Here is a complete list of every update on the upcoming map. There's a lot changed, updated, and created, so please read through everything.

“Our amazing team of Imagineers and Cast Members have really done an amazing job and I would like to thank all of them for their very hard work. They have brought to life so many new additions and rides. I think you are all going to be amazed and thrilled. Enjoy!” – Walt__Disney (owner)

Magic Kingdom

•  – entrance: removed old signage
•  – entrance: updated Mickey head foliage
•  – improved lighting
•  – added missing signage
•  – added missing trash cans
•  – water updates for levels

Main Street, U.S.A.

•  – City Hall (complete rebuild including interactive Cast Member)
•  – Added Tinkerbell meet-up at Town Square Theatre
•  – Chamber of Commerce (front facade rebuild)
•  – Rebuild entrance walkway with “Guides”
•  – added flag bunting to building
•  – Updated rail lines
•  – updated trash bins

Fantasyland

• All new entrance

“Cinderella Castle”

•  – updated rear stairwell for Characters
•  – improved design on rear walkway
•  – improved view of carousel as entering land
•  – lowered water in moat to realistic level
•  – prepared castle for Cinderella Suite
•  – improved lighting

“Sir Mickey’s”

•  – Exterior facade (complete rebuild)
•  – Interior facade (complete rebuild, incl. giant peeking)
•  – Moved building 2 blocks east (exposes better view of carousel)
•  – Added Cast Members

“Castle Couture”

•  – Moved building 4 blocks west

“Princess Fairytale Hall”

•  – Exterior facade (complete rebuild)
•  – added real-life design
•  – added “Anna and Elsa”

“Prince Charming Carousel”

•  – Exterior facade (complete rebuild)
•  – Ride mechanics update

“Seven Dwarf’s Mine Train”

•  – Exterior facade (complete build)
•  – Ride audio created and added to new pack
•  – added new ride system for spam control
•  – added new exit system to avoid redstone repeater “trick”

“Ariel’s Grotto”

•  – Moved entire building back 6 blocks
•  – constructed and opened pathways

“Tea Cups”

•  – Exterior facade (complete rebuild)
•  – Ride mechanics update

“Peter Pan”

•  – Ride mechanics update

“Small World”

•  – Ride mechanics update

Tomorrowland

•  – Main Entrance (complete rebuild)
•  – Added kiosks (Food and Bev/Merch)
•  – Added drop-down area next to Space Mountain
•  – Face Painting area/Bathrooms (color updates and general clean-up)
•  – Expanded entrance music radius
•  – Added signage to Tomorrowland Terrace
•  – Improved stage area
•  – color updates on umbrellas and kiosks

“Starlight Cafe”

•  – Exterior facade (color updates and general clean-up)
•  – tables added to west wing
•  – tables added to east wing
•  – pathway between east and west wings added
•  – bathrooms added
•  – improved lighting

 Frontierland

•   – Tom Sawyer Island caves updated and reopened
•   – New challenge/quest

Epcot

“Soarin'”

•  – Ride mechanics update

DVC Members

•   – Expanded Utilidors tour

Welcome everyone! VirusElite524 here for your server update. We have plenty of updates to mention here due to missing out last month newsletter. We have many projects and a lot of have been overwhelmed with real life responsibilities (such as finals and work for some of us) and now with things calmed down, I finally have the time to catch up with everyone.

-We have redone the entire hub in front of the castle to the new redesign they’re currently working in real life to expand space for guests to enjoy the shows that go on through there such as parades and fireworks. Our revision is based on the video they released showing their model.

-New artwork are now displaying some recognizable displays and signs you can see in the parks such as store signs, attraction signs, and even the trashcans.

-Getting autographs is now easier with a new and friendly way without losing it. With your autograph book in hand, you can now approach your favorite Disney Character and drop it facing them to give it them without loosing it, get it signed, and easily retrieving it back.

-MagicBand now exist here in Imaginears Club! Thanks to a awesome programmer xBlazeTech for making this possible, this tool assists you in the server with features such as choosing our different servers of creative or history, going to the different parks, access your autograph book, find places to obtain food, soon help find a room when the hotel system is fixed, toggle seeing other players, and showing your current balance. It’s still in a beta phase and we’re still continuing on improving and expanding it.

-Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin and Toy Story Mania is now just a ride without the shooting feature as we are still working on a new scoreboard feature.

-Stitch’s Great Escape has been redone and is being shown every other day.

-Main Street Electrical Parade will be debuting on June 21 at 3 PM Est.

-Epcot is currently undergoing refurbishments which you may have noticed with Soarin.

-Test Track now has in-ride audio through the audio pack.

