halloween cruise/ Magic: October 28th-nov..4th 2006

[princessh]

Capt, love the desgins, but I am worried that the women and girls will not wear the design. My boys will love them. Could you also come up with a general beach/cruise design or general halloween/pumpkin just as another option? You are very talented and I would love to see what else you can come up with!

 

[princessh]

Since there has been some talk about the t-shirts again. I thought I would bring up something I found from another thread. There is a company that has made rubber neon green bracelets for other dis cruisers. I have spoken to the company, and they advised that they could not put a mickey image on the bracelet, but gave me some ideas of what they could do. Here is a picture from the other thread showing how thier bracelets turned out. Along with the image the rep suggested. The rep said we could do something similar, but add an image or two, The cost including shipping would be about $2.25 a bracelet. If anyone is interested, let me know. We can order them anytime up until the End of Sept.

Since we are on the subject of ordering t-shirts, I thought now would be a good time to bring up the breacelets again. Soon, Kristin and I will have ordering info on the website.

 

[buckifan]

We are making up t-shirts for all of the kids coming to Drew's "Pirates of the Caribbean" themed birthday party, and they will wear them to the movie. We are doing the same Calico Jack Rackham flag design on them. I think they look cool, but Heather has a good point about them being more appealing to men/boys. I love the bracelets, and would definitely like to order those!

 

[captaincrash]

Capt, love the desgins, but I am worried that the women and girls will not wear the design. My boys will love them. Could you also come up with a general beach/cruise design or general halloween/pumpkin just as another option? You are very talented and I would love to see what else you can come up with!

Let me dream up some stuff less scary or "hostile" looking. No sweat.

How about this - it's a quick and rough concept.... (very rough... free hand edited with paint)

Design #4

I would normally be more careful to get the head shape and scale ito better balance. I just sort of "slashed" it up with a spray paint tool. I think this can be refined considerably.

I have another idea too (of course)... how about a Mickey face as above but a huge fork and knife instead? AND... I sort of wanted to get "DIS" into the flag - but now the ears a little small.... I guess I could still put it on Mickeys' forehead.... or I could enlarge the flag... shift the Micky and crossed sword/bone up and create black space at bottom to add an area for more language. How about... "Yo Ho - a Pirates Life iz grand!"...., "Surrender your Booty", .... or ....."Ahoy there - DIS Mates!" .... Or "Hand over ya' Loot to yer DIS Mates!!!" ... or simply ... "Hand over yer Loot!!". Heck, with latter declaration your T-shirt just might PAY for itself one even in a dark passageway on the ship!

OK... here it is... another idea....

Design #4A

 

[GoofyDrivesACar]

Good Work Captain!! I will cast my vote for 4A or 2, depending on if we decide to go scary or something a little softer.

 

[cthimes]

:Captain.....great designs. Where are you thinking the design will go? Full size on the back or pocket size on the front? On our last cruise we had a pocket size design on the front and the itenerary was listed on the back.

Now, even though it will be a little more expensive, I like the idea of something on the back like the itinerary!

 

[captaincrash]

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Captain.....great designs. Where are you thinking the design will go? Full size on the back or pocket size on the front? On our last cruise we had a pocket size design on the front and the itenerary was listed on the back.

Dave

Dave:

I would say the Pirate Flag design should go full size on the front or back. And if it's on the back then we could have a simple design on the front pocket like one of these AND remove the sailing date from the big design on the back - and keep in mind we can change the type face and colors any way we desire (well - that might present more of a problem than benefit... ):

Pocket design #1A ............................................................................................................... Pocket Design #1

Now, even though it will be a little more expensive, I like the idea of something on the back like the itinerary!

cthimes:

Frankly, I'd like to put something on the sleeves!!! And then have wings sewn on to the back ... and maybe a tail tacked onto the waist!!! But then again - I'm the nut whos' packing the costumes, pirate outfits, 2 tuxes and diapers for the week! Plus a half flat of bottled water if my spouse gets her way - as she always does!!!

