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Enchanted Tiki Month! - August Newsletter
Updated 29 August 2015
Ole! Ole! It’s showtime! Welcome to a tropical hideaway, you lucky people, you! Tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki tiki’s all over the kingdom! Put on your Dole Whip Pin and join the MyVMK Tiki Gods in celebrating this enchanted month! There will be Magic, a Tiki Room Quest, Double Credits, all things Tiki and much, much more!
Arrr! Blind Bag #2 be here! Play the Pirates of the Caribbean Mini-Game and WIN to earn Pirate TsumTsums Pins! Common = Pewter, Rare = Silver and Super Rare = Gold! - Play Pirates and WIN! Every 12th win will get you a bag, INSTEAD of a key! To open your blind bag, wear it and use it just like a magic pin!
Bring on the Blind Bags! Above are all the COMMON Pins you can open. There are also Rare (Silver) and Ultra-Rares (Gold) - but you’ll have to wait and find out what those are when you open them! ;) Play HOST events for a chance to win and collect all 34! - To open your blind bag, wear it and use it just like a magic pin! Earn Blind Bags by winning HOST events OR by having some luck in the HOST Consolation Room! Consolation is NOT a guaranteed win!
Play the Fireworks Remixed Mini Game and earn Fireworks Magic! - Play the Fireworks Remixed game (not classic! sorry!), and accumulate points to be rewarded! (You won’t see this on the next newsletter, but don’t worry! It’s here to stay!)
Last chance, foolish mortals! Play the Haunted Mansion Mini Game and earn Haunted Mansion Mickey Ears! What is that you say? Haunted Mansion isn’t Tiki? Think again! Next time you visit the Haunted Mansion, take a look around. You’d be surprised how much influence the Tiki Room had in the creation of the Mansion! - through August 31st, play and accumulate points to be rewarded!
Earn the Born in Park Badge for your lanyard! See the Forums for details!
Be sure to check the Event Calendar for your final chances to win this month’s exclusive HOST prizes!
Check out the new Sword in the Stone pins for this month! Head on over to the Fantasyland Courtyard to try pulling one today! - Ride the ALR or PPR Rides, located in the Fantasyland Courtyard, for a chance to win a magic Sword in the Stone pin. Once you obtain a pin, it’s time to try your luck! To pull - wear the pin on your lanyard, then stand next to the Sword in the Stone (also located in Fantasyland Courtyard). Click the Magic Wand icon on your tool-bar (located to the right of the chat bar on the bottom), and double click the magic pin. Will you be lucky enough to pull one ?
For Sale this Week in Shrunken Ned’s
Aloha to the old items! Be sure to check out the final one day sale for this month! All month we have been having ONE day sales for items that were released way back when MyVMK first began! For ONE DAY only you will be able to pick up the Bamboo Floor Green - so save up those credits! - Only available on Sunday August 30th. Sale ends at midnight!
Hula your way on over to Ned’s and dance the night away in the Girls Hula and Boys Fire Dancer Outfits! And may the last Fez be with you! Harrison Hightower’s Hat is here as well! - available through Thursday, September 3rd - under Specials (each piece sold separately)
Catch these final sales of the month, before those Tiki Gods whoosh them away! Pick up the Tiki Totem Topper, Tiki Umbrella, Tiki Beach Blanket and the Tiki Radio! - available through Thursday, September 3rd - under Specials (each piece sold separately)
Pick up the 5th and final pin in our Tiki I series, this week! Available for a limited time only will be the Maui Tiki Pin! Collect all 5 today! - available through Sunday, August 30th - under Specials
ALL items listed above will be for sale starting Friday, August 28th, unless stated otherwise.
Please note some items may be re-released as permanent additions to the catalogue at the end of the month.
Amy is here to answer all your techie (and not-so techie) questions!
1) Is there anything you wish you didn’t create? -Bimbette
Zombie Magic
2) What’s been the most difficult thing to code in-game that wasn’t a mini game or dark ride? -rollercoastergal
Room animations in the new client. They’re incredibly picky. If I wasn’t using the original animations it would be fairly easy, but I don’t want to redo the animations for every room because that would be more work total.
3) Some of us on the forums would love to see ombre and/or highlights added to the hair section of our avatars. Since it uses more than one hair color at once, how difficult would that be to code? -CoralHibiscus
On the old client, overlays for hair like that would be nearly impossible without rewriting avatars entirely on it, due to imperfections in something I made that helped me make MyVMK. They could be added as if they were separate hairs though with only one colour option, but that would require lots of images and lots of clicking.
