Previous Events (2005)

May 24th – VMK Opens to the public in Beta with Main Street, Adventureland, and Fantasyland open. This includes games called Street Party Music Game, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jungle Cruise, and Castle Fireworks.

Parade and scavenger hunt - Players were told to gather on Main Street and "parade" along its length. Some parade "leaders" were awarded the Dancing Inferno magic pin. Then a few staff members "hid" themselves in some rooms in the game, and the first people to find each of them were awarded prizes.

July 16th and 17th - Room decorating event - Players were told to decorate their rooms to be judged. On Saturday was the judging of the Celebration theme; players whose rooms were found to best commemorate Disneyland's 50th anniversary won prizes. Sunday featured judging of the Space theme, letting players decorate their interpretation of what "space" meant to them. Prizes were also given for answering trivia questions. (Some players did not receive a visit from judges; a number of these players were given an Invisibility magic pin as a consolation prize.)

August 19th - 21st - Pin-trading event - Rooms were judged based on a pin-trading theme, and prizes were awarded. The Lounging Lion pin was traded to players by staff members wearing Goofy hats who visited the trading rooms.

October 8th and 9th - Haunted Maze event - An easy maze, a medium maze, and a difficult maze were available for players to try finding their way through, and successfully completing the maze would award a prize. (Respectively: 100 credits, a Haunted Mansion Master Gracey pin, and a Candy Cauldron.) However, the event was plagued by server problems, resulting in queues of half an hour or more to get into the mazes, and some players were not able to enter the mazes at all or were bumped offline in the middle of them. Halloween decorations appear on Main Street.

Halloween week - Halloween event - Several special costumes (new as well as previously seen) were made available for purchase in the game. On October 30th, there was a special event to celebrate Halloween. Players who waited in the Castle Forecourt area would occasionally be visited by a staff member, who would award a Candy Cauldron, a grey Haunted Mansion suit, a Mickey Ear Pumpkin, or a Dancing Inferno magic pin to the players with the best costume. Free prizes were given out in a VMK Prize Machine room based on spins of a Random Number Generator. However, long lines to get into the Castle Forecourt and the VMK Prize Machine rooms prevented some players from being able to participate.

November 11th, 12th, and 13th - Voting Poll event - There was an event to commemorate mid-November voting days across the United States. Players could purchase and wear special shirts to publicly show their opinions on certain issues. On the 11th the question was "who is your favorite character?" (According to the VMK newsletter the winner was "The Dragon" with 30% of the vote); on the 12th it was "what is your favorite VMK game?" (Pirates of the Caribbean, 27%), and on the 13th it was "when is your next trip to a Disney park?" For the following two weeks, as a result of having "won" the poll, the Dragon gave out 100 credits per visit, instead of the usual 20 credits.

November 24th -27th - Thanksgiving Quest - Players could visit designated rooms to find photos; by stringing together the first letter of each pictured item, they could spell the names of two Thanksgiving foods and submit their answers for prizes. Everyone who sent in a correct answer won a hyena pin, and a few winners were randomly selected for additional prizes.

December - Gift Giving Event - A player can spend 500 credits to purchase a green wreath, which will be given (in the game) to someone of his or her choosing on December 24.