Count Your Blessings! Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey Everyone!

We are celebrating today here in the "States" have the national holiday of Thanksgiving!
Ah...the second best time of the year to come together with family and friends over a delicious hot juicy turkey and all the fixings. I know this is my favorite time of holiday to enjoy delicious food and fellowship.

Even getting together for a meal is wonderful to enjoy and celebrate as one. Where ever you are at right now, think of things that you are thankful for this year. It's great to reflect on these things and as well to find ways to help others in need. Maybe even volunteering at a local soup kitchen to feed the homeless this holiday season and many other ways to help families who are in need of help to provide a hot meal this holiday and as well daily life.

As the following day after thanksgiving, is a season where everybody goes shopping like a mad crazy person. This is known where stores around the nation sells items for real less prices and as well make great deals for certain hours of the day! This is called "Black Friday". 

Now for the past 3 or 4 years, box retail stores are now opening on 'Thanksgiving Day' by starting 4pm or even 6pm that day.  This day is now being 'Blue Thursday' due to the fact of how the stores are opening earlier. I'm not really pleased by how the stores are opening earlier, it kinda defeats the 'Black Friday' shopping specials.


Black Friday is a term where the day after thanksgiving, people will go to the stores very early early in the morning around 1am or so to buy items that are hot ticket items. Local stores like Best Buy, Walmart, Sears, etc... will sell certain products the night of black Friday, people who stand for hours before the store close, just to be the first one to get hands on a hot selling product. People usually shop for Christmas deals already and finding prices that they can afford since we are all still in the economy is weak. So hopefully, more revenue will help stores and as well the people who work there make a decent pay check this season.

::Fun Interview Recap::

A fun interview recap awhile back in 2009 with no other than Martijn Leseman (Founder/Webmaster of Themagical/Simulation Creator) !

You can read it here, click here!

::Count Your Blessings::

For all of those who are visiting us here and as well who are members from the "States", the staff of 'Themagical' team wishes you and your families to have a safe and enjoyable thanksgiving day!

Until then!

Reighard

200th POST!

We want to "THANK YOU" our readers for reading Themagical's Official Blog!  We've crossed over today our 200th post!

We can't thank you enough for your readership to the blog and hearing your feedback on how we can 'plus it' on our simulations, beta testings, and other topics.

This also made another milestone of crossing over the 40,000 view too!! WOW! Speechless by how you all enjoyed many postings over these few years that I've been writing here.

To another 40,000 views and posts!

Until Then,

Reighard

Thank you for your concern!

Hey all,

Sorry for any new post, its been a busy week for me and working like crazy!!! I hope you all are having a great summer (stay-cations) vacations for those who are out of school right now or enjoying a nice break for the summer time.

This posting is about you the community and how you are special to us by how you are emailing us your questions and concerns about the progress on the 'Steel Force Simulation' project for
Dorneyonline.com website.

Unfortunately, due to server issues/hard drives crashes, the project at 80% was stopped due to problems on the founder/webmaster computer. This caused a huge delay since all back ups were last updated but not current saving, meaning we had to start over to where it was last saved on a data backup driver.

This made us to push the development into the following current year of 2011. With newer coding on this Simulation than previous simulations made for Themagical, its making us to learn new coding languages as the webmaster from Dorneyonline.com wanted from the very beginning as well the move for the webmaster of Themagical/Simulation Development Team to push ourselves to learn new material as we develop the 'Steel Force Simulation' project.

Not only the delays were based on the crashes, this is also due to family emergencies, work schedules, limited free time, sickness, and as well other activities that we do with our families and friends outings/vacation breaks. We are doing our best on the limited free time we have to in order to create this simulation.

All our simulations to date has been based on our free time in our daily life activities and we are NO WAY being payed for our work done on the simulations at all. We do this because we enjoy the rides/attractions of Disney and other amusement parks that keeps the passion alive in us to create these simulations for you to all to enjoy!

We are very sad how the progress has been going so far but its been picking up from the last crash on our project. We are making daily saving on our progress so in case of a data crash, we'll be ready to being where it left off. This will help us from not losing ground from the last problem crashed on the hard drive.

We are about 2 milestones away from right now to "VERY SOON" to start the beta testing process FINALLY! Which is the queue line setup options and as well the transfer animations for the roller coaster trains format to match the real life operation at the Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom amusement park.

We are happy that you are interest of our progress and we are sorry for the delays.

Keep an eye on our blog, twitter feeds and website for more 'upcoming updates' ! ;)

Until then,

Reighard

Thank You! 10,000 + views!