From WDW To DL With Love - January 06, 2011

[RanCan]

Thanks Jeff...sounds great!!!

 

[Tigfanjeff]

Zazzle sounds good. I wonder if a small independent (mom and pop) type t-shirt business could or would do it?

Yes, most will. But the issue then becomes distributing shirts. With Zazzle or Cafe Press, we can just post a link and no one needs to worry about paying for it upfront, collecting sizes, etc.

 

[semikat]

Thanks for adding us!

 

[A Litle Pixie Dust]

Thanks. I didn't think it was none to early to start investigating. I am going to do a lil research and ask, ask ask. Did you do it on the ship or CC?

Ours was on the ship. It was about $1,000 more to do it on CC.

 

[A Litle Pixie Dust]

Yes....1,000!!!

Woo Hoo! Congrats!

 

[RanCan]

Woo Hoo! Congrats!

Thanks, Des...LOL

 

[Tracyvp]

Domain is registered, hosting is getting set up now.

Here's some info for people.

2. For picture sizes, You can send me anything. However, I'm going to crop it down to something realistic for web viewing, with a max dimension of 800 pixels in the longest dimension.

3. I plan to do the list very similar to the last canal list (But mercifully using a database this time) - http://www.tiggerfan.net:81/canal/ will pull it up (Though some stuff is broken, it's been 4 years).

4. Everyone will never be happy with the way the website looks/works/displays. I will do my best to accommodate what people to see, but the most important thing is that the information we want to display is accessible.

Wow, Jeff, this is gonna be awesome! THANK YOU so much for taking on such a monumental task! I do have a couple of questions that maybe others will have also.

1. Is the link you posted taking us to the list of folks from last time, or is it current cruisers? I'm asking because I see a lot of us listed there, but I don't see my name, so I'm thinking it's the list from last time and we just have quite a few repeat cruisers here.

2. When you say pictures, do you mean pix of us to put with our names? Wasn't sure if you just meant the potential cruise logos & graphics or if you meant pix of all of us.

3. You have set up the domain name and are currently setting up hosting. I presume there is some cost in that. Are you planning to absorb that cost yourself, or would you like help? I'm sure some of us wouldn't mind contributing toward having our own website. Please let us know if we can help with that. We could PayPal donations.

4. Please don't hesitate to ask if you need help organizing any of the information you are setting up. I can't do website stuff, but I can certainly keep track of a spreadsheet, and I'm happy to help in any way I can. I imagine there are others out there who feel the same way. We'd love to help but we don't know what needs doing! I guess the needs will surface as we go along.

Again, THANK YOU! You're awesome!!!!!! I'm sure that whatever you set up will be great, and I for one, won't complain!

 

[LovesToRun]

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could help get me up to speed on this cruise forum. I'm totally new to all of this (have never been part of a cruise meet group), and I just joined this forum, so I haven't had time to go through all 69 pages of posts to figure out all that is going on.

So, from what I've gathered, there will be a website for this group?? Or, am I just totally off base? And, there will be t-shirts???

I know the cruise is a long ways away, so I'm sure I'll figure things out as time goes on...

Also, for those of you who have been part of the cruise meet groups (is that what you call this??) for previous cruises, what do you do on the ship in terms of this group? From what I've read here, it sounds like you exchange things on the ship (using the fish extenders)? (I think I saw some of those on the cruise we went on in July.... and I wondered what those things were hanging on some people's doors, but since I've been reading on this forum, I am now figuring that out!)

Thanks so much! I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you.

Take care!

 

[JenKatt]

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could help get me up to speed on this cruise forum. I'm totally new to all of this (have never been part of a cruise meet group), and I just joined this forum, so I haven't had time to go through all 69 pages of posts to figure out all that is going on.

So, from what I've gathered, there will be a website for this group?? Or, am I just totally off base? And, there will be t-shirts???

I know the cruise is a long ways away, so I'm sure I'll figure things out as time goes on...

Also, for those of you who have been part of the cruise meet groups (is that what you call this??) for previous cruises, what do you do on the ship in terms of this group? From what I've read here, it sounds like you exchange things on the ship (using the fish extenders)? (I think I saw some of those on the cruise we went on in July.... and I wondered what those things were hanging on some people's doors, but since I've been reading on this forum, I am now figuring that out!)

