UPDATE! The 'Build Your Own Space Mountain' Ride Competition winners are announced! Plus, Yavn answers your questions!

Yavn Speaks UPDATED 12/08

***UPDATE***

Build Your Own Space Mountain Ride Competition

WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

You built them and we came to ride them! VMK's Build Your Own Space Mountain Ride Competition was an amazing success - thanks to all the builders that joined the Competition! We had thousands of participants and all the rides were so colorful and creative it made judging the competition incredibly difficult to choose the Grand Prize winner and the 10 Runners Up. But we finally were able to pick winners for each of the four categories and here they are:

Best Use of Color Grand Prize Winner
PinkGirlygirl

Best Use of Color Runners Up
alphamousegirl
AuntieJulie
AwesomeMegangirl
Dark_Pegasus
Laurabearz
LaVidaPixie
Norbie
RainbowKougra
TeaMonster
totallykris

Best Theme Grand Prize Winner
Carioca

Best Theme Runners Up
AceFighterPilot
AliasSpike
CL_Reebee
CL_Spartian
HauntedGrim
HopelessMagic
IWearTheMoose
Jellyrolls
KrazyLuke
virtualmagicguy

Most Creative Grand Prize Winner
CL_SillyQueen

Most Creative Runners Up
Blue-Maxx
CL_OutOfMyMind
KatieNana
MaidenDizznee
malifiscent
Mystify_Me
PinokeFan
retrogal
tattooine
Zatchbell-Fan

Best Overall Ride Experience Grand Prize Winner
CL_Jazzymine

Best Overall Ride Experience Runners Up
Adventuredaz
CL_CaliDreamin
CL_LittleDragonErin
JuniorSpaceAce
KnotillusKneemoe
Loweyan
Neuu
qruthie
stichers
The_Imagine

THE PRIZES

Every player that built a ride was awarded a Tomorrowland 8-9 Pin.

Congratulations winning players! You all created fantastic rides and for your efforts, you will be handsomely rewarded! Every player that participated in the event will receive the Tomorrowland 8-9 Pin while Runner Up and Grand Prizes are listed below:

Runner Up Prizes

-1 Rocketship Couch Color Green
-Top Ten Pin
-5,000 Credits

Grand Prizes

http://avmk.disney.go.com/avmk_v0300/en_US/media/calendar/YavnSpeaks-2006-12-08-redspcsuit.jpg
Grand prize winners won the red Mission Space suit!

-Mission Space Red Space Suit
-Top Ten Pin
-10,000 Credits

For those of you who missed the opportunity to get in on the competition - don't worry - we've got lots more cool ride competitions on the way! And remember, if you were a winner please keep those rides up and open as much as possible over these next few weeks! We want to make sure that anyone who didn't get a chance to ride this weekend will get to see why your winning ride won!

Congratulations everyone! And thanks to all of you who participated!

Woot! Tomorrowland 8-9 pin for just participating! That is way too cool. I've been after that pin for quite a while now. Yipee! And credits for winners is an awesome idea. They spent a lot on the ride - why not reward them (and rather heftily at that!).

Congrats to all the winners. I hope you still have your rides because I'm gonna visit as many as I can over the next couple of weeks!

@_@.

Runner-ups & Winners are very lucky with the prizes.

& since the prize for all participants was the 8/9 Tomorrowland pin, everyone was extremely lucky. =]

Too bad I didn't participate. Maybe next time. =D

Congrats to everyone!

Hehe, I never won anything, nevermind!
A flag and a Tomorrowland 8/9 pin rocks! Thanks VMK!

For those of you who missed the opportunity to get in on the competition - don't worry - we've got lots more cool ride competitions on the way!

woo more competitions! Congrats to all the winners :)

rghNKAKOOL THANKS for sharinh

Congrats to all winners, and participants!!

Bleh, I've struck out. Congrats to all the winners, I've seen most of those rides and they are plenty good!

Also, looks like we have a new rarest item in VMK.

Congratulations to the winners.

Guess my room comes down today...

