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2/19 EPCOT comes to VMK! Plus room make overs and all about magic! Get ready to party it's National Yavn Speaks Day!
Greetings one and all! Welcome to another installment of Yavn Speaks! Did everyone have a good Valentines Day? How about Lincoln's Birthday? I celebrated by putting on my stovepipe hat and playing with Lincoln Logs.
It's great to celebrate a special holiday and this week we've got a slew of them! Presidents Day is the 18th, National Chocolate Mint Day the 19th, National Sticky Bun Day the 21st, and the ever popular National Banana Bread Day is the 23rd. But I think it's safe to say that every day is a holiday when you play VMK! (OK, so I'm filling the blog with obscure holidays to make up for a slow news week but keep reading anyway!!)
EPCOT comes to VMK
If you're looking for serious news, I'm pleased to announce that by the time you read this our first of several Epcot in-game Quests will be up and running! Did you catch that? I said Quests! Yes, this is your chance to win up to 4(!!!) Epcot Guest Rooms! Here's how it works, each Monday for the next 4 weeks we'll launch a new Epcot Quests, complete the Quest and you'll win an Epcot Guest Room. Since these in-game Quests will run through March 18th you'll have plenty of time to complete them all. Not an Epcot Expert? Then check out the official Epcot website , cause you don't want to miss your chance at winning those cool rooms!
It's called Spaceship Earth and it's really cool.
National VMK Room Makeover Month
Last week we launched our first VMK Room Make-over. Here to tell you all about, Le Caffdawg. Take it away Dawg!
Le QA_caffdawg
Bonjour! Our first VMK Room Makeover was Tuesday, February 13th! Since this was the first day for makeover, HOST_Sparky and I randomly selected a Guest Room from the Navigator. At first, all hope was lost, mainly because we kept stumbling into Game and Trade Rooms but then we found giutargirl. This VMK'ers Briar Patch Room was a bit, well, bare (a table a few chairs and velvet rope do not a room make). Confused, giutargirl asked why VMK Staff were in her room. I kindly asked her, "Hey, would you like a room make over?" Of course, she was thrilled, and immediately answered, "Yes! Please!"
I started walking around giutargirl's Briar Patch, thinking, "What to do what to do " Even HOST_Sparky was doing his best Winnie the Pooh expression, saying, "Think, think, think " Then we asked her, "What are your favorite colors?" she replied, "Red and green!" We said, "PERFECT!"
The Briar patch before
And after! Now this is a Laughing Place!
Suddenly, like magic, Red and Green PhilharMagic chairs lined the walls! A Tiki Fountain was placed in the center of the room and surrounded with Red Heart Chairs! Our idea was to create a room that was both a cool place to hang out in and she could create her own Falling Chairs game within it! Then I added a couple of Tron Arcade Cabinets so her friends could play some games while in her room and to please the Tiki Gods, we also added some fire around the fountain and laid some Bamboo Floor Carpet. Some Parrot Palm Trees were also added for shade (waitaminute, isn't this Briar Patch underground?) as well as a water cooler and a Penny Press. That cozyied the place up nice and quick! And of course for a finishing touch we tossed in a Bear Rug to make the place really feel like Home Sweet Home! giutargirl was very pleased and thanked us many times. Our work done, I and HOST_Sparky headed off into the Kingdom to find other eager Rooms in need of a makeover.
Thanks for that report Dawg! Next week, we'll be randomly selecting a VMK Room Makeover submission so if you want your room to get a makeover (or request to have a friend's room get one), send in a VMK Room makeover submission from Contact Us. A nice story why you would like the makeover would go great with the submission but it's not necessary.
It's National Talk About Magic Day!
So we've been getting a lot of questions from new players about how you get Magic Pins - well, right now you can earn Deep Sea Diving, Racing and Inner-Space Magic Pins by completing our Tomorrowland Quests. Teleportation Magic is available from both of the Tomorrowland in-Park Quests (which you can play at Disneyland and The Magic Kingdom). Coral Magic (single use) can be won by playing Level 3 of the Pirates of the Caribbean game here on VMK (you'll find it randomly in the Gold Chest). We have also sold some Magic Pins from time to time, like Snowman and Turn Into A Bat, but currently none are for sale. But stay tuned, we are always adding more magic and ways you can get them.
It's on fire! The coveted Dancing
Inferno Magic.
That's a Wrap!
Well it's time to wrap this up, before I leave the office today I need to mark National Eat Churros and Donuts Day on the calendar Oh yeah, one last thing I know last week I mentioned we'd start new multiple Park Quest Rewards with the Winter Mickey Window card, but many of you expressed concern that you wouldn't have time enough to get it before Spring, so what do you think about starting our new Park Quest Rewards with the Spring card, the Mickey Mouse Carpet instead?
Winter or Spring? The Mickey Mouse Carpet.
It's just a thought, but we want you to know we listen to your comments and since we're getting closer to Spring (despite all the snow in the East Coast) by the time we are ready to launch it may be Spring anyway! Well, we'll have more info on this topic very soon, so stay tuned!