-New Hollywood Studios has started have a small portion completed with two firework shows going off every night switching between the Hollywood Studios 25th Anniversary show which is being displayed every weekday (Monday-Thursday) at 10 PM Est and the Star Wars Weekends firework show, Symphony in the Stars shown every weekend (Friday-Sunday) at 10 PM. The Anniversary show will be shown during the entire month of May and the Star Wars show will be shown until the last Star Wars Weekend goes in real life.

-Speaking of Star Wars, this past weekend we some events celebrating Star Wars for May the Fourth and Star Wars decorations all over the server.

-Fantasmic has been going through revisions for a more improved performance so keep an eye out in the future.

-All rides have been revised and are now in working condition.

-Typhoon Lagoon has also started construction with Crush N’ Gusher, Storm Slides, and Humunga Kowabunga Water Slides and with a new feature, we have a working wave pool.

-Using that same feature for the wave pool, we’ve updated some water works around the parks. So check out the camel next to Aladdin’s Magic Carpets, the two fountains at the hub, and even the fountains in Illuminations.

-The warp pool now leads you to the Grand Floridian Pool.

-Donors are now “DVC” which is the Disney Vacation Club members.

-All characters are now managed by WildPoppys with assistance with argobargo14 and BroghanTaylor with a new and easy application system.

-The staff application form here on the web will be temporarily closed as we are updating it.

-Animal Kingdom is nearly completed with only Rafiki’s Planet Watch area is close to completion and the parking lot with the roads around it need to be built.

-Creative has been reset with a massively new spawn built by Apollo1421 and dem190.

-We have a new server called the “History” server which is showcasing the first ever park built that started Imaginears Club.

-There will be a staff meeting May 25 at 2 PM Est following a public meeting at 4 PM on the same day. This meeting will be focusing on new staff members and new server announcement.

That will be it, anything not mentioned here will be brought up in the meeting.

Welcome everyone! VirusElite524 here and we have numerous announcements and updates coming with the map update. We’ve been very busy with finishing Animal Kingdom and we’re approximately 90% complete with just having a few shows currently in progress. Now with this being the last theme park in the Walt Disney World Resort, we’ve already started working with other projects outside of Animal Kingdom such as a refurbishment of The Grand Floridian and others that will be noted below. We will have an announcement later on regarding future projects.

Now listed below is what has been updated onto the Main Server:

Magic Kingdom:

• Space Mountain – Now features two versions of the ride. Once you enter the attraction, there will be a junction that you can choose which one side is riding it normally with no effects so you can partially see the tracks and the layout throughout the ride and the other with the active effect to have the real experience feeling.
• Monster’s Inc. Laugh Floor – Will soon be back in operation as our Cast Member atfish has been setting up and preparing for their re-opening and first show on March 8th at 7 P.M. Est.
• Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin- Will unfortunately stay closed as we’re still fixing issues caused by the scoreboard.
• Peter Pan’s Flight – Due to a technical issue, it will be closed until further notice.
• Mad Hatter’s Tea Cups – Updated to prevent any further stalling of the carts during the ride.
• Coffeebreak – Updated for the last time and will be removed in the next update.
• Winnie the Pooh – Added missing transitioning scene.
• Bippity Boppity Boutique – Added a new feature where you can purchase Princess’s Heads.
• Wishes – Most to all of the fireworks should be showing do to technical errors in the previous showings.

Epcot:

• Soarin – Due to a technical issue, it will be closed until further notice.

One of our managers, EndoftheEarth is currently surveying the park, planning on one of our next project which is refurbishing parts of the parks. This project will consist on updating majority of the current buildings to new colors due to the fact it was originally built in the late 2012’s where stained-clay were available. Including with this project will also involve updating and/or redoing attractions with improved redstone and accurate ride layouts.

Hollywood Studios:

• Tower of Terror – Re-opened with a new layout and system. This version now consist a working pre-show which you may actually hear the audio if you have the audio pack which is mentioned at the bottom.
• Jedi Training – Updated.
• Fantasmic! – We’re currently running rehearsals which we’re aiming to have our first show by March 22.

Regarding to the entire Hollywood Studios park, there will be a major overhaul of the park in the upcoming months lead by myself (VirusElite524). As a Cast Member who works here in real life, there are plenty of errors due to the rush building the park. More news to be announced.