Bleh, I've struck out. Congrats to all the winners, I've seen most of those rides and they are plenty good!

Also, looks like we have a new rarest item in VMK.

you said it schmoofy, i wish everyone could have gotten the suit :(

WOOT!!!!! The Grand Prize Is Totally Cool!!!! it worth millions of inferno!!!!!!and congrats to all!! -faint-

Congratulations everyone. You all had fantastic rides... :8: :8:

The ride prizes will be given today please be patient!

Woot that is great!!!

will try and get photo next time it comes up

Congratulations to the four grand prize winners who actually got somthing good. For the rest of us, including the runners-up, we all got ripped off again. No suprise there. Even if you won you really didn't get anything worth a rock so in the future please post the prizes prior to the event so we all don't waste our time again for nothing.

everybody dont worry! the prizes for Space Race WILL be given out LATER TODAY.

if you cant see the picture here is what it says:

VMK Staff Alert to the Room
ATTENTION Space Ride Competition
participants and winners. Prizes will
be given out today. Thanks for you
patience!

yea i know, i got the same message when i was on...

i wonder what the value of the 8/9 pin now???

I know a lot of people on VMK have been looking for the tomorrowland 8/9 pin, it, along with the ATIS Eye, is one of the most desired, so a lot of people are probably really happy to have been rewarded so well just for participating. On the other hand, VMK just hugely reduced the value and rarity of the Tomorrowland 8/9 pin since they just issued over 1,000 of them, which is good for some and bad for some. It's good for people who wanted them and couldn't get enough to trade for them, or those who can now trade less for them since there are more of them out there, but bad for those who were trying to get really good trades for the pins.

yea i know, i got the same message when i was on...

i wonder what the value of the 8/9 pin now???

well with THOUNDS of people its worth, maybe a NPC pin.. lol

Congrats to the winners! And Kudos to everyone who built a ride! Well done!

TigS

I'm glad the participation prize was the Tomorrowland 8/9 pin but I'm also upset because I traded the ATIS Mighty Eye pin for the pin. Now the value is dropping quickly. :(

Red space suit? Awesome. Congrats to all!

Hopefully the red space suit will be un-tradable. Then people don't offer STUPID amounts of stuff for it.
Great... an orange tomorrowland. I felt special to wear it, another rare thing struck from my list.
NOTE: Red space suit will probably be avalible later next year. So if it is tradeable, do NOT give rare stuff for it. Sure... you'll look good for a while. BUT the DAKL room came out again. And the everest chair came out again. See where i'm coming from? ;)

Oh, super. Everyone who tried got an old pin! OMG WOOT! I Love old pins, when VMK is too lazy to make a new one! YES!

Sorry, I am a bit grumpy that only four people get something worthwhile.

But, anyways, congrats to winners. Some of them, I really don't think deserved it, but I'll keep that to myself.
But, alot of them really deserved it. CL_SillyQueen's was really the best I've seen in a long time.

-X

i wonder if the winner/runner-up will get the tomorrowland pin too? :-) and Finally i can wear beta LOL.

Congratulations to the winners.

Guess my room comes down today...

Wait, huh!? WHAT!? I've looked about five times on the list, and GPDOT's ride isn't on it!? What kind of upside down parallel universe is this!? Most of those rooms were nothing compared to yours! No offence, but huh?

I feel ripped off.

-X

Congratulations to all the winners!

I must say, though, that I am surprised not to see certain other players listed up there, as I thought they would be sure things! (And no, I'm not speaking of myself.)

Still, I'm glad that at least a few of my favorites made it to the winners' lists!

Congratulations to all!

Good job everyone. To the ones that didn't win please keep on trying.
Even though i didn't win i had tons of fun.

Heart congratulations to all the winners. I agree that the prizes should be awarded prior to the event so we may know what we are going for. It would "sweeten the pot" a little more knowing what is in store. VMK is very generous in giving out prizes but wish it could have been something a little more special than the 8/9 pin that has been in circulation since conception of VMK.

Thanks again VMK and again, good going to all the winners.

