Did we say we mailed a letter to Disney Imagineering already? We found the address on Disney's website. It was not the mail tube, because that is taking too long. It is a big long blank sheet of paper and it is making our heads spin, all that blankness. But it's all good. Mom is going nuts with it the poor lady. She is getting really into this!
We have the DVD's for Snow White, The Frog & The Princess and Disney's Melody Classics, and we have a long roll of tracing paper. We stopped Snow White where the dwarfs are in the mine and traced the mine onto the tracing paper, and we will move it over to the poster for Imagineering. Mom spent the weekend designing a queue line-that's Q U E U E, and she has written an actual script for the dwarfs in line. It is AWESOME! We kids are starting to think Mom is a real Imagineer. We couldn't figure out how to make a blueprint for the ride and got stuck, but Mom said this is where the storyboard and scripts come into play. She wrote stuff out, and made a story, then we copied onto the tracing paper and know what the mine will look like, and now the whole blueprint for the ride is coming together. The story tells us which way to go.
We ran out of battery for the Flip camera, but we are getting ready to make another video showing our Mother Lode ride off. It is looking cool. Brother has come up with some neat water parts to the mine, and we decided instead of only a few guests going through the Mother Lode, everyone will go through.
We picked a spot using our map from our one and only visit to Disneyland 2 years ago, and our Mine Mountain will go between Frontierland and Fantasyland towards the back of the park, where we see a little walkway. We really haven't seen if there is anything there that we would be designing this ride on top of or not, but that's okay, we're going ahead with it. With Mom's queue line, she has created a mountain that is for Fantasyland on one side, and Frontierland on the other. We added a Pecos Bill ride for Frontierland, and are making the rides share the mountain. We will use Disney magic to hide the mountain from each land, so no one realizes they are one mountain, but think they are two, and no one is aware that they are sharing the mountain or area.
The Pecos Bill ride came from watching Disney's Classics Melodies, and seemed a perfect ride for Disneyland. We are still reading the map to see where the Frog and Princess ride will go in New Orleans, we need a spot for the Tangled Tower, and we need to find out if ToonTown will still be around at Disneyland, to add a Steamboat Willie Ride. We are waiting for a Chip and Dale Classics DVD to come in from the library so we can start work on a Chip and Dale ride for Critter Country, and Mom is coming up with a Raccoon Ride and Fox & The Hound ride for Critter Country too. We just can't think of anything for Adventure Land.
We have found a spot for our Ode to Walt Disney Railroad ride and soon we will e-mail Michael Broggie to 'pick his brain' as Mom calls it. Ask questions, get answers, find advice, stuff like that. I, Sister, am drawing, painting and am in charge of art. Brother is building and in charge of robotics, and Mom is turning things into reality. We are having fun, and can't wait to hear back from Imagineering!
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Carolwood
Have you heard of the Carolwood Pacific Railroad Company? We hadn't until yesterday, catching some downtime between cousin playtime. Researching Walt Disney and railroads for our Imagineering project, we found this: http://www.carolwood.com/ and this: http://www.carolwood.org/.
We followed a link to this site, which talks about Walt Disney's barn, some call it the birth place of Disney Imagineering: http://ocresort.ocregister.com/2011/03/18/exploring-walt-disneys-steam-train-barn/72807/
This is pretty neat stuff, and we just can't wait to turn our projects into reality.
Our mail tube is getting done. It was hard to get started-a big long poster sheet of blank white paper was hard to work with. So much blankness, no one knew where to start. We have as many Disney Imagineering books as the library offers in our house, one due today, and we are finding lots of inspiration from them to get our white paper less white and mailed. With all this Imagineer stuff around, Mom has decided she wants to be an Imagineer herself!
Mom has spent the past week learning about folks like John Hench, Mary Blair, and 'The Nine Old Men' to help the project stay alive. We hit a bump as soon as we started trying to make our imaginary rides real models. Where do we even start? We thought of a Mine Car ride, we have pictures in our heads, but how can we make that real enough to show the real Imagineers our stuff? We don't know. We have been reading, watching The Science of Imagineering dvds, Disney Parks dvds, and looking up stuff online, and it looks like we just might be able to do this! Go us!
Once we mail off our stuff, we hope to hear back from Imagineering and get pointers and win friends.
We followed a link to this site, which talks about Walt Disney's barn, some call it the birth place of Disney Imagineering: http://ocresort.ocregister.com/2011/03/18/exploring-walt-disneys-steam-train-barn/72807/
This is pretty neat stuff, and we just can't wait to turn our projects into reality.
Our mail tube is getting done. It was hard to get started-a big long poster sheet of blank white paper was hard to work with. So much blankness, no one knew where to start. We have as many Disney Imagineering books as the library offers in our house, one due today, and we are finding lots of inspiration from them to get our white paper less white and mailed. With all this Imagineer stuff around, Mom has decided she wants to be an Imagineer herself!
Mom has spent the past week learning about folks like John Hench, Mary Blair, and 'The Nine Old Men' to help the project stay alive. We hit a bump as soon as we started trying to make our imaginary rides real models. Where do we even start? We thought of a Mine Car ride, we have pictures in our heads, but how can we make that real enough to show the real Imagineers our stuff? We don't know. We have been reading, watching The Science of Imagineering dvds, Disney Parks dvds, and looking up stuff online, and it looks like we just might be able to do this! Go us!
