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Disneyphile · 03-14-2005, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Although about 3 times I squinted into the distance and said "Hey look, it's Fellowship, they're ahead of us!" But it'd be 4 tourists in white t-shirts with backpacks. I swear, since Fellowship's win last year, I've gotten paranoid delusions.

Oh, that was the decoy "team" we planted just to psyche you guys out.

MUWAHAHAHAHA.

blueerica · 03-14-2005, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Disneyphile

Oh, that was the decoy "team" we planted just to psyche you guys out.

MUWAHAHAHAHA.

Hahahaha!!

AllyOops! · 03-14-2005, 03:54 PM

Let me begin by saying...

Congrats, Happy Haunts!!

Congrats, Fej, Ralph Wiggum, Babette & Nirvanaman!

And of course, for all of us Mouse Adventurers? Cheers! We made it!

We had so much fun! We were The Matt Foley Graduates, and our team members were BarTopDancer, Flubber, Alisa & myself. We participated in the Invitational.

I had an absolute blast & I have so much more that I want to post & share! However, my eyes keep closing as I type.

I'm still bummin' in jammies & a messy ponytail and I plan on stayin' that way! Plus, I am limping today. My calves, outer thighs and ankles are just throbbing. I have to admit, it's a good kinda pain. We earned it! ( Even if, when players were racing to Howard Johnson for the next clue, we were racing to Mimi's Cafe for viddles! Game over!

)

Ponine · 03-14-2005, 03:57 PM

Ally!!! You were there???? I have now been near you three times and didnt meet you?????
Oddly enough, I thought for sure I saw a gal I thought was Alisa from her pic, but I couldnt think of her name.... oh woe is me!

Not Afraid · 03-14-2005, 01:24 PM

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HAPPY HAUNTS AND TO UBERGEEK, NIRVANAMAN, BABETTE AND RALpH WIGGUM! (and special Kudoos to Babette for making it through with HER injuries!!!)

First AND Second righ here, folks! I wish I remember who else won, I was so content to sis on the side of the stage and roar.

I am looking forward to the official results to come out. I am dying to know where we were. Sheila hinted were were up there in standing - which for me in my physical condition - would make me incredibly happy.

EVERY muscle in my lower body hurts today (ummmm time for 4 more Advil), but, for me, my big personal success was keeping up with the group and finishing. AVP told me at Innoventions that, if I needed to drop out, now was the time. We discussed it, and I was still working hard and doing fine. It wasn't until the last 1/2 hour that I really started to lag and hurt. Thanks, my son, for pulling me along and providing encouragement!) So, for me, I feel successful in just finishing it ALL. We took one hit on a quest and had to get a time-costing piece of advice. The locker quest is what really screwed us up. But, otherwise, we did it all.

Oh, and, as is tradition, we didn't get spirit/costume award. LOL I think I'd throw up if we ever did. It's just one of those things that have eluded us for YEARS. It's doesn't matter. We like being snappy dressers while running around like crazy in the park.

The walk to the GC was like that old diarrhea billboard that was on the 5 (near the Citadel)for YEARS............The Last Mile is the Longest. I actually had to almost fight someone for the couch, but I was so not moving that I was probably doing one of the smiling but rudr things. I'm am so sorry, lady - I'm really not like that. But, our hours of lounging did me good. Oh yeah.

It was GREAT to see everyone who we only see twice a year. I really do LOVE this event - even though it kills me sometimes. We've won or placed enough to know that, winning is fun, but playing is better.

Alex or Sheila, if you're reading this, please send our love and thanks to the entire staff at MousePlanet. You guys are the best and put on the BEST game in the Disney Universe!!!!!

(Extra smilies for Alex

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SusieP. · 03-15-2005, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Oh, and, as is tradition, we didn't get spirit/costume award. LOL I think I'd throw up if we ever did. It's just one of those things that have eluded us for YEARS. It's doesn't matter. We like being snappy dressers while running around like crazy in the park.

Thank goodness we won something!!! We were told twice that we were on the verge of being eliminated, but we just kept trudging along, and we made it to the end. (And we weren't last!) We were walking out to the parking structure seriously contemplating opening the "sudden death" envelope, but we were somehow able to make it back to the locker in the nick of time to get the clue. And then we got to the HoJo hotel and almost got swept up there, but managed to get back on the road with minutes to spare again. My poor teammates were limping by that point and I volunteered to run in for the team, but they were determined to get to the last check in, and so we dragged ourselves up to Fowler's to the finish.