Bleh, I've struck out. Congrats to all the winners, I've seen most of those rides and they are plenty good!

Also, looks like we have a new rarest item in VMK.

correct. 30 more people now have the green rocket couch, but only 3 in the ENTIRE game have the red space suit.

well with THOUNDS of people its worth, maybe a NPC pin.. lol

lol exactly what i said to a friend. It might as well be the new NPC pin lol

yea i know, i got the same message when i was on...

i wonder what the value of the 8/9 pin now???
Well, it's still rarer than the other pins in its series. But I doubt it would go for much at all any more.

Looks like VMK has managed to give out a prize that everybody wanted but that now no one will want. How's that for irony?

correct. 30 more people now have the green rocket couch, but only 3 in the ENTIRE game have the red space suit.
I count forty and four. But the sentiment is true. :)

well maybe not cuz many might not put them up for trade and ONLY those who entered got the pin while there is 1,000's upon 1,000's of players in vmk

correct. 30 more people now have the green rocket couch, but only 3 in the ENTIRE game have the red space suit.

Imagine how may infernos they could get for those

Congratulations to all the winners!!
To all that participated and did not win, sorry.
However a Tomorrowland 8-9 pin is not bad at all!!

Great prizes VMK, thanks!

HauntedGrim

Wow, I guess that tells me I stink.. I lose once again.

The green rocket will decrease in value just a tiny bit, not so many infernos lol. I can here it now "The Green rocket was given as a prize, not rare anymore" lol

Well, everyone tried hard and had fun, that's the important thing.

Besides, there's always next competition. ;)

-Skaterooni

The green rocket will decrease in value just a tiny bit, not so many infernos lol. I can here it now "The Green rocket was given as a prize, not rare anymore" lol

I was talking about the suit

The green rocket will decrease in value just a tiny bit, not so many infernos lol. I can here it now "The Green rocket was given as a prize, not rare anymore" lol
I don't think the value of the green rocket will decrease at all because of this. There are only forty more of them in the entire game. The Tomorrowland pin, however, won't be worth much of anything any more.

I count forty and four. But the sentiment is true. :)

sorry, i just took a quick guess

I don't think the value of the green rocket will decrease at all because of this. There are only forty more of them in the entire game. The Tomorrowland pin, however, won't be worth much of anything any more.

I dont know some of the halloween stuff has some value now

I wouldn't worry too much about the red space suit being that rare. Look at all the past ride competitions.

All the prizes have been released that I can think of a while later, except so far this most recent team ride comp.

Animal Lodge room? Mountain Chair? Red space suit will be released eventually.

- Sigh - Congrats to all the winners, I'm sure you all worked hard and deserved it. Unfortunately I didn't win this time. Tommorowland 8/9? I'm happy because I get one but I'm also sort of mad because now it's not rare anymore. Just another rare thing down the drain.

you said it schmoofy, i wish everyone could have gotten the suit :(Yeah, why not a red space suit to everyone who entered?

~Q/S

Oooh! That is a nice suit but they'd be crazy not to release it again later. Congratulations Carioca and CL_Jazzymine (only people I recognized :o) and everyone else!

I dont know some of the halloween stuff has some value now

Yeah, but that has nothing to do with the rarity of the items just released as prizes...

It was fun? It was expensive more rather...

It was fun? It was expensive more rather...
It was both!

Wow, that grade prize is pretty sweet! Think they'll release more colors?

I don't think the value of the green rocket will decrease at all because of this. There are only forty more of them in the entire game. The Tomorrowland pin, however, won't be worth much of anything any more.
Actually, I sense the green rocket already lost it's flair. Don't get me wrong though, it's nice to see that VMK rewards players with something nice. I just don't see why it has to be beta. What would have been nice is a pin created JUST for the event (like a Space Race 2006 pin, one color for particpating and other color for placing Top Ten). Even the Top Ten pin has lost it's symbolism now. There are hundreds of them floating around now (even though it's not tradeable). In a way, it's a HUGE slap in the face of many beta collectors or players that traded a lot for the orange tomorrowland pin/green rocket (in fact, I almost traded for another orange tomorrowland pin this past week). I have nothing wrong with the people that won. Those rides were awesome and they deserved it! The event was different and being individual made it more challenging. They even extended the deadline and made the rules so that you didn't have to waste your weekend keeping your room open. Kudos to VMK for that!! I'm just a little upset that VMK decided to RUIN the value of the trading system yet again.

