flea market out of, and to that I would say, what wouldn't you make a flea market out of?
I mean really... how many pieces of junk do you have lying around your Springfield Guide-inspired town, that you can't do anything with, and you can't justify putting anywhere? Well on the guide there is a land expansion space above this drive-in worth $149,000, and it has literally nothing in it. It doesn't even have signs pointing to North Haverbrook, Brockway and Ogdenville, like the $1,500,000 corner land expansion next to it. It is an empty free space, above where a drive-in connects to a Flea market. So there you have it: a flea market. Simple.
What can you put in your flea market? Anything. What about a fallout shelter? Or a teleporter? Or an ATV with a jet engine? Or a train with a face that stares at you? Or a catapult? Or a giant fake diamond? Or cider for $1? Or an Olmec head? Or a modified statue of Jimmy Carter, with a Marge haircut, rocking a tetherball pole? You've all been to flea markets before. All this creepy, useless stuff you could never want, and more are at the closest flea market to your vicinity right now! So do this up, do it the way you know it needs to be done, and never worry about placing this out-of-place crap ever again.
Oh and if you run out of room in your flea market, there is another space of land on the guide, with nothing but signs to places with poorly designed monorails, worth 1.5 million right next to it. If your still running low on space after that, then you might have just purchased a bit too much useless crap.
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I bought the Bad Dream House because I just really wanted it. I know it isn't canon, and it isn't on the guide, but it is a fricken awesome house. I did a lot of research in to this house to see if there was anything I could do to tie it in to something guide-related... A little bit too much you could say. Unfortunately, it all amounted to nothing, and I gave up by just creating a small residential area in an empty splotch of land, and sticking the burial ground in the back.
However, since I did do lot of research, and took some screen captures, I thought I'd share that research with the hopes that someone else might get a spark of inspiration from it. The Evil House was designed by background design supervisor Lance Wilder, who happens to have created a lot of the background architecture based on his home in Chelmsford Massachusetts.
The house itself was based on the Chelmsford Center for the Arts. And this is what I found out about it using google maps.
It seems like there has been a bit of work done to it over the years. I know. Its actually not as spooky as of now, but it did however used to have some spooky trees out side of it. I just happened to get one angle of the house from an older google street view pass, when the trees were still there.
And that is just from the beginning of Google Streetview. Imagine how truly spooky this place was when the first Treehouse of Horror episode came out 25 years ago. This would have given plenty of inspiration to Lance Wilder.
Still not spooky enough for you though? Perhaps the other big source of inspiration was the huge cemetery right across the street form the Chelmsford Center for the Arts.
This is what is across the street. So the house is indeed on a burial ground, or at least very close to one. The fine print on that white building in the middle there says "Open Door Nursery School." Open door, as in any kid with parents who have no standards for their kids, can be dumped at this nursery school. I mean really, this place is just begging to be haunted.
So any ways, that is a little insight in to the actual Bad Dream House. beyond that we got a spooky house which just looks like a rundown house, and I'll let you know If I come up with something for that. I don't know what its from, but as far as I'm concerned this event is closed.
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So here is the thing about level 46. None of these buildings are on the guide, and yet they all fit very nicely in the south part of the town, where plenty of space for repurpose-able buildings is available. I'll show you what I mean. Let me start with the Springfield Clampitheater
Boom. Its appearance on the show is right outside Squidport. And that is where I put it. I bought a cheap $35,000 land expansion space just to put it there. The Clampitheatre is easily my favourite building of the month. It balances out the horrid looking airplane buffet on the other side of the road, and now gives the impression of two big zany contraptions outside the trendy squidport, as opposed to just one dumb plane hogging all the space for nearby buildings.
Nelson's mom has been great, and I'm happy for her prominence on the show in recent years. Classy Girls Strip Club marks the first strip club in the game, and while it is not on the guide, there are plenty of other strip clubs, and most of them fit right above Junkyville, east of Squidport. Its mostly been an empty lot in my town, so placing it here makes sense.