See you in VMK!!
Yavn
Greetings one and all! Welcome to another installment of Yavn Speaks! Did everyone have a good Valentines Day? How about Lincoln's Birthday? I celebrated by putting on my stovepipe hat and playing with Lincoln Logs.
It's great to celebrate a special holiday and this week we've got a slew of them! Presidents Day is the 18th, National Chocolate Mint Day the 19th, National Sticky Bun Day the 21st, and the ever popular National Banana Bread Day is the 23rd. But I think it's safe to say that every day is a holiday when you play VMK! (OK, so I'm filling the blog with obscure holidays to make up for a slow news week but keep reading anyway!!)
EPCOT comes to VMK
If you're looking for serious news, I'm pleased to announce that by the time you read this our first of several Epcot in-game Quests will be up and running! Did you catch that? I said Quests! Yes, this is your chance to win up to 4(!!!) Epcot Guest Rooms! Here's how it works, each Monday for the next 4 weeks we'll launch a new Epcot Quests, complete the Quest and you'll win an Epcot Guest Room. Since these in-game Quests will run through March 18th you'll have plenty of time to complete them all. Not an Epcot Expert? Then check out the official Epcot website , cause you don't want to miss your chance at winning those cool rooms!
It's called Spaceship Earth and it's really cool.
National VMK Room Makeover Month
Last week we launched our first VMK Room Make-over. Here to tell you all about, Le Caffdawg. Take it away Dawg!
Le QA_caffdawg
Bonjour! Our first VMK Room Makeover was Tuesday, February 13th! Since this was the first day for makeover, HOST_Sparky and I randomly selected a Guest Room from the Navigator. At first, all hope was lost, mainly because we kept stumbling into Game and Trade Rooms but then we found giutargirl. This VMK'ers Briar Patch Room was a bit, well, bare (a table a few chairs and velvet rope do not a room make). Confused, giutargirl asked why VMK Staff were in her room. I kindly asked her, "Hey, would you like a room make over?" Of course, she was thrilled, and immediately answered, "Yes! Please!"
I started walking around giutargirl's Briar Patch, thinking, "What to do what to do " Even HOST_Sparky was doing his best Winnie the Pooh expression, saying, "Think, think, think " Then we asked her, "What are your favorite colors?" she replied, "Red and green!" We said, "PERFECT!"
The Briar patch before
And after! Now this is a Laughing Place!
Suddenly, like magic, Red and Green PhilharMagic chairs lined the walls! A Tiki Fountain was placed in the center of the room and surrounded with Red Heart Chairs! Our idea was to create a room that was both a cool place to hang out in and she could create her own Falling Chairs game within it! Then I added a couple of Tron Arcade Cabinets so her friends could play some games while in her room and to please the Tiki Gods, we also added some fire around the fountain and laid some Bamboo Floor Carpet. Some Parrot Palm Trees were also added for shade (waitaminute, isn't this Briar Patch underground?) as well as a water cooler and a Penny Press. That cozyied the place up nice and quick! And of course for a finishing touch we tossed in a Bear Rug to make the place really feel like Home Sweet Home! giutargirl was very pleased and thanked us many times. Our work done, I and HOST_Sparky headed off into the Kingdom to find other eager Rooms in need of a makeover.
Thanks for that report Dawg! Next week, we'll be randomly selecting a VMK Room Makeover submission so if you want your room to get a makeover (or request to have a friend's room get one), send in a VMK Room makeover submission from Contact Us. A nice story why you would like the makeover would go great with the submission but it's not necessary.
It's National Talk About Magic Day!
So we've been getting a lot of questions from new players about how you get Magic Pins - well, right now you can earn Deep Sea Diving, Racing and Inner-Space Magic Pins by completing our Tomorrowland Quests. Teleportation Magic is available from both of the Tomorrowland in-Park Quests (which you can play at Disneyland and The Magic Kingdom). Coral Magic (single use) can be won by playing Level 3 of the Pirates of the Caribbean game here on VMK (you'll find it randomly in the Gold Chest). We have also sold some Magic Pins from time to time, like Snowman and Turn Into A Bat, but currently none are for sale. But stay tuned, we are always adding more magic and ways you can get them.
It's on fire! The coveted Dancing
Inferno Magic.
That's a Wrap!
Well it's time to wrap this up, before I leave the office today I need to mark National Eat Churros and Donuts Day on the calendar Oh yeah, one last thing I know last week I mentioned we'd start new multiple Park Quest Rewards with the Winter Mickey Window card, but many of you expressed concern that you wouldn't have time enough to get it before Spring, so what do you think about starting our new Park Quest Rewards with the Spring card, the Mickey Mouse Carpet instead?
Winter or Spring? The Mickey Mouse Carpet.
It's just a thought, but we want you to know we listen to your comments and since we're getting closer to Spring (despite all the snow in the East Coast) by the time we are ready to launch it may be Spring anyway! Well, we'll have more info on this topic very soon, so stay tuned!
See you in VMK!!
Yavn
or other Epcot rooms?
I wish we could sit on the planter benches, though. 
