"Double Dip Delight" Alternate Western 09/27/08

[NHdisneylover]

Cozumel, maybe?

Brandie

We are already doing Cozumel aren't we? I actually never looked to be sure it was the same as last year and just asumed. Maybe Cancun if it wasn't hit as hard. It is nearby.

 

[deb123453]

if we did cozumel, then wouldn't it be a double double dip

 

[rkandmjsmommy]

Erik
Again, THANKS SO MUCH For taking the time to do all the work, you are GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am working all weekend so I look forward to the final decision!!!!!!!!

I am thinking if Costa Maya is a no go, that we will probably go to Grand Cayman, makes sense!

 

[flower91882]

We're joining you. We had some scheduling changes and we're changing to this cruise!

It's going to be my husband and I. We are celebrating our birthdays and our 3 year anniversary.

 

[LadyShiva]

I've seen other lines change their itinerary to have an overnight at Cozumel, that is why I mentioned it.

Welcome, James and Danielle. Hit up post #577 for the cruise statistics. We're trying to take over the boat with DIS'ers. :lol:

Brandie

 

[NHdisneylover]

I've seen other lines change their itinerary to have an overnight at Cozumel, that is why I mentioned it.

Brandie

Okay, I get the commnet now (I am a little slow at times). Hmm, I have not seen DCL CHANGE to an overnight previously, but you never know what they may do. Persoanlly, I would be perfectly happy IF Costa Maya doesn't pan out if they would just add in an extra day at Castaway Cay before heading south--making it a TRIPLE DIP (yes I really do think there is no such thing as too much Castaway Cay), but it would probably interfere with the Wonder's scheduled stop and some people may thing there can be too much of a good thing. They could also do something closer to CC BEFORE the sea day (moving the sea day to the day before Cozumel). And, of course, the weather that week can have an impact as well. So it is all just speculation really.

 

[tig82174]

OK folks...here goes a number of new edits!! Just to remind people of the versions that we did NOT think were perfect...here is what we posted yesterday:

and

Now here are some new versions with some of the suggested changes. I hope people don't mind but I created jpg files with similar images next to each other so that people could compare and see the differences and we could decide what features we like better or worse.

You will note that ALL of these drafts are the darker/deeper red, however, because I think with the exception of one or two votes for blue that were put out there, this shade of red was the near unanimous winner. You might also notice that the names of the ports that are on the map itself are a bit bigger in the versions below....I did that because someone asked a very good question about whether they could be read when it was shrunk and you really couldn't....but in the size they are printed now they indeed do shrink to a readable font size when I make them the size they would need to be for nametags. So here goes....

First up.....if we wanted to keep the scroll, but possibly not put the port names on it, I heard suggestions that we move the "slogan" onto the scroll. Here are two different versions of what that would look like:

Now in these two I played a bit with the language of the slogan..and we could play a bit more. One of the benefits of this format is it provides a lot more room at the bottom for names and screennames. I also played with the location of hte ice creams (top vs. bottom). Some other ideas we could implement here, too:
1.) we could put the port names on the map's islands like in the treasure chest versions below if we wanted.
2.) if we decided to keep the ice creams at the top then we might have space to put something else to each side of the names at the bottom (treasure chests? ships? DCL logo?...althought that might get caught on cafe press)

Now if we want to do the treasure chest instead, here are several versions of that. First up is the same chest we had yesterday only with minor revisions to the coloration of it to make it a little less obnoxious:

In addition I got several other chests submitted to me. Some of them I used my own executive decision to nix because I thought they looked awful when I put them in there ....some others didn't work because I was not able to edit out the border or frame around them completely so they left wierd smudges on the logo. That process weeded it out to be narrowed down to three viable options. Here are those:

SOOO....now we stand with seven different versions. We could choose to adopt one of them as is (and then we'd be done basically since these are pretty clean copies I've been creating so that there won't be a need for too much editing later on)...or we could choose to blend our favorite features from several into one....or we could scrap it all and start over from scratch---although if we decide to do that it might scare my poor husband because I"m sure it would result in me screaming my head off, pulling out my hair, and throwing myself against a wall!