Now with that said, the next question comes to mind is WHEN will the red space suit be sold?

Congrats to all the winners! I hope we get to buy the Red Space suit later.

Inferno!

Popularity has nothing to do with it. Staff judged EVERYONE (Well almost everyone; I've heard reports of a few who haven't). They picked based on who had the best ride, not who had the most friends.

People who don't win feel a need to blame someone so they blame judges and the players that win. It's like that for EVERY competition, VMK or not.

you cant sit there and tell me yours was better than sillyqueens no offense

Aww, shucks. I really thought I did well on my ride.

I thought I did good on my ride...........but oh wells, I learned not to do more competitions.....I wonder how many credits I spent. O_o

Congrats to winners.

Wow - such agnst in the thread. We all knew that there would be only 44 "winners" in the competition. This was my first one and I have to say I had a blast. I feel like a winner just to have participated.

:twocents: And for those of you who will "never do another competition," I say great - more chance for me! (And I'll bet you'll be back once this all quiets down.) :ththerethere6il:

Out of curiosity, how many of the 44 are members of this board? Anyone know? By the way, I was extreamly happy just to get my flag! I did ride a bunch of rides, that were awsome and I believe should have won something. But all in all, it was a blast. I had lots of fun. And I hope everyone gets to enjoy their prize, and or prizes!

i only know about 5

Wow - such agnst in the thread. We all knew that there would be only 44 "winners" in the competition. This was my first one and I have to say I had a blast. I feel like a winner just to have participated.

:twocents: And for those of you who will "never do another competition," I say great - more chance for me! (And I'll bet you'll be back once this all quiets down.) :ththerethere6il:

Um stop being rude kthx. Maybe some of us had a bad day and you don't know? Well w/e congrats to the grand prize winners and runner ups, those red new space suits look cool, you deserved them.

I, for some reason, that there were 5 categories. I also wonder how rides like Neoteny and GPDOT are not there. Anyways, Congratulations :)

I was really surprised by some rides I thought would for sure make the list and didn't. I missed most of the winners, but I thought Silly Queens was awesome, so glad it won!
I really enjoyed the whole event. The only problem I have with these events both team and individual is the major cost of participating. I knew I wouldn't win, I just wanted to play and yet I still spent at least 30K on my ride, and I know I'm at the low end of the cost scale. Even for the fun of it, it's not worth being this poor at Christmas. I really wish they would cut the cost on the ride parts drastically. It's not like it costs VMK anything, so why make it so very expensive just for the fun of participating?

I'd like to see a mixed track competition next! I think a "build the best ride out of however many different track types you like" competition would be super fun! And past competitors could recycle!

And I agree with the idea an original prize would have been nice. Even quests get individual pins designed (Cats,Dogs, Mountains,Halloween, Feet, Ceiling Tiles...new quests = new pins) so why not the ride events?

For those of you with the blues, hope you feel better soon!

TigS

Congrats to the winners. I am however disappointed at the prizes considering the cost to most of us who built rides. *sigh*

congrats to all the winners :) I know all the rooms I visited were very impressive.. I didn't plan on winning anything, so to get back the Tomorrowland pin i traded a few months ago was a nice little surprise :)

Congratulations to all the winners! They chose some awesome rides, although I'm a little dissapointed GPDOT and Neoteny weren't chosen at all.

I really like that suit...

Congratulations to all the winners! They chose some awesome rides, although I'm a little dissapointed GPDOT and Neoteny weren't chosen at all.

Same here . .

