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Virtual Magic Kingdom Beta Launches

Posted by Zonk on from the small-world-after-all dept.

Via the Wonderland Blog, the news that Disney's Virtual Magic Kindgom has launched in a Beta state. The virtual space allows you to game some of the popular Magic Kindom rides, such as Pirates and Jungle Cruise. From the launch site: "For a limited time you can be one of the first Guests to live inside Disney's new online multi-Player game. Create your own adventures, control your Character and interact with Players from around the globe! Share thrilling competitions, exciting adventures and endless interactive Disney magic on the Internet. Help us make this online world a better place to play!"

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  1. If it has... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...a first-person shooter set in the "It's a Small World" ride, then count me in!

    Most. Annoying. Ride. Ever.

    1. Re:If it has... by macrom · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Maybe, but to a 3-year-old, it's the most wonderous thing ever seen. Which I suppose is the point of the ride to begin with, to instill that sense of wonderment in little children.

    2. Re:If it has... by vitamine73 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I Totally agree... however, considering the number of times I litterally dragged my parents in there when they brought me to Disneyland as a (very young) kid, I should be more 'patient' with that ride.

      ha, hell, no, I'd just love a FPS in there now that I have that damm song stuck in my head. Aaaarrrggghhh !

    3. Re:If it has... by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 2, Interesting

      My sister and I did the same thing but with the Eastern Airlines "If You Had Wings" ride at Disneyworld. Why? Two reasons... first it actually was pretty cool, and second, you didn't need a ticket to ride it.

      This was back in the days of A, B, C, D, and E tickets.

      That song still goes through my head 30 years later.

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      You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  2. Special rides! by subl33t · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, am looking forward to the new Lindsay Lohan ride...

  3. I wonder how many moderators they use. by Ailure · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You know, considering it's for kids and all. I wonder how they would protect kids from pedophiles. On the other hand, it's nice that's it's only open when they can moderate it. People living in dodgy timezones will have a problem with that thought... I had bad past experince with events happening in midnight. :P

    Have there been any online "virtual reality" chat for kids before? >_>

    But it being spelled kindom, so it's must be a really nice chat. ;)

    1. Re:I wonder how many moderators they use. by Gothic_Walrus · · Score: 2, Informative

      Taken directly from the linked blog post...

      It's got opening times. Much like the real park, then. I'll be signing up as soon as it opens in GMT..

      I'm guessing that that would help to prevent the vast majority of those "after midnight" incidents from ever happening.

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      Goo goo g'joob.
  4. same problems by BlairAtRice · · Score: 4, Funny

    Virtual lines for the bathrooms are still long. But, I will make a fortune farming...uh...mouse ears...to sell on ebay.

  5. I'll be renovating the Haunted Mansion by Alzheimers · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll be over there renovating the Haunted Mansion. If you appreciate my efforts, feel free to contribute some Wuffie, cause I'm kind of Down and Out right now.

  6. Try Curiouser by XXIstCenturyBoy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tried to call a Alice in Wonderland room "the Curiouser room" and curiouser was redlisted (blacklisted?) You'd think they would include that in their dictionnary... its straight from Alice.

  7. Re:"Giggle" is a vulgar word... by patio11 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Oh, crimety. I understand why they're doing it and all, but Toontown (chat via pre-screened phrases available on a drop-down categorized menu, similar to how FFXI handled translation) was a much better implementation. You don't need to use any naughty words to say naughty things -- in fact, you can say naughty things using almost any non-trivial restricted vocabulary.


    In CS:


    We were doing some direct hardware to hardware interfacing, real Plug & Play, when suddenly she switched from client to server mode and the resulting spike in my CPU graph caused me to dump core.


    I guarantee you sick bastards are going to be able to get Goofy with your Mickey no matter how restrictive they make the whitelist.

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    Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
  8. Re:You have got to be kidding me. by Lucractius · · Score: 2, Interesting

    a younger sibling of mine played the Konami (theyre IP (as in Intelectual property not Internet protocol :P ) anyway) Yugioh Online game think... kinda like an online MMORPG trading card game lol

    Among the censor list was "good"

    made for very interesting mistakes im sure

    "good game" becomes "**** Game"

    gee i wonder how much more offensive that seems hrm?

    online censoring in mulitplayer games seems to be a fad for even vaugely kiddy like stuff.

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    XML - A clever joke would be here if /. didn't mangle tag brackets.
  9. A little too meta for me by MilenCent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So, instead of pretending to be a pirate or a jungle explorer, we get to pretend to be a theme park guest pretending to be a pirate or a jungle explorer?

    At least it's not a Universal Studios MMORPG....

  10. Re:hey the forgot this about the disney experience by Soybean47 · · Score: 2, Funny
    3. the faulty odors at the lines.
    I've never been to Disney World, but... what does this mean? Do they have some sort of odor generators at the lines that often don't work properly? What's a "faulty odor?"