Have a game related/technical question you’d like ask Amy? Send it in to contact@myvmk.com for your shot at winning the Amy Speaks Pin! Be sure to title your e-mail “Amy Speaks” and provide your MyVMK user name in the e-mail, along with your question. PLEASE, ONLY SUBMIT ONE QUESTION PER MONTH! We will keep them all on file, then clear them out at the end of each month. Multiple entries will not be accepted. Answers will be posted on future newsletters. Questions will be selected randomly and answered upon Amy’s availability.
Test Your Knowledge of Disney Trivia!
Introducing the prophet of wisdom, the knower of all things and Disney trivia expert – Esmeralda!
This Week’s Question: When the “Enchanted Tiki Room” first opened, it was not owned by the Walt Disney Company. Who owned it?
Know the answer?
Send your answer to contact@myvmk.com. Be sure to provide your MyVMK user name in the e-mail with the answer. We randomly select three players from the list of correct answers submitted, as the winners and send them each an Esmeralda Trivia Pin! You have until NOON on Thursday, September 3rd to send your answers in.
Here’s the answer to last week’s question:
How many birds are perched among the rafters of the Tiki Room?
Answer: 55
Did you know: 55 Audition-animatronic birds are perched among the rafters of the Tiki Room, including toucans, cockatoos and other tropical birds. The four main characters are a quartet of macaws. José was voiced by legendary Disney entertainer Wally Boag, who wrote the majority of the script for the attraction and performed for years in Disney’s Golden Horseshoe Revue. Fulton Burley, one of Boag’s Golden Horseshoe costars, voiced Michael; actor and voiceover performer Ernie Newton plays Pierre and Thurl Ravenscroft, a Disney parks regular and voice of Tony the tiger, gave Fritz his distinctive accent.
Congratulations to the 3 lucky (and randomly selected) players that sent in the correct answer for last week’s question!
Winners:
Briar.Merryn
Matte
ZeldasLullaby
Create a Great Guest Room! Get Recognized!
Player created Guest or Game Rooms demonstrate originality in concept and design. Our judges are looking for creativity, so try using traditional items in different and unique ways. Rooms are judged randomly by MyVMK Staff every month and selected from player rooms.
It’s Midnight on Main Street! Join Thorn and celebrate! What you wish upon a star, Speaks volumes of who you are. Walt wished for a magical place, To put a smile on everyone’s face! Congratulations!
The Best Guest Room Winner receives:
- 2000 credits
- A Castle Suite Guest Room Pin - plus furniture!
- Best Guest Room Award Pin
- Plus! A party in Club 33!
Create a game room and play with friends and others, and a MyVMK staff member may notice your idea! Game rooms that get the nod offer a new game idea or a new twist on an old favorite. In all rooms we look for room owners who welcome everyone with a smile and show a willingness to answer questions about their room.
Welcome to the Confuse-a-Bear Game! After the Bear spins his generators, it’s your job is to let Kathymouse know if your team is going to Match or Total. Then, it’s time to spin and confuse that bear! Watch our for triples or you’ll encounter a picnic basket upset! Congratulations on this clever new game!
The Best Game Room Winner receives:
- 2000 credits
- A Castle Suite Guest Room Pin - plus furniture!
- Best Game Room Award Pin
- Plus! A party in Club 33!
Ever wanted to know more about your favorite staff member? Now you can! Every so often we will be interviewing a different member of the MyVMK Staff. Here is the most recent interview!
Mod name: HOST_Hathi
What is your favorite thing to do around the Kingdom?
I love wandering around and popping into players rooms to say hello and visit. Sometimes the funniest things happen when you visit someone unexpectedly!
What is the best item for building your rooms?
This one is hard, I like all of the building materials,but since I have to pick one, I will have to say the wall flats. Backgrounds are essential to building my rooms, without those I just don’t think they’d be the same.
What has been your favorite game to host thus far?
My favorite game thus far to host would be my “Mickey’s Key Mayhem” game. It was very fun to see everyone try to make their way across and get the keys from Pluto!
What is your favorite mini-game in MyVMK?
The Jungle Cruise of course! It’s always nice to take a cruise down the river and visit my jungle friends. I think a relative of mine likes to pop up inside the game as well and hit the sides of peoples boats, so be on the look out for him!
What is your favorite type of Guest Room?
The Animal Kingdom Safari room, it reminds me of home!
Best MyVMK Moment?
Going into the game for the first time after it was remade. Just seeing that someone took the time to remake the game that was loved by so many and bring back the magic has got to be my best MyVMK moment hands down.
Is there any advice you would give to players?
I am not really good at giving advice so here is a quote from Jeanne C. Stein that I like: “Life may not be the party we hoped for… but while we’re here we may as well dance.”