Legobuilder0813, Manager

An update? For Creative? Are plots resetting? What’s happening? AHHHHH!!!

That has been everyone’s response to hearing about a Creative Update, and this post is going to clarify everything happening including changes and new features.

Are plots resetting? Nope! There’s no reason for us to reset it, so why would we?

Let’s go over the new stuff.

Role Play has returned

After the long disappearance of Role Play on our Creative Server, we decided to allow it again. However, there are some rules that everyone must follow in order to have a Role Play. A complete list of these rules can be found on the Creative Rules page, but here’s a summary:

• Violence of any kind is not allowed
• Blood and Gore is not allowed
• Family Role Play is not allowed

Show Creator

One of the coolest additions we’ve ever brought to our Creative Server is by far the Show Creator. With it, you’re able to create custom shows just like the ones in our Parks! The Show Creator requires an initial purchase of $500 (In-Game Money, not real money). This initial purchase gives you access to all features of the Show Creator. You can play a Music Disc (Record), have Text displayed, summon Particles, and, of course, use Fireworks! We’ve made making impressive Shows easy with a simple-to-use Menu system. If you need any help, or have any problems with the Show Creator, please ask a Cast Member! They’ll be happy to assist you.

Plot Settings

The final feature to this Creative update allows you to change the time and weather of your Plot! This new feature, Plot Settings, is in the Creative /menu. However, it is only visible when standing on a Plot that you own. Simply choose a time of day and all players on your Plot will see it as that time. The same goes for Weather. When players fly off your Plot, they will be brought back to normal time and weather.

That’s all for this Creative Update. Although a little small, these new features took a while to develop and give more abilities of creativity to you, our Guests. That’s all for now, be sure to check out these new features on our Creative Server by typing /join Creative! Have a Happy New Year!

When Imaginears Club started, there were no servers dedicated to Theme Parks anywhere in the world. So, we were 1st in theme parks and 1st to recreate Disney. This is not bragging, it is just reality. At the time, Minecraft was in its infancy and mostly played by adults. Case in point: I was an Admin on the Reddit Servers which had a strict 18 and up policy. It was the very first large server in Minecraft and the most frequented. Therefore, the silliness that “MINECRAFT IS A GAME FOR KIDS” is just … well, silly! — and not based on any factual evidence.

Fast-forward to 2015. Now, the game is hugely popular with ALL age groups, not just the adults who started playing it in the beginning. It is a game for ALL AGES. Families play together, all the time. There is no set age for a Minecraft user, either. It runs from the 90’s to toddlers.

In the many years playing, creating and expanding the game I have seen numerous servers come and go. Many of those happily inspired directly by us. I seriously could not be more proud.

To get a better idea as to how popular Minecraft Theme Parks are, I decided to compile a very small list of servers dedicated to Theme Parks. (Keep in mind: this list may contain servers that are not safe for families.)

That list is only a fraction of what is out there. (Add to that our Partner servers.) I could keep going and that list would go to the bottom of this page, easily. The point is that we are proud that the heritage continues and that this game is exceeding its original boundaries. Each server has unique offerings for their Guests. Each one of them also helps to create new and unique content.

We at Imaginears Club have never had an issue with other servers. In fact, we celebrate the diversity of our community. We’re proud to have had a small part in creating this genre.

Our goal, with our server, is to offer children and families a safe place to play, free from trolls, swearing and personal information sharing. A haven from the rest of the gaming world where bad language and worse attitudes seem to be prevalent. We believe that children deserve somewhere they can be shielded from negativity and foster an environment of joy, happiness and respect.

In recent weeks, I have been actively engaging a number of servers and their owners. I have spoken to them with respect, openness and a determination to alleviate concerns. I do not believe Guests need to know about, hear about or deal with drama in any capacity. They are not on our servers to deal with that. They are here for FUN! So, in conversing with these owners, I have been attempting to enact a peace between everyone.

I believe all the other servers wish to have the same level of Guest engagement, participation, and security we enjoy. We should all be striving for perfection and a dedication to the principles set forth by Walt Disney.

In the next year, you will see many changes in our approach to other servers and to our Guests. All of it positive.

In conclusion, whether it be our proud moment of declaration that we were inducted into the Guinness Book Of World Records, or our direct involvement in ArcadiaCon, or our assistance in helping create YouCube, or any number of our accomplishments over the years, it has NEVER been about bragging. To be honest, we didn’t even know about the Guinness thing until a Guest pointed it out, so it was about sharing the info, not rubbing it in anyone’s faces. Bragging is not our thing. (Well, we do like to brag about our Guests being amazing, but yeah). We just want to provide our valued Guests with the best possible experience, for free, and do that for many years to come. If we happen to set some records or do some awesome things, sure we will share that with the community. Who wouldn’t?