And GDAC.....

... hold off on the votes till we finish all the concepts - or - allow other folks to express their interests/concepts/ and most importantly... criticisms. I do welcome them all. We can make this an evolving community effort... to a point.

And then we'll take votes!!!!

Heres' another variation of #4..... it looks more like a flag this way...

Design #4B

Oh yeah... before I forget... BELATED GREETINGS to all the new folks (gocar24 and torontodisney) these past couple of days!!!! And... has anyone noticed we're up to 71 votes on the poll now? Anyone new who has not intorducted themselves yet... come ou out and say hello!!!!

TTFN - got a million errands to run today and my spouse is out of town til thursday - leaving me to keep the wild ones from getting too wild!

 

[LaRue]

Crash,

Great work on the designs. What color shirt would they be put on??? Also, I like the 4A design the best so far.

I also like the saying "surrender your booty"

 

[captaincrash]

Crash,

Great work on the designs. What color shirt would they be put on??? Also, I like the 4A design the best so far.

I also like the saying "surrender your booty"

We can put it to a vote or post a POLL to see what folks what as a saying (if any) once we settle on a design!

And as for what color shirt - well - it can be any that the shirt maker has for cheap (with reasonable quality - no Pakistani made t-shirts, please). Beef-T fruit of the Loom sounds fair to me - and I like the idea of a pocket - but then again - everyone is gonna have an opinion. A vote would end all discussion.

SO - colors... I can change the colors pretty easily - and it is up to the silk screener to match it (or come close). And if we were to stick with the Halloween orange on black - I was thinking we could select from either a red shirt - or even a purple one - keeping it in line with a pirate-like theme in light of the POTC 2 theme.

And for the record - I was trying to hand draw some designs but it is very hard to do so and get good results. I had wanted to have a 3/4 view of a carribean map with a [peter Pan ala HOOK sailing ship floating over it with some clouds. But heck - if I could really whip up a good drawing like that in a day then I would not be working in finance and "business politics" for a living. I may still get a nice hand drawn center-piece drawing - ink pen style by hand - not graphics from the web like what I've done so far. I might add that I think the final image we vote on and use will have to be CLEANED up and SHARPENED to suit my tastes. These are usable as is - but they can use some refinement as yet. These are concept creations that are probably nominally usable.

More varied ideas to come. I am side lined for the rest of today as I am racking my brins and combing through the house for some free flight airline certificates that have to be sent off tomorrow. They were not in the fireproof fileing cabinet where they were suposed to be - and my spouse and I are uncertain of their last placement. I'm mildly agitated - and about to call AA to ask for an extension if they'll grant it. In fact - I'm calling them now.

TT

 

[kritter]

Now that we have some designs in from Tom..which are very creative and wonderful...

Tom suggested to me that we open the t-shirt designing up to everyone and if anyone else has a design that they would like to post feel free...By the end of the weekend (Sunday) we will take all of the designs and put them onto our halloween web site and then we will cast votes as to our favorites and then we can begin the ordering process. The company we are thinking about going with you will be able to choose the type of shirt, via a sweatshirt, polo shirt, tank top etc. and then we will have our design put on it..YOu will order directly from them and pay them directly..then you can have your shirts deliverd right to you...

The bracelets we will have to place one group order which will be a min. of 20 of each size.. We will also have those on the web site by monday..

So lets get out our creativity and see some more designs....Bring them on..the more the merrier....Please note that the company we are ordering from will not let us use images of mickey but we can use images of the boat.

 

[kritter]

Don't forget to keep sending your information to Heather or myself..thanks....

 

[buckifan]

I wanted to share some drawings Drew just did of Pirates of the Caribbean characters Captain Jack Sparrow & Elizabeth Swann. It's too bad he doesn't know anything about the cruise.....he would love to submit a drawing for the tshirts!

