A Year in Review: Imaginears Club 2014
VirusElite524, Manager
Dem190, Editor

As we wrap up another incredible year, we here at Imaginears Club would like to thank you for your appreciation and support that has led us this far. Our focus this year has been to reach you, our guests. Through conventions, more effective social media and our staffs willingness to interact with our guests, we have become a better community. Our staff has been the most amazing staff this year, even through ups and downs, we have stayed true to the Disney spirit. We are so very proud of what our staff and our communnity has accomplished, and very grateful for our guests who have helped keep the magic alive. We hope to keep the magic going strong through the new year, and will have many new things to keep the magic alive.

As we continue to a brand new year, let us recognize the milestones and grand achievements we have earned:

2014:
January 1 – Imaginears Club celebrates 140,000 guests
January 25 – Imaginears Club celebrates 150,000 guests
January 25 – Imaginears Club releases mobile app on Android
January 25 – First full presentation of Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular
February 16 – Imaginears Club celebrates 160,000 guests
March 17 – Imaginears Club celebrates 170,000 guests
March 19 – First full presentation of Fantasmic!
April 2 – Imaginears Club celebrates 175,000 guests
April 5 – New Hollywood Studios under development
April 13 – Typhoon Lagoon opens
May – Imaginears Club celebrates Star Wars Weekends with Symphony in the Stars firework show
June – Mini Games server (Arcade) is announced
June 5 – First public performance of Fantasmic! directed by GrailMore
July 10 – Imaginears Club celebrates 200,000 guests
July 12-13 – Imaginears Club volunteers and supports during the YouCube Meet Up
August 22 – Imaginears Club celebrates three years of magic along with new custom shows “Taste of Fantasmic”, “Dreamed It”, and “Relive the Magic”
August – Main server has split giving each park their own server
September 20 – Arcade Server opens
October 4 – Imaginears Club finalizes remaining projects in Animal Kingdom
October 21 – New Epcot begins construction
October 25 – Imaginears Club celebrates 250,000 guests
October 24-27 – Imaginears Club presented at MinecraftSE
November 13 – New Partners with other Disney servers
December – New holiday shows and Seasonal server
December 21 – Imaginears Club premieres Osborne Spectacle of Dancing Lights

See ya all in 2015!

Imaginears Club December Newsletter

VirusElite524, Manager

Dem190, Editor

Happy Holidays everyone! It’s that time of year where it’s getting a bit colder, school is almost over for the winter break, and the end of a wonderful year. We’ll be presenting you with updates for our Seasonal server, Main, Arcade, and an important announcement for Creative. Also introduce our wonderful new staff members.

Seasonal Server:

What is it?

It’s our customized world made by every Cast Member where we celebrate this glorious time of year and we are sharing it with you! Come join us where you are free to roam and venture into our neighborhood with all of our houses.

-You can even send a letter to Santa from our Post Office.

-If you celebrate Hanukkah, Mixmasterjacob has Menorah lighting ceremony at 6 PM EST from the 16th to the 24th.

-Don’t forget to hang out with Disney Characters as they will join you for the 4 PM show following a chance to meet them on Seasonal up until the 24th.

This won’t be the only time to visit this Seasonal server as it will return for future holidays, parties, and special events.

Arcade and Main:

-Loved the parkours on our Arcade? Well they have been moved to their own servers! It’s easily accessible by doing the command “/hub Parkour” in the Arcade server.

-The server currency was recently removed to adjust the value of offers we promote. Soon, we will have a brand new system with plenty of room for opportunities. We will be rolling out the new currency which will now be referred to as “Coins”. This means any diamonds and emeralds are now nothing for any specific use. Along with this new currency, the scoreboard that appears on the right side in the Arcade server will now be shown in every Imaginears Club server you are in.

-ThingAMaBobs are now available to be purchased! Along with this new feature, if you want more credits to purchase more you now have the opportunity to trade real money for credits at https://store.imaginears.club.

-Our new Partners will be receiving a brand new tag in chat corresponding to their server such as [MineDisney] and [MagicalDreams].

-Osborne Spectacle of Dancing Lights! Shows are currently in progress and we hope to have it out in the following weeks (hopefully before Christmas).

Creative:

Creative will be going through a major cleaning phase as the entire map will be wiped clean. This means all plots will be cleared and the entire server will be receiving some changes. From now until December 13th, we have a form available “here” that you can fill out and obtain a copy of a schematic of your plot.

