(crashes in from the ceiling) HI LOBCORP NATION I HAVE AN OC.
EXCEPT IT WAS A LIE THIS STARTED AS SONA SHIT FOR SELFSHIPPING PURPOSES INSTEAD OF BEING ONE OF MY NUGGETS but now he evolved into his own person despite me never playing lobcorp myself n just watching all my friends play + read wiki pages BUT I DIGRESS. ITS 2023 IM ALLOWED TO BE CRINGE AND FREE.
(drew Rudolta w/o a ref i forgot how close it was to the pic so ig its judging/JJ SHCDNFJ)
I went digging through my screenshots and found more pics of the Original Stadium so I am sharing them here for posterity
Here's me (left) posing on top of the small platform with the blue butterfly and a stranger I ran a race with. Note how absolutely barren the stands in the background are
Here is a shot of what it was like flying into the stadium once you slid off the edge and took flight. As you can see, it's basically all cloud all the way through
This one is an aerial shot showing the front of the temple. We also don't have the giant statues in this shot (those were added in a later update I believe, though iirc the statues present in the Twins' cutscene have always been there). That ledge way up at the top between the long ramp on the left and the temple is where the winged light once was, and because of how the stands were set up, the only reliable way to get it when you had few wedges was to land on the ramp and run up it
Here is another aerial shot showcasing the stands better. That side of the stadium was where Cheer used to be. There really wasn't much else going on in the Stadium before Dreams. Cheer was the only Stadium spirit that even had memories at this point. Bow and Proud had Nothing. Nada. Zilch. They were just little lights that you'd collect during the races, and then you'd free them at the end and get the stance/emote
This one shows the bonus candle on one of the pillars. This set is already lit, but if you were unlucky enough to end up on a server where they weren't lit, your odds of successfully flying to the pillar from the central platform were basically zero
This is what the entrance to the stadium looked like from the central platform. You could sometimes land on the pillar right in front during the end-of-race cutscene, before you were teleported to stand right in front of the small platform in its center, just like what happens now following the final collect lights portion
And this is what the small platform looked like. That light would always be there, even if you already got both Proud and Bow (and this was back in the days when the spirits didn't even have names!). You also could not jump onto this platform, because it was too tall. If you wanted to stand on it, you had to fly
hi I’m Absolutely Obsessed with your agents, please let Ramirez know that I would die for him, also for haru’s ego bracelet dilemma, has she tried choker necklaces yet?