Luckily we got the Toontown thing right away, knew the answer to the Pooh question, and Grumpy4 and mamabot had already scoped out that collage wall the week before, so they were crossing items off the list before we even went inside the DLH. That saved us some serious time, or we never would have made it. (And I publicly admit that it was my mistake that caused us to screw up the postcard thing

)

I'm still tired today.

More coffee please!

Ghoulish Delight · 03-14-2005, 01:37 PM

Good morning.

I hurt.

Umm, please insert all of the requisite thank yous and congratulations here. If you feel I should thank you or congratulate you, then consider yourself thanked or congratulated.

I might as well continue the insne account.

Let's see, collage. We had it down to 3 items, desperately trying to find a tin whistle (which ended up being the one missing), a 25 year service award, or an Olympic Spirit passport. At that point, Ubergeek's team finished theirs and took off! That was frustrating. But only a couple minutes later, we had found the last 2 items we needed to find and took off right behind them.

Lo and behold, we get the next clue...and it involves solving a type of logic puzzle that I do every single day! And, because most people have never seen one of these before, it was a really really easy one for anyone who's done 'em. So I sat down and finished it in mere moments, and headed off to the parking structure, where we were supposed to look for a car with a 5 foot Mickey parked in the handicap section of one of the levels. As we power walked our way over, we passed Ubergeek's team, still working to decipher the puzzle. Knowing how to do those was a BIG advantage for us.

We we went up to Mickey, which is kinda middlish (and had a working up escalator), checked that level, and decided to divide and conquor (we were allowed to split up for this one). I said I'd go up, and sent CP down, we'd meet at the bottom of the escalators. I go up, and found Mickey on the very next floor, so I go straight down, trying to catch CP on the way. I didn't see her. Meanwhile, CP had gone down one level, didn't find the clue, then discovered that, duh, there was only one level below where we started (the original clue had said it wasn't on the ground floor). So instead of waiting at the bottom, she started going UP looking for me. Grrr, so I'm sitting at the bottom, fuming 'cause she wasn't waiting where she was supposed to. I tried yelling for her, but she didn't hear. Fortunately, it only took a couple minutes to meet back up.

So, onto the the tram headed, as instructed by the next clue, to lockers with a string of numbers in hand that Mickey was holding. The numbers were supposed to line up to reveal a locker location and password. Unfortunately, there was some miscommunication by the MA crew, and the people who wrote the puzzle wrote it with a 4 digit locker number (0144) while the person who filled in the number at the last minute (because of course they had to get the locker that morning) went based on what the ticket said, which had a 3 digit locker number (144). Fortunately, I noticed that the string of number Mickey was holding had a leading blank space, so we knew something wasn't quite right. So we fudged it and it worked out. On the tram, there was a team next to us (the eventual 3rd place team), but we lost track of them right after we got off the tram and didn't see them again. But anyway, we got to what we hoped was the right locker area, put in the code, and voila, the locker opened and had a stack of envelopes. The next clue told us to go....to the freaking Howard Johnson!!

Holy geez, that was a long walk. And the whole time, we saw no other team either in front of us or behind us. Until we were almost there and we saw a team LEAVING. It happened to be the team that we saw going up the Innoventions exit ramp, so we were none too pleased, to be honest. They gave us a thumbs up from across the street. I think I might have glared back, I don't even remember.

Anyway, we get to HoJo, find the room number (which was revealed by the 2 post cards we had traded for earlier with the open teams). We were given a choice, a word search or...trivia challenge against David Koenig! Our first instinct was, "holy crap, we can't beat Koenig at trivia!!!" But it was pointed out that if we did the trivia, we could give up and switch to word search...but not the other way around. So, while CP kinda stood like a deer in headlights, I decided we'd go do trivia, and let CP take the reins. Turned out to be easy, just a matter of buzzing in faster than David. All she needed was one right, she got the 3rd one right. The one she got was, "What was the first attraction to use sophisticated animatronics," easy enough. So we were in and out quick.

A quick translation of Mara script, and, oh joy, walking ALL the way back to Fowler's Inn! (the McD's fry shack in front of Mansion). Oh, man that was a long walk, but we knew it was the end, so we pushed through the pain and motored our way back into the park. We saw the orange beret's in line getting into the park too, we realized they must have not figured out the locker thing and were headed in to look for more lockers. Felt kind bad for them, so we were happy to find out afterwards that (after taking a hint and penalty) they were able to complete the course.

