Flintstones

5 was showing a friend around, she was bored by all she saw. Well what do you like then, the Flintstones? Yes! Ok, let’s find out if there are Flintstones in SL. And yes there are there!

Bedrock - Flintstones Town

It is a cartoon sim, high in the air. There is even a flying saucer giving a tour. All kinds of languages, but no French! And I was there the next day with a French friend, who speaks only French, so we switch to Spanish.
The ambiance is really like the movies, bright colors, and all kinds of jokes on the stone age. Dinosaurs of course, some with staggering textures.

This tour is ending by a very intriguing passage through the earth, never seen this!
Lot’s of other surprises with the Flintstones, the two houses of Fred and Barney are a bit like expected, ok, but the heating of the oven by the fire of a small dragon is a beauty. Then there are two games inserted, a bowling game and a mini-golf game. Both costing 25 L$, and you can play a very long time. The bowling is straightforward, you can cheat a bit by standing closer and closer to the bowls, haha!
The minigolf is a bit difficult. You have to rez a ball, you get a red arrow, you can turn this arrow by getting in a fixed camera position and then using the arrow keys, you can adjust the power by clicking on this very small red arrow, then, how stupid of you, you stand in the way of your own ball. The bouncing is rather primitive too. Also in this game you can advance on the lawn, but the ball disappears after a hit and the rolling around? All due to this primitive world, 5 is sure the game makers have suffered a lot from the scripting constraints. These games add a lot to the fun of the Flintstones land, which suffers a bit from the main problem of SL: emptiness. The Flintstones is a lot of noise and always this terrible Fred yelling and running around, here all is quite…….until….until……the lion roars, wow, I never jumped of my seat like that in SL before, haha.
The jail is funny too, you can even escape, how, well, 5 lets you find out, where do you end up, ok, you end up doing SL gymnastics. 5 won’t tell more. So the friend of 5 was a little bit more interested now, not much. The second French friend, she tried the mini golf game bravely, but not being too experienced in games, she didn’t manage.
All the things 5 encountered here pointed out to funny little inventions to be searched for. Without doubt 5 hasn’t discovered all the features which have been put in by the creators…To be returned to…..