The schematics will be uploaded for you to be able to download on a public Dropbox folder. Guests can get a download of one plot and DVC’s can get two plots. The only person allowed to request the copy of the plot is the plot owner.

Resetting Creative has happened in the past and it is a necessity. With the thousands of guests we encounter each week it expands the world that may cause issues such as lag and crashes. This task will help you and even us as you are provided a copy of your work upon request and we provide a better environment for you to enjoy.

Please make sure all information is filled out properly on the form as we cannot search the many forms we will be receiving. All information you are reading here will also be available on the “Creative Corner”.

If you have any questions after the meeting we will be able to sit in the meeting room on mumble and answer a few for you.

Imaginears Club Cast Members and Interns:

The staff you see on here are all volunteers, willing to take their free time to provide the best experience that we can make. Our general responsibility is to maintain the server by keeping attractions available, servicing your questions and requests, and making sure everyone is enjoying. Now it is no easy task to do this with only 77 volunteers moderating hundreds each day. But we try our best. As an example, chat is one of our main priorities when it comes to moderation as anything can happen. The challenge we face is not only seeing the chat a normal guest watches but we have two others. We have the ability to see private chat and our own staff chat. So if you happen to ask a question and no one is answer, it means we are helping someone else or no one is available to assist you at that time. But that doesn’t mean we are ignoring you. You can also submit a book to City Hall in Magic Kingdom and receive a response once it has been read. We hope you understand and look forward to your cooperation.

Staffing:

Here are the newest additions and promotions to the Imaginears Club staff:
Interns:

• anakinhappy
• KassBloom
• CL_Musie
• The_BloodHound
• TheFranchise50
• snowflakeshimmer
• Acttoo

Cast Members:

• viperwizard
• Xavier9214
• clarineter23
• KewCrew
• iamaninjapotato

Staff applications are now open for SEVEN days and will close Sunday December 14 at around midnight. This is your last chance to apply for 2014!

This wraps up the last Imaginears Club Newsletter for 2014. There will be a recap article that will be posted towards the new year. Have a safe and wonderful happy holidays!

In over 3 years of dedication to our Guests, we have started many social media (and other accounts) to spread our message to the world. In that time, many of the names we created had to be altered from the original to fit a format, or because the name was taken by a 3rd party. However, as of today – all Imaginears Club properties will now be unified under the same exact name on every platform. Our new official naming scheme denotes more than Imaginears Club as a server, but also as a Family. Our new Official partners can share in that name, too, as it is more inclusive.

So, after a lot of legal, financial, technical and personal work by our Founder – Imaginears Club is proud to announce our unified branding: imaginears

Although the name Imaginears Club will still be used, the imaginears (Also to be used and seen as Imaginears Club) name will be the official name. This unified name means it will be easier for our Guests to find us on any site. It also means less confusion about musicians, trolls using our name for benefit, and whether or not a page is official.

Thanks and have a MAGICAL day!

DVC Members, click HERE to claim your 1000 FREE Arcade Credits! Email us at [email protected] with any issues you may have. Please be aware if you donated after October 26th, you do NOT need to fill out this form because you already have 1000 Free Credits! Have an Imaginears Clubal Day!

– Legobuilder0813

Imaginears Club October Newsletter

Happy Halloween and Happy Autumn! This month hasn’t been very busy, but we have a few new things coming to the Main parks, changes to some creative rules, brand new Guide maps and new staff!

Main Parks

Ever since we split up the parks into different servers the lag issues have been very minimal but leaves many guests wondering a similar issue, what happened with all the resorts like the Contemporary? Answer is we are working on placing all the resorts into one server but we are also waiting for a working Hotel Plugin. Just keep an eye out for announcements to beta test the plugin!

Animal Kingdom

Is near completion! We have put the final touches to the last area, Rafiki’s Planet Watch and is now open and accessible on the AK server by going to /warp rpw. This leaves us with small projects for the park such as the expansion for Africa and it’s shows. Our next big project: EPCOT

DVC

• New Mini Game: Morty the Monster Skee Ball!

 This will be the last mini game for awhile.

• Characters will start appearing at DVC meet and greets more often.

Arcade

• Opened Imagination Games.
• DVC Member will be getting their Credits soon! Please don’t bug us about it!

