Hello Imaginears Club Community, happy spring! It’s time for some new things to be revealed on Imaginears Club. Some have been announced, some have been kept super-secret. Let’s get going!
FastPass Kiosk
The FastPass Kiosk was probably the only thing everyone knew about the update, but they knew almost nothing about it. It’s time to clear up the secrecy, let’s talk about what it’ll do!
In Disney World, you use FastPass Kiosks throughout the Parks to add, remove, and modify existing FastPass+ Selections. These Selections are what allow you to get on the shorter, faster FastPass line on most rides. On most of our rides, however, the wait time is nothing, or barely exceeds a minute. This is because we’re an online community, and we don’t have thousands of people in one Park at a time (that’d be cool though, right?). So, rather than allow you to create selections for FastPass+ that wouldn’t even be useful, we decided to go beyond what Walt Disney World has in these Kiosks and add Imaginears Club-Specific items.
The first three items from the left are three FastPasses, each of which can be claimed daily. However, there’s a catch. Each FastPass only works on a certain type of ride: Slow, Moderate, or Thrill respectively. All of our rides are now being categorized according to how Disney does it for their Parks. For example: The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror can only accept a Thrill FP, Soarin can only accept a Moderate FP, and It’s a Small World can only accept a Slow FP. No more shall we charge you $50 for each FastPass, that wasn’t fair. We hope you like this addition!
The center item, the Nether Star, is another new feature. Each day, you will be able to vote for Imaginears Club on popular Minecraft Server Lists. Each vote you make will, in turn, give you 5 Tokens. You can vote as often as the Server Lists let you, but you will only be rewarded once every 12 hours so you don’t get too rich!
The last three items are something we’ve been wanting to add for a very long time. With those, you are able to claim Monthly Tokens! Depending on your position on the server (Guest, DVC, Shareholder) you will be able to claim more Tokens. Everyone will be able to claim 50 Tokens. DVCs get an extra 50, so they get 100. And Shareholders get another 50, but can claim the DVC Tokens, so they get 150. If you have more tokens than you know what to do with, we’ll be adding more Outfits into the store soon. Stay tuned!
That’s a wrap for the FastPass Kiosk features. We hope you like them, a lot of work went into each and every feature. As always, let a Cast Member know if you find any bugs so we can fix them right away!
Suites
This is another feature we’ve been looking to add for a while. Suites are the same as normal Hotel Rooms, except they’re exclusive for our DVC Members and Shareholders. We plan on converting rooms in the Grand Floridian to Suites, as well as adding the ability to rent the Bungalows at the Polynesian as Suites. More news on that in the coming weeks!
Audio Server
This new service has been in the works for months, we’ve been fine-tuning it to the point where we believe it is time to show you, our Guests, what we’ve been up to! We realized how tedious it is for some of our Guests to download huge 200MB+ Audio Packs, and then configuring them could be difficult as well. After a lot of time was spent considering our available options, we decided this would be the best way to make it easier for more people to experience our Parks in the most immersive way possible.
With this, we will eventually be removing the necessity to use an Audio Pack entirely. Also, we will be removing standard show audio like Wishes and IROE from our Resource Pack, making that even smaller. As of right now, our Audio Server only supports a few rides completely (Test Track and Mission: SPACE). These were created so we could display how in-sync and easy-to-use this new system really can be.
Other than rides, the Audio Server will also play some music as you walk around the Parks! As you walk from the entrance of the Magic Kingdom to Main Street, the audio changes and gets more upbeat. Then, when you get closer to the Castle, it gets more regal. Everything you hear is exactly what you would hear if you were in the real Parks. All of the soundtracks used are owned by the Walt Disney Company, we do not claim ownership to any of the audio used on the Audio Server.
Okay, I’ve explained this feature enough. Let’s tell you how to use it!
Right now, since the Audio Server is still under heavy development, we are only making this available to our DVC Members and Shareholders. We don’t want to put it under the load of hundreds of users yet. As it’s used, we will be improving it. Everyone will have access soon!
To use the Audio Server, all you have to do is login to Imaginears Club and type /audio. Then, just click “here” in the message, and the Audio Server will open up! Important: As of right now, Google Chrome is the only supported browser. We will expand to support Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera in the coming weeks. In the meantime, download Google Chrome here! It is very secure and safe to use.
Please expect bugs and other issues with the Audio Server, it is still early in development.
Edit: We had to temporarily disable the Audio Server. The network couldn’t handle everyone connecting at the same time! We’re already working on improvements, updates soon!
Edit: The Audio Server is back up and running, type /audio to connect!
That’s what we’ve been working on recently! All of the above features are now available for use. As always, have a great day! See you around in the Parks
Legobuilder0813 – Manager and Lead Developer