Let’s all do our part to share the accomplishments of EVERYONE in the community and create an environment of pure joy and MAGIC!

Thanks and we hope you all have a WONDERFUL holiday!

therealduckie – David Wasman

Owner and Founder of imaginears

Legobuilder0813, Manager

Happy Holidays everyone! Tis the season to be jolly, and we have some new things for you to play with! We went over all of the recent changes to our Parks at our December Meeting (held yesterday), let’s go over them again!

However, before we go over server updates, let’s congratulate our new Cast Members and Interns!

Interns (10):

• BowTieJason
• DisneyEmma
• hannahpeyton
• Jasrogers
• JustinTime
• Lilwhale00
• Luca_STARK
• MrRPGChicken
• xSolace
• Xtrafreckle

Cast Members (6):

• Atomizer827
• BonelessCubone
• codyalexander
• disneydolewhip
• Gamelix
• TwentyOnePielots

Congratulations to all of our new Staff Members! If you see them on the server, be sure to congratulate them! Applications to become a Cast Member are currently open here.

Throughout the whole month of December we will be showing a variety of Holiday Shows! At the Castle, you can find Holiday Wishes and Frozen Holiday Wish. Illuminations: Reflections of Earth has the Peace on Earth tag at the end of every showing. Also, on our Seasonal Server, we will be showing Holiday Dreams and a Hanukkah Show every night of Hanukkah! Times for all of these shows can be found in the Show Timetable by right-clicking your Watch.

As mentioned earlier, our Parks received a huge update this month. Here is where we’ll go over everything that was changed, added, or removed. There’s a lot, so get comfy!

• Hub is now TTC
  • This is something we’ve been wanting to do for a long time and have finally gotten around to. TTC stands for The Transportation and Ticket Center, which is what that area of the park is actually called rather than the Hub. This helps us keep with our desire to use the same names Disney uses in their Parks.
• Backpack and Locker for Storage
  • We’ve moved away from the same inventory system used by Imaginears Club for the past 4 years and have introduced Backpacks and Lockers! Backpacks are where you can store the large amounts of items you own. You can also expand your Backpack with up to three extra rows in the Storage Shop in the MagicBand. Also, Lockers aren’t new. However they have changed. You can no longer access your Locker from your MagicBand. Instead, you must visit a Locker Kiosk which are available in each of the 4 parks, Typhoon Lagoon and in any Hotel Room. This makes Lockers an area for permanent storage. You can store your Holiday items in it during the year and take them out in time for the Holidays next year. Here’s a tip on how to find a Locker Kiosk: /warp [server]lkr. For instance /warp mklkr, /warp typhoonlkr, etc.
• Shops
  • Shops were originally announced back at the beginning of the Summer. However, due to unexpected delays and other complications we weren’t able to continue work on the Shops until recently. Also, we wanted to monitor the new economy after the reset in July to ensure Shop prices would be balanced and fair. But we have them now! You’re now able to buy Plushes at the Emporium, Lightsabers at Tatooine Traders and even get a Princess Dress at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. If you need help locating a Shop, just open your MagicBand and select “Shops.” A list of Shops available in your Park will be displayed and, by clicking on one, you will be warped right to that Shop. If you have any more questions about Shops, feel free to ask one of our Cast Members or Interns.
• MagicBand Updates
  • Your MagicBand has been completely updated with a new look, and so far everyone’s loving it! A few unpopular features were removed to make the Main Menu cleaner and easier to use. Most features that are not on the Main Menu were put into submenus. However, the layout is still familiar enough to make it easy to navigate.
• Queue System
  • We’ve finally fixed those pesky Queues! They never worked right, and sometimes your wait time started to count backwards! No longer will this be a problem. Also, due to popular demand, we brought back the 10-second delay when you join an empty queue so a friend can ride with you.
• DCL Room Rentals
  • Now you can rent rooms on the DCL server as well as on Resorts. However, due to the size of the ships, you may only rent rooms on the 8th floor of the Disney Dream for now. In the future we plan on expanding to the entire ship. All rooms are $800 for 3 nights. These are so expensive because they are balcony rooms. Cheaper rooms will be available soon such as the interiors.
• Watch & Show Schedule
  • One of the most frequently asked questions on Imaginears Club is “When is the next show?” Chances are you’ve wondered this at one time or another. Well, now it’s much easier for you to find out what the next show is and when! A new addition to your Inventory is the Watch. When selected, this provides you with the current time in EST, which is what Imaginears Club operates in. Also, a Show Timetable can be viewed by clicking your Watch. This Timetable is up-to-date and will tell you exactly when we plan on running shows.