 

[awoltoday]

I wanted to share some drawings Drew just did of Pirates of the Caribbean characters Captain Jack Sparrow & Elizabeth Swann. It's too bad he doesn't know anything about the cruise.....he would love to submit a drawing for the tshirts!

WOW! Drew is quite talented! Those are great!

 

[kritter]

Great designs...!!!! My twins loved them.....

 

[buckifan]

Capt- I got your PM.....that looked really cool, what you did with Drew's drawing. I'm going to print one off and show him. You should post what you did here.....

 

[Tluvs2talk]

BUCKIFAN- Drew's drawings were GREAT!!! Rick and I went to see Pirate's Of The Carribbean Saturday. I liked it better than the I did the first one.

Welcome to all our new posters!!

Heather and Kristin- the website is expanding nicely. You two have done a really nice job.

Hope everyone had GREAT DAY!!!

Teri

 

[kritter]

BUCKIFAN- Drew's drawings were GREAT!!! Rick and I went to see Pirate's Of The Carribbean Saturday. I liked it better than the I did the first one.

Welcome to all our new posters!!

Heather and Kristin- the website is expanding nicely. You two have done a really nice job.

Hope everyone had GREAT DAY!!!

Teri

Thanks Terri, we have had a blast doing the web site....It has been fun...Heather has been great to work with..Any suggestions would be great/ideas!!!!

 

[kritter]

Capt,
Wondering did you get my email about the tux thing for DH?? Any thoughts??
Thanks, kristin

 

[pumpkinlove13]

Hello Everyone! We have just booked our first cruise ever. We are excited to join all of you on the Halloween Cruise on the 28th. We are flying into Orlando on the 27th and staying the night in Cocoa Beach. I am so glad to find this thread. We are bringing our 5 year old daughter but our 19m old is staying home with Grandma . Is there any other info needed? Anyone else staying in Cocoa Beach the night before?

 

[princessh]

Hello Everyone! We have just booked our first cruise ever. We are excited to join all of you on the Halloween Cruise on the 28th. We are flying into Orlando on the 27th and staying the night in Cocoa Beach. I am so glad to find this thread. We are bringing our 5 year old daughter but our 19m old is staying home with Grandma . Is there any other info needed? Anyone else staying in Cocoa Beach the night before?

Welcome Pumpkinlove13


Below is some info from a prior post. We currently have a website that has all the details about our activites on the cruise. If you can e-mail Kristin or I the info. we can send you a link to the website. There is a ton of information on the website! Glad that your family will be joining us! Let us know if your family is interested in the trick or treating or DIS meet!




A moderator recommend to us that having all of our information on a secure web site that can only be accessed by all of us. In turn, we will be able to include much more valuable information about the cruise and all of our activites. Below you will find the information that we will need from each of you to put in the web site.

This is only for the DISers who are posting to this thread. Please have an adult in your group send the following & I will add it to the site & send you the link once I have updated the link. I will add your email to the group list so that you will be notified when the site has been updated with more info.

DIS ID: If you don't include this info, we wont know who you are.
Family name:
Individual names of family members (please include the children' ages at the time of the cruise so that I can put them in the right grouping)
Birthdates: so that we can add them to our cruise list
Celebration:
Stateroom:
Dining:
Hometown:
Pre/Post Cruise Plans: (Date arriving in FL & where you will be staying Friday night & if you plan to stay at WDW after the cruise. This info allowed some of us to arrange meets prior to the cruise.)

A short note with where you work & what activities you like to do.

Please send a picture of your family to be included. This way we will be able to reconize all of you...

For those with children, please send an individual picture pf each child to be put on the DIS Kids page by age group so that the kids can get to know each other a little better. Let the kids tell the others their age, grade in school, favorite thing to eat on the ship, favorite Disney character, & their favorite activity on the ship...whatever they want to write about.

We will have also have a page to list Palo resie times & excursions to help make plans.

stolteheather@yahoo.com

kristinguillemette@sbcglobal.net