Animal Kingdom:

• Kilimanjaro Safaris – After almost two months building this large attraction, which is actually bigger than Magic Kingdom, we have finally completed it. This massive project lead by BrohanTaylor with assistance by WildPoppys, Dem190, mixmasterjacob, GrailMore, legobuilder0813, JoshtheLego, darthcorey, Skipper165, Peanuts363, Apollo1421, darthjahona, _Lionheart_, DisneyCEO1209, disneyluvr2146, GamingDude88, StitchPenguin, Megmouse, MindtheGap1, ActualFacts, kaderaid, owils, ZACx209, Swine_Monster, and Kooldude70.

Ticketing and Transportation Center:

This area has been updated and expanded and is still being worked on being expanded. Also the Monorails have been refurbished and is now back open.

The Grand Floridian Resort and Spa:

Thanks to one of our managers, GrailMore, who has been in charge refurbishing the entire resort with assistance by JoshtheLego, DisneyCEO1209, and mixmasterjacob. The main building has been amazingly redone and work is still continuing on the buildings and rooms within the resort. To compare it, we have this album that shows a before and after with the Grand Floridian: http://imgur.com/a/UOg6D

All Star Sports Resort:

Thanks to two Imagineers, the Miller brothers, more work can be seen at /warp allstarsports.

Imaginears Club Audio Pack:

As mentioned before, we have released an audio pack where you can download and add it among with the resource pack for the full experience. For example if you are in the pre-show for the Tower of Terror, once you activate the show the audio from the actual pre-show in real life will play. There will be more attractions that will feature more sounds and music if you can find places where it can activate it.  The link to download the audio pack will be shown in the Resource Pack page when it becomes available which can be found here: http://imaginears.club/servers/resource-packs/

Characters Accounts:

Ever since we started the Character system three months ago, the community has gathered over 130 characters which totaled to about $4,200 spent on these accounts. Just wow. The Character thread to claim a character has been pushed back to open to next Sunday March 9. We now have a character class that you must attend prior retrieving your character tag if you do get a character. Please consult to BroghanTaylor, argobargo14 or WildPoppys.

Updated March 12: Due to personal conflicts, I’m pushing back the date to open up the characters until further notice.

Walt Disney World Resort

This new section that I want to cover is general news from the Walt Disney World Resort itself since I get these news daily. I will cover anything that is happening and refurbishments that is happening in the parks. I’ll be expanding this more later on.

Magic Kingdom:

NEW Festival of Fantasy Parade: Premiering March 9.

Refurbishments:

Splash-Mountain: Closed until March 21. Re-opening March 22.

The Plaza Restaurant: Closed until March 15. Re-opening March 16.

Pinocchio’s Village Haus: Closed until March 30. Re-opening March 31.

Epcot:

Events: Epcot’s 21st Annual International Flower and Garden Festival.

Hollywood Studios:

Refurbishment:

Studios Backlot Tour: Closed until March 1. Re-opening March 2.

Animal Kingdom:

Refurbishment:

Festival of the Lion King: Closed until this summer.

That will be all and this may update throughout the month. Thanks for reading and enjoy your stay here in Imaginears Club!

-VirusElite524, Manager

Hey there everyone, this is VirusElite524.  Just a small newsletter to all to inform you on what’s happening here.

First of all, we had a public meeting on Sunday, January 26 at 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time which covered future events and post-Animal Kingdom projects and new staff!

Main Server:

Animal Kingdom is 80% completed with Kilimanjaro Safaris, automating some shows, the parking lot, and some back stage is all that is missing.  Please thank BroghanTaylor who has been working very hard as she is in charge of the Kilimanjaro Safaris project and the crew who has been working on it.

Good news to those who are seeking a better experience with our Resort hotels, we’re working on a custom plugin which will be better than our current one which has been glitching for a while now and is long overdue for an upgrade.

We’re aware of the main server being very slow, this is mainly due to an unstable version of Bukkit which is causing our TPS (Ticks Per Second) being very low during busy hours which causes all shows and attractions to be very delayed and off.  We apologize for the inconvenience but we’re trying our hardest to make your gameplay experience enjoyable as much as possible.

We are starting the refurbishment of Epcot.
–This is going to be taking place in a location away from the main park, so that you can continue to enjoy EPCOT as it currently exists while while we set up an updated one. Illuminations shows will continue in OldCOT.
–We expect that early iterations of new EPCOT will be uploaded to main as we work on them, but all content there is experimental until the new EPCOT officially opens.
We ask that our guests stay off the in-progress rides,
We can’t prevent you from going, if you feel like walking, and we won’t punish you if you go poke around, but be aware that it’s a work in progress and that our ability to help you will be limited.
We will not be assisting guests over until the opening, but we MAY invite donors for sneak-peeks.
–As we looked into developing new EPCOT, we noticed a few problems with Google Earth. In the future, we ask both our CMs and any guests who are building 1:1 to use Google Earth imagery from between 2007 and 2013. You will know if you are looking at the wrong image if the epcot monorail loop looks chopped up.
–Things to look forward to in the new EPCOT:
More accurate paths.
More redstone integration on rides
Complete redesigns for Soarin and Mission Space
MANY More things to see and do in World Showcase

We are working on a few resorts as well, including the Grand Floridian. Grail is working on the main building, JoshtheLego is fixing the pathways and other buildings. mixmaster and a few others are working on getting the parking lots outlined. More news on this in the future.

