Room Makeover 29 May 2008

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Featured this week:

SunnySillyName's
I Found Nemo!

and...

JustTravel's
Just Travel In Style!!

SunnySillyName was telling me about one of her favorite Disney animated movies – Finding Nemo. I asked if she had been on the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage attraction at Disneyland. She said no, but couldn't wait to see it! Which gave me an idea... why not build a mini, virtual version of this attraction?

BEFORE: The waterfall and rocks on this Tiki Beach make the perfect backdrop for Nemo!

Item #1 on the Room Makeover To-Do List: Flood the room! First we covered the floor in Water Carpets. Then we placed our Nemo Submarine pieces where we wanted them, leaving just one Nemo Submarine Front all by itself. (You'll see how we use in a second...)

TIP: The right backdrop sets the tone for your whole room.

After we were happy with how we positioned our subs, we had to build our waterfall! We used Blizzard Beach Rocks and Waterslide Teleporters to re-create the famous Lagoon Waterfall seen at Disneyland. And see? The Nemo Submarine Front now looks like it's coming around through the waterfall!

Now a submarine voyage with nothing to look at is pretty boring, so we added lots of ALR Grasses  small, medium, large and green and pink  to create an ocean floor full of seaweed. We added PPR Rocks Large, Rocks Small, Green Plants, and Blue Plants for even more dimension. A sunken Nemo Submarine Buoy sits at the bottom of the ocean. Last but certainly not least, the infamous "Mine! Mine! Mine!" birds are represented by three Gull Post Lamps.

AFTER: Now we're under the Sea! Darling it's better down where it's wetter, take it from me!

Be sure to explore Nemo's underwater world in SunnySillyName's I Found Nemo Guest Room!

JustTravel likes to travel! In fact, it's one of his favorite things to do! It took just one look at his Disney Travel T-Shirt to get the inspiration for this makeover!

JustTravel's room was pretty empty, so I thought what would make this space really exciting? A city! I mean after all, who doesn't love to visit a big city?

BEFORE: A lonely Cactus Chair from Frontierland is about to meet a metropolis.

To build this city, I used PPR City Carpets, City River Carpets and City Flats to create a bustling miniature city. Once we laid out the river plan and situated the carpets, we sprinkled PPR Building Flats 1-5 all over the town and added a handful of PPR Tower Small Buildings. A PPR Big Ben, PPR City Tour Bridges, and some PPR Tiny Trees completed our scene.

Now for the best part, to take a bird's eye view of our handi-work! That's right, in this room JustTravel and I planned to take friends on a circle tour of our city! Of course there aren't any planes in VMK but what's the next best thing? Space shuttles! For this ride we planned on using Space Mountain Track.

DURING: The city is nearing completion!

The great thing about Space Mountain Track is that the colors of the poles blend into our background of this room quite nicely. We planned out our route, adding a few Uphills and Downhills along the way. Once we had tested the track to make sure all the pieces were facing the right direction, a few more PPR Tiny Trees and several PPR Night Clouds make it feel like we're really flying over the city!

AFTER: See, Peter Pan isn't the only one who can soar above the rooftops!

Be sure and visit Just Travel in Style and travel in style with JustTravel!

This is the final installment of VMK Room Makeover. I want to take this opportunity and thank all the players that let me make over their rooms! I really enjoyed making them over – and I hope you did too! Thanks to all the VMK Players that submitted a room (sorry if I didn't get a chance to pick yours) and thanks for playing Virtual Magic Kingdom!

HOST_Bella

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