Visual History

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1 Homepages
2 Past Images of VMK
3 Holidays
- 3.1 Halloween
- 3.2 Winter Holiday
4 Updates

Just as Mickey has evolved through time, so has VMK. Below are various stages of VMK.

Homepages

Various homepages have been used throughout VMK's history.

Homepage May 2005

This original homepage was used from beta until Jan '06. A video was presented along with the original homepage. A link to this site before beta can be found here.

A globe was clicked on to login to the game.

Homepage January 2006

The second homepage was used from Jan '06 to October '06. Notable changes include the calendar, polls, and a new login button.

Homepage in January

Bannners

The banner from Jan-Oct '06

The banner from February '06, Everest Month

Homepage October 2006

The third (and current) homepage was changed to it's current state in October '06.

Homepage Left

Homepage Right

Past Images of VMK

Click here to see past item inventory images.

Past Images of VMK (click to enlarge)
VMK Beta Map	VMK Map Prior to NOS	Main Street Map before the Sci-Fi Dine In	Frontierland Map before the land opened on 10 December 2006
Frontierland Map Prior to 8 January 2007 (with Haunted Mansion still)	Fantasyland Screen Prior to 8 January 2007 (note Spell Room and original Fireworks)	Fantasyland Screen 8 January 2007 - 3 April 2007 (pre-Courtyard)	Old fireworks lobby before it's REMIXED makeover
Spell Room before it closed	Old Adventureland Map	Pirates Game Lobby prior 2 October 2006	Discovery Island
Tomorrowland Map before it opened	Star Traders before it changed into the Inner-Space Shop	Old Monorail Interior	A room from early times of VMK. Notice the crates and treasure chest

Holidays

For some holidays, VMK's Main Street has been decorated.

Halloween

Released: 1 October 2006, Retired: 1 November 2006 (Main Street portion only)
Re-released: 2 October 2007, Retired: 9 November 2007
Re-released: 26 April 2008 (Main Street areas only), Retired: 1 May 2008
It also featured "Grim grinning Ghost" theme music on each location on Main Street

Halloween (click photos to enlarge)
Load Screen (2006)	Map Load Screen (2006)	Map Load Screen (2007)	Town Square (2006, 2007, 2008)
Main Street (2006, 2007)	Main Street (2008)	Central Plaza (2006, 2007)	Central Plaza (2008)
Castle Forecourt (2006, 2007, 2008)	Haunted Mansion Lobby (2006, 2007)	Haunted Mansion Stretching Room (2006, 2007)	Haunted Mansion Ballroom (2006, 2007)
Haunted Mansion Attic (2006, 2007)	VMK Gallery (2007)

Winter Holiday

Released: 1 November 2006, Retired: 1 January 2007
Re-released: 9 November 2007, Retired: 18 January 2008
Re-released: 12 May 2008 (Main Street areas only), Retired: 17 May 2008
Various Songs are played including:

"Dreidel Dreidel" "Angels We Have Heard on High", and a short bell chime (Town Square)
"Jingle Bells", "Angels We Have Heard on High", and a short bell chime (Main Street)
"Deck the Halls", "Angels We Have Heard on High", and a short bell chime (Central Plaza)
"Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy", "Angels We Have Heard on High", and a short bell chime (Castle Forecourt)

Winter Holiday 2006 & 2007 (click photos to enlarge)
Load Screen (2006)	Map Load Screen (2006,2007)	Esplanade (2006, 2007, 2008)	Town Square (2006, 2007, 2008)
Main Street (2006, 2007)	Main Street (2008)	Central Plaza (2006, 2007)	Central Plaza (2008)
Castle Forecourt (2006, 2007, 2008)	Sci-Fi Dine-In (2007)	Sci-Fi Dine-In (2008)

Updates

April 2007

Released: 3 April 2007

New Registration Screen

Players can now choose a pre-approved name or submit their desired name and wait for name approval.

New Registration Screen

New Loading Screens

Main Loading Screen	Character Loading Screen	Furniture Loading Screen
Connecting to Server Screen	Additional Items Loading Screen	In Room Furniture Loading

New Public Rooms and Dark Rides

Introduction of Fantasyland Courtyard and dark rides Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan's Flight

New Fantasyland Map

Fantasyland Courtyard

Alice in Wonderland Ride

Down the Rabbit Hole	The Golden Afternoon	The Tulgey Woods
The Royal Garden	A Very Merry Unbirthday

Peter Pan's Flight- Ride

The Darling's Nursery	Flying Over London	Welcome to Neverland
Battle on Captain Hook's Ship	Mermaid Lagoon

New Hairstyles

Two new hairstyle options. For females, the Alice's hairstyle which cannot be worn with a hat or altered in color, for males, the Troy hairstyle which can be worn with hats and be different colors.

