All I can say is WOW....
First off, I am still tired, sunburnt, dehydrated, and still thinking about how we screwed up some of those quests...
Overall, the jury is still out on if we liked the new format better or not, while a quest in and of itself was the document management and time management, it still allowed you to see everything up front and do what you could do and skip what you could'nt. I think the new format, combined with the 90*+ heat, and the new style of quests (TSI) that we saw, threw us off a bit (
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(Well now that I figure out the backspace button dosent work with the WYSIWYG editor, i have to RETYPE my entire post
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After everything is said and done, a few things stick out in my mind from the quests and puzzles from MA. First of all was the NOS quest and the mishap that ensured following that. We (I) missed the correct answer on the quest due to haste, and have only ourselves to blame for that. We headed right out of the gate over to NOS to look for some signs, after 15 minutes of feverishly looking for ONE elusive sign, we gave up, did the word search, and came up with Pirates of the Caribbean as the answer (honestly, we added up the letters, and got Pirates of the car and assumed POTC and went on), it wasnt until 3 quests later, when someone grabbed us outside of the main street Cinema and told us what the sign was that was behind the scaffolding. By then our minds were off that puzzle and onto others, so we didnt bother to go back and check that answer with the newfound knowledge... 20/20 hindsight says we should have. Oh well...
Our biggest problem, and subsequent guess on the answer, came on the Picture This puzzle. There were 2 references to the park map guide, which proved to be utterly useless, because of the ambiguity of the map. According to the map, there are 2 picture spots in Fantasy Land, which dosent help much when only "Fantasyland picture spot" was referenced. One of the questions was referring to a Map guide picture spot reference with associated sample picture. On the map, there was no sample picture, so we can only guess that the question was referring to the actual spots in the park. Well, besides the 2 fantasyland picture spots, all 3 answers could have been correct because all 3 places (toon town, fantasyland and BTMR) had sample pictures with their signs in the park. 
Don't know if that threw anyone else off, but it definetly did us, and that led to us getting the wrong answer for that puzzle....
I wish we would have had time to get over to the TSI quest, as in the end it looked like fun, but after 3 of 4 of our team members read the quest, and couldnt figure out a general direction we were supposed to go with it, other than to go to TSI and follow the directions blindly, we opted to skip that one in favor of doing 2 smaller quests.
All in all, it was an enjoyable MA, but just fell at a bad time, with record attendance numbers, record ride/attraction closures, and record heat (notice a pattern here?) otherwise, it was an adventure in changes to MA (new format and record number of teams) We will definetly be back again in Oct.
It was good to see some of the familiar faces around, and was quite funny to have people walk up, and talk to me, knowing all the while who I was, and I couldnt for the life of me figure out who was who! (i know I was talking to Sophie a little, as well as one of the girls from Plane Crazy, as well as a few of the admin staff) My wife was shocked pretty good when AdrienneK walked up and asked her how the wedding was and all that, my wife turns to me and asks me "how did first of all, she know who I was, and secondly, that we got married!?" 
I am with one of the previous posters, 3 straight events of not winning a raffle prize (not even a year old calendar!) so I look forward to continuing that streak next time
Also, wanted to lend a tidbit of a reccomendation for Alex and his staff. BUSINESS CARDS. Would be a great addition to the MA format, 3-5 business cards for each player, something to put into everyones pockets so as they go along in the game and get stopped by everyone asking what we were doing, we could easily just give them a business card that says "MousePlanet.com Mouse Adventures" and the website address with maybe a short description on what we were doing. I swear, we were stopped maybe 10-15 times by peopple asking us what all the people with armbands were doing....
just an idea
Congrats first off to cemeinke and the team, you should first off be congratulated for not passing out of ehat exhaustion in wearing all black....
secondly to monorailman and nirvanaman, you take the term "Forum Geek" to a new level of geekiness 
and lastly to GD and CP.. its official, we all hate you, not ONLY do you win 1st place in quests only, but you both won your raffle tickets. Its rigged I tell you, its all a HUGE MA CONSPIRACY!
(okay, now my fingers hurt from typing this much, took me almost an hour to type this and work at the same time 
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Originally Posted by timl33
It was a red herring, and a jab at the former DL heads for not fixing up the Tiki Room. Sorry to those who were confused -- but I did get a chuckle out of some of the answers. 
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