Creative

Starting with spawn, this gateway has received a refurbishment along with a few more updates in the coming weeks.

Changes to the rules for creative:

Policing of the server by guests is strongly discouraged. For guests on the server to form groups to guard others plots from things like grief is very disruptive and causes more problems than helps. Grief is a serious issue and is not tolerated on the server.

• Grief of any kind is an immediate removal from the server. There is never a good reason to destroy the work of other guests.
• Beacons have been removed as a placable item in prior to 1.8 as they will not be allowed to be lit then either. Splash Potions, Snowballs, Ender Pearls, Portals, and Enchanting Potions has also been removed from use for guests.
• World Edit is only used for extreme cases of moving builds as needed. CM’s are not allowed to build for the guests or use worldedit in those builds. There are some exceptions but not many.
• If you are building with redstone and don’t know what a clock is or lag machine please see CM/Intern before you continue.
• Role-play has once again become an issue as far as it not being appropriate of following the rules that we have set in place.  From this point forward any roleplay that is clearly inappropriate will have you escorted from the server. We have rules in place and expect that you have read them prior to entering the Creative server.
• Infinity blocks of any kind are considered a hacked client or block and are not allowed to be created or brought to the server.
• The test at spawn is used to make sure that you understand the rules as they are in place for the safety of you and our other guests.  Please don’t give the answers to those taking the test.
• When building you are allowed the use of water but we ask that you don’t cover entire builds in water or use it to grief.
• Reboots are going to be more common on a daily schedule. This is to allow the server to cool down and decrease the amount of crashes. We ask that you don’t panic or worry, these reboots only take a few minutes and it will help everyone. If we kept it to crash, there can be possibilities that recent progress may not have been saved. Think of it as a break time from playing, it will auto save and easily return when it is ready.
• Interns can now place fire for guests but must be allowed to build on the plot first.

All of these rules can also be found on the Creative Corner on the website as it will also be updated along with upcoming Creative events. If you need any assistance or have questions, please contact Helopoh.

Here’s a quick reminder about advertising on the server and outside drama.

Advertising:

We ask that you don’t talk about or advertise other servers, websites, Youtube videos or any other resource outside of Imaginears Club itself.  Even if these Youtube videos or places are Imaginears Club related. If we here at Imaginears Club feel you should see anything relating to us we will post it ourselves for you and most likely you will find it on the webpage.

Outside Drama:

Bringing drama from other servers to this server is not tolerated at all. It does nothing more than cause stress between  guests and other guests who have no idea what is going on. Please keep it off our servers.

The Imaginears Club website has a new feature, Guide Maps! You can now view the actual park maps along with the corresponding warp on the server. They are accessible under the Servers tab and currently have Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom Guidemap. We will be adding the Epcot and Hollywood Studios guidemaps later as they are in development of rebuilding. A temporary guidemap for them will be created in the next few weeks.

New Staff:

Congratulate the following for their promotion:

Cast Member:

Flakenstine

Filmdrummer

Intern:

lateamy1

BrerRabbit1

Cr8tive_Zone

CreativeRedstone

So here’s the news on the newest Minecraft version 1.8. At the moment, we’re working our hardest to update our servers so 1.8 players can connect to them. There are a few disadvantages, however. One being the Dragon Bar at the top of the Screen doesn’t work at the moment. We can live with that. However there are a few larger disadvantages. Click Here to see how our “Barrier Blocks” (not the 1.8 barrier blocks, what we used to block guests) are visible now. That’s something we will have to find a temporary fix for before we can use Barrier Blocks. One advantage, however is that we can use the newest Minecraft blocks that appear in the Creative Inventory Menu (Variations of Stone, Wet Sponge, etc.) with our WorldEdit plugin. If you’re in the Minecraft 1.8 Client, you will see these blocks as they’re supposed to look. If you’re still on 1.7, you will just see the original block instead (Stone instead of Granite, Sponge instead of Wet Sponge, etc.). At the moment, we’re not sure which of our servers will be updated and which will not. We most likely will not update the Parks until a later date. At the moment the only servers that may be updated would be Hub, Creative and the Arcade. More news to come soon! Be sure to follow us on twitter by Clicking Here or Like our Facebook page Here!

Welcome everyone, VirusElite524 here for your August newsletter! We have numerous things to announce here, mainly about Main Map updates, our Creative server with some rule changes, and our newly announced Arcade Server. We also had our largest promotion and extension to our staff in quite a while!

