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VMK Newsletter 3/26 Best in awhile!!!
3/26 – Awesome new in-game features are revealed along with the answer to last week's photo puzzle. Yavn's got the latest VMK news, now get in the know!
Dark Days Ahead
Winter is finally over and spring break is looming just around the corner – but something else is looming on the horizon, something dark and it's on the way to VMK! (Now don't skip to the good stuff yet – we're serving up some tasty info you'll want to eat up before getting to dessert!)
How to Clear a Room
Silly me, last week I forgot to tell you about one of the coolest features in the new build – the Clear Room button! Now you can send every single item you've got in a room back into your inventory with the click of a button. No more removing items one by one – you've got to happy about that – I know I am! Now we just need a way to sell back items in bulk!
Last Chance For EPCOT Questing
Alright, this is the last week to grab that EPCOT Guest room – in fact, you have until the end of the week to complete the 4 EPCOT Quests. The reaction to the Quest has been phenomenal (thanks to all of you who played) if you haven't Quested, don't want to miss out! Once the EPCOT Quests are gone there's no telling when you might be able to get that EPCOT Guest Room again.
Anyone for a Makeover?
Just a quick note, the weekly Room Makeovers will now be showcased in the Event Info section on this very Newsletter page! Don't forget we're making over 2 rooms each week now – maybe your guest room is next!
Tomorrowland Quests
Another reminder for all you Questers out there – we're getting reading to re-launch the in-game Tomorrowland Quests. If you want to get another star for your Diving, Driving and Flying Pins you'll need to make sure you've completed the current in–game Quests. (Don't worry if you don't complete the Quests, you'll still be able to win the pins, but you'll only be able to get a 2nd star.) Also many of you have noticed that both the Disneyland and Magic Kingdom Tomorrowland Quests have been removed from the VMK website – don't worry, they'll both be back very shortly with a brand new Quest reward – the Red Inner–Space Suit Magic Spell. (Yes, this will be coming to the Magic Kingdom too!)
Ride On!
So did you like the little image of the strange critters last week? As many of you guessed the creatures are from none other than Alice In Wonderland (and of course, the Alice In Wonderland attraction in Disneyland). But what does Alice In Wonderland have to do with VMK? Well, Alice will help kick off something brand new for VMK – Dark Ride Attractions! That's right, the Alice In Wonderland attraction (as well as one more ride… but you will have to wait to see which one!) has been lovingly recreated in VMK! (How awesome is that?!) Now, to give you an idea of how much detail went into this wonderful new addition, over 120 new furniture items have been created – just for Alice!
How do the new rides work? Well, when they open take a walk over to the brand new Fantasyland Courtyard and enter through the turnstile, pay your credits (sorry they're not free – but you may win something very cool for just riding… more on that next week!) and hop on!
The team really pulled out the stops to make the VMK versions of these attractions as faithful as possible to the Park versions. We also added some new functionality to the game to help make the current ride system work better. The main change is a new animation system that allows items (like furniture) to animate when a player passes by the object. And just like the real Park attractions – our dark ride tracks do not allow players to hop off the ride until it comes to an end!
I don't know about you ride builders out there, but every time we have a Ride-A-Thon we have to block both sides of every piece of track. One more really cool feature is the new track system can support both Fantasyland Dark Ride vehicle types, how exactly does that work? Well, the track you use to launch the ride is associated with a vehicle type – so if you place an Alice Track starter – you'll get an Alice In Wonderland Caterpillar Vehicle. Place the starter from the other ride and… well you'll see!
Hair-raising New Style
Since we're on the topic of new stuff, how about a new hairstyle for boys and girls! In honor of the new Alice in Wonderland attraction we present Alice In Wonderland hair for girls! And for the guys, a cool new surfer do – perfect if you are a fan of Troy from High School Musical.
Gotta Fly Now!
Well I need to get packing, literally. That plane to Asia leaves in just a few days and I've got to get my gear in gear. But before I go I'll leave you with this pretty picture and a riddle:
What do you get when you cross Dark Rides, the new Fantasyland Courtyard and a Sword In The Stone?
The thrilling answer and news from my trip to the Far East in next week's Newsletter – don't miss it!
See you in VMK,
Yavn
PICTURES
Clear Room Button
Alice in Wonderland Ride
New Hair Styles
Sword in the Stone
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Real quick, the red highlighting is something that I will try to do more often if you want to just skim over things. Things in red are very important. By looking at it real fast, it doesn't look too eye appealing, but if you all like it I will keep doing it.
Anyway...
YAYAYAYAY!!!!! They took our ideas and made an actual ride!!!!! Now, to what is going to be the other ride. The new items have to be pretty cool to see. Over 120
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"120 new items" says two things to me:
1) You guys have to start saving credits.