Moving to a less seedy side of town, I put Greta Wolfcastle's prep school directly in front of her dad's house. I'm not sure why I did this. Part of it has to do with it fitting perfectly in that empty space beside the El Chemistri. I could just as easily moved it a bit to the right, and repurposed it as the Springfield University. Lord knows that university space has been far too open for far too long. Its beginning to become a dumping ground for Frink's wacky inventions, which by the way, is another good reason to get working on a flea market.
But ultimately I just like the idea of McBain being able to watch his daughter go to school from his window, and if necessary, throw a grenade at some poor misguided school boy, trying to get fresh.
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And thats' all I've got worth mentioning folks. I promise the resources update is coming soon, with all the requests for larger panoramas included. Did I promise that last month? Well... this time I double-promise. Lets have a strongly guide-related November.
Bravewal, ana, where dit you guys build de writers building? I vave a free dqy on tuesday, so i will nuke my sf by hand then and probably start building.
Bravewal, ana, where dit you guys build de writers building? I vave a free dqy on tuesday, so i will nuke my sf by hand then and probably start building.
Haven't committed to a place yet. I'm still doing research on what it can be repurposed for. Likely, it will be a hotel.
I am reaching the end of my second Springfield make-over, with huge props to Bravewall for this guide.
As the Writers' building is TV/Movie related, I feel it should go either next to the Movie Lot at Polystar Pictures, or east of Channel 6 and and Krustylu Studios, at By The Numbers Production.
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Just as a note the placement of the maple, blocko, etc. stores came from a few different post suggesting that those stores where located in the Towne Centre Springfielde Glenne shopping mall which has been featured in the show as an upscale shopping mall for the wealthy. The stores maple, blocko where featured in the show at Springfielde Glenne mall. On the map that we all use to base our towns on the the Springfielde Glenn is located right next to the Spinster City Apartments. You see it listed as the individual stores on the map like abercombie and rich, or victors secrets .... instead of the towne centre.
Here's my SquidPort, I tried to use every inch.
In this last pic I chose to substitute P.J. O' Harrigan's with O' Flanagan's Pub and Overpass Diner with the NightHawk Diner
@PiperWyatt fair warning, if you follow the guide, you will be enticed to get premium guide buildings all of the time. :twisted: on the bright side, you won't care as much about getting silly things that don't pertain to the guide, like saaaaaaaay a 300 donut whale. :P I certainly don't envy those poor souls who feel the need to get absolutely every premium thing in the game.
@anabugatti02 you are one of my favourite neighbours now. :thumbup: Your town is beautiful, and your following of the guide is on point. I love that you are willing to share on here, as I have always done my best to encourage other participation on this page. This thread would be twice as nice if you were able to post town panoramas.
I haven't been able to get that elusive waterfall yet, but you are already getting credit for the placement.
Just wondering if the Bad Dream House is on the Springfield map? I can't seem to find it so I'm delaying on buying it.
No, sorry its not on the map... its referred to like many items as non canon ( may not have actually happened). Its ultimately up to you. Personally with non canon items/buildings I choose to tuck them into inventory until the correct event/time. My layout prevents me from having the cemetery and the dog track displayed at the same time. So, a lot of buildings and items get swaped out in my town. Or! a person could always substitute like, the fireworks testing range located on the map in SE4 or the fireworks factory located on the map in SE6 with Giuseppe's work shop and barge, which does not have a location on the map but fills a hole. So, I'm saying if an item works for you in your town, to each their own .
Currently Bad Dream House .... Scaring Unsuspecting Guest every 24 hours earns 500 cash and 45 xp.
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/75/9608387.page#32384836
I know xD I still have about 950 donuts left, for Christmas and I will buy donuts here and there, but I wont ever have a perfect Springfiel like yours or anabugatti's, but I can try, right xD
I also still dont have all the land (Really far away of
I have to say though I actually have been thinking of nuking my town for awhile. I will wait until Halloween is over, place things I have been meaning to and put off but, even then I'm pretty sure I'm nuking it. The pics I posted where the first I've taken of my town, although I've changed it slightly like the champhitheater at the port entrance and the drive-in location, its basically the same. Don't know yet but I find myself wanting to blast it more often than not, I think I can make it better.
