Category: creations

I am just now putting the finishing touches and squishing the last bugs on the newest in the Futura line of hovercars. The Futura 6 is a sleek, sporty vehicle that switches between ground-hover and flight modes automatically.

New features in this Futura include:

• More paint colours to choose from, plus a painter accessory that helps you create your own custom paint scheme.
• Pop-up menus to configure options and appearance.
• Scripted decals. Choose one of the preset decals or use your own texture.
• Terra Combat System. Duel with any other vehicle that also has the Terra Combat System (almost all of my vehicles have it). Comes equipped with a particle cannon.
• Automatically switches to ground-hover mode when you fly close to the ground.
• Turbo-boost kicks in for an extra zip when you go uphill.

And like the Futura 5, the Futura 6 also has these featres:

• Seats 2 avatars
• Landing gear retracts
• Thrust effects and sounds
• Canopy opens/closes

And it’s available right now at my shop at Abbotts Aerodrome.

Yep, that was a short vacation. Sometimes, however, it only takes a short time away from Second Life to ferment new ideas. This time I’m back to construct a new main terminal at the aerodrome.

Oddly enough, a main terminal was something we’d planned to build since the founding of Abbotts Aerodrome in early 2004. We even made a start on a grand art deco style edifice, but somehow it didn’t work out, and we ended up building a collection of hangars and shops instead.

I suspect the reason the terminal has been delayed so long is that, when you think about it, it’s completely useless. In real life, terminals are designed to process passengers and shuffle the masses around like sheep, in and out of secure zones, through checkpoints, and past assorted food courts and shops, where they’re separated from their money. Abbotts Aerodrome is, in reality, not a transportation hub. With free teleportation, nobody actually needs to travel by airplane, and security really isn’t an issue.

Even so, I want a main terminal because it completes the illusion. I just saw Tom Hanks in “The Terminal”, and it inspired me to recreate the lifeless artificial environment that is an international airport.

Who can imagine an airport without maze-like, velvet-roped queues, and a luggage carousel? What’s an airport without the generic white tile floor, sterile waiting areas, and plastic plants? So I’ll go ahead and build all that, even though we don’t technically need it. Maybe it will attract groups of people lingering near the arrivals gate as they return from the Abbotts-Gray round trip.