BREAKING NEWS! St. Patty's Day Items! Just added!

Four Leaf Clover Pin - 1,000 credits
Mad Hatter Hat - 1,000 credits

Don't forget to wear green, or get pinched! And today is the Catch a Lucky Leprechaun event. When you see Green Ears, say "I've caught a Lucky Leprechaun!" and get a cool green prize.

Poll Results 3/16/08

Eye patch 16%
Pirate hat 50%
A parrot 33%
Treasure map 0%

Pirate hat wins! A new poll has been added.

New Items! 3/15/08

Go Shopping with Shrunken Ned

Ahoy matey! We're swashbuckling into spring and devoting an entire month to our pillaging pals! Let's take a look at the pirate treasure I've dug up from our virtual stock rooms!

NEW ITEMS!

Check out these new items in Shrunken Ned's Shop

Peter Pan Ride
Mermaid Lagoon Waterfall

Alice Dark Ride Cave Wall Tall

Alice Dark Ride Cave Corner Wall

Alice Dark Ride Cave Arch

Pirate Throne Blue

Jolly Roger Tank
Also available in long sleeve and
in 5 different colors.

Pirate Costume Magic (Single use)

Levitation Magic (Unlimited use)

Magic Shop Checkers
Disappearing Act Magic (Single use)

Those tricky pirates have discovered this new checkers magic trick! Here's how it works: Cast this magic trick on a checker piece, your piece is then marked (the other player doesn't see the mark). Now when your opponent jumps this marked piece, you lose the piece – but the other player also loses his piece! Arrgh!

Those sneaky pirates!

BREAKING NEWS! Free Flag!

Jolly Roger Flag

Arrgh! Those dastardly pirates kept us from giving away this cool Jolly Roger poster before - but we've ransacked those bilge rats! Log into VMK on Saturday, March 15, 2008 and this pirate treasure is yours FREE! ONE DAY ONLY!

VMK Room Makeover

Give Us a Room,
You Get FREE Stuff!

Our HOST makeover a player's room and donate items to the player they get to keep.

See the results here, including BEFORE and AFTER pics and tips you can use to make better rooms.

This week:

StrangeKhakiStory's
Mini Pirates of the Caribbean!

StrangeKhakiStory tried her hardest to build a ride room. After re-building the room again and again, she was just about to give up – that's when I entered her room. After making my own pirate rides for this month's Ride-A-Thon's, I was really excited to see someone else's version of the greatest attraction in all of New Orleans Square!

BEFORE: It's a start, but this room will need more scurvy seadog-ness.

To make this room feel like Pirates of the Caribbean it will need a few touches that resemble the real ride. We started working on the layout of the ride track first, starting at the beginning of the ride and working our way towards the end. Lafitte's Landing is made out of brown Coffee Table Crates, Crow's Nest Barstools, and a few Pirate Maze Walls. A mini Blue Bayou is made out of a Pirate Map Table and blue Pirate Thrones, while the swampy atmosphere is added with a Swamp Tree.

We outlined the Falls with rushing water from Water Ride Teleporters and turned the corner into the Grotto with a Skeleton Chair leaning against a few Typhoon Lagoon Palm Trunks on top of a few PPR Small Islands topped with a Pirate Treasure Rug. In Shipwreck Cove we added a Galleon Bow and of course a Skeleton at the Helm. Now it's starting to feel like a Pirates ride!

TIP: Lay out your track the way you think it should go but feel free to change it to fit your building plan.

We continued by recreating the Captain's Quarters and Treasure Room with some scattered PPR Small Islands, Pirates Treasure Rugs, Treasure Chair, Skeleton Chair, Captain's Quarters Sofa, and a few accessories. Next came the Wicked Wench! The PPR Tiny Ship was just perfect for that! For a miniature fort, we used Pirate Maze Turrets with Skeleton Chairs for guards.