This year for Halloween I was able to make a much nicer panorama with my larger tablet screen, and without that Halloween fog from last year. There is still a darkened border around the screen which is the worst, but I was very careful this month to get all my screen snaps bunched together, so that the darkened border would be overlapped. I cut out the sides of all my screen caps, like cutting the crusts off a large platter of PB&J sandwiches. Aside from that, the fall colour trees are a much better option than just no leaves at all. My north facing houses aren't exposed to being just backward facing houses with a bunch of leafless trees in front of it. I thank EA for making this event more panorama friendly.... Still though.. that darkened screen border is just... the worst.
I'll get right to the point. On the whole. this was not a guide-friendly Halloween. All of these items are either non-canon, or from recent episodes. And now there are way too many pumpkins.
All that stuff on the left will be going to storage soon. I will however be keeping the tentacle tree out, as that comes from an old episode where Mr. Burns and Smithers hide Nuclear waste in a tree. I'll have to find that episode to get more inspiration on that setting... I think it was by a lake... or maybe just somewhere in the woods. But regardless, this tree is one spooky thing that is canon, and not specific to Halloween.
I can't find any information on the Make-A-Thing store, and it is definitely not on the guide, but it does make a convenient north-facing building.
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The only building we got this Halloween, that can be found on the guide is the Drive-In theatre. There are plenty of people in the Springfield Showcase who have had their own custom Drive-in theatre made from scratch, typically with the white fences. I've seen some really creative ideas, using items to make something appear on the screen, like billboards and the film set. Making one for myself has been on my agenda for quite some time, but now I don't have to because Halloween has brought us a premium drive-in theatre.
Of course that doesn't mean your own made-from scratch drive-in theatre has to be dismantled, because according to the Springfield guide there are in fact two drive-in theatres. One is a little bit east of the Hungry Hun and north of Lugash's Gym. The other is all the way up in the top right corner of the guide, where there is barely anything at all.
I chose to put my premium drive-in where there was barely anything at all, mostly for that very reason. I also have two other reasons. First reason is the land expansion space where the other one is, happens to be where two of my double-lane roads intersect, leaving no room whatsoever to put a decent drive-in. I even Bought that $62000 piece of land because nothing will be there for now except double-lane roads.
The second reason is the premium drive-in looks more like a small shoddy drive-in theater, and that matches the description of the Route 18 Flea Market & Drive in Theater, seen in the episode where Troy McClure Marries Selma. Troy actually proposes to her at this drive-in, while rein-acting his own proposal to Miss Piggy from a muppet movie. It definitely is the cheaper drive-in, whereas any made-from-white-fences Drive-in would be bigger and more likely be the standard Springfield Drive-In Theatre. I won't be making a second drive-in, but for the rest of you, having both drive-ins is certainly an option.
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Another great thing about having the Route 18 Flea Market & Drive In Theater is now I get to have a flea market. You might ask me what would I make a Flea market out of, and to that I would say, what wouldn't you make a flea market out of?
I mean really... how many pieces of junk do you have lying around your Springfield Guide-inspired town, that you can't do anything with, and you can't justify putting anywhere? Well on the guide there is a land expansion space above this drive-in worth $149,000, and it has literally nothing in it. It doesn't even have signs pointing to North Haverbrook, Brockway and Ogdenville, like the $1,500,000 corner land expansion next to it. It is an empty free space, above where a drive-in connects to a Flea market. So there you have it: a flea market. Simple.
What can you put in your flea market? Anything. What about a fallout shelter? Or a teleporter? Or an ATV with a jet engine? Or a train with a face that stares at you? Or a catapult? Or a giant fake diamond? Or cider for $1? Or an Olmec head? Or a modified statue of Jimmy Carter, with a Marge haircut, rocking a tetherball pole? You've all been to flea markets before. All this creepy, useless stuff you could never want, and more are at the closest flea market to your vicinity right now! So do this up, do it the way you know it needs to be done, and never worry about placing this out-of-place crap ever again.
