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Event Recap
MouseAdventure returned to Walt Disney World on Saturday, October 9 for our second Florida event. Keeping with the “World Explorers” theme we adopted for our East Coast games, 32 “troops” consisting of a team of two to four players gathered outside Disney’s Animal Kingdom park at 7:00 in the morning on game day to size up the competition and wait for an escort into the still-closed park for a pre-game breakfast at Restaurantosaurus.
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The quests
Orienteering (30 points)
As troops left Restaurantosaurus, they received an envelope containing a park map and sheet of clear acetate film marked with a grid pattern. This turned out to be the troops’ first task: The Orienteering quest.
Troops first had to locate the store on Discovery Island where a quartet of animal heads in the shop’s intricate decor represent the four points on a compass. Then, they had to search the trails of Discovery Island to find the answers to a series of questions that would determine which direction they would move within the grid. After correctly answering the questions, Troops placed the clear grid over the park map to find their collection point.
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With a Disney character
Staff acknowledgements
When we hosted our first Walt Disney World event in 2009, a crew of 20 staff and volunteers helped pull it all off. This time, we did the same job with just seven on-site crew members, and they all did an incredible job in making this event run so efficiently.
Joe Stevano and I did the research for this event over the course of one really long, really hot, really humid weekend in August, and wrote the quests over the next few weeks after we returned to California. I flew back out to Florida a few days before the rest of the crew to double check the quests and make sure everything was still where we left it. Once Joe, Jeff Moxley, Stephanie Wien, and Mark Goldhaber joined me in Orlando, we spent another long, hot day rewriting and retesting the quests to handle the sudden disappearance of a certain turtle that was vital to the Math quest, and to work around the several hundred pounds of gravel the landscape department had dumped into the middle of the Auto Maintenance quest site. Andrew and Jennifer Rich joined us late Thursday night, and after another round of testing, we were ready to greet the troops Saturday morning.
Back in California, my husband Tony Phoenix worked to help Joe print and assemble the game packets before Joe flew to Orlando to meet me, and then spent the event weekend printing and assembling the materials for our MouseAdventure Holiday Trick or Treat event, which was held just eight days later back at the Disneyland Resort. As always, credit goes to Jeff for the amazingly robust registration system. Amanda Smith also deserves a mention for helping to copy edit the game materials, and of course Joe gets all of the praise for the layout and design of the quest materials.
Our next events
MouseAdventure is planning three events in 2011, though dates and details are still being worked out among the crew and with Disney. We will post event and registration dates as soon as we confirm them, but those announcements may be as little as 90 days before the event. We do hope to return to Walt Disney World next fall for our third MouseAdventure World Explorers event, and we can definitely use your help to spread the word to prospective new Walt Disney World players. We absolutely love writing games for Walt Disney World, but we need to grow the Florida event to make it more affordable for our Troops. If you have friends, family, or co-workers who are Disney fans, tell them about MouseAdventure and encourage them to come out for an event!
- Spring 2011 – Disneyland Resort
- Fall 2011 – Disneyland Resort
- Fall 2011 – Walt Disney World
In 2011 we will once again recognize teams that compete in a MouseAdventure event on each coast. To participate in this challenge, teams must register for the Spring 2011 event in Disneyland and the Fall 2011 event in Walt Disney World, and the majority of players from the team must participate in both events. Prizes will be awarded to the team with the highest combined score. Additional details will be provided prior to the start of registration for the Spring 2011 event, but this is a good time to start talking your team into a trip to the other coast!
Keep reading MousePlanet for more information about our upcoming events—we post MouseAdventure updates in our weekly Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Updates, as well as on the front page of our site. We also strongly encourage you to sign up for our MouseAdventure mailing list to receive updates about future events as they are announced. Note: This is an opt-in only mailing list, which means that we have not already added the names of former MouseAdventure players to this list. If you would like to receive these updates, you will need to sign up for the list.
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