DisneyQuest – A New Disney Adventure where YOU Control the Action!
Part Scavenger Hunt, Part Video Game, All Disney Magic!
This is my idea for a replacement for the ill-fated Disney Quest in Downtown Disney. Part Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure with more variety, part Magiquest (http://www.magiquest.com/) with amazing special effects, and all Disney magic! To start, you purchase your wand on the ground level of the building. There are also street carts selling wands in front. You can decorate your wand with the mix-n-match ribbons, toppers, jackets, etc. and you choose how long your session in the “Quest Zone” will be. (Don’t worry; all of these things are sold up the elevator if you forget!) Next, wave your wands at the sensor at the elevator door. This is done to load a video to play during the ascent.
The premise of the game is that you go through Snow White’s Enchanted Forest, Mt. Olympus, Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty’s Kingdom, Agrabah, & More (more can be added on to undeveloped areas, such as Holloweentown, Neverland, Atlantica, or the 100 Acre Wood. Temporary worlds can be installed too, like a The Princess and The Frog world or a world used for promoting a movie coming soon, like Up.(Of course, these would have to be planned early.)! The main bulk of the games are the stories of each respective world, but bonus stories and extra multi-world challenges are available (again, have to be planned in advance, yet much easier to add in than a whole new world). The main narrators of each world (The Magic Mirror, The Muses, The Cheshire Cat (and Alice), The 3 Fairies, and the Genie) help guide your way through the land. For small children, the game is made easier and boiled down to its essence. Fighting is also blocked out as many small children can’t figure out how to do it. This can even be integrated into the hotels on a small scale!
Anyways, back to the elevator: You wave your wand and the elevator comes down. The video playing inside introduces you to your main narrators and tells you how to start your quest. It also displays each rider’s score so far in the game, how many awards they have, and what they should do next. It also says which quest worlds are down and which are crowded. The doors open up into Mickey the Questmaster’s Central Station. Here you will be able to select your quest, be briefed on the next world, have some food at Quest Café and buy more playtime, accessories, costumes, and more at the Adventure Outfitter’s shop. The room has a plush, futuristic feel, like the Spaceship Earth Post Show. The main lighting is blue. There are large metal pillars in the room with touch screens in them. This is where you your quest. For now, we’ll start with Snow Whit’s Enchanted Forest. You wave your wand at the screen and up comes a selection screen. Each of the quest worlds are on the screen in pictures and with their names on them. You, for example, choose Snow White and you get a screen that either says “The Enchanted Forest has an XX minute wait. Would you like to play a mini-game for D-Points while you wait or come back another time?” or you get a screen that says “Your briefing is ready. Would you like to accept this quest? YES…NO” When you pick yes, The screen says “Go to one of the Enchanted Forest briefing rooms here in The Central Hub. Good Luck!” There are 3 briefing rooms for each world and they help you get into the mood of the story you are about to experience. You go to the Enchanted Forest briefing room. There is a miniature Mickey Mouse shape lighting up white in LED light.
These little mouse ears are the things on the objects where you wave your wand at. If you successfully cast your wand at the effect, the light in the Mickey head go off and a special effect comes to life. If not, nothing will happen. When the lights are of, you can’t cast at the item. The computers in the Central Hub will not let you on a quest with a broken effect. Here, though, the mouse ears are to open a door. If you cast your wand at them and they turn green, the door opens and you enter. If they turn red, then you can’t go in because you haven’t completed all of the tasks necessary to open the door. Go to one of the Central Hub’s screens or one of the many screens in the quest worlds to see what you’re missing. Here though, it turns green.
World Unlock – The Enchanted Forest
You enter the small room (big enough for a party of 8) and you see a large white and golden book reading “Snow White” on the cover in blue calligraphy of to the left of the room on a wooden book-holder thingy. There is a large mirror in the center of the room. If you don’t know what I’m getting at, you shouldn’t call yourself a Disney fan!
The doors close and The Magic Mirror’s face appears through the smoke and fire on the mirror. The fire disappears and the mirror starts talking (note: This is not the exact script): “Lips red as the rose… hair black as ebony… skin white as the snow… so you’d like to hear the story of Snow White, hmm? Very well…” The book starts to open up… “Once Upon a Time…” he says, reading the book… “… There lived a beautiful maiden named Snow White. She was the fairest in all the land. Her father married the Evil Queen and, with much grief, he died. The Queen envied Snow White for her beauty and forced her to work as a scullery maid, cleaning the castle and wearing rags. She thought that then she would have lost her beauty, but her inner beauty shined through all the same…” The page turns. “Now,” says The Magic Mirror, “Go and see Snow White on the steps of the Evil Queen’s castle on the XXXX floor ( Editor’s Note: Didn’t figure out the geography of where each world would go yet!).Your journey has just begun!” He disappears in the fire and the smoke in the mirror and the doors open to the opening credit music of the movie.
