HELP SAVE VMK, Please read. Options

[FairieSprite]

HELP SAVE VMK.

Please send in as many emails/letters as possible to anyone at Disney about this. It may not make a difference, but we'll never know unless we try. I think if they add a pay-to-play option (like with POTC Online) they could make a nice profit, not to mention how much money they would make with selling VMK merchandise, especially if you get codes with them. I know Fish and I would buy tons of VMK stuff for birthdays, Christmas and just because. I'm sure we're not the only people out there who would. I also know that several people would be willing to pay to play, as long as VMK doesn't close. I know VMK didn't intend for it to stay open this long, but sometimes great things happen on accident. VMK was a great accidental success. There truly is no other game out there like it.

Sites to visit:

SaveVMKToday.com
SaveVMK.com
VMKKidsUnite.com

Here's some information from other sites on who to contact at Disney:

Links:

http://corporate.disney.go.com/wdig/contact_form.html

http://www2.virtualmagickingdom.com/iot/go...&country=US

http://www.disneyland.com/contact

Email:

vmk@disneyonline.com
robert.a.iger@disney.com
robert.iger@disney.com
roger.s.holzberg@disney.com
wdw.guestcommunications@disneyworld.com
zenia.mucha@disney.com
lane.merrifield@disney.com
steve.wadsworth@disney.com
brent.woodford@disney.com
larry.shapiro@disney.com
douglas.parrish@disney.com
paul.yanover@disney.com
brad.davis@disney.com
jay.rasulo@disney.com
Steve.Parkis@disney.com
Brandy.Phillips@disney.com
brandy.phillips@dig.com
wdig.communications@dig.com

Write:

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, LLC
1375 E. Buena Vista Dr.
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-8402

Walt Disney Internet Group
5161 Lankershim Blvd., 4th Fl.
North Hollywood, CA 91601

Walt Disney Company
Attn: Robert Iger
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-9722

Walt Disney Imagineering
Attn: Tony Baxter
1401 Flower Street
P.O. Box 25020
Glendale, CA 91221-502

Disneyland Resort
Attn: Ed Grier
1313 South Harbor Blvd.
Anaheim , CA 92802

Call/Fax:

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, LLC
+1-407-828-1750 (Phone)
407-934-8889 (Fax)

Walt Disney Internet Group
+1-818-623-3200 (Phone)
+1-866-993-6263 (Phone)
818-623-3577 (Fax)

Brandy Phillips
818-623-3764 (Phone)

Roger S. Holzberg
818-623-3424 (Phone)

Rebecca Metz
818-623-3313 (Phone)

Walt Disney Corp.
818-560-1000 (Phone)

Petitions:

Save VMK From Closing
SaveVMK.com
Keep VMK Open


I think if a lot of people send out emails/letters/phone calls each day and encourage their friends and family to as well, we just might be able to save VMK. I'm going to work on getting more information on who to contact and post here. If anyone has any information, please post or send me a PM and I'll add it to the list. Thanks.

P.S. Please let us know if you get any responses.

[VMKaddict]

I sent my email, and copied everyone on the list provided by Last.

Response from Steve Parkis:

I am currently out of the office on vacation and will not be checking email. I will be returning Wednesday, April 9th. Please call my assistant Rebecca Metz at 818-623-3313 with any issues that need immediate attention.

Response from Brandy Phillips:

I'm currently out of the office on vacation and do not have access to email. If your matter is urgent please contact Zayda Vidal at zayda.vidal@disney.com, otherwise I will get back to you when I return on Tuesday, April 8.

Thank you.

I have forwarded my email to zayda.vidal@disney.com, and Ms. Metz is on my to-call list. I encourage everyone to keep sending messages and calling as much as possible. Also do not forget to share this information with your friends and family on other VMK fan sites. Many things can be changed by a good email campaign. Let's see if us addicts can get our little game saved.

We definitely should make sure that Steve Wadsworth, President of Walt Disney Internet Group, and Paul Yanover, Vice President and managing director of Disney Online, are copied on all messages, as well as Brandy Phillips and Zayda Vidal.

[FairieSprite]

Ok I added their information to the first post. Thanks, Fish.

