How dark it is depends on a lot of settings including the brightness on your television. We have also compared the dev area with the live area and it is brighter in the live area. We will look into it more to see if there is anything we can do.

The helicopter is just for show. Think of it like the train in the Mall. It is big and beautiful, but not interactive.

We played with a shooting star but it was never right. It was so small it looked more like a graphic glitch or so big it looked like a missile. We also tried adding a moon but it made the sky look cluttered.

The clocks all work on your PS3’s time setting. So if it is wrong, you need to go the “Date and Time” setting when you first log on to the PS3 and fix it there.

Your hot tub suggestions for the lights are all good. We will see if we can work those in as updates.

Thanks for a great review. We will keep listening.