2) What items will be retired to make room for them?
Gina a.k.a. cheshirecollector
VMK name: Venetia
Next Trip: TBA
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I don't think most if any of the items will be allowed to be sold or given away. Or if anything, maybe you get one of the items for every ride that you have to pay for???
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VMK Nachocat
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Thank you VMK for the CLEAR BUTTON! At last I can experiment carelessly with my rooms and not even bother to clear it out when I'm done! Yesssssss!
The hairdo's aren't as good as the ones that came out earlier. It's Alice in Wonderland, which is great, but I wish they came out with something different.
On the other hand, G-R-E-A-T Alice furnish! I can't wait!
Inferno. RIP VMK. -Happiest Place On Earth
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Well right now I have in credit 43,733. So I can get alot.
DLand character wanted list.
1. DUMBO 2. BLUE FAIRY 3. TARZAN 4. BRER RABBIT 8. JOHN SMITH 9. LAUNCH PAD 11. LOTSO 14. GYPSY
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Here is my thought on the whole 120 items things im betting that the ride is going to give out a number of those items at random just like the treasure chest for pirates.. regardless WOW a real ride this will be sweet!!
New to the site but
VMK: MrDownTown
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Dino Fan had me look at the calendar tonite. It starts April 1st. Interesting. Also Castle in the Clouds shows Host Pin, the other shows prizes. Not sure what that means.
Sundays:
Fin's If the Slipper Fits Quest (Journey through Fantaslyand and...)
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (Driving through town was a bumpy ride for Mr. Toad, see if you can do better and fin your way to the prize)
Mad Hatter's Twisted Teacups (Choose a teacup - teleporter game)
Mondays:
Don't Lose Your Slipper (Generator game)
This Way, That Way! (Wild ride through Fin's Fantastic Fantasyland - reach last room and choose correct path)
Tuesday:
VMK Room Makeovers
Castles in the Clouds (First castle with all it's princes and princesses in the turrets wins the game)
Wednesday:
If the Shoe Fits... (Last one with a shoe wins)
Mad Hatter's Twisted Tea Cups
Thursday:
VMK Room Makeovers
Fin's If the Slipper Fits (Quest)
Friday:
Hop, Skip and a Jump! (Race game to chairs)
Saturday:
Escape From the Evil Fortress (Teleporters)
Off to Neverland! (While soaring over the Indian encampment we will have Peter Pan trivia for extra Prizes! Pictures are great from up here)
Castles in the Clouds
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So.. this means the ride will only be available for the staff to build? If so, why create 120 new pieces of furniture. If it was static, they could build a ride that never changes. For whatever reason it makes me think they are introducing new ride pieces and furniture for our future use..
but I've been wrong before.
As we all know, as smart as yavn is in the world of computers, comprehension does not come easy to us from his newsletters. He's really not that articulate in type.
- Although Peter pan would be cool, it' s probably a Mr.Toad ride.
Last edited by Patricia; 03-28-2007 at 03:52 PM.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
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Well, when they open take a walk over to the brand new Fantasyland Courtyard and enter through the turnstile...
From this, I assume that the turnstyle will be in a public room (Fantasyland Courtyard), and we will pay credits that way and it wouldn't envolve staff in any way.
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Yeah.. I''m sure it won't involve staff, but can you imagine the queue?
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
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Maybe they are treating this like the old days at Disneyland. You enter the courtyard. Then if you want to go on any of the rides, you have to spend you credits to go on. We currently just have a Main Street Courtyard. So looks like they add this to the Fantasyland menu.
I'm sure the first week will be a mess. But once people start running up their credits, that may be a different story.
Re-Read this again:
Well, Alice will help kick off something brand new for VMK – Dark Ride Attractions! That's right, the Alice In Wonderland attraction (as well as one more ride… but you will have to wait to see which one!) has been lovingly recreated in VMK! (How awesome is that?!) Now, to give you an idea of how much detail went into this wonderful new addition, over 120 new furniture items have been created – just for Alice!
How do the new rides work? Well, when they open take a walk over to the brand new Fantasyland Courtyard and enter through the turnstile, pay your credits (sorry they're not free – but you may win something very cool for just riding… more on that next week!) and hop on!
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New concept drawings in the Gallery. Which reminded me of the castle gardens to be last in that room for drawings.... You all know what my guess is on that one!
The left picture (I used the magnifier on the computer) Appears to be maybe castle forecourt being redone with the new fantasyland courtyard where story book land's entrance is. The right picture is the fantasyland in sky with some weird drawing in the top right of it that I can't make out!!!
"There are two ways to look at this blank sheet of paper. You can look at it as the last page of a book, or as the greatest opportunity in the world because nobody's put anything on it." -Walt
Dreaming of Imagineering
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