There were many other bug fixes and improvements made to features that already existed that weren’t listed here. Overall your experience in our Parks should now be better than ever!

Creative has been sitting quietly and calmly for these past few months, just casually letting people build day and night. Not much has changed after we changed to PlotSquared and introduced the Creative Menu. It’s been over 3 months since Creative’s last update, so we’re going to give it more cool things!

This update will be released Christmas Eve, what a great Christmas Present! Most of the features included in this update are still top secret, but I can let you know about one of them! Many moons ago we made Role Play against the Creative Rules due to the Role Plays taking up chat space, spamming, and some weren’t following rules. On Christmas Day, we will be officially allowing Role Play on Creative again! There are a few catches, though (I think you’ll like them 🙂 ). Role Play Chat, a new feature being added, will allow for you to have your own Role Play but keep it separate from the rest of Creative’s chat. When in a chat, you will only see the messages in that chat. Also, no one else on Creative except those in your Role Play will see your chat! It’s completely separate. There are a few other minor features of the Role Play Chats that will make this the best way for us to re-introduce Role Play to the Creative Server.

As you would expect, rules must be followed. We will have a list of rules written exclusively for Role Plays on our website soon. All Role Plays must follow these rules, otherwise sad things happen 😥 . Along with this Role Play update, Creative will receive some other cool new features which will be announced in the coming weeks. Be sure to follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page for the latest information!

Partner Server Announcements

NauticalCraft

NauticalCraft is now accepting applications for its Guest Relations team! These applications close today (Sunday December 6th) at 5pm, so be sure to get yours in! Also, those who want to apply to be a Builder can email their formal application and pictures to [email protected].

I’ve been with Imaginears Club for over 2 years now, and never for a minute did I think it would grow to be as amazing as it is today. This year we made a promise to our Guests to release something new every week, and we kept it! I would go over everything we did this year, but a 2015 Recap will be posted on our Website soon to encompass all of our updates and achievements. One of those being that we made another Player Count record, 540 players! That’s incredible! As I promised before our Meeting started, if we reached 500 players everyone would get 100 tokens. We reached it, so everyone got 100 free tokens!

This wraps up the last Update of 2015, have a Happy Holidays!

Legobuilder0813, Manager

Hello, Imaginears Club Community! Just yesterday, we held our November Public Meeting. It was a bit shorter than our normal ones, but we still talked about a lot! This post will go over everything we discussed.

First, as usual, here is the list of our 17 new Interns and 5 new Cast Members!

Interns:

• codyalexander
• Humor_me_not
• Atomizer827
• jakethe01
• Cookieholic
• MonkeyMilitia
• DisneyOlaf
• Misslilystar456
• TheMagicHare
• BonelessCubone
• TwentyOnePielots
• RadioSenpai
• SpringProof
• FrankyFG
• Attwell
• bunnyindisney
• MeowMeowAlyssa

Cast Members:

• Boogieramon
• tdchewy
• Mattie85
• appleair
• yeetjenn

This was almost the same amount of new Staff from last month, still one of the largest in Imaginears Club History! If you see them on our servers, be sure to congratulate them! Applications to become a Cast Member are currently open here.

Plot Clears have resumed on the Creative Server! If you are not happy with what you built on your Plot and want to start fresh, just visit /warp clear to submit a Plot Clear Request. Please be aware of the following before submitting a request:

• Requests cannot be removed once you submit one
• Only the Plot Owner may submit a request
  • If you submit for a plot you do not own, it will be considered Griefing and may result in temporary/permanent bans
• Plot Clears can take up to 72 hours to process
  • Usually Plot Clears are not processed on weekends due to the popularity of the Creative Server during those times
• You may only request a Plot Clear once every month. Any extra requests will be ignored. This is only so we can process lots of requests.

Starting Tuesday, November 10th, we will show Holiday Wishes instead of regular Wishes at /warp castle. Also, every Saturday at 3:30pm EST we will welcome our friends back from Arendelle for Frozen Holiday Wish at the Castle. These shows will continue throughout the months of November and December into the New Year. Happy Holidays, everyone!

What is Imaginears Club building next? Just this past summer, we released New Epcot, and everyone loved it! But what will we work on next? Following the completion and release of our Holiday Seasonal Server (scheduled to be released at the end of November), our Imagineer Team will begin construction of an updated Hollywood Studios Park! Since Disney is making so many drastic changes to Hollywood Studios, some areas of our updated park may be closed off or outdated until confirmed plans of the HWS update are available to us. Also, due to these updates, we cannot estimate a completion date for this new Park. However, it will come, just give us some time!