So we hit Fowlers, and get our time logged. We happened to notice that we were the second team to finish...and we happended to notice that team ahead of us had a 40 minute penalty! It was then that we were pretty confident that we had won, 'cause we knew the team we saw leaving HoJo was not very far ahead of us. It also explained how they got a head of us, because we were ahead of them at the collage, and then saw them ahead of us at HoJo. They must have used their Jump Start on the parking garage one, thus the 40 minute penalty.

So yeah, we finally got to sit down...which was a mistake because then our legs started to tighten up. It must have been quite a sight to see the two of us struggle to climb the Pirates bridge on our way to our locker. We were (and still are) wrecked.

But boy was it worth it. Despite the early headaches (all of our own doing), we had a blast. It was really a brilliantly designed game from beginning to end. What an amazing experience.

Not Afraid · 03-14-2005, 01:46 PM

No, Jen is not MP, BUT, while walking through Fantasyland, Steph cam VERY clost to being hit my a flying duck. At which poing she yelled FU-K! In Fantasyland no less. My "Son" was teasing her that she shouldn't be yelling DUCK so loudly in FL.

OH! And the other mishap! How could I forget this one!!!! (Because it was me and I'm TRYING to forget.)

We had a quest at the HUGE glass case collage at the Disneyland Hotel. We had to find which one on the long list was NOT in the case. This was a popular quest and there were people 5 deel trying to find things. I ended up in from, on the ground making the that was really a mineature dedication plaque. Suddenly my "Son" said "Lisa, come here". "Why." "Just come here." "Now?" "Yes." "Well, OK then."

I warned those around me that I was about to get up and that, my muscles were a bit weakeded. I got close to being on all 4's as I could in that crowded space and hoisted myself up. Part way up, I go a hottible cramp in my right calf and knee.

Back down I went, against the glass case, only buffered by several people around me. I almost went through the glass case! Ahhh, the memories that would make!

Some slight guy decided to pull me up and I almost pulled how back down on me and into the case. Anyways, I finially just get muself get up the qay I used to when I had Graves and my muscles were severly diminished. But, What fun. I think Alex either got to witness it or got then right after. Alex always gets to see me at my best.

BarTopDancer · 03-14-2005, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid

No, Jen is not MP, BUT, while walking through Fantasyland, Steph cam VERY clost to being hit my a flying duck. At which poing she yelled FU-K! In Fantasyland no less. My "Son" was teasing her that she shouldn't be yelling DUCK so loudly in FL.

I think that duck almost hit me while I was waiting for my team at the Hub! Crazy duck!

Stan4dSteph · 03-14-2005, 08:04 PM

For the record, I did not yell ****. It was holy sh!t at the top of my lungs. In the middle of a crowded Fantasyland. I am very sorry to all of the children who are now horribly scarred by my potty mouth. I'm sure someone will start a thread at MP about the rude person in the orange beret who ruined their vacation.

