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Team Heroes - Stanza V: Patch 'Em Up
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James G.
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Ignore them, @Evilgidgit - their babysitter fell asleep again. They're just playing with the keyboard.
Evilgidgit
Well-Known Member
There is for Silver Dollar City, but not for Holiday World.
Team Heroes - Stanza V: Silver Dollar City
@Pi on my Cake or anyone else who wants to chime in, starting thread for S.D.C discussion. As @spacemt354 noted, very helpful last year to have these separated out from the main group discussion.
James G.
Well-Known Member
Heroes, I'm proud of all of you! Every subteam is working through ideas, brainstorming, and most importantly working together as one team! I even learned how to start a thread and how to change my Avatar!
While you're working on your individual parks, think in the back of your minds how we are going to present this. There have been a few ideas floated, and all of them are definitely great places to start. Remember that one thing you cannot rely on me for is how to create a technically brilliant presentation. I can write pretty well, and if you haven't had a chance to read the potential backstory I created for how we got into this strange challenge in the first place, please take the time to do so.
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I wrote this early this morning when half-asleep and half-buzzed on caffeine, and I've already found several typos I fixed, but feel free to find more. I hope you like it.
Keep working hard! We have one week from tonight to have this ready, and I really don't like waiting until the last minute!
While you're working on your individual parks, think in the back of your minds how we are going to present this. There have been a few ideas floated, and all of them are definitely great places to start. Remember that one thing you cannot rely on me for is how to create a technically brilliant presentation. I can write pretty well, and if you haven't had a chance to read the potential backstory I created for how we got into this strange challenge in the first place, please take the time to do so.
A Deal with a Dog
Carl Kalnow, Chairman of the Board of the Americana Land Company, the fourth-richest man in the world and the person who with his own money built the now-completed Americana Resort north of Birmingham, Alabama, was standing in front of the Unity Chapel. Before him, surrounded by a beautifully-cr...
docs.google.com
I wrote this early this morning when half-asleep and half-buzzed on caffeine, and I've already found several typos I fixed, but feel free to find more. I hope you like it.
Keep working hard! We have one week from tonight to have this ready, and I really don't like waiting until the last minute!
James G.
Well-Known Member
Welcome, @FireMountain ! You're just in time! Hey, HersheyPark team- you've got a new member!! Welcome him into your thread and help him get up to speed!
Disneylover152
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Hi guys! So, unfortunately, I have to drop out of the Sorcerer's Apprentice. I just have so much going on in my life with school, the musicals I'm apart of (writing or acting), and family obligations I just have not been able to give my best work to anything. I went into Stanza 5 concerned I wasn't going to have enough time to work on this, but I figured I could make the best of it. I haven't had time to go on the forums at all this past day and struggled to find time to write this! (I'm taking a "bathroom break" at rehearsal as writing this, lol).
Thanks for allowing me to be a part of this and making me have so much fun! I will cheer on from the sidelines and can't wait to see all the amazing work you guys create! Break a leg!
Thanks for allowing me to be a part of this and making me have so much fun! I will cheer on from the sidelines and can't wait to see all the amazing work you guys create! Break a leg!
TwilightZone
Well-Known Member
Good luck out there!
James G.
Well-Known Member
Heroes, Sorry I went a bit silent for awhile there. I had a personal event hit me that I've been having to deal with (don't you hate it when "life" gets in the way of "fun"?! I've still be noticing that there's been a lot of work happening in your individual parks- great job! Before we get too deep into this, we're going to have to establish a general theme, a concept, the raison d'etre for what we are doing. I started an idea I had with the short story I shared about why we're fixing these four parks and why the loser (but still VERY dangerous) Villains got their parks. I think most if not all of you have read it by now. Here's my next section- bear with me here. Carl Kalnow, the Chairman of the Board of the Americana Resort, has decided to create a lose confederation of American independent theme and amusement parks called the "Association of American Independent Theme and Amusement Parks" or AAITAP for short (and PLEASE!- somebody come up with a better name for this!). You know how every big town seems to have a bunch of car dealers all on one street, side-by-side, that get together and pool their advertising to get people to shop for cars at one of their member dealers? That is the idea behind AAITAP. Independent theme and amusement parks across the country unite to work together to promote each other, honor each other's season passes (or at least offer a reduced rate) and get people visiting their parks who might be in the area on vacation. Carl has four parks that want to join this confederation or association, our four parks. He's already rejected four parks for not meeting his standards (guess which four parks THOSE are?). He has offered to give each of our parks $250 million to rejuvenate them and bring them up to the Americana Resort's level of quality, BUT he wants to hear what they propose to do with the money before he give it to them and allows them into the association. (I never said this was realistic).
