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!