A recent survey showed us that most of our new guests found us through Youtube videos. The video that attracted many of them regarded our large presence at YouCube, where we volunteered and assisted the last-minute but hugely successful event. Our owner, most of our administrators, and some of our Cast Members traveled to New York City where we seamlessly transitioned from our original MineORama meet-and-greet plans to the same professional support that we provide our server users. Even acting as real-life ‘CMs’, we had a great time, and are delighted that our involvement at YouCube has earned your interest and support!

As for building news, we are putting the finishing touches on Typhoon Lagoon. Much of the water park is built and functioning, and we expect to complete our first water park soon!

Here’s a list with some other small park updates in these locations:

• Coral Reef Restaurant has been refurbished.
• New DVC Lounge at /warp dvc
• Castle stage with minor additions.
• Yankee Trader store refurbishment
• Detailing throughout Liberty Square
• Start of work on Downtown Disney
• Various redstone tweaks to improve TPS and ride flow.

Utilidors are temporarily closed while we use them to test a new cross-server technique. Hopefully, this will help us resolve ride sluggishness in the future!

Speaking of Downtown Disney, if you had the chance to experience Disney Quest and its indoor interactive environment full of games then be on a lookout as we connect this and our newly created,

Arcade Server.

The Arcade Server is currently in beta test mode, and if you have seen videos of it’s gameplay, then you’ll know what game types to look forward to. Keep on a lookout for future updates from our technician, Legobuilder0813, who has been doing much of the backend coding for new server. Also, if you have an idea for a game map to be considered for the arcade, then submit your map here. Just follow the rules on that page and your map could be a playable land for all to enjoy. If anything,Feel free to gather some friends and build it on your plot on Creative!

As for creative, we have three things:

First is a rule change for inactivity and wasted plots: If you rarely go to Creative but have a plot with nothing on it, we will be removing your ownership of that plot to make room for someone else. The time limit is 45 days. After that 45th day we will clear the plot.

Second is a rule change for Roleplays: Due to a recent selection of family-inapprorpiate roleplays, we are temporarily disallowing roleplays on our servers. If you are caught with any roleplaying, you will be temp-banned or permanently banned, depending on content and repeated offenses. CMs may set up a guided roleplay, but these will have a labeled Cast Member present to keep the order. Depending on guest behavior, we may lift this rule in the future.

Third, is the  Hollywood Studios on Creative! With Hollywood Studios being rebuilt, we want to get our guests involved in construction of Hollywood Boulevard. Guests will be permitted to view an outline the buildings on Creative, where you will be able to choose an area to build. If you build it and it looks correct with measurements, detailing, spacing, and color, then your build may be chosen to use on the main map! This is a great way to be noticed for an Imagineer position, so put care into your build if you decide to try! More details will be announced later on my Twitter, @VirusElite524.

For staff applications, due to increased user volume, the applications will only open for the first five days of the month. When filling out the form, please read all the directions; most apps are rejected because a direction wasn’t followed!

The resource pack that will be updated will have new music, new bow, new arrow, new wooden hoe, new GUI items, and even a secret particle effect.

Lastly, we have a bunch of fun events planned for this month:

First, we are excited to announce the rollout of TASTE OF FANTASMIC. Taste of Fantasmic will become a regular show alongside Wishes and Illuminations (IROE), and will play during weekends. This will allow us to give you a Taste of Fantasmic, even when cast members aren’t available to run full Fantasmic.

Second, we are equally excited to announce Villains Nights at Hollywood Studios, starting August 23rd. This will include a few activities happening in parallel at the real HWS, and an early showing of the firework show HalloWishes at the castle!

Third, and most importantly, we are estatic to announce imaginears.club’s 3RD ANNIVERSARY. In addition to Wishes, IROE, and Taste of Fantasmic, look out for TWO NEW, FULL LENGTH, CUSTOM-MADE SHOWS: “Just Like We Dreamed It” at the Main Street train station, and “Relive the Magic” at the castle! Both shows offer hundreds of additional fireworks, unique soundtracks, and effects that push the art of minecraft firework shows to their limits!

This wraps up this month’s update. The cast of Imaginears Club would like to thank you for three magical years of building, performing, and fun! Your support has been instrumental in getting us to where we are today, and we can’t wait to bring you even more fun in the next year!