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Re: "Les Catacombes Rouges" delayed..... - iRock - 01-29-2009
Cool! Looking forward to try your great mansion.
Re: "Les Catacombes Rouges" delayed..... - josephine - 01-29-2009
Semi-Native wrote: [quote author=josephine link=1232457826/0#5 date=1233042821]Another aquaMansion!
(Hey Semi-Native, is that Janet Leigh in the shower?)
Sure is! It's how I feel sometimes when Jack is dying a thousand deaths.
:o
Believe me, I feel your pain! ;D
Wow! Can't wait for LCR.
Re: "Les Catacombes Rouges" delayed..... - aquaMat - 02-25-2009
Hi everybody....
this is to inform you that beta-testing of
Les Catacombes Rouges, my latest mansion, is nearly terminated. Thanks to the incredible effort - and time - of Rose and Semi-Native, who are such a great help !
I guess I will be putting in the last
finishing touchesduring the next week and then I'm sending it to the admins.
BTW, until very reecently I had completely forgotten that we have this shared mansion which is called
Catacombstoo......while writing the BBBs for LCR I had asked Semi-Native if there was an equivalent word for
les catacombesin English, can you believe it ???
She reminded me of our
Catacombsmansion....so I thought maybe I should rename my mansion ??!
What do you think???
Is
Les Catacombes Rougesunique and different enough (from
Catacombs) ?
Or should I better rename it ?
:-?
Re: "Les Catacombes Rouges" delayed..... - Toybox - 02-25-2009
Well, 'Les Catacombes' is a very well-established Parisian attraction. Seeing that you use the French term instead of the English one I immediately thought of them and not of our glorious collaborative mansion.
That being said, it probably helps that I am French
If you like, you can replace it by the more official: L'Ossuaire Rouge.
(According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris the official name for the catacombs is l'Ossuaire Municipal. I didn't know that!)
Re: "Les Catacombes Rouges" delayed..... - Rohful - 02-25-2009
Looks like the beautiful yet unique style of aquaMat's! Keep on going! ;D
Re: "Les Catacombes Rouges" delayed..... - Sharpie - 02-25-2009
Les Catacombes Rougesis unique on it's own. I don't think you need to rename your mansion.
Re: "Les Catacombes Rouges" delayed..... - aquaMat - 02-27-2009
Thanks, that is reassuring.
Guess I can keep the name..... !
@ Toybox: I was indeed thinking about the Paris catacombs when I designed + named it. I used the French name to make that connection clear.
I had once visited them, when I was about 16 years old, and I'll never forget that.
I always found it a rather intriguing thought.... that there is a huge city which has a whole system, almost like a maze, of underground catacombs..... I was always a fan of secret passageways, labyrynths and all that..... that's why they feature so prominently in my mansions.
And even if my catacombs-system is going much deeper down than the real Catacombes, and you only have one small house instead of a whole city above it, I thought it was an appropriate name.
And yes....maybe it was because of the French spelling that I, too, never made the connection with our Catacombs-mansion. 8-)
Re: "Les Catacombes Rouges" delayed..... - Semi-Native - 02-27-2009
aquaMat, you'd love working at Disney World, then. There is a huge system of tunnels underneath the parks that employees use for getting around, storage, moving equipment, etc. Most visitors are totally unaware that they exist.
Re: "Les Catacombes Rouges" delayed..... - aquaMat - 02-28-2009
Ooh, that's very interesting.....and a bit strange... !! :o :-?
Do you work at Disneyland, or why do you know that ??
(I bet not many people do know....)
I remember in the town I grew up in, which had a big university, there was an area for the
university hospital, actually several medical facilities and hospitals almost like a little district in itself.... and there it was the same, but it actually has a whole system of underground streets !!
They are for the maintenance people but also for medical transports to drive as fast as possible between the different hospitals.
Fascinated me as a kid.....
Re: "Les Catacombes Rouges" delayed..... - Semi-Native - 02-28-2009
I worked at Disney World for a year when I first moved to Orlando in the late 70's, that's how I know. I didn't work in the park, though, I had an office job. Regular office hours and days, which was nice.
8-)