The Town Square is represented by the Well Chair and the skeletons on the opposite side are supposed to be the Auctioneer and redhead (see the red bandana? LOL!) Continuing on, Flaming Ransacked Windows on all sides make you feel like you're really going through the Flaming Ransacked Town. Dueling pirates with cannons sit in front of a Castle Suit Fireplace, which has been turned around to show the shields.

Finally the Treasure Room, where you can sometimes find Captain Jack Sparrow with a handful of loot! A few Pirate Maze Walls, stacked PPR Small Islands, a black Pirate Throne, and Pirate Treasure Small Rugs with golden Explorer Lanterns recreate this most recent addition to the actual attraction.

AFTER: Arrgh! One ride, one room!

Who knew we could fit so much into a single Guest room! (As a bonus, at the end of the ride, we added a teleporter that takes you right back to the beginning of the ride, so when you visit StrangeKhakiStory's Mini Pirates of the Caribbean, you can ride again and again and again!)

Ahoy mateys! See you next week!

HOST_Bella

Each week VMK's HOST_Bella selects a lucky player from the Kingdom (at random) for a Room Makeover! HOST_Bella then remakes the room – for free – using items that are donated to the players and they get to keep!

Submit your room for a Makeover using Contact Us.

BREAKING NEWS! VMK St. Patty's Day News!

VMK's Catch a Lucky Leprechaun!

Monday, March 17

Aye ya wee VMK'er's, to celebrate St. Patty's Day VMK HOST will be roamin' the Kingdom dressed up as Lucky Leprechauns (and looking pots o' gold, no doubt)! Are ya feelin' lucky? Then catch one of the HOST for a bit o' VMK's treasure!

Here's how it works: When players see a VMK HOST in a public room dressed like a Leprechaun, the first player to shout "I've caught a Lucky Leprechaun!" wins a great green gift! This happens all day on Saint Patrick's Day!

Prizes awarded are VMK HOST determination. Include Pirate Treasure Chest Green, Pirate Throne Green, Pirate Player Piano Green and Buried in Treasure Magic (Single Use).

Esmerelda's Trivia! 3/10/08

Test Your Knowledge of Disney Trivia!

Introducing the prophet of wisdom, the knower of all things and Disney trivia expert – Esmeralda!

What was the Disney Gallery at Disneyland originally designed to be?

Know the answer?

Send your answer in using Contact Us. Be sure to have your VMK registration info with you and select Esmeralda Trivia from the drop down menu.

IMPORTANT: If you do not submit your answer by using the 'Esmeralda's Trivia' option in Contact Us your answer WILL NOT be considered.*

From the correct answers submitted using the Esmeralda's Trivia option, we randomly select three players as the winners and send them specially selected prizes that vary from week to week.

The three selected Trivia winners receive the Esmeralda Trivia Pin.

This week's prizes include:

Invisibility Magic (Single Use)

Magic Shop Checkers
Sleight of Hand Magic

Last week's question:

On the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland, the two drop hills at the beginning of the ride do more than take guest down a waterfall. Besides providing a good thrill, what do the drop hills on the attraction do?

Answer: The two drop hills on the POTC attraction take Guest UNDER the railroad tracks and outside of the normal bounds of Disneyland Park.

The Pirates show building is for the most part, actually outside of Disneyland. Like several attractions in the Park, the rides are just too big to be contained by a single building. The Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountain and the Indiana Jones Adventure are also outside of the normal bounds of Disneyland (marked by the railroad tracks).

In a scene that was re-enacted in Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, jailed pirates try tempting a dog for the key to the cell.

Did you know: The Pirates of the Caribbean attraction was the last attraction Walt Disney was actively occupied with. Walt loved the real New Orleans and was heavily involved with every aspect of planning New Orleans Square. For the Blue Bayou he had Imagineers build a restaurant that would tie directly into Pirates while making Guest feel like they were dining in a quiet Louisiana bayou.

Walt never got to see the Pirates attraction open and the only scene he got to see completed was the auction sequence.

Winners:

SoakinUpTheSun
cleverlad
Jean-Pierre

* Only entries submitted by using the Esmeralda's Trivia option in Contact Us and sent by close of game on Friday will be accepted.