Seriously, though, I await everyone's feedback on the above designs and we still have the question of addressing the port names on the logo. (Also please remember that what you are looking at are the mock-ups for the NAMETAGS...the logo we create for Tshirts, memorabilia, and to be used in people's signatures if they so desire will NOT have the name below and teh dead red space there where the names are located woudl just be eliminated and the bottom will be moved up closer to the bottom of the mickey map either with teh slogan or without it)

 

[tig82174]

It occurred to me that I should post a pic of what I was talking about for shirts/souvenirs/signatures. That would look like this:

Obvoiusly you can see I just eliminated the name place at the bottom, slightly shifted the images so that it stayed balanced, and made the whole logo a little less rectangular so it didn't looked distorted but also didn't look like it was missing something. This could be done wiht the version shown OR with the versions that have the slogan and the slogan would just remain printed beneath the map.

 

[zweihund]

Erik, I like option 4 the best. That said, I think they all look fantastic. The only ones I didn't like were the "real life" treasure chests.

Again, THANK YOU for all of your hard work, it's hard to take everyone's suggestions and make something so wonderful out of them! Well done

And I GUESS I can live without the scroll AND the treasure chest Honestly, they all look great. You've done a wonderful job!

 

[Scrappingjen]

WOW!!!!! Erik you are amazing My vote is for #2. but all of them are great

 

[Muushka]

I agree, they are all great. But if I had to vote, it would be for #4 also. The treasure chest looks more fun and I love the stuff falling out of it.

 

[ilovemangoes]

Erik

Absolutely fantastic!!

How are you going to decide the winner? A poll perhaps. Maybe you could ask for each members two favorite choices and work from there.

Again, just thinking out loud!!

Great work!

Trav

 

[tig82174]

Erik, I like option 4 the best. That said, I think they all look fantastic. The only ones I didn't like were the "real life" treasure chests.

Again, THANK YOU for all of your hard work, it's hard to take everyone's suggestions and make something so wonderful out of them! Well done

And I GUESS I can live without the scroll AND the treasure chest Honestly, they all look great. You've done a wonderful job!

I would tend to agree with you....I wasn't particularly in love with the "real" chests either because nothing else on the logo is real...it's all cartoon or clip art.....so my natural inclination is to choose a scroll or treasure chest that is clip art/cartoon but that is in a color palette that doesn't jump off the page and attract too much attention.

so everyone just keep on voting...and I"ll keep a running count here of people's thoughts.

 

[Grandma4ever]

I would tend to agree with you....I wasn't particularly in love with the "real" chests either because nothing else on the logo is real...it's all cartoon or clip art.....so my natural inclination is to choose a scroll or treasure chest that is clip art/cartoon but that is in a color palette that doesn't jump off the page and attract too much attention.

so everyone just keep on voting...and I"ll keep a running count here of people's thoughts.

I have to agree that they are all great. I would prefer #2 but whatever every one else wants will be fine with me.

 

[NZMUM]

I agree that the real chests don't fit the logo. My vote is for option 2 followed very closely by option 4.

 

[LadyShiva]

I prefer #4.

Fiona is okay so long as she sees a treasure chest.

Brandie

 

[tig82174]

Erik

Absolutely fantastic!!

How are you going to decide the winner? A poll perhaps. Maybe you could ask for each members two favorite choices and work from there.

Again, just thinking out loud!!

Great work!

Trav

Hey Trav (and everyone else)---

What is your vote? If I count correctly it's a dead heat right now with 3 votes for #2 and 3 votes for #4

So keep posting your votes (for those 2 options or for one of the others, as well....they're all still in play) and hopefully we'll end up with a majority rules kind of thing...very democratic of us!

 

[alleluia5]

I vote 4!

 

[Buckeye Gal]

We're joining you. We had some scheduling changes and we're changing to this cruise!

It's going to be my husband and I. We are celebrating our birthdays and our 3 year anniversary.

Sounds like there is a lot to celebrate, Danielle! Welcome!!!

I'm maintaining a list of the crusin' bunch, so if you take a look at Post 577 (in my signature) and find there might be more you want to share about yourselves, please feel free to do so!

 

[Buckeye Gal]

Thanks SOOO much for letting us reap the rewards of your talent!!

My vote: Option 4 (great job on changing the coloring!)

Option 2 is a close 2nd for me, but I did feel after it all came together, there would be a lot of reading to do on that t-shirt/lanyard card/yadda yadda!! Nonetheless, I'll take any of them!