Hello again, future Imagineers.
It’s been a little over a week since the League of Dreamers has started, and the response has been huge! We were hoping to create a real-life simulation of the jobs of the dreamers and doers of WDI, and you guys really seem to like the format of the game. But, much like the real Imagineers, we’re always looking for ways to “plus” our creations, which is why we’re going to do something of a “restructure” of LoD.
When the game started, we wanted to try out a competition without deadlines, just to give you players a little more freedom. It was a good idea on paper, but it doesn’t really lend itself to the limited timetable that we were looking for in this particular contest. So, we’ve decided to re-boot the game with slightly different rules, mostly being the fact that each land will have to be completed in one week’s time. You and your teammates will have to work together to get all the projects done before the time’s up, or else your theme park will be one land smaller than everyone else’s. Luckily, you won’t need to have your projects in complete detail when you present them to the Board of Directors; you will only need to have a description of each portion of the land, and the entire land finished by the end of the summer. The great thing about deadlines is that you will be able to go back and work on previous lands if you get done with the current one early.
Everything else pertaining to the game will remain the same. Here are a couple quick reminders of what you need:
I. At minimum:
-1 Quick Service Restaurant
-2 Shops
-2 Meet and Greets
II. At maximum:
-35 Attractions
-4 Table Service Restaurants
-8 Shows
III. Each land will have one re-imagined attraction and one secret project. NEW!: the secret project will be announced halfway through the week, so stay tuned for that.
IV. Your park will have no more than 12 (1/3) of it’s attractions as clones, not counting the re-imagined attractions.
For now, we will be skipping Main Street, just to keep with the idea of re-boot. Rest assured, we’ll come back to it later, so don’t forget all your great ideas. Today we will be starting with Fantasyland, the first of two parts of Fantasyland. The reason we are splitting Fantasyland into two parts is because we have two re-imagined attractions and two secret projects for this particular land, and because we expect that you will be designing more attractions for this area of the park. Be that as it may, you will only be required to complete one land’s worth of the criteria. We will be working on Fantasyland for this week, and picking it back up for another week down the road.
Finally, before we go off to our separate brainstorming corners of the forum, let me reveal the re-imagined attraction for this week. Let’s play a little guessing game, and see if you can figure it out. Climb aboard and glide past nearly 300 brightly costumed dolls and animals as they sing everyone’s favorite song and dance on the shores of the Seven Seaways water canals that embrace this miniature globe. That’s right, folks, I’m talking about “it’s a small world”, another Walt Disney World’s Fair classic attraction. Be as creative as you want.
Let me say, good luck to you, Dreamers. Fantasyland is due on Wednesday, June 16th. Please reply with any questions, I’m sure may be a little confusing for some.
---TrevorA