Partner Server Announcements

DiscoveryRidge

Starting November 13th, DiscoveryRidge will be presenting their show BLAST, a 30-minute Firework Spectacular. This event will show from the 13th to the 15th and 20th to the 22nd at 7pm GMT and 11pm GMT. It is an amazing show with fireworks, water jets, fire cannons, and many other effects! Celebrate the end of an era, and the end of 3 years of Discovery Ridge Resort and support them at these shows!

MineDisney

Here’s a message from the Staff at MineDisney: “MineDisney also celebrated its 4 th anniversary this year. We are happy to move forward with the Imaginears Club Family in our different projects around Disneyland Paris. We do our best to welcome our friends from around the world. Cheers!” – Libertee and the whole MineDisney Staff.

NauticalCraft

Opening November 14th at 12pm EST, NauticalCraft will have its own public server! The server IP Address is NauticalCraft.mcph.co, and on it will be displays of all of NauticalCraft’s ships they’ve built, not just their Disney ships.

What’s Next, Imaginears Club? Guests, we value your opinions and take them into consideration when deciding what Imaginears Club does next. Now we already told you we are re-building Hollywood Studios next, but furthermore what part of Imaginears Club should the Development Team focus on next? We created a form for everyone to fill out, which can be viewed here. Please fill it out and tell us what you want to see next, and where you want to see it!

Imaginears Club is progressing to become one of the biggest, best Theme Park Servers out there. Month after month, we have so much new content for you, our Guests, to explore. Not to mention, during our Public Meeting, we hit a peak number of 495 Guests online! That’s a record-breaker, we’ve never hit that much in our history! Thank you so much! Have a great day everyone, and Happy Holidays!

“In this…business of ours, we can ill afford to rest on our laurels, even to pause in retrospect. Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.”  —Walt Disney

As we announced during our October public meeting, Imaginears Club is working hard to secure our future. One that expands, improves and increases our Guest experience.

To do this, we’re asking for your help. Donate anything you can so we can hire more developers, purchase more servers and create new attractions. You can do so here:  http://store.imaginears.club

Any amount will help and you will be secure in knowing every cent will go to creating the MAGIC you have become accustomed to…AND MORE! With your donations, we can begin filing the papers needed to become a business entity, open our online store, create and expand our plugins, build new parks and update existing ones, and add tons of new attractions and GAMES!

You can also spread the word. The world’s leading Family-Friendly server needs everyone’s help to show the world that good, clean, wholesome fun is not only possible online – but that it has wide support.

Thanks and have a MAGICAL day!

Legobuilder0813, Manager

Hey there! Just this past weekend, we held our October Public Meeting. This post will cover everything discussed at the meeting.

For starters, let’s congratulate our 18 new Interns, 5 new Cast Members and a new Developer!

Intern:

• tdchewy
• Disneydolewhip
• Disney_Pirate717
• MrRevolver2
• Narfinator
• StitchFantasmic
• MrsDisney
• DisneyStitch
• Disney_Teknique
• jjredmore
• appleair
• yeetjack
• Jmc10
• okreese2003
• Mattie85
• Camalicious
• Punkey__
• themeparklover

Cast Members:

• Breyonce_
• Sjackson128
• Sealands
• _Fangirl
• Acttoo

Developers:

• DevSlashNull

This is one of the largest amounts of Staff Members we have ever ranked up in our history, be sure to congratulate them! Applications are now open and can be found here.

Our Halloween version of the Seasonal Server has been released! On it, you can ride some big roller coasters, make your way through Hay Mazes and play Bumper-Boats! You can access the Seasonal Server with either /join Seasonal or /warp Seasonal. Happy Halloween!

The Imaginears Club Dev Team likes to push out updates with new features every few months, and the next one will be the Holiday Update at the end of November. Most of the update has to remain secret, but I’ll just say we will be changing the way you manage your inventory in the Parks. You’ll just have to wait to find out what the update contains!

We’ve been running Hallowishes since mid-September, but, unfortunately, we will stop showing that November 1st and resume with normal Wishes. However, we will begin to show Holiday shows such as Frozen Holiday Wish and Holiday Wishes on November 10th and will continue showing them into 2016.

After the long wait, Soarin is now open! You can ride it now at /warp Soarin on our Epcot server. Keep in mind this ride is new, so expect there to be a few bugs in the first few weeks of it being open. Also coming in the next week or two is Mission: Space! We thought you guys have waited long enough for these two rides, and I’ve ridden both, they’re amazing!