I, for some reason, that there were 5 categories. I also wonder how rides like Neoteny and GPDOT are not there. Anyways, Congratulations :)
Really, thanks for your support, everybody, but I wasn't really expecting to win. After all, my ride, while fun, didn't really fit into any of the judging categories. I'll be sure to pay more attention to those the next time around. :)

As for Space Race GPDOT, well, I have no idea how that ride was overlooked. It was the best themed ride I saw the whole weekend.

Well I know I am on the forums.
I was a runner-up for the best overall ride experience. Thanks to all those who congratulated us. As of right now, they have not given out the runner up prizes. Also thanks to those who stopped by and visited my entry of the weekend, I hope you enjoyed it. I will be opening the space race Loweyan as often as I can over the coming weeks for anyone who wished to take a ride. But yet I have to say there were lots of great rides out there that did not get the nod, but I personally know that for every good ride out there I was able to ride over the past few weeks, there were probably 4 I missed. So If you see one of the winners open, go take a ride and see how good it was.

I also know that many people spent alot of money on this competition, personally my ride cost me over 25,000 credits, with some big help from Princesslillie :) (thanks!). So the 5,000 credits will help to pay for a bit of that lol.

But anyways, good work on all that participated. And have a happy holiday, and please feel free to stop by and visit space race Loweyan for a fun little trip!

Take care,
Loweyan

i should have just made a circle and put space race with my room title. I would at least get the participating stuff :). Maybe not because i would have put no real effort into it.

This is a sign that the space suits in multiple colors are coming out soon. I believe red will be the rare one, but the others will be easier to get

Now, I just found out that I never got judged. They missed me! :( :(

Wait, huh!? WHAT!? I've looked about five times on the list, and GPDOT's ride isn't on it!? What kind of upside down parallel universe is this!? Most of those rooms were nothing compared to yours! No offence, but huh?

I feel ripped off.

-X

I, for some reason, that there were 5 categories. I also wonder how rides like Neoteny and GPDOT are not there. Anyways, Congratulations :)

Congratulations to all the winners! They chose some awesome rides, although I'm a little dissapointed GPDOT and Neoteny weren't chosen at all.

Same here . .

Really, thanks for your support, everybody, but I wasn't really expecting to win. After all, my ride, while fun, didn't really fit into any of the judging categories. I'll be sure to pay more attention to those the next time around. :)

As for Space Race GPDOT, well, I have no idea how that ride was overlooked. It was the best themed ride I saw the whole weekend.


I appreciate the support, and also appreciated riding your rides for those whose ride I was able to visit (great work all).

We had some fun and spent a fortune (and they wonder why I sandbag on fireworks ;) )

Heya,

Since GPDot's ride seems to have been the best ride in the event,
Any chances on some screen shots so those of us that might have missed it could have a look please??

Thanks

Grim

Credit to GPDOT for posting these on the Events forum: GPDOTS ride below.

Past
http://home.comcast.net/~gpallai/vmk/GPDOT_Ride_room_A.jpg

Present
http://home.comcast.net/~gpallai/vmk/GPDOT_Ride_room_B.jpg

Future
http://home.comcast.net/~gpallai/vmk/GPDOT_Ride_room_C.jpg

i never got judged........what a waste of credits

so there is only 4 red space suits in vmk correct???? wow very rare new item:)

GPDOT, your ride looks awesome! I really likes the tikis in the tree. Nice idea!
I kind of knew that with only 44 winners that some would be overlooked :(.
One of the things that I have discovered that weekend was my ride was looked at more often by staff and hosts when my ride room was full. My question to GPDOT and to others is was your room open all weekend even though it did not have to be?

My ride was a low budget ride and it was only one room so i understand how i did not win,

i never got judged........what a waste of credits

Perhaps you registered incorrectly?

Congrats everyone! :) Hope to see the winning rooms, so keep them open!

GPDOT, your ride looks awesome! I really likes the tikis in the tree. Nice idea!
I kind of knew that with only 44 winners that some would be overlooked :(.
One of the things that I have discovered that weekend was my ride was looked at more often by staff and hosts when my ride room was full. My question to GPDOT and to others is was your room open all weekend even though it did not have to be?