Creative:

As for creative server, we’re also aware that it will go down every hour or two but due to some reason, the RAM slowly increases to the max and forces the server the restart which can cause to rollback any progress.  We are also looking into it hoping to have the resolved as soon as possible.  Another note to creative, please do not teleport to plots that are extremely far, this will cause your account to stuck and unplayable but can be saved if you contact with a Cast Member on mumble.  We’re also going to fix the “/plotme auto” command.

Website:

Also if you’ve sent a message through the “Contact” form here on the website, I spent about four hours going through 496 forms dating back since July and if you have sent a ban appeal between July-November 2013, majority of you have been unbanned.  To those who submitted around December, please fill out the ban appeal section in the forums.  Also to those who sent a message concerning their donor status and tag, those will be fixed soon in the upcoming weeks.

If you submitted a staff application before last Thanksgiving, those have been disposed due to being out of date and there is now a new format when submitting an application.  I am also handling that and we actually tell you if you have been chosen or not.

Any characters that have been claimed but not yet created yet will be soon unclaimed and will be open to everyone, more details during the meeting on Sunday.

New Staff:

ArgoBargo14- CM
ActualFacts- CM
_AlphaUnit_- CM
Gamingdude88- CM
Splashmandx- CM
SkyNexus- CM
kaderaid- CM
Benhamington- CM

Hello_Spencer- intern
Swine_Monster- intern
punktherocker- intern
xxlostspiritxx- intern
Kooldude70- intern

This is all I have on my end and there was a lot more covered in the meeting.  Thank you so much for your appreciation, patience, and dedication to be with us as we’re handling these server issues along with daily real life issues with a lot of us in classes and to those up north dealing the harsh “Frozen” weather.

Enjoy your stay here in Imaginears Club.

-VirusElite524, Manager

So as we wrap up the year, we look back and see the progress and things that happened and I gotta say, a lot has happened.

From Cruise Ships to new management, the server has changed so much since the beginning. The list below displays the major events that happened this year. What’s not included (due to not remembering when) is stuff like the reset of creative (twice), who became staff, small events, random events, milestones, and a lot more things that are left out.

On behalf of the staff of the Imaginears Club, we thank you for your support and appreciation you’ve given us and we hope that you will continue on along with us as we have more in store in the future.

January: HWS opened, Work begins in AK
February: New MK begins
March: Progress
April: 50K Guest
May: May the 4th Star Wars Weekend Event
June: 70K Guest
July: 80K Guest
August: 2 Year Anniversary, New MK Opens
September: 100K Guest
October: 50% of AK, Premiere of HalloWishes
November: MineCon, Premiere of Wishes
December: Disney Dream Cruise Ship, Premiere of Holiday Wishes and Fantasy in the Sky

So much has changed and improved since just a few days ago. Here is a complete list of all the changes and additions;

Top of the line hardware provided by McProHosting:

• 8 core processor
• 32gb RAM
• 1gb/s connection

All new Magic Kingdom:

• Old MK is gone!
• Every ride has been updated
• Meetups with actual characters have been added
• Details and scenery have been significantly improved
• Shows are now mostly automated
• Rides now have spam-free launchers
• NEWS items have been added to announcements
• Shortcut commands have been re-added (/apply, /mumble, & /guide)
• More places and food selections to eat! (ex; Turkey Leg)
• and SO MUCH MORE…

Warps have been cleaned up & improved:

• Uses WDW’s official abbreviations
• Are shorter for convenience
• Cleaned from 400+ warps to just over 100

The Main map is back online:

• Shows where Guests are located
• High resolution imagery

Resource Pack updated:

• Music added
• textures improved
• clothing added
• pins coming soon
• made by DaFuze (with a little help from Walt)

Magic Kingdom will always be a work-in-progress, but it is now much closer to 1 to 1 construction. Our shows are bigger, louder, and more fun than ever. Our rides are more immersive, detailed, and true-to-life.

We’re so proud of our CMs and Imagineers for the work they did. We hope you will take a moment to thank ALL of them. We certainly do.

Cheers,

Walt__Disney