We post the short story perhaps a day or two ahead of the scheduled due date, as a teaser, then when we're ready we post the final presentation, which involves each park making their presentation to Carl to convince him that they will put his money to good use and earn themselves both the $$$ and membership in the association, which will almost guarantee them a major boost in attendance.
This way we can have each presentation be a little bit different, unique, and special to that particular park. We use this frame story to unite four different proposals into one unified presentation, thus allowing us to make each presentation different, original, yet showing the judges (personified by Carl Kalnow, the fourth richest man in America) that we ARE the team that knows how to make the best use of the money.
Ideas?
We post the short story perhaps a day or two ahead of the scheduled due date, as a teaser, then when we're ready we post the final presentation, which involves each park making their presentation to Carl to convince him that they will put his money to good use and earn themselves both the $$$ and membership in the association, which will almost guarantee them a major boost in attendance.
This way we can have each presentation be a little bit different, unique, and special to that particular park. We use this frame story to unite four different proposals into one unified presentation, thus allowing us to make each presentation different, original, yet showing the judges (personified by Carl Kalnow, the fourth richest man in America) that we ARE the team that knows how to make the best use of the money.
Ideas?
James G.
Well-Known Member
I'm so sorry to see you go, but it sounds like you made the right decision. It's hard to give up something you love for something else you love! Break a leg, and I hope we see you back in here again.
NateD1226
Well-Known Member
Hate to see you go! I had so much fun working with you on these projects. Let me know how your musical turns out!
spacemt354
Chili's
Is everyone in sub-PMs?
I believe this round was intended to be on the public threads -- so maybe we move all conversation to the public?
I believe this round was intended to be on the public threads -- so maybe we move all conversation to the public?
spacemt354
Chili's
I say this because being in private conversations - if I see something in Silver Dollar City, or if someone else does, it's much easier to quickly reply in a public thread, then have to sort through PMs and continually get alerts from them.
This thread can act as a hub to assemble the final project, but I think the specific park threads should be public.
spacemt354
Chili's
And I assume since all the guest judges are tagged in the Hershey sub-PM, then they must be in other PMs as well
That has to be incredibly hard to follow for avid reviewers like @Magic Feather @Magicart87 etc
So why not just have them follow along on these public brainstorming threads if they'd like --- which also gives other reviewers the option to just wait for the final project to determine the results instead of getting bombarded with alerts.
That has to be incredibly hard to follow for avid reviewers like @Magic Feather @Magicart87 etc
So why not just have them follow along on these public brainstorming threads if they'd like --- which also gives other reviewers the option to just wait for the final project to determine the results instead of getting bombarded with alerts.
NateD1226
Well-Known Member
@TwilightZone and I have been working in a PM. We have made HUGE progress so I’m not sure we want to move to a thread
spacemt354
Chili's
But the thing is none of the other heroes can see your progress.
We are a TEAM - therefore we should all have access to each others work - even if we aren't actively participating in the park.
It makes no sense to isolate ourselves when we have the resources/experience of 12 talented imagineers on our team.
On public threads - if myself or someone else wants to take a look at the progress, we can just click on the thread and see it. But in PMs it's almost like we are competing against each other --- which is not the point of this challenge.
spacemt354
Chili's
And again I'm speaking from experience -- the guest reviewers are volunteers, they aren't playing
If I was a guest reviewer and got 4-5 separate PMs that I have to follow I'd be extremely overwhelmed.
If I was a guest reviewer and got 4-5 separate PMs that I have to follow I'd be extremely overwhelmed.
TwilightZone
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Unless we absolutely need to I think we shouldn't. Like @NateD1226 said we already made a lot of progress, and I am sure a lot of other people have too. Sure we are a team, but I have had team experience, including this current game where we had to branch off.
spacemt354
Chili's
Team Heroes - Stanza V: Silver Dollar City
@Pi on my Cake or anyone else who wants to chime in, starting thread for S.D.C discussion. As @spacemt354 noted, very helpful last year to have these separated out from the main group discussion.
One team has it as it should be for this round. The other 3 parks I'm assuming have PMs
I'm also assuming nobody took my advice and looked at this challenge from last season - which is the exact same thing in the exact same stanza.
Everyone split up into groups in public - overall despite having over a dozen people on the team, they were all effective at working together.
I don't agree with this branching off - it's not the point of the challenge.