Here is some more info I found on another site:

Walt Disney Company
Attn: Robert Iger
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-9722

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Walt Disney Imagineering
Attn: Tony Baxter
1401 Flower Street
P.O. Box 25020
Glendale, CA 91221-502

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Disneyland Resort
Attn: Ed Grier
1313 South Harbor Blvd.
Anaheim , CA 92802
EMAIL:
Disneyland Resort - http://www.disneyland.com/contact

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Walt Disney Corp.
818-560-1000

Walt Disney Corp.
500 So. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, Ca. 91521

[Believe]

This is a great idea, Fairy (and Fish). Even if we don't get VMK to stay open, at least we go out with a bang. Disney doesn't know what's coming.

I'll start right after school.

This post has been edited by Believe: Apr 8 2008, 05:27 AM

[Jennings]

Message Sent, I sure hope this works

[FairieSprite]

Thanks, Believe and Jennings. I think if we all band together, we might be able to make a difference.

Here's a link to a petition someone started to save VMK:

Click here to sign.

Click here to visit Save VMK Today!

Both links have been added to the first post.

[allwer]

I signed the petition, and I’m going to sign with my other characters (spares) as well.

This closing of vmk makes me think that Disney is just like a politician. They promise to something, like they said vmk isn’t closing anytime soon, and then they break it. They do it to get publicity, and they would keep it up until they don’t need it anymore. (Usually they don’t need it anymore right after the elections or when they get into office) In this case, vmk uses it to reel people in, bringing them to their other sites and getting them to go to the parks to do the quests and buy items for virtual codes. Then, they stop when they think they’ve gotten enough money from that promotion, so that we are forced to go to their not as fun pay sites. They won’t care if people get upset over it, because they were able to get what they wanted. Also, whenever you ask them something, usually they don’t respond or they don’t answer the question directly. (Example: I asked what had happened to the gold stars, for I haven’t seen anyone with a gold star. They answered with telling me what a gold star was, which didn’t help me, for I ALLREADY knew what the pin was.) They only made vmk for money, not for they people to enjoy it. So, maybe writing to Disney and all of these other things will help Disney to realize there are people out there whom actually CARE about the game, unlike some of them, and they will keep it. If they do keep vmk and they don’t close it, then I would think differently of Disney, and not as Disney being just one big hook, reeling us in, taking our money, and throwing us back, as if they only cared for the money. (just something I had to say….)

[tinkrox]

i will surely be sending lots of emails today after school. if VMK goes, at least it will go out with a bang

[kangapal]

I would just like to say if you are going to sign the petition, please write something that would make VMK pay attention to it. Writing a thousand exclamation points is not helping the problem.

[FairieSprite]

Wow the petition now has over 450 signatures. I think I was number 64 when I signed lol. I think if it gets enough signatures, that may make Disney take notice.

Hopefully people will start getting responses sometime today from all the emails that have been sent out.

[Extreme]

Let's keep adding more to that list.

This post has been edited by ExtremeScarySky: Apr 8 2008, 11:01 AM

[shapedance]

I have signed the petition for each of my family members (It is over 770, BTW).

I included these points, and will use them in my letters -

1. While we do not pay for VMK itself, many of us have spent a great deal of money on extra park admissions, pins sets, DVD's that we didn't really need, so that we could enhance our VMK experience. Therefore, VMK is NOT free, and they are taking away more than virtual items.

2. The target audience is 7 - 14. These "children" have been allowed to make friends and form relationships, but were not allowed to share personal information. Now those children are being forced to sever those friendships rather abruptly. The lasting effects of this could be devastating for some.

3. There are many who would be willing to pay to play. I am one of them.

Keep those letters going!

[MadAboutMickey]

I hope that this works...

[Mnementh]

I signed the petition. I think I'm going to call first, then email. I think it would make a bigger impact to hear an actual human voice than for them to read words on a screen. I haven't called yet, though. I haven't had a lot of free time, but I will call within the next couple of days.

[Rudolph]

I want to remind everyone NOT to give too much personal information on that petition! If you include your full name, DO NOT include your VMK name, and if you include your VMK name DO NOT include your full name. This is a safety measure and giving too much information here will unravel all the efforts VMK did make to keep everyone safe.