Just in case they said yes, we wrote to the Imagineers to ask if they would consider letting us present our ride models during the contest final as one-time honorary special guests...but they said no. There are rules. Of course we knew there were rules but we kinda thought Imagineers loved bending them, so we asked anyways.
So now we just decided to stop writing for real...for now! I even said 'In the name of Walter Elias Disney', but that didn't work any magic on them. Heartbroken!
Our new goal, instead of trying to give a presentation of our version of a Snow WHite Mine Train coaster model to real Imagineers, is just to be invited to the grand opening of the Mine Train ride at Walt Disney World next year.
The awesomeness of that would be awesomer than the awesomest thing awesome ever had to offer!
We imagine that with enough Facebook likes and posting our model online just might do the trick...but we need to get real serious about it. And we know it will take much work but we still want to try and make a working model of our Snow White Mine Train dark ride vehicle. It needs a working animatronic on board, and that's what Brother Wonder will be learning to do. He has been very busy Legoing-I'm convinced he is as good as a Master Lego builder. If Imagineering won't take him, Lego will! http://legoderek.blogspot.com/
We found animatronic companies that actually work with Disney, and we are going to ask them the first things we need to learn to make an animatronic. Here are the places we are going to write:
Garner Holt, it looks like a really fantastic company, and we're hoping they're open to little Imagineers like us.
http://www.garnerholt.com/ghp-inc/about-us/tour.aspx
Sally Corp also looks pretty cool, we like to use their dark ride blueprint as a resource for our own dark ride drafts.
http://sallycorp.com/
Life Formations is an animatronic company that does a lot of museum stuff. The other two companies above do dark rides while Life Formations seems to just do animatronics. We can't go wrong with that!
http://www.lifeformationsblog.com/p/contact-us.html
Okay, I just wanted to update this blog so we can get focused on our new goal-winning an invitation to the new Mine Train ride opening. Wish us Luck!
