Day: June 18, 2026

SL23B: your completely unofficial pocket guide to the celebrations

Posted on by Inara Pey
via Linden Lab

Second Life marks its 23rd anniversary in 2025, with a month of activity kicking-off on Thursday, June 19th through until Sunday, July 19th. Celebrations will be taking place across the Birthday regions in Second Life, and and with previous years includes live music, DJ sets, art, shopping (via the dedicated Shop and Hop event), exhibits by Linden Lab and – particularly – exhibits by Second Life residents and communities.

The following is intended to provide a general overview of the celebrations and provide calendars, SLurls and anything else that might be useful to you when visiting the regions.

SL23B Welcome Area

Theme

The theme for 2026 is The Golden Age of Hollywood, which the Lab describes thus:

Think classic cinema, red carpets, vintage glamour, and the magic of the silver screen. While the theme may inspire many builds and performances, exhibits are not required to follow the theme. We encourage you to share what makes your Second Life experience meaningful. Your interests. Your communities. Your creativity.
SL Birthday Calendar

The best way the stay abreast of all that’s going on is via the official calendar of events, which I’ve embedded below.

  • Use the Week / Month options, top right to change the calendar view.
  • Click on any given line item on any given day of festivities to view more information, including teleport SLurls.

Key Events

Shop and Hop

The SL23B Shop And Hop event is taking place across multiple regions, and features many creators and merchants. The best way to find out about this event is via the Shop and Hop Destination Guide entry and via the SL23B Shop and Hop Participating Merchants list.

SL23B Temple of the Funky Monkey Stage

Meet the Lindens

As per usual, SL23B will feature a series of events featuring various members of the Lab’s management team and those from front-line teams. The sessions will be a mix of live sessions at the celebrations events and pre-recorded sessions. They will take place per the schedule below.

Day (from 13:00 SLT) Participants
Monday June 22  Philip Rosedale – Founder and CTO
Tuesday June 23 The Product Team
Wednesday June 24 The Engineering Team
Thursday June 25 The Marketing and Growth Team
Friday June 26 The Second Life Studios Team

Meet the Lindens SLurl: Orpheum Theatre, plus Theatre #2 and Theatre #3.

If you cannot attend a session in person, you can watch it on the Second Life YouTube channel.

Entertainment and Performances

Live performers and DJs from across Second Life and around the globe are lined-up to perform  at SL23B. The complete schedule can be seen below.

 

The Welcome Area

Never been to an SLB event before? Try starting at the Welcome Area where you’ll find lots of help, things like the SL23B Golden Ticket booth (win up to LS 1,000,000), the SL23B Swaginator HUD, Premium and Premium Plus gifts, teleport portals and boards to key event areas, and more!

SL23B: The Tapestry of Time

The Tapestry of Time and Gift Area.

First presented in 2018, the region-wide Tapestry of Time presents visitor with a walk-through of Second Life’s history from 2003 through to the present day using images, text and videos. True, not everything has been recorded, but there’s enough within the region to be of interest to the historically minded.

within the Tapestry of Time can be found the SL23B Gift Area, offering gifts from the Birthday exhibitors and from merchants participating in the Shop & Hop event.

Exhibitor Regions

via Linden Lab – click for Exhibitor Showcase

As is common for SLB events, the mix of content is varied, and the representation of interests broad. Role-play groups, arts, communities, are represented across the nine regions open to exhibitors; some are static, others are interactive in nature.

  • Direct links to the exhibitor regions can be found in the SLurls lists at the end of this piece.
  • Information / SLurls for individual exhibitors can be found in the SL23B Exhibitor Showcase.

Note that teleport boards are available at the centre of all Exhibitor regions for easy of moving between them.

Adult Exhibitor Regions And Adult Shop and Hop

2025 sees the Adult content and groups exhibitor regions combined with the Adult Shop and Hop regions.  Once again, the celebrations include Adult content and groups, with exhibits at the event, with the Shop and Hop taking place across four dedicated regions separate to the main exhibitor regions. I’ve also included individual region SLurls at the end of this article.

