Summer Vacation Begins

Hey All,

It's been awhile since there's been new postings, thank you for your patience for waiting for new content.

So since schools are now out of sessions and most of you guys and gals are now enjoying your summer break before going back to school in August/September months.

I'm just as excited and anxious to start the summer time to enjoy the beaches, camping, amusement parks, plus so much more! What are you excited about the summer time? Do you like the summer or prefer another season?

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Here's the "LATE" post on 'May Monthly Links'!

- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2011/11/soarins-first-preview.html

- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2011/11/sf-update-20111110002.html

- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2011/07/announcing-soarin-simulation.html

- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2011/08/steel-force-sim-pre-opening-in-progress.html

- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/p/beta-testing-qa.html

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What's Next??

I bet you'll are wondering why no updates or even postings since last month. Well, its a busy time for us at Themagical Team since the summer has already begun in order to relax after a long development schedule with the "Steel Force Simulation".

Don't worry folks! We are still working on some projects but on the slow development phases.  Below we'll be showing the 'current simulation status' of all upcoming simulations that will be in our current 'development cycle'.

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Themagical Behind the Scenes: Themagical Projects to date!
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Soarin: (Internal Build: 2012.05.29/008) This build has been shown a Live Preview
on a recent blog post. New features are being coded and a possible beta release is approaching soon! 
**Update: (06/04/2012) New recoding has been performed to better situated with rendering and more stability in the HTML5 coding and java-scripting.  Improved performance in browser rendering in Firefox and Safari. IE9 still not rendering properly quite yet with new format. 
**Note: Due to high request, this build may or may not be release due to the progress of how the simulation has been so far.

Millionaire Play It: Trivia Version 2 (Beta Version: 041411/001.v2_triv) This simulation hasn't been updated since its public release due to the popular request of the "Steel Force Simulation" due date release and bug fixes. This will be updated and tied in with the current simulation of 'Millionaire Play It' as bug fixes with that simulation will bring the string code from version 1.0.8 to 2.0.



 Disney's Epcot TEST TRACK: (No Confirmed Internal Build) Even though the 'Steel Force Simulation' has been released in April 29th, 2012 , there hasn't been any work on the upcoming simulation due to busy work schedules and development rest breaks. More news about this simulation and when the production begins will be coming soon later this year. Stay Tuned!

What's Next?

Hey There!


We've been very pleased of the results of how you all been enjoying the 'public release' of the
'Steel Force Simulation' over at Dorneyonline.com !


We are happy from the feedback we've been getting from Twitter & Facebook feeds of how you been enjoying it.


Here's some quotes of some members from dorneyonline.com saying about the simulation:


- "The simulator turned out great, it is really fun to play." -Yoshi


-"That was actually fun! Thanks for the hard work you guys put into that!" - HK36


-"That is really cool! Glad to see it up and running finally." - Kozmo 1




Now I bet you are wondering (or have been wondering), "What's Next??!"


Here's some information that I have from the webmaster of Dorneyonline:


"WHAT'S NEXT" :


"The next ride has been selected and some initial work done. This one will be developed by me using HTML5 instead of Flash. I'll give more details once I finish creating the Soarin' simulation for Themagical.nl." - Josh (Webmaster of Dorneyonline.com)"

Happy Birthday 4 years of Blogging !

Hey There!

Just in time to celebrate our 4th year of blogging that's part of Themagical.nl website!


Talk about time flying by to lose track of the years its been since I've started blogging for Themagical's website. It's been an interesting 4 years of blogging I must say since many readers around the world read this to see what's cooking up at Themagical website.

May 1, 2009 is when this blog went LIVE for the first time. The purpose of the blog was to bring the latest sneak peeks of the latest projects we are working on at Themagical.  From that it helps us show our readers what's it takes to bring a simulation to life and how's its made.

The vision of the blog is basically I had in mind is to bring 'relevant news, important updates, behind the scenes look, beta testings, and as well readers feedback'.  I can say that I've been pushing out posts on what's hot and as well on the time schedule that I can write when I'm free from my busy work schedule.

4 years in writing:

This has been a journey for me since writing openly from my heart to connect to our readers to not only share fun stuff but as well how our daily lives has the affect of bringing the magic of Disney rides/attractions to life.

Learning to be open on the Internet has its benefits and as well its has cons of how I interact with peeps who visit our website on a daily basis.  From that I met new friends and followers via Twitter because of my outreach to people who don't know what 'Themagical' is.

Themagical website when I stumbled upon back in April of 2006 I recall was ALL IN DUTCH language. This site was a gem on the internet that I wished I had found sooner. This site was the first time I actually cried happy tears as I was playing the game "Tower Of Terror".

The game 'Tower Of Terror' was bringing me back memories of when my family first visited the Walt Disney World Resort in 1996 of September.  From playing the game, seeing the virtual people entering the ride made me recall my first memory of the attraction and how I was reacting to all the details that the Disney Imagineers have done to the attraction.