03-14-2005, 03:54 PM	#3
AllyOops! It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Introspection Intersection Posts: 1,207	Let me begin by saying... Congrats, Happy Haunts!! Congrats, Fej, Ralph Wiggum, Babette & Nirvanaman! And of course, for all of us Mouse Adventurers? Cheers! We made it! We had so much fun! We were The Matt Foley Graduates, and our team members were BarTopDancer, Flubber, Alisa & myself. We participated in the Invitational. I had an absolute blast & I have so much more that I want to post & share! However, my eyes keep closing as I type. I'm still bummin' in jammies & a messy ponytail and I plan on stayin' that way! Plus, I am limping today. My calves, outer thighs and ankles are just throbbing. I have to admit, it's a good kinda pain. We earned it! ( Even if, when players were racing to Howard Johnson for the next clue, we were racing to Mimi's Cafe for viddles! Game over! ) Last edited by AllyOops! : 03-14-2005 at 04:00 PM. Reason: I'm sleepy & makin' mistakes!
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03-14-2005, 03:57 PM	#4
Ponine Virgin Ears Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: San Diego Posts: 2,075	Ally!!! You were there???? I have now been near you three times and didnt meet you????? Oddly enough, I thought for sure I saw a gal I thought was Alisa from her pic, but I couldnt think of her name.... oh woe is me! __________________ There's something strange, There's something wrong. I see a change - It's like when love dies.
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03-14-2005, 01:24 PM	#5
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HAPPY HAUNTS AND TO UBERGEEK, NIRVANAMAN, BABETTE AND RALpH WIGGUM! (and special Kudoos to Babette for making it through with HER injuries!!!) First AND Second righ here, folks! I wish I remember who else won, I was so content to sis on the side of the stage and roar. I am looking forward to the official results to come out. I am dying to know where we were. Sheila hinted were were up there in standing - which for me in my physical condition - would make me incredibly happy. EVERY muscle in my lower body hurts today (ummmm time for 4 more Advil), but, for me, my big personal success was keeping up with the group and finishing. AVP told me at Innoventions that, if I needed to drop out, now was the time. We discussed it, and I was still working hard and doing fine. It wasn't until the last 1/2 hour that I really started to lag and hurt. Thanks, my son, for pulling me along and providing encouragement!) So, for me, I feel successful in just finishing it ALL. We took one hit on a quest and had to get a time-costing piece of advice. The locker quest is what really screwed us up. But, otherwise, we did it all. Oh, and, as is tradition, we didn't get spirit/costume award. LOL I think I'd throw up if we ever did. It's just one of those things that have eluded us for YEARS. It's doesn't matter. We like being snappy dressers while running around like crazy in the park. The walk to the GC was like that old diarrhea billboard that was on the 5 (near the Citadel)for YEARS............The Last Mile is the Longest. I actually had to almost fight someone for the couch, but I was so not moving that I was probably doing one of the smiling but rudr things. I'm am so sorry, lady - I'm really not like that. But, our hours of lounging did me good. Oh yeah. It was GREAT to see everyone who we only see twice a year. I really do LOVE this event - even though it kills me sometimes. We've won or placed enough to know that, winning is fun, but playing is better. Alex or Sheila, if you're reading this, please send our love and thanks to the entire staff at MousePlanet. You guys are the best and put on the BEST game in the Disney Universe!!!!! (Extra smilies for Alex )
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03-14-2005, 01:37 PM	#7
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Good morning. I hurt. Umm, please insert all of the requisite thank yous and congratulations here. If you feel I should thank you or congratulate you, then consider yourself thanked or congratulated. I might as well continue the insne account. Let's see, collage. We had it down to 3 items, desperately trying to find a tin whistle (which ended up being the one missing), a 25 year service award, or an Olympic Spirit passport. At that point, Ubergeek's team finished theirs and took off! That was frustrating. But only a couple minutes later, we had found the last 2 items we needed to find and took off right behind them. Lo and behold, we get the next clue...and it involves solving a type of logic puzzle that I do every single day! And, because most people have never seen one of these before, it was a really really easy one for anyone who's done 'em. So I sat down and finished it in mere moments, and headed off to the parking structure, where we were supposed to look for a car with a 5 foot Mickey parked in the handicap section of one of the levels. As we power walked our way over, we passed Ubergeek's team, still working to decipher the puzzle. Knowing how to do those was a BIG advantage for us. We we went up to Mickey, which is kinda middlish (and had a working up escalator), checked that level, and decided to divide and conquor (we were allowed to split up for this one). I said I'd go up, and sent CP down, we'd meet at the bottom of the escalators. I go up, and found Mickey on the very next floor, so I go straight down, trying to catch CP on the way. I didn't see her. Meanwhile, CP had gone down one level, didn't find the clue, then discovered that, duh, there was only one level below where we started (the original clue had said it wasn't on the ground floor). So instead of waiting at the bottom, she started going UP looking for me. Grrr, so I'm sitting at the bottom, fuming 'cause she wasn't waiting where she was supposed to. I tried yelling for her, but she didn't hear. Fortunately, it only took a couple minutes to meet back