Oh and if you run out of room in your flea market, there is another space of land on the guide, with nothing but signs to places with poorly designed monorails, worth 1.5 million right next to it. If your still running low on space after that, then you might have just purchased a bit too much useless crap.
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I bought the Bad Dream House because I just really wanted it. I know it isn't canon, and it isn't on the guide, but it is a fricken awesome house. I did a lot of research in to this house to see if there was anything I could do to tie it in to something guide-related... A little bit too much you could say. Unfortunately, it all amounted to nothing, and I gave up by just creating a small residential area in an empty splotch of land, and sticking the burial ground in the back.
However, since I did do lot of research, and took some screen captures, I thought I'd share that research with the hopes that someone else might get a spark of inspiration from it. The Evil House was designed by background design supervisor Lance Wilder, who happens to have created a lot of the background architecture based on his home in Chelmsford Massachusetts.
The house itself was based on the Chelmsford Center for the Arts. And this is what I found out about it using google maps.
It seems like there has been a bit of work done to it over the years. I know. Its actually not as spooky as of now, but it did however used to have some spooky trees out side of it. I just happened to get one angle of the house from an older google street view pass, when the trees were still there.
And that is just from the beginning of Google Streetview. Imagine how truly spooky this place was when the first Treehouse of Horror episode came out 25 years ago. This would have given plenty of inspiration to Lance Wilder.
Still not spooky enough for you though? Perhaps the other big source of inspiration was the huge cemetery right across the street form the Chelmsford Center for the Arts.
This is what is across the street. So the house is indeed on a burial ground, or at least very close to one. The fine print on that white building in the middle there says "Open Door Nursery School." Open door, as in any kid with parents who have no standards for their kids, can be dumped at this nursery school. I mean really, this place is just begging to be haunted.
So any ways, that is a little insight in to the actual Bad Dream House. beyond that we got a spooky house which just looks like a rundown house, and I'll let you know If I come up with something for that. I don't know what its from, but as far as I'm concerned this event is closed.
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So here is the thing about level 46. None of these buildings are on the guide, and yet they all fit very nicely in the south part of the town, where plenty of space for repurpose-able buildings is available. I'll show you what I mean. Let me start with the Springfield Clampitheater
Boom. Its appearance on the show is right outside Squidport. And that is where I put it. I bought a cheap $35,000 land expansion space just to put it there. The Clampitheatre is easily my favourite building of the month. It balances out the horrid looking airplane buffet on the other side of the road, and now gives the impression of two big zany contraptions outside the trendy squidport, as opposed to just one dumb plane hogging all the space for nearby buildings.
Nelson's mom has been great, and I'm happy for her prominence on the show in recent years. Classy Girls Strip Club marks the first strip club in the game, and while it is not on the guide, there are plenty of other strip clubs, and most of them fit right above Junkyville, east of Squidport. Its mostly been an empty lot in my town, so placing it here makes sense.
Moving to a less seedy side of town, I put Greta Wolfcastle's prep school directly in front of her dad's house. I'm not sure why I did this. Part of it has to do with it fitting perfectly in that empty space beside the El Chemistri. I could just as easily moved it a bit to the right, and repurposed it as the Springfield University. Lord knows that university space has been far too open for far too long. Its beginning to become a dumping ground for Frink's wacky inventions, which by the way, is another good reason to get working on a flea market.
But ultimately I just like the idea of McBain being able to watch his daughter go to school from his window, and if necessary, throw a grenade at some poor misguided school boy, trying to get fresh.
--
And thats' all I've got worth mentioning folks. I promise the resources update is coming soon, with all the requests for larger panoramas included. Did I promise that last month? Well... this time I double-promise. Lets have a strongly guide-related November.
As the Writers' building is TV/Movie related, I feel it should go either next to the Movie Lot at Polystar Pictures, or east of Channel 6 and and Krustylu Studios, at By The Numbers Production.