Great news world, we have a new computer! A good computer too!
With the new computer, Brother can now start stop-motion movies and upload them to his Lego blog. The only thing standing in the way to making them this very minute is his homework. No really, he hates to do his homework.
Two weekends ago (or was it three weekends?) The World's Greatest Hobby tour came through town and we of course went to see it. We got our very own Carolwood Lily Belle train set, and Mom stopped by Michael Broggie's Carolwood Pacific booth to pick-up her very own autographed book on the history of Walt Disney's Railroad. We are very serious about making that trip to Disneyland this summer and stopping at the Carolwood Pacific in Griffith Park. Fairy Godmother wasn't able to send us last year to Disneyland and we now know the truth as to why, as well as the truth about Fairy Godmother. I won't say it out loud here in case not everyone knows the truth, I don't want to hurt their feelings.
We are back to Imagineering, well, we were Imagineering at home but not sharing our adventures online. Mom decided it is important to do as much Imagineering as possible since we don't have too much science in our new schools. There is going to be a Science Fair, and Brother really wants to make a Lego Rube Goldberg contraption for the science fair but his teacher has a funny way of teaching class and usually tells everyone they're too stupid to do anything and doesn't really let them join in on any good stuff. He was super excited for the school's Math Bowl this year, and Mom went out to get stuff for him so he could be ready since there was a lot on the take home test he needed to learn and hadn't been taught in class but we didn't catch the date for the Math Bowl. So suddenly it was the Math Bowl, and Brother said his teacher passed out the test and told the class no one would make it and was real mean. So guess what, no one made the Math Bowl in his class, including him. So now here comes Science Fair...we'll see where that goes. Mom thinks Imagineering will be a great substitute for Science Fairing and Math Bowling. So stayed tuned...because we're back!
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Friday, November 9, 2012
We're Still Here!
We just wanted to say that we're still around, and we're still Imagineering...but just not as much. We've been super busy with school and soccer and gymnastics and the Nutcracker. This year we BOTH MADE IT!!!! Go us! It's a professional production too, not just a dance studio Nutcracker, it's good learning for us.
Last year brother was fascinated to learn that the clock some company dancers pop out of during the party scene didn't really work and the hands didn't move. They sure had a talk with him-their set came special made from RUSSIA! Can't wait for this year!! But the saddest news is that this year there is no live music. WaaaH! The moral of the story, support your local ballet!
Last year brother was fascinated to learn that the clock some company dancers pop out of during the party scene didn't really work and the hands didn't move. They sure had a talk with him-their set came special made from RUSSIA! Can't wait for this year!! But the saddest news is that this year there is no live music. WaaaH! The moral of the story, support your local ballet!
Monday, September 17, 2012
Long Time No Blog!!
Hi everyone! Guess what!? We're still around!!! Yeah, we blew Grandma's computer a year or so ago, then we just didn't keep up with this we moved on to a blog with our real name and Brother started Lego stuff. We still do Jr. Imagineer stuff, but hadn't updated the blog.
But guess what then!?!?!? An Imagineer, a REALLY REAL Imagineer mailed us a goodie bag out of the blue! Really! Just mailed us some hats and a pin and a book that he autographed!!! AWESOME!!!!! Then he asked how we were and said why Imagineer's aren't allowed to look at our Imagineering stuff because real people send them their ideas and then sue them. BAD PEOPLE!
Even better news is that Mom and Brother found a website showing how to make model rollercoasters. It's awesome! I'll hook up a link later, now, it's dinner time!!! See you soon!
But guess what then!?!?!? An Imagineer, a REALLY REAL Imagineer mailed us a goodie bag out of the blue! Really! Just mailed us some hats and a pin and a book that he autographed!!! AWESOME!!!!! Then he asked how we were and said why Imagineer's aren't allowed to look at our Imagineering stuff because real people send them their ideas and then sue them. BAD PEOPLE!
Even better news is that Mom and Brother found a website showing how to make model rollercoasters. It's awesome! I'll hook up a link later, now, it's dinner time!!! See you soon!
Friday, August 19, 2011
Brother Gets a Letter!
Guess what! Guess what! Brother got a letter from Walt Disney! Not the Walt Disney, of course, that would be scary... And not from the Audio Animatronics department in Imagineering either, but still, he got a letter from the Disney Company! He has added it to his collection of official letters from official places and put it right on top of his Lego letter.
They said they couldn't use our ideas for rides because they have to come from Imagineering itself. Boohoo, they are great ideas! But he got a packet that talks about how Imagineers got to be Imagineers. They also said they bet he'll be a famous Imagineer some day. I beat we will ALL be famous Imagineers! Mom too!
We just read on Twitter some great stuff about what Disneyland is going to do to Fantasyland. I wish they WOULD use our ideas! We have them because we would love to see them. When we looked at what Brother got from Disney, we got a great idea. Mom should be an Imagineer! After all, she was the one who started all the ideas for us, and then lets us grow our own. She is very creative. We have been on the news a few times over the summer because of creative fun stuff Mom has done. Really, she did it all because we are driving her NUTS, but still!