Female- Alice

Males- Troy

New Item Options

For Room Owners

Room owners can now access item information and allow items within their room to be moved by guests or not.

Owner item options

Owner item info

For Room Guests

Guests can now choose to move, rotate, or access item information if the room owner has turned on this option.

Guest item options

New Trade Window

The trade window shows item information about any highlighted item. In the item information sections, items are designated as tradeable or nontradeable, clothes are defined as female, male, or unisex, and other important details are provided.

New Trade Window

Clothing Trades

Tradeable

Female Clothing

Male Clothing

Unisex Clothing

Nontradeable - Please note that there are no articles of clothing of each gender that is non-tradeable.

Unisex Clothing

Pin Trades

Tradeable Pin

Nontradeable Pin

Furniture Trades

Tradeable Furniture

Nontradeable Furniture

Poster Trades

Tradeable Poster

Nontradeable Poster

Player Names Displayed Above Heads

Player's names can be viewed atop their heads by hovering mouse over the character.

Name Display

New Guest Room Options

Clear All

Guest Room Window

Clear Guest Room

Clear Guest Room Error

Change Who Can Enter- New Window Menu

Change who can enter

New Room Buying Options- Continue or Enter Room

New Room Buying Options

October 2007

Released: 2 October 2007

New Inventory System
The Inventory Window now allows you to see the how many of each item you have in your inventory. The items are placed on pages and users can easily scroll through these numbered pages by using the arrows at the bottom. Total number of pages are listed. These pages hold either 16 (for Furnishing, Pins, and Posters) or 12 (for Clothing)item types. You can now also scroll through item pages one at a time and choose a particular page to view. The total number of pages of items is given as well. Each teleporter pair is counted as a separate item.

New Inventory System (click to enlarge)
Furnishings	Pins	Clothing	Posters

New Shop System
The Shopping window now features tabs similar to those in the inventory window. Normal items from shops can be accessed through the shop button (after initial visit to shop)and these items are grouped according to item type. Special items can only be accessed by clicking on the cash register at the appropriate shop. The tabs are as follows: Rooms, Furnishings, Pins, Clothing, Posters, and Specials.

New Shop System (click to enlarge)
Rooms	Furnishings	Pins	Clothing
Posters	Specials	Specials Tab Information

New Item Loading
As items in your inventory, shopping, trade, and character features are loaded for the first time, there is animation prompting you to wait.

Please Wait

New Character Loading Animation
Characters look like they are spinning as their clothing loads.

Character's Clothing Loading

New Direct Link to the Monorail
On the VMK Map, the "Cool Stuff" box now features a link directly to the monorail instead of to the Main Street Monorail Station.

Direct link to Monorail

New Halloween Hairstyles

Boys- Vampire (with teeth)
Boys can now choose to wear the Vampire Hairstyle. Changing the hair color changes the teeth color and adds a tinge of color to the hair.

Vampire Hairstyle

November 2007

New Settings Options

Show friend requests
You can now choose if you want to show friend requests or not

Settings Window with new Show friend requests option

New VMK Gallery

VMK Gallery

January 2008

New Fireworks Fridays load screen

Fireworks Fridays Load Screen

23 January 2008

New Map Areas (click to enlarge)
Magic Shop Announcement	Main Street Map	Main Street	Penny Arcade
Central Plaza	Main Street Magic Shop	Magic Shop Checkers Room	Pirate Treehouse
Space Mountain Quest Deck	Banquet Hall	Injun Joe's Cave	Blue Bayou
VMK Gallery	Esplanade	VMK Central

24 January 2008

Some of the changes made the day before had "fixes" done the next day. Notably: games removed from Injun Joe's Cave to the Frontierland Dock, the arcade in the Penny Arcade that was facing the wrong direction was turned, and the arcades in the Pirate Treehouse were split apart.

Room Changes (click to enlarge)
Frontierland Dock	Injun Joe's Cave	Penny Arcade	Pirate Treehouse
Sci-Fi Dine-In	VMK Central

29 February 2008

New loading screen for Double Rewards in the Pirates of the Caribbean mini-game (Tuesday Capture the Flag and Thursday Ship Battle).

New Loading Screen

14 April 2008

New loading screen introduced.

New Loading Screen
(Click to Enlarge)

22 April 2008

New loading screens were introduced. Both might load at different points in the game - one screen was used for some rooms, while the other screen was used for the rest of the rooms and for the game loading.

New loading screens (Click to Enlarge)
New Loading Screen	New Loading Screen

The changeable signs around VMK also got a number of changes.

Esplanade Billboard	Esplanade Billboard	VMK Central	VMK Gallery
VMK Gallery	VMK Gallery	VMK Gallery	Sci-Fi Dine-In
Sci-Fi Dine-In	Sci-Fi Dine-In	Sci-Fi Dine-In	Sci-Fi Dine-In