Stories like these show how real ‘virtual’ can be. I love VMK cause I can WALK, TALK, EAT, DANCE, SHOP and play checkers all by myself.Įvery change has an impact on people. ![]() Pass my site on to everyone you know so they can help too. PLEASE sign my guestbook like a petition to SAVE VMK for me and my friends. I’m sad and MAD! I can’t live without my friends on VMK. “My favorite web site, Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK) is closing May 21st. If nothing above moves you to feel that this human interest story is anything more than the closing of yet another online game, allow me to leave you with a direct quote of an entry from the online journal of an 11 year old VMK player has Spinal Muscular Atrophy which controls voluntary movements, such as crawling, walking, swallowing and breathing: And the result is always heartrending posts like this one: Generally, a virtual world with any momentum at all will not die unless it is actively killed. ![]() But as longtime virtual worlders know, that’s not acceptable to the current community, who not only have a lengthy thread on the discussion boards, but have also started threads even on the new coverage elsewhere begging for their world to remain open. Nobody knows how many active users it has these days, and Disney is of course moving aggressively into more virtual worlds, encouraging users to switch to Toontown, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, and Club Penguin. ![]() Disney is shuttering Virtual Magic Kingdom.
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