Thank you CaliDreamin,

Yes, My ride was open almost all weekend and Monday too. I only had one visit from a host or staff and that was from Hula to Judge on Friday night.

Thanks Polarfish for re-posting

I got too frustrated and gave up on my ride...anyways

Congrats to the players that won!

I'm now thinking that whole joke thing on the homepage was a joke in a joke. You see, they get us all scared by saying Tommorowland 8/9 is on sale. Then they say just kidding, we're all relieved but then they say everyone who entered the ride competition gets one. Too evil for VMK? I think not!

~Q/S

grats haunted after me crying infront of you you end up winning...
who wants me to cry next!? lol...
lucky ppl who got 8/9 pin ..

Thank you CaliDreamin,

Yes, My ride was open almost all weekend and Monday too. I only had one visit from a host or staff and that was from Hula to Judge on Friday night.

Thanks Polarfish for re-posting

You are welcome. Only special rides get me to use my special re-posting powers. *wink*

one of my friends got the grand prize and the red mission space suit. it was so cool we were all sitting there and then HOST_Sparky walked in and then HOST_Hula came in and i got to sit right in between them if ya'll want any pics i will post one up by tomarrow maybe

I have a question about the Tomorrowland 8/9 Pin...I did enter the contest, but I didn't do it because I filled the form in wrong. I did redo the form after I sent the first in, but they said they wer're accepting any with the form not filled out correctly. Yet today I look in my pin inventory and there I have a Tomorrowland 8/9 pin. Any ideas?

I do not have a Tomorrowland 8/9 pin yet.

I do not have a Tomorrowland 8/9 pin yet.
I now have five. I only had four before yesterday. So I got my participation token. Thank you oh so much.

And for those of you pointing out that the Animal Kingdom rooms and Everest chairs were later made available to everybody, and thus the red space suits will be available soon, I ask this: Where are the blue Blizzard Beach chairs?

I now have five. I only had four before yesterday. So I got my participation token. Thank you oh so much.

And for those of you pointing out that the Animal Kingdom rooms and Everest chairs were later made available to everybody, and thus the red space suits will be available soon, I ask this: Where are the blue Blizzard Beach chairs?

me guess is they'll put the suits in the arcade

Or the inferno pins since those were the grand prizes in the water ride competition.

I now have five. I only had four before yesterday. So I got my participation token. Thank you oh so much.

And for those of you pointing out that the Animal Kingdom rooms and Everest chairs were later made available to everybody, and thus the red space suits will be available soon, I ask this: Where are the blue Blizzard Beach chairs?

I think the complaint of the Yeti teams is that -all- the prizes became available later. I was one of the members of the Grand Prize team, and the only rare thing we got was the Top Ten pin (as did the runners up). The slide teams got Inferno. A bit unbalanced.

VMK lives and learns, I suppose.

It could be worse.. We could get nothing.. They could have saved a lot of pins by not giving out a particitation prize..

It could be worse.. We could get nothing.. They could have saved a lot of pins by not giving out a particitation prize..Very true.

~Q/S

me too :( But at least i got the pin for participating! :)

They gave us the flag.

I'm just wondering why the Top Ten pin keeps coming out. Why not just make a Space Race '06 Winner pin?

A Space race 06 pin would have been really different and unexpected. I am on these boards....vmk title is Mystify_Me. The prizes are ok but i enjoyed more just seeing some really interesting rides out there. I wish i could have time to see more of them, so winner or not, try and keep them open for others to appreciate. And for those out there who think the ride competitions have to be costly, I used most of what I had just lying around in store rooms with the exception of the track. Congrats to everyone who built a ride...it's the journey in getting there not always the end result that counts :)

Dont Forget Today We Get A New News Letter Today!

Congrats to all the winners, again!
Oh yes, and who is this in the picture, because then wouldn't there be FOUR in vmk, not THREE?
http://avmk.disney.go.com/avmk_v0300/en_US/media/calendar/YavnSpeaks-2006-12-08-redspcsuit.jpg

That is HOST_Sparky.

Four VMK players won them, but all HOSTs have them also.

-X