up. So, onto the the tram headed, as instructed by the next clue, to lockers with a string of numbers in hand that Mickey was holding. The numbers were supposed to line up to reveal a locker location and password. Unfortunately, there was some miscommunication by the MA crew, and the people who wrote the puzzle wrote it with a 4 digit locker number (0144) while the person who filled in the number at the last minute (because of course they had to get the locker that morning) went based on what the ticket said, which had a 3 digit locker number (144). Fortunately, I noticed that the string of number Mickey was holding had a leading blank space, so we knew something wasn't quite right. So we fudged it and it worked out. On the tram, there was a team next to us (the eventual 3rd place team), but we lost track of them right after we got off the tram and didn't see them again. But anyway, we got to what we hoped was the right locker area, put in the code, and voila, the locker opened and had a stack of envelopes. The next clue told us to go....to the freaking Howard Johnson!! Holy geez, that was a long walk. And the whole time, we saw no other team either in front of us or behind us. Until we were almost there and we saw a team LEAVING. It happened to be the team that we saw going up the Innoventions exit ramp, so we were none too pleased, to be honest. They gave us a thumbs up from across the street. I think I might have glared back, I don't even remember. Anyway, we get to HoJo, find the room number (which was revealed by the 2 post cards we had traded for earlier with the open teams). We were given a choice, a word search or...trivia challenge against David Koenig! Our first instinct was, "holy crap, we can't beat Koenig at trivia!!!" But it was pointed out that if we did the trivia, we could give up and switch to word search...but not the other way around. So, while CP kinda stood like a deer in headlights, I decided we'd go do trivia, and let CP take the reins. Turned out to be easy, just a matter of buzzing in faster than David. All she needed was one right, she got the 3rd one right. The one she got was, "What was the first attraction to use sophisticated animatronics," easy enough. So we were in and out quick. A quick translation of Mara script, and, oh joy, walking ALL the way back to Fowler's Inn! (the McD's fry shack in front of Mansion). Oh, man that was a long walk, but we knew it was the end, so we pushed through the pain and motored our way back into the park. We saw the orange beret's in line getting into the park too, we realized they must have not figured out the locker thing and were headed in to look for more lockers. Felt kind bad for them, so we were happy to find out afterwards that (after taking a hint and penalty) they were able to complete the course. So we hit Fowlers, and get our time logged. We happened to notice that we were the second team to finish...and we happended to notice that team ahead of us had a 40 minute penalty! It was then that we were pretty confident that we had won, 'cause we knew the team we saw leaving HoJo was not very far ahead of us. It also explained how they got a head of us, because we were ahead of them at the collage, and then saw them ahead of us at HoJo. They must have used their Jump Start on the parking garage one, thus the 40 minute penalty. So yeah, we finally got to sit down...which was a mistake because then our legs started to tighten up. It must have been quite a sight to see the two of us struggle to climb the Pirates bridge on our way to our locker. We were (and still are) wrecked. But boy was it worth it. Despite the early headaches (all of our own doing), we had a blast. It was really a brilliantly designed game from beginning to end. What an amazing experience. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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03-14-2005, 01:46 PM	#8
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	No, Jen is not MP, BUT, while walking through Fantasyland, Steph cam VERY clost to being hit my a flying duck. At which poing she yelled FU-K! In Fantasyland no less. My "Son" was teasing her that she shouldn't be yelling DUCK so loudly in FL. OH! And the other mishap! How could I forget this one!!!! (Because it was me and I'm TRYING to forget.) We had a quest at the HUGE glass case collage at the Disneyland Hotel. We had to find which one on the long list was NOT in the case. This was a popular quest and there were people 5 deel trying to find things. I ended up in from, on the ground making the that was really a mineature dedication plaque. Suddenly my "Son" said "Lisa, come here". "Why." "Just come here." "Now?" "Yes." "Well, OK then." I warned those around me that I was about to get up and that, my muscles were a bit weakeded. I got close to being on all 4's as I could in that crowded space and hoisted myself up. Part way up, I go a hottible cramp in my right calf and knee. Back down I went, against the glass case, only buffered by several people around me. I almost went through the glass case! Ahhh, the memories that would make! Some slight guy decided to pull me up and I almost pulled how back down on me and into the case. Anyways, I finially just get muself get up the qay I used to when I had Graves and my muscles were severly diminished. But, What fun. I think Alex either got to witness it or got then right after. Alex always gets to see me at my best.
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03-14-2005, 08:04 PM	#10
Stan4dSteph Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: East Bay Area, CA Posts: 3,156	For the record, I did not yell ****. It was holy sh!t at the top of my lungs. In the middle of a crowded Fantasyland. I am very sorry to all of the children who are now horribly scarred by my potty mouth. I'm sure someone will start a thread at MP about the rude person in the orange beret who ruined their vacation.
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