RFL for 2012

Another year sees the end of RFL. Either I'm mellowing out or the level of Rah Rah Rah around where I live and play has managed to get to levels where I don't find it a headache. Of course the debate has risen that the level of Rah Rah Rah around where I live and play has become passive rather than active but that's another debate and one my views are well known on.

While many want to wear their hearts on their sleeves and pour out Hallmark-card worthy stories, I've always appreciated the builds put together. This year's theme "Time for a Cure" saw the makers of sculpted hourglasses become wealthy overnight but sadly saw very few Robert Smith pictures (I only saw one). And mazes seemed popular this year. Go figure.


The New Babbage Clocktower


Which features dancing figurines that chimed the quarter hour


And an Orrery


And a day/month face



And some impressive gargoyle figurines


Better still the interior (which reminded me of Crossness Pumping Station) was an accurate working clock mechanism!


Lanterns for Life

Avillion's build



Cierra Anatine's exploding clockface


PHC for Life


An excellent maze garden, whose creator I sadly forgot to note


Devil's Reign Motorcycle group


Rathmeous Dagger and Alecto Vella built a VAST lab. Giant scale as shown by the track running through the middle of it.




Armada's sim build.


Cole Eyre's sim sized watch


Very simple build by The Fringe


Barnesworth Anubis's stunning memorial to caregivers and survivors


Aether Chrononauts team's roller-coaster clock


Alia Baroque's gorgeous seaside build. Atlantean Deco?


Lovely Egyptian build


Jalynne Ohmai's gorgeous designer build



More from Jalynne Ohmai


Amoreetto Breedable's build


This stunning build from Little Yoshiwara was almost perfect. The bamboo flute playing and the view. I wish I could take this build home with me.


Kingdom Between Two Seas gave us something like Barbie meets the Stepford Wives.




Harmony of Hope's recreation of New York's Times Square


Touched by Angels' creates a fairytale maze


I loved this Cathedral under construction from Walking Tall For a Cure


Caledon's Steampunk Genome Factory.


Advocacy to Awareness had a very Art Deco feel to their build


Raglanshire came up with a wonderfully fun build


With Anubunnies that followed you


And waffle pyramids


Which then moved into Steampunk


Complete with giant top hats


And on into the future


With spacesuited tinies on segways


The Fancy Pug Palace. Huge. As if a Russian themed casino was opened in Las Vegas and owned by pugs


Someone really likes pugs


Mieville Steampunks


Team Okie Dokie's build was fascinating. It only lacked a roller coaster car


Team Full Moon's lovely contemplative build


A Lewis Carol inspired build from Inspired Dreamwalkers. Including a maze.


I love the clock face on this one


Riders for a Cure present the biggest cogs in RFL


This 2 sim stunning creation from the Elf Circle team


The RFL Events pavilion was centred over the conjunction of 4 sims. Still lagged like hell


Breedables! I didn't realise there were so many


I not-so-secretly want a Meeroo shoulder pet. Not a breedable or anything just an animated shoulder pet. Someone make one of these now.


A lovely Asian build from a team whose name I missed


Searlait Nitschke's gorgeous build


Steelhead's impressive series of arches and clocks


The Passionate Redheads team build looked better in the dark. I'm sure there's a line there but I'll refrain


And the build from the Doctor Who Fans was brilliant.

That's it for another year. Some great builds as always. And as much lag as you can eat.