Isn't that exciting everyone!! YEAH!
They said they couldn't use our ideas for rides because they have to come from Imagineering itself. Boohoo, they are great ideas! But he got a packet that talks about how Imagineers got to be Imagineers. They also said they bet he'll be a famous Imagineer some day. I beat we will ALL be famous Imagineers! Mom too!
We just read on Twitter some great stuff about what Disneyland is going to do to Fantasyland. I wish they WOULD use our ideas! We have them because we would love to see them. When we looked at what Brother got from Disney, we got a great idea. Mom should be an Imagineer! After all, she was the one who started all the ideas for us, and then lets us grow our own. She is very creative. We have been on the news a few times over the summer because of creative fun stuff Mom has done. Really, she did it all because we are driving her NUTS, but still!
Isn't that exciting everyone!! YEAH!
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Jr. Imagineering Update
We are still Imagineering! We had a week and 1/2 of vacation but we didn't forget our goal. School will start soon too, Mom thinks we will go to a homeschool charter this year since we can't afford our old school and this way she can help us better. We will practice the homeschool stuff and all to see if we kids will actually follow along in homeschool. we might be a hand full for mom we are called double trouble around town for a good reason!
We borrowed a bunch of Disney Classic dvds from the library including a Chip & Dale dvd. Some are so classic that Chip has two front teeth and Dale doesn't talk at all. We have to think of the Chip and Dale ride for Critter Country, we don't have a story or anything. We thought up one of Chip and Dale, where you will ride around a forrest and look in at their tree house while they hunt for nuts, annoy Donald, and hide from Pluto.
We haven't heard back from Imagineering yet, but we are hoping we do! We sent two letters now, the second Brother sent one to Audio-Animatronics to ask for advice on where to start for the Mine Car dark ride cars. Also, we asked for a new map to Disneyland so we can draw all over it.
Our dark ride has a audio animatronic dwarf driving the individual mine cars through the mine. They need to look real, talk, and look around. They will have special pexiglass around them so no one gets into the mine where people can't see them and touch them. They could bite. We should program them to bite if a bad person tries to mess with them or tag them or look under their coats to pull their wires.
For our Ode to Walt Disney Railroad, we found the original maps for Disneyland had Edison Square to the right of Main Street going between Main Street and Tomorrowland. If they have anything backstage there, we are going to pretend to put everything underground like a Utilidor, and build on top of it the Ode to Walt Disney. The ride portion of this railroad needs a live, upperlevel view of the real Disneyland Railroad Depot. It also needs space for the model railroads, gallery and shopping. We are adding a retail line of Disneyland model railroad trains and parts. After Brother and Mom went to the National Model Railroad Convention, he really, really wants to buy a model train of his own. He wants to make a model monorail and people mover thingy too. Actually, Mom suggested it, and inventing model rollercoastering. She said, "Why don't we just invent model rollercoastering, where you make a model of a rollercoaster the same way you build a model train?" We think that's the best new idea for our project since we thought up Club Penguin Headquarters.
In a little bit, we will make an actual schedule and deadlines for our Imagineering projects, blogs and updates so everyone who likes to read this doesn't think we gave up.
We borrowed a bunch of Disney Classic dvds from the library including a Chip & Dale dvd. Some are so classic that Chip has two front teeth and Dale doesn't talk at all. We have to think of the Chip and Dale ride for Critter Country, we don't have a story or anything. We thought up one of Chip and Dale, where you will ride around a forrest and look in at their tree house while they hunt for nuts, annoy Donald, and hide from Pluto.
We haven't heard back from Imagineering yet, but we are hoping we do! We sent two letters now, the second Brother sent one to Audio-Animatronics to ask for advice on where to start for the Mine Car dark ride cars. Also, we asked for a new map to Disneyland so we can draw all over it.
Our dark ride has a audio animatronic dwarf driving the individual mine cars through the mine. They need to look real, talk, and look around. They will have special pexiglass around them so no one gets into the mine where people can't see them and touch them. They could bite. We should program them to bite if a bad person tries to mess with them or tag them or look under their coats to pull their wires.
For our Ode to Walt Disney Railroad, we found the original maps for Disneyland had Edison Square to the right of Main Street going between Main Street and Tomorrowland. If they have anything backstage there, we are going to pretend to put everything underground like a Utilidor, and build on top of it the Ode to Walt Disney. The ride portion of this railroad needs a live, upperlevel view of the real Disneyland Railroad Depot. It also needs space for the model railroads, gallery and shopping. We are adding a retail line of Disneyland model railroad trains and parts. After Brother and Mom went to the National Model Railroad Convention, he really, really wants to buy a model train of his own. He wants to make a model monorail and people mover thingy too. Actually, Mom suggested it, and inventing model rollercoastering. She said, "Why don't we just invent model rollercoastering, where you make a model of a rollercoaster the same way you build a model train?" We think that's the best new idea for our project since we thought up Club Penguin Headquarters.
