Geography of the Pride Lands

[trexmaster]

Here if the picture doesn't upload here properly

LEGEND:

Brown outline = edge of the plateau (looking at Timon and Pumbaa's falling down a waterfall into the jungle in TLK 1.5, as well as Simba sliding down a cliff to the desert after escaping the hyenas in the original TLK, it appears that the Pridelands seem to be atop a huge mesa, or at least on a high plain)
Yellow = meerkat colony
Dark blue = waterhole/river
Light blue = marshlands
Fat, light orange lines = gorge
Dark orange blot = thorny bushes
Light-gray dot = Pride Rock
Light beige = desert
Dark biege = sand dunes
Goldish-ochre = mountain
White = snow
Dark ochre = Outlands
Dark gray = Elephant Graveyard
Lime green = Pridelands
Pale green = Magic Grasslands (where Simba sees Mufasa in the sky)
Dark green = jungle

[trexmaster]

Oops, double post.

[Kovu]

Awesome stuff, trexmaster! :kovusmile
But where's Pride Rock?

[trexmaster]

Originally posted by Kovu
Awesome stuff, trexmaster! :kovusmile
But where's Pride Rock?

That would be the little light-gray dot with the rather pointed shape. The JPEG format killed it.

[trexmaster]

Originally posted by SimbaTheLion
It's about 2/3rds of the way across, and halfway up if that's the right light grey dot.

Great work on the map anyway, mate !

Is the meercat colony those few dots which have the spray-can effect?

Yes, the yellow ones.

Anyway, here's an updated copy of the map in GIF format...the colors are a little grainy, but are more well-defined.

[trexmaster]

Originally posted by SimbaTheLion
Um, where is the new one hehe ?

Sorry, posting accident. The new map has been uploaded.

[Nephilim]

Ooo, good work Trexmaster.

[Ngatuny]

Good map! this had been posted earlier (the map thread) but this seems to be the best map so far I think, what sources did you use?

[King Simba]

Whoa! Great work there!

[Shatara]

Pretty nice, tho I belive the Elephant Graveyard is to the north...


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[trexmaster]

Originally posted by Shatara
Also, for converting windows *.bmp files to smaller formats like *.gif, *.png, etc, without sacrificing image quality, I recomend IrfanView:

http://www.irfanview.com/

Thanks! :-)

[Vidan]

That's certainly a very nice looking map. There was a thread that had a map I made a while back as well as some other people's revisions or alternate versions. As for all of the positioning details, I've given up. Especially since, on the "Proud of Simba's Pride" segment on the Simba's Pride re-release, somebody who worked on the film mentioned that the orientation of Pride Rock on screen was actually a metaphor for the two sides of the story. Pointing left represents Simba's Pridelands. Pride Rock pointing to the right represents the Outlands. (If I remember correctly.) If Pride Rock can just shift randomly like that, then the positioning of everything in the TLK universe can never really be established for certain.

[trexmaster]

Originally posted by Woes of Folly
That's certainly a very nice looking map. There was a thread that had a map I made a while back as well as some other people's revisions or alternate versions. As for all of the positioning details, I've given up. Especially since, on the "Proud of Simba's Pride" segment on the Simba's Pride re-release, somebody who worked on the film mentioned that the orientation of Pride Rock on screen was actually a metaphor for the two sides of the story. Pointing left represents Simba's Pridelands. Pride Rock pointing to the right represents the Outlands. (If I remember correctly.) If Pride Rock can just shift randomly like that, then the positioning of everything in the TLK universe can never really be established for certain.

Or maybe Pride Rock has TWO promontories...

[Ngatuny]

I think that Pride Rock is on a rotating platform, yeah that is it.

[Sadiki]

I would see prideland in a diffrend way... I made once one but it's gone now... but still you should make a compass nails there to show where is north, south, east and west because whit those you can solve where places are... like sun always dawn from east and set to west. And if I remember right Pride rock pointing east what means that elephant grave yard is south side and then outlands should be east as well because Simba watch from top of pride rock streight to outlands.

[unregistered user]

Awesome map!

[Simba_TLK]

the map looks great good work
i wouldnt have had any idea about how the pridelands where set out

[trexmaster]

Here's an update. I reconfigured some of the locations to a more accurate position, and I added in some locales from Dinosaur. In my mind, TLK and that movie share a universe (even the background music is similar); in fact, I wonder if the devastated state of the Pridelands during Scar's rule had something to do with the asteroid...

EDIT: Dammit, I forgot to post the actual image...

[Vidan]

Wow, an island? That's kind of different ... but cool with me. That plesiosaur in the lower left is a nice touch. It's so ... happy looking .

[TakaTiger]

coolness