Thanks so much! I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you.

Take care!

I can answer these.
My DH is setting up the website. He'll post the info for it once it's up. The graphics you seen posted will be voted on to make the official logo for this cruise. I think we're leaning towards making all the graphics available though for t-shirts.
In previous cruises we had stuff set up for meets daily. We did a PJ breakfast, a wine tasting and other stuff. That stuff will get decided on at a much MUCH later date. Now it's all just wishful thinking!

 

[Tigfanjeff]

Wow, Jeff, this is gonna be awesome! THANK YOU so much for taking on such a monumental task! I do have a couple of questions that maybe others will have also.

1. Is the link you posted taking us to the list of folks from last time, or is it current cruisers? I'm asking because I see a lot of us listed there, but I don't see my name, so I'm thinking it's the list from last time and we just have quite a few repeat cruisers here.

2. When you say pictures, do you mean pix of us to put with our names? Wasn't sure if you just meant the potential cruise logos & graphics or if you meant pix of all of us.

3. You have set up the domain name and are currently setting up hosting. I presume there is some cost in that. Are you planning to absorb that cost yourself, or would you like help? I'm sure some of us wouldn't mind contributing toward having our own website. Please let us know if we can help with that. We could PayPal donations.

4. Please don't hesitate to ask if you need help organizing any of the information you are setting up. I can't do website stuff, but I can certainly keep track of a spreadsheet, and I'm happy to help in any way I can. I imagine there are others out there who feel the same way. We'd love to help but we don't know what needs doing! I guess the needs will surface as we go along.

Again, THANK YOU! You're awesome!!!!!! I'm sure that whatever you set up will be great, and I for one, won't complain!

1. Last time. It's just a sample.
2. Yes, pics of us. For the competition stuff, just don't be ridiculous in how big you make it. I'll make full size images available as separate links.
3. Cost isn't that bad. I plan on throwing up a google banner from my adwords account. That should more than take care of most of it.
4. Plenty of other stuff will come up. Believe me.

 

[Tracyvp]

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could help get me up to speed on this cruise forum. I'm totally new to all of this (have never been part of a cruise meet group), and I just joined this forum, so I haven't had time to go through all 69 pages of posts to figure out all that is going on.

So, from what I've gathered, there will be a website for this group?? Or, am I just totally off base? And, there will be t-shirts???

I know the cruise is a long ways away, so I'm sure I'll figure things out as time goes on...

Also, for those of you who have been part of the cruise meet groups (is that what you call this??) for previous cruises, what do you do on the ship in terms of this group? From what I've read here, it sounds like you exchange things on the ship (using the fish extenders)? (I think I saw some of those on the cruise we went on in July.... and I wondered what those things were hanging on some people's doors, but since I've been reading on this forum, I am now figuring that out!)

Thanks so much! I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you.

Take care!

Welcome! Glad you decided to jump in and be part of the group. It makes the whole anticipation of the cruise so much more fun!

To answer some of your questions, (I'm sure others will have more to share) YES! Jeff is setting up a website for us which will make it a lot easier to keep track of pertinent information, especially if we don't all have time to keep up with the thread here. As it gets closer, this thread could start to move very quickly and we can't all be on here for hours every day (even though we'd like to!) So the website will be a sort of clearinghouse for information.

There will be t-shirts if we want t-shirts! That holds true for just about everything else. What happens is people have ideas, and they volunteer to coordinate things (like fish extenders) and those who are interested, contact the coordinators to take part. T-shirts is one option. Nametags and lanyards is another. There will be LOTS more, probably.

On our last cruise, there were all sorts of activities and meets that people took part in. But you don't have to do any of them. It's all optional. For example, we had:
Fish Extender Groups
Secret Mickeys
Shots Around the Ship
Champagne Girls (I think this one's become sort of proprietary, though.)
Scrapbooking sessions
Group photos (several, at different times and with different themes)
Some people linked their dining to sit together
Palo Brunch (don't know how they worked that one)
Mouseadventure at Sea
Poker tournaments

I'm sure there was a lot more, but this is all I could think of off the top of my head.

The potential activities and meets is limited only by people's willingness to set it up and others' willingness to join in.

Again, welcome, and feel free to jump on in at anytime. The water's fine!