Clean The Castle
Next, you go out of the room, possibly up or down the elevator, and into the forest. There are trees everywhere. You can see that the trees are making a barrier splitting the land into 2 parts, the castle and the cottage (which you can’t see yet). In front of you is the castle. It’s not so big, but very imposing in some parts and quite friendly in others. There are stairs (and an ADA compliant elevator) leading up to the 2nd level. There are only 2 rooms and a corridor, but there are many secret passages snaking around the structure. There’s a large wishing well with a waist-height wrought-iron gate around it as well as a little gate opening with a light up mouse ears lock in it. There’s also some stone steps that you can’t get to due to another gate, but this time there’s no opening. If you look up at the balcony you’ll see a window with curtains blocking it. Under the window is a mouse ear. When you cast your wand at it, the curtains draw and the Evil Queen is revealed! On the blocked steps under the balcony is Snow White (An AA). On one of the steps is a Mickey ear symbol. Cast your wand at it and Snow White starts talking to you. She stops her work and says “Oh, hello! I’m Snow White. I’m not supposed to talk to strangers, but I’m getting so tired scrubbing these steps. I wonder if you can help me… will you please? I need you to help me find the mop, broom, bucket, and duster. There somewhere in this old place. Remember to search high and low! Then meet me here. Who knows how long I’ll be here! Oh well… good luck!” She then goes back to her chores.
Each of these cleaning stuffs has a little Mickey ear symbol and are hidden somewhere in the castle passages and alcoves. When you find the mop, wave your wand at the symbol and it starts sweeping the floor by moving back and forth on a pivot attached to the wall. A sweeping nose resonates. Next, you may find the bucket, which is on a little side table. Wave your wand and a spray of water hits you and a “SPLOOSH” sound comes out. The duster, standing up with the feathers on the floor and handle in the air, is right over there! Quick! Wave your wand at it! It spins around and makes what can only be described as a French maid giggle, a throwback to Beauty and the Beast. Finally you find the broom. It was all the way down at the entrance of the potion chamber! Wave your wand at it and it starts bouncing left and right as a familiar tune plays… hey, this is NOT Fantasia!
Finally you meet back up with Snow. Since you have all of the cleaning stuffs, she says “Oh, thank you so very much! Now, if I finish these chores, I’d like to show you a very special well quite close to here. Don’t worry about me, I’ll catch up. See you very soon!” You go to the well on the other side of the half-castle and flick your wand at the Mickey lock. The gate opens as a magic “Ding!” resounds. You hear Snow White clearly say “Want to know a secret?” The mini AA birds on the wishing well’s roof chirp. “Promise not to tell?” Chirp chirp! “We are standing by a wishing well! Make a wish inside the well, that’s all you have to do, and if you hear it echoing, your wish will soon come true!” You look inside the well and see real water! Wait, is that Snow White’s reflection? Yes! She sings “I’m wishing… (I’m wishing…) …for the one I love, to find me… (to find me…) …Today…” “Today!” The prince’s reflection appears! You hear the rest of the dialogue: “Oh!” “Hello.” “Did I frighten you?” “Wait. Wait, please. Don’t run away. Now that I've found you, hear what I have to say… One love, that has possessed me, one love, thrilling me through, One song, My heart keeps singing, Of one love, Only for you!” She says “Please, you have to leave! My stepmother, The Queen, will kill us both!”
Their voices trail off as you hear the voice of The Magic Mirror as he appears at the bottom of the well: “Ah, yes! Forbidden love! Snow White’s inner beauty shines through all! She is the fairest one of all. For completing the noble task of helping Snow White, I grant you this.” A medal with the wishing well on it appears for a moment, and then disappears into the depths of the well. The Mirror says “You can view this medal in the Central Hub room. Congratulations, you’ve completed this quest. You can continue your adventure by returning to the Central Hub Room and selecting “Continue Quest” on the screen. Or, if you decide to pick up later you may do that as well. I hope to see you soon.” And with that, he disappears into the flames.
Coming Soon: You & Snow White's journey through the evil forest!
