3rd Annual UD Forum Awards - Ceremony

[Pasta67]

Lovin' it, Joan! Keep up the good reports! And a whopping big congrats to Kelvin for his first Golden Mickey award! I love that avatar. Fidget1234, great award-giving speech! Aaron, can't wait to see more of the awards. I'm so excited!

Man, what a turnout this year. I'm surprised everybody could make it.

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Keep up the good work, ya'll!

[Fidget1234]

Congrats DisneyKid!
Your avatar def rocks!!

(& thanks for the kind words Zoltack!)
It only took me a whole 5 minutes to write that. haha.


Gotta love that witty nitty Joan Rivers...

Good luck contestants!

[Timon/Pumbaa fan]

<strike>I was robbed</strike>



Congratulations Disneykid. Certainly a deserving winner and Joan gets just as many laughs as last year.

[Fidget1234]

Justin, I think u were nominated for a few more awards then just about everyone else...haha.

Maybe you'll win the next one u were nominated for.

good luck!

[Zoltack]

Wow even though we only got through one award I can tell that this years awards ceremony is going to be better than the last. Good Job!

I love the Joan Rivers bit... priceless! Her plastic surgeon really did a bang up job.

[AwallaceUNC]

I Love Lucy, but he loves her more! Ladies and gents, it's LucyLover1986!

The Ultimate Disney message board is of course a great
place to talk about all things Disney. These five
nominated forums though have stood out this past year
as the main highlights of the message board. First up
is Feedback where we come with comments, suggestions,
or questions about the site or the message board
itself. Then there's General Discussion where if it's
a Disney movie, tv show, dvd or anything directly
related to Disney you have found your place to post.
There's Off-Topic where we can come chat about most
any subject that we can dream up. Next is Polls &
Games where we can come take a poll or play a game
about Disney or anything else that we can think up.
Last but not least is the Theme Parks forum where we
can come chat about any Disney theme park and see what
the latest news is of anything happening with them.
All of them are very worthy but only one has been
chosen as the best of the best to be named Ultimate
Disney Forum of the Year.

And the winner is...


...Make that the winners are...



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Off-Topic

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Disney Theme Parks


That's right, it's a tie! And the award goes to Luke, who created them, and all of you, who make them what they are!

I think we need two Golden Mickeys (created, by the way, by teh Lukester himself)...



This is Off-Topic's second Golden Mickey award, having won last year for Best Forum as well. It is Disney Theme Parks' first.</center>


Congratulations to both forums! Tomorrow we'll have the award for Message Board Idea of the Year! In the meantime, Joan's busy making our ceremony worthy of its TV-14 rating down on the red carpet.

-Aaron

[CJ]

I'm glad to see Joan is appearing again this year. She is just as funny as last year.

Congrats, Luke, on your two forum win! It's a well deserved win for both forums.

[cydney]

Congrats!!! to Luke and his double win and to the Off-Topic & Disney Theme Parks forums for being the best forums this year.

[TheSequelOfDisney]

Congrats to Luke for making two of the best forums! Was there a tie between the two?

[Disney-Fan