Advice on a Better Experience

The SL23B regions can get exceptionally busy. To help ease the pain for you:

  • If you have a high draw distance, reduce it to  as low as is comfortable for your enjoyment.
  • Turn off shadows in your viewer if you usually have them enabled.
  • Go to Preferences → Graphics and reduce the slider Max # Non-Imposter Avatars to a minimum and dial-down your Complexity slider.
  • Remove texture-heavy HUDs to free-up more texture memory.
  • Remove unnecessary scripted attachments and dress lightly, avoiding accessories of high complexity.
SL23B: The Golden Palms

SLurls and Destination Guide Links

Core Event Region SLurls

General Rated Exhibitor Region SLurls

SLB Awesome SLB Beguile SLB Blissful SLB Breathtaking SLB Captivate
SLB Delightful SLB Electrify SLB Enchant SLB Fabulous SLB Glamorous SLB Incredible
SLB Marvelous SLB Outgoing SLB Sparkle SLB Spectacular SLB Stupendous

Adult Rated Regions

The Salty Saddle Saloon Events Stage: Smouldering Feisty Spicy Steamy
Exhibitor Regions: SLB Alluring SLB Daring SLB Euphoric SLB Irresistible
Shopping Regions: Buttercup Goldenrod Freesia Trillium
Peony Hibiscus

Web URLs

Leloo’s Age of Giants in Second Life

Posted on by Inara Pey
Leloo’s World: Age of Giants, June 2026 – click any image for full size

Steven Spielberg is responsible for some of the most iconic films of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. I’m not going to list any of them here per se, as we all likely have our favourites. However, due to his films, Spielberg is indirectly responsible for a range of Second Life destinations which either seek to reproduce his work or use it as a leaping-off point for the imaginations of those responsible for them.

In this, perhaps his most popular film (and follow-on franchise) for SL settings might well be Jurassic Park, which has seen everything from direct reproductions of its most familiar locations through to adventure games built around its central story or mixing of humans and dinosaurs.

Leloo’s World: Age of Giants, June 2026

It is Jurassic Park which sprang to mind for me as I first broadly cammed around following my arrival at Leloo’s World: Age of Giants, a setting designed by LeLooUlf.

Now, to be fair, it wasn’t actually that film that came to mind when I first arrived; that honour went to George Taylor’s (aka Charlton Heston’s) famous outburst, “You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!” And if you need to understand why, just take a look at what forms the backdrop to the Landing Point – and if you’re still unsure, go ask Google 🙂 .

Leloo’s World: Age of Giants, June 2026

However, as I did cam out and around – particularly as I first tracked around the coast – it was a specific scene from Jurassic Park, together with the truly iconic theme by John Williams (which remains part of one of my all-time favourite film scores) that came to mind as a massive brachiosaur came into view, and I found myself immediately thinking of Sam Neill’s Alan Grant and Laura Dern’s Ellie Sattler and their reactions on first seeing such a marvellous beast strolling past their jeep.

Not, I hasten to add, because Age of Giants is in any way directly based on given settings or scenes from the original film or its sequels; the setting remains uniquely its own – but there are elements and motifs which inevitably bring the film to mind, be they in the mixing of Tyrannosaurus Rex with the  Apatosaurus as velociraptors look on; or in the familiar gates of the park itself (in this case leading to Leloo’s little ranges of shops oft found in her designs) or the inclusion of the  Gyrosphere seen in Jurassic World.

Leloo’s World: Age of Giants, June 2026

For the most part rugged to the point of mountainous, the setting has dinosaurs scattered around and gliding overhead in the form of pterosaurs, with signposts marking the way through for those on foot. As well as the Gyrospheres mentioned above (and which you drive yourself), it is also possible to take an aerial ride around the setting via a pterosaur.

Also, and if you are feeling brave, there is the opportunity to grab a large “bone swatter” and go full-on Fred Flintstone and calm any unruly dinos with a swift clout. If this fails (as it likely will), there is a pose opportunity for photos which has you running from a potentially irate T-rex!

Leloo’s World: Age of Giants, June 2026

I did find the Gyrospheres a little difficult to control when it came to driving around, and so would personally recommend sticking to your pedal extremities and following the paths and signs on foot. The latter are particularly handy for finding the photogenic spots.

The pterosaur tour is gentle enough, and at less than 5 minutes, it doesn’t get tiresome and will take you through and over the tree tops in a manner that will reveal the dinosaurs below and perhaps reveal a path or two you might otherwise miss. Also, if you do feel something might have slipped past without ypou noticing, keep an eye out for the teleporter stone(s).

Leloo’s World: Age of Giants, June 2026

As well as the walks, etc., there are numerous places to sitting waiting to be found, both within the main dinosaur area and “outside” of it. The setting is also rich in ambient sounds, so make sure you have local sounds available in your viewer and your speakers on / headphones at the ready.

Age of Giants is small and fun to visit, and comes complete with an odd little whimsy along the beach at and close by the Landing Point, part of which I mentioned back towards the top of the piece and the rest of which I’ll leave you to find.

“Oh hai! Have you met Rexie, my new pet?”

Slurl Details

Leloo’s World: Age of Giants (Friends, rated Moderate)