In a little bit, we will make an actual schedule and deadlines for our Imagineering projects, blogs and updates so everyone who likes to read this doesn't think we gave up.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
The National Model Train Convention
Over the weekend Mom and Brother went to the National Model Train Convention where they learned a lot about model trains and model making.
First, they wanted to check out the trains for our family Imagineering Ode to Walt Disney project. If you don't know, we are Imagineering stuff at home, pretending that we're making real rides and attractions for Disneyland. We are doing our own version of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Car ride smooshed between Fantasyland and Frontierland. We are doing an Ode To Walt Disney, which is a train depot and scale train ride that takes guests through the Carolwood Pacific and various Walt Disney Park's Railroads, along with model railroads of every Disney Park Railroad across the whole world.
To learn more about the train attraction, Brother and Mom went off to learn about model trains. Brother took charge and start asking all the vendors there if they had any Disney Railroad train models or the Bachmann Walt Disney's Carolwood Pacific set; which they found! Then Mom told brother they had no money to buy it and he was bummed, he looked hard for it!
Mom gave brother the flip camera to video tape models he thought were neat, and he took a good one of a very nice mountain, bridge, waterfall display at a booth selling model rock making kits. Mom and brother realized we all need to be learning this stuff if we're going to try and make real models in the garage of each of our attractions! We really need to figure how to make the mountain for our Mine Car ride.
Model trains will be the best bet for making the working models. While we finish up the storyboards, which are taking forever and then some, and Mom finishes up the stories for us, because she once wrote stories so she knows how to work my brother and my ideas in, we are going to start model railroading. Plus, Brother really wants his own model railroad set to play with after going to that convention, and Grandpa is super excited to help.
We are still working on getting that Mine Car story online as soon as we can, until then, that's all for now. I am up way to far past bedtime.
First, they wanted to check out the trains for our family Imagineering Ode to Walt Disney project. If you don't know, we are Imagineering stuff at home, pretending that we're making real rides and attractions for Disneyland. We are doing our own version of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Car ride smooshed between Fantasyland and Frontierland. We are doing an Ode To Walt Disney, which is a train depot and scale train ride that takes guests through the Carolwood Pacific and various Walt Disney Park's Railroads, along with model railroads of every Disney Park Railroad across the whole world.
To learn more about the train attraction, Brother and Mom went off to learn about model trains. Brother took charge and start asking all the vendors there if they had any Disney Railroad train models or the Bachmann Walt Disney's Carolwood Pacific set; which they found! Then Mom told brother they had no money to buy it and he was bummed, he looked hard for it!
Mom gave brother the flip camera to video tape models he thought were neat, and he took a good one of a very nice mountain, bridge, waterfall display at a booth selling model rock making kits. Mom and brother realized we all need to be learning this stuff if we're going to try and make real models in the garage of each of our attractions! We really need to figure how to make the mountain for our Mine Car ride.
Model trains will be the best bet for making the working models. While we finish up the storyboards, which are taking forever and then some, and Mom finishes up the stories for us, because she once wrote stories so she knows how to work my brother and my ideas in, we are going to start model railroading. Plus, Brother really wants his own model railroad set to play with after going to that convention, and Grandpa is super excited to help.
We are still working on getting that Mine Car story online as soon as we can, until then, that's all for now. I am up way to far past bedtime.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Storyboarding
We are storyboarding. Imagineers start their rides with a story, and work from there. We learned that Imagineers don't just come up with a story, but they make a big whole board full of drawings, stories, pictures and ideas to make an entire story for their ride or attraction. When they get their whole story down, they make a storyboard, and that storyboard helps them design the blueprint for the ride.
We had a story and all, but when were going to design the ride, we got stuck. It was hard to figure out just which way to make the ride turn and twist. Mom was helping us design the ride, but was having trouble. Then she realized that storyboarding was the answer. She has done these before. No, she has used these before, but not drawn them out herself. We are now drawing out a storyboard for our Snow White Mine Car/Mother Lode ride. We can tell you that it takes a very long time to actually draw out each little box with the story.
We're also coming up with a storyboard for the Ode to Walt Disney train depot, but we're focusing on the Snow White ride first. We will keep posting as we go along here. Now, I have to go so I can get back to drawing and drawing and drawing some more.
More to come!
We had a story and all, but when were going to design the ride, we got stuck. It was hard to figure out just which way to make the ride turn and twist. Mom was helping us design the ride, but was having trouble. Then she realized that storyboarding was the answer. She has done these before. No, she has used these before, but not drawn them out herself. We are now drawing out a storyboard for our Snow White Mine Car/Mother Lode ride. We can tell you that it takes a very long time to actually draw out each little box with the story.
We're also coming up with a storyboard for the Ode to Walt Disney train depot, but we're focusing on the Snow White ride first. We will keep posting as we go along here. Now, I have to go so I can get back to drawing and drawing and drawing some more.
More to come!
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