Towards the end of October, Imaginears Club will be holding its own Epcot Food & Wine Festival for the first time! There will be races, demos, and new attractions during the festival. You can taste your way around the world, experience all sorts of different foods, and learn about cultures from different countries! We will also have some Eat to the Beat parties for everyone to enjoy.

As of today, Capture The Flag has officially been released on our Arcade Server! You and the other 9 players on your team have to capture all of the other Flags on the map before the other teams do! Make sure you protect your flag from the other 3 teams, or they’ll capture it! Play now at /join Arcade and /hub CTF.

There was certainly a lot to go over during this month’s meeting! We have so much planned in the coming months, such as Holiday Seasonal, Shows, Updates, and much more! Make sure you follow us on our Social Media accounts so you get updates straight to you as soon as they become available. Also, if you ever have any questions, comments or concerns with anything contact a Staff Member on the server or fill out a form here on our website. Have a great day, everyone!

Legobuilder0813, Manager

Hi again, everyone! Just this past week, we held our September Public Meeting and it got crowded!  We hit a top player count of 473 during the meeting, that’s insane!

First of all, congratulations to our newest Interns and Cast Members! Here’s the list:

Intern:

• Gamelix
• Bremaster
• Boogieramon
• GravityFalls618
• EnzoGoober
• DjDoge
• DjScan
• sjackson128

Cast Members:

• Jester5SOS
• xXBelgium101Xx
• MynyMinnie
• Uniphication
• __Tyler__

That’s a lot, and we’re excited to have them all! If you see them on the server, be sure to congratulate them! Applications for Staff Member are currently open and can be found here. We only have them open for a limited time, so be sure to submit yours!

As you might have noticed, we had to reset our Creative server recently. We didn’t want to remove your builds, we would never want that. The sole purpose was to remove the lag the server kept experiencing. That lag was the result of us using PlotMe, which is now officially unsupported. As a replacement, we now use PlotSquared which is a much more efficient and easier to use system. Not much has changed for you, our Guests, but behind the scenes we get a lot more features to use while managing the Creative Server. Something we did add to the Creative Server is a new Particle System. With it, you’re now able to have some cool Hearts, Notes, and more float around your head while building. This is not for DVC or Shareholders only, everyone gets to use it! Access it by typing either /menu or /pt in-game.

Another new feature on the Creative Server is there are now two different types of Members to Plots. Before you could add people to build on your Plot or deny them from it. Now, you’re able to add another player as a Member or Trusted Member. Members can only build when you, the Plot owner, are online. Trusted Members can build whenever they want to. This is good for you to be able to monitor the builders on your Plot and make sure none are griefing your builds. As always, if another player griefs your plot report it to a Staff Member.

It’s (almost) that time of year again! September 15th we will start showing the Halloween version of Wishes, Hallowishes until November 1st. Also being released in the month of October is the Fall-Themed Seasonal Server! Right now it’s closed, but when it’s open it’ll be at /warp Seasonal.

Sorry everyone, but our Arcade Server is still in development (again)! I said more news would be available at the end of August about the refurbished Arcade Server and its new games, but unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances with our Creative Server, my time had to be devoted to finding a fix for that server’s performance. I will, however, grace everyone with a preview picture of the new Spawn which is displayed up above! We’re still working hard on these new games, I want to make sure everyone will have an enjoyable experience playing these new Arcade Games. Capture The Flag is still the top priority, following it is another new game I’m still not going to talk about 🙂

This past weekend, Imaginears Club participated in CubedCon! This event was full of booths from other Minecraft Servers (including Imaginears Club’s own booth), livestreams and panels from YouTubers and Mini-Games! Overall, the convention was a success and an amazing time was had by everyone that participated. We plan on being there next year!

Wow, a lot has happened since our last Meeting. Also, more will be happening in the coming months! Please be sure to follow us on our Social Media accounts for any and all updates. Also, if you ever have any questions, comments or concerns with anything contact a Staff Member on the server or fill out a form here on our website. Have a great day, everyone!

As the last week of our month-long anniversary celebration comes to a close, we have 1 more surprise for you!

During ArcadiaCon, our owner had 26 top YouTubers & a Mojangster sign a sword. That sword can now be yours!

To enter, simply visit http://store.imaginears.club and choose “Donor Appreciation”. Donate what you can, over $5, and you will get the [Shareholder] tag, as well!

Drawing will be held on Saturday, August 29th 2015, so get your entry in as soon as you can!