Ever since that day of playing the "T.O.T. Simulation" (Tower Of Terror for short), made me more appreciative of the creator who done a great job on creating those details in a virtual environment where the 'magic lives'.

New Projects Revealed & Announced: 

Not only writing has made me to be open-communication on the internet with our readers, it has also made us to bring a faster way to bring new content: NEW PROJECTS!

From keeping the magic continuing for the site and community to enjoy new stuff was to bring fun and exciting new projects for Themagical.

This allows to share our excitement to our devoted followers and readers of the blog to also be excited as well! From this helped us to bring more energy to the site and as well opening new opportunities partnership as well!

New Projects we've revealed on here was: Expedition Everest Simulation, Reighard's Live Show, Cosmic Reid's/Magic 24.7 Radio Partnership, Dorneyonline.com Partnership, Test Track Announcement, Steel Force Simulation, and so much more.....

Closing Thoughts:

I'm happy by how far this has been and the wonderful connections and friends I've made along too. I want to 'Thank You' our readers!

Thank you for reading and your support on believing on us when times seemed to be slow or even dead on certain projects we've been working on.

Before ending the post, here's our "MONTHLY LINKS: APRIL":

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Monthly Links: APRIL

Here's the TOP links for the month of "APRIL" that you the readers seems to enjoy reading very much!

- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2012/04/steel-force-simulationits-here.html


- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2010/03/steel-force-simulation-coming-soon-to.html


- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2009/12/cedar-fair-lp-bought-out-by-apollo.html


- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2010/09/steel-force-simulation-status.html


- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2011/11/soarins-first-preview.html


- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2011/07/announcing-soarin-simulation.html




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We appreciate you and hoping another 4 more plus years to come!

Until Then,

Reighard 

Steel Force Simulation...IT'S HERE!

HEY EVERYBODY!

Yes that's right! STEEL FORCE SIMULATION ....IS HERE!


Here's the OFFICIAL Press Release:

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America/Netherlands April 29, 2012 The wait is over! Dorneyonline.com and Themagical.nl are happy to present the long planned, much anticipated Steel Force Simulation.

The simulation development team at Themagical.nl has created many unique, detailed simulation games which place players in control as the operator of Disney theme park attractions. In partnership with Dorneyonline.com, the team now presents a new simulation based on the Steel Force roller coaster at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, PA USA.

In the process of development new milestones and hurdles were overcome, including all new coding based on Adobe Flash's Action Script 3.0 language. Special features not featured in the team's previous projects include a new visitor engine which allows operators to control the queue lines to best fit crowd size, and a train status panel to display the location of each of the ride's three trains.

Be sure to head to Dorneyonline.com to start playing, and stay tuned. The next simulation for Dorneyonline.com will be created using HTML5 instead of Flash. Details on the attraction to be featured will be revealed soon!

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ENJOY! 

Reighard

Sorry for the low profile

Hey There!

First of all I want to say to my readers, I'm sorry for a low profile since last month and starting this month.

Last month in March, I had a family emergency and it took me to recover from the situation. Right now everything is alright and I thank those who follow me via Twitter (twitter.com/randydorney)for your kind remarks from the situation.

Also the same time as well our webmaster/founder of Themagical has a family emergency as well. So I was helping on the front end of Admin at Themagical for the time being when we recovered to full health.   


We appreciate our community & readers for keeping in touch with us via email to check up on us during those difficult times we both encountered.


For now, we are all ok and things have returned to normal.


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Monthly Links: APRIL

Here's the TOP links for the month of "APRIL" that you the readers seems to enjoy reading very much!


- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2010/03/steel-force-simulation-coming-soon-to.html


- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2009/12/cedar-fair-lp-bought-out-by-apollo.html


- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2010/09/steel-force-simulation-status.html


- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2011/11/soarins-first-preview.html


- http://randydorney.blogspot.com/2011/07/announcing-soarin-simulation.html




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 Breaking NEWS!!


We got the "all-clear" from Themagical team that the game is READY but still minor fixes for Dorneyonline.com website to be ready for the public!


The game build has been ready but we've been with talks with the webmaster at Dorneyonline.com on a 'how to play' section for those who are new to playing the simulation game.


Josh has been really busy with his daily life activities that has slowed down the launch for the game. Due to this we've been fixing the simulation as for the general public launch and as well making sure the game play is meeting quality standards.


We'll be announcing here when the game will be launched for public use! We want to thank our beta testers who have been helping us with their bug related issues.


Keep up to date with us through this blog and as well our Twitter feeds where updating constantly with the #SteelForceSimulation hash-tag on Twitter.


Founder/Webmaster of Themagical: Twitter.com/themagical
Reighard's Twitter: Twitter.com/randydorney


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Closing Thoughts:


Thank you so much for your patience and cooperation of following what's happening at Themagical & Dorneyonline.com simulation project experience!


Keep up dated and Stay Tuned for more updates to come!


Until Then,




Reighard