 

[MommaluvsDis]

Awesome! It's so nice to see so much willing participation!

I'm sure Jeff appreciates everyone's patience while he builds us what I'm sure will be a fabulous webpage! Thanks again, Jeff!

To our newbies, please don't hesitate to jump right in. A lot of us have never cruised together before but you'd never know that by looking at our posts. And remember, if you have a question, ask away!

Also, please remember to put informational posts in red so that anyone scanning the posts will see it easily.

 

[WeLuvDCL]

Yes, most will. But the issue then becomes distributing shirts. With Zazzle or Cafe Press, we can just post a link and no one needs to worry about paying for it upfront, collecting sizes, etc.

I found this on Zazzle so it looks like they've become more lenient with their policies..hopefully?

http://www.zazzle.com/vacation_postcard-239870149981664607
http://www.zazzle.com/wilson_davis_ai_tshirt-235300975136280475

 

[MommaluvsDis]

If you are going to be at WDW during October 17 - 31, or on St Thomas, USVI Oct 31 - Nov 7 and are interested in a quick mini-meet, please PM me.

We'll be there, Mommaluvsdis, Denise and Steve and pahrumpgirl, Carol and Doug and would like to meet you!~!

 

[MommaluvsDis]

Jeesh! Is my font big or what!?!?!?!

 

[ChipperMerlin]

Obviously, for anything you are doing on your own, there won't be an issue (Unless Disney gets really heavy handed, which they've never done)

Had an interesting experience with a "heavy handed" DL cast member in September. I have a nametag from the 50th anniversary, which I took to a local trophy shop and had "Chipmunk" printed on it in the same font as my old "Shirley" nametag. A pert young CM informed me I couldn't wear it because Disney owned the right to "Chipmunk" and you can't have nicknames on your name tag. I looked at her and said when did the generic word "Chipmunk" get copyrighted. She didn't have an answer and I will continue to wear my nametag. Sheesh! I also had one done with "Goofy" on it for Tony of Goofprincess - she probably wouldn't be happy with that, either.
Shirley

 

[Tracyvp]

Jeesh! Is my font big or what!?!?!?!

Hey, at least those of us "of a certain age" are able to read it this way!

 

[tinksmom]

Jeff, thanks so much for all the work you'll be doing on the website. I can't wait to see it. It will be great to start putting names with faces! I agree with Tracy, if you see you need help with funding please don't hesitate to ask.

Denise, I just thought you really wanted to catch people's attention. Which it did mine. I'll be pm'ing you soon.

 

[danfromca]

I couldn't sleep last night so I did some more playing with the graphic. Are there too many Mickey's? I might try to put the fab five on deck instead of just Mickey and Minnie. I'm still not real happy with the graphics on the lock walls but I got tired of googling.

Very nice.

The one thing I'm going to warn people about up front. If you are going to use either of the big online shirt companies to do shirts/stickers etc. they will reject your artwork. I even had a fight with cafepress about using the Disney font and ended up needing to use zazzle.

Obviously, for anything you are doing on your own, there won't be an issue (Unless Disney gets really heavy handed, which they've never done)

The ink-jet transfers nowadays are so good and easy to use that as long as you're ok with a white shirt, it hardly makes sense to go with a shirt company - especially given that the cost to do it yourself typically runs under $5/shirt.

They even have transfers now for dark shirts, but they are a bit trickier to use.

 

[tinkryansmom]

To my southern californian disers, I am ready for a meet. I will be at DL November 6-8 staying at PP. Another cruising family is having a birthday party for their one-year old grandson and gpa. I have never experienced the b-day festivities at Minnie's breakfast place. I have seen the characters and heard the songs.


Have a good evening everyone.

Will just miss you. We are coming in from San Diego on the 8th and staying until the 11th at PP. Maybe we can overlap in the morning of the 8th!?

Bummer....AND they will probably be shooting the Christmas parade on the 7th. I think that's a 'bad thing' for crowds but might be a 'good thing' to see. And folks may be away from the rides while the parade is going on. I think I just need to reset my expectations for that day, and warn the people I'm forcing to come with me.

Off to find out how much the Fantasmic dessert/priority seating thingy costs............

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We did the Fantasmic dessert buffet - kind of expensive but the seating was fabulous.