MiceAge 9/19 - Wilderness Explorer game tested at DAK. http://miceage.micechat.com/kevinyee/ky092011a.htm

From Thursday to Monday this past week, Imagineers conducted a test at Disney’s Animal Kingdom of a new game. Called “Wilderness Explorer,” this game was offered only in the Africa section of the park, and it was just a test—it’s nothing permanent yet.

Several discussion forums have been debating the merits of the “game in the park” concept. The timing certainly helps. The Wilderness Explorer game was being tested right when “Sorcerers in the Kingdom” is being installed in the Magic Kingdom. The latter is a Kim Possible-type game about which no details are known, but apparently it will not be based on the popular Kingdom Keepers series of books. A few installation spots have been spotted in Adventureland, including such things as speakers designed to look like walls, or a camera embedded within a window. It’s a good bet that Sorcerers will use dedicated cell phone hardware (you borrow it while you play the game, then return it when done).

By contrast, the Wilderness Explorer game tested this past weekend was analog, not digital. There’s no loaner cell phone; instead, you got a little binder/folder. That’s right—old fashioned paper. Your main goal in the test game was to collect stickers. In that sense, it’s not too different from the Race Around the World game from Epcot during Flower and Garden. Then as now, the goal was to get stickers from various locations.

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