Once we mail off our stuff, we hope to hear back from Imagineering and get pointers and win friends.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Ride Design
Last week Mom helped us put together a K-nex roller coaster to see if it would be useful to use for the Mine car ride. We don't know if it can be made into something different like Lego's.
We all went to a hobby and toy store to look at stuff that you can build real looking models with. Mom was excited that they had chunks of foam and I thought the bottle of stuff that makes water was really cool. They had books and dvds to teach you about making models and Mom was telling us about different train sizes because she was thinking about the Walt Disney train ride attraction when she saw a special Walt Disney model train. She wants to buy it really bad but we can't buy it right now.
I want to make my Tangled tower a ride, with spinning swings, so I am changing it a little, and Mom started thinking really hard about a ride for Critter Country after we watched a Disney old time movie.
Our tube is nearly finished but we had a a family reunion to go to and we watched my cousin dance. Mom told us we are going back to our school in a few years and we are sad so we took a break from Imagineering. This weekend our cousins are staying with Grandma and Grandpa, so we are excited. One of our cousins has autism. He started playing with my brother like playing tag my brother's favorite game and we are happy. He won't play with my brother but plays next to him and my brother was sad but now he plays tag and my brother is super happy and just can't wait to play with him. He is our age and his sister is going to be in first grade. We love to play and dance and sign she is all normal and funny.
Mom wants to mail the tube before they come incase it gets hurt sometimes our cousin likes to rip things into little bits. My mom says it is what he does. He would rip into even numbers of the same size. We used to have special bricks we played with in the backyard that are shapes and he brock them into same size parts so mom says to finish the poster and send it so we can be safe.
Mom got some fresh Disney books from the library and we read them at night like bedtime stories. She is funny about this stuff. She needs to write the names down but they are Imagineering books. One is about how Imagineers do things and how a guy wrote to an imagineer and the guy wrote back and they wrote back and forth and then he grew up to be an Imagineer. I hope when we write Imagineers write us back and are nice to us and help us figure things out. This guy wrote about his robotic parrot he made and i think this will be my brother. I am an artist, my brother is the robotics and construction guy. Great-grandpa gave him a real tool box when he was just 5 and my brother actually used it for real. He still does. He builds stuff, and won a Lego contest and had his picture in a magazine. He is really good at this stuff. He will do the robotics. Mom wants him to make the Mine car ride and she will help. She has made robots before. I am the artist and my mom is really excited. So i hope that Disney writes back and forth with us and they like us for real.
We all went to a hobby and toy store to look at stuff that you can build real looking models with. Mom was excited that they had chunks of foam and I thought the bottle of stuff that makes water was really cool. They had books and dvds to teach you about making models and Mom was telling us about different train sizes because she was thinking about the Walt Disney train ride attraction when she saw a special Walt Disney model train. She wants to buy it really bad but we can't buy it right now.
I want to make my Tangled tower a ride, with spinning swings, so I am changing it a little, and Mom started thinking really hard about a ride for Critter Country after we watched a Disney old time movie.
Our tube is nearly finished but we had a a family reunion to go to and we watched my cousin dance. Mom told us we are going back to our school in a few years and we are sad so we took a break from Imagineering. This weekend our cousins are staying with Grandma and Grandpa, so we are excited. One of our cousins has autism. He started playing with my brother like playing tag my brother's favorite game and we are happy. He won't play with my brother but plays next to him and my brother was sad but now he plays tag and my brother is super happy and just can't wait to play with him. He is our age and his sister is going to be in first grade. We love to play and dance and sign she is all normal and funny.
Mom wants to mail the tube before they come incase it gets hurt sometimes our cousin likes to rip things into little bits. My mom says it is what he does. He would rip into even numbers of the same size. We used to have special bricks we played with in the backyard that are shapes and he brock them into same size parts so mom says to finish the poster and send it so we can be safe.
Mom got some fresh Disney books from the library and we read them at night like bedtime stories. She is funny about this stuff. She needs to write the names down but they are Imagineering books. One is about how Imagineers do things and how a guy wrote to an imagineer and the guy wrote back and they wrote back and forth and then he grew up to be an Imagineer. I hope when we write Imagineers write us back and are nice to us and help us figure things out. This guy wrote about his robotic parrot he made and i think this will be my brother. I am an artist, my brother is the robotics and construction guy. Great-grandpa gave him a real tool box when he was just 5 and my brother actually used it for real. He still does. He builds stuff, and won a Lego contest and had his picture in a magazine. He is really good at this stuff. He will do the robotics. Mom wants him to make the Mine car ride and she will help. She has made robots before. I am the artist and my mom is really excited. So i hope that Disney writes back and forth with us and they like us for real.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Youtube
We have tried to make our very, very first Flip camera post on YouTube about the Seven Dwarfs ride we are making a model of. It is only the very first model, and the very first post-so we have no clue what we are doing.
We are also learning how to link those videos to the blog. Hang with us while we learn the in and out of blogging, youtube and video posts.
Here is the first dry run of the summary; my brother has a small speech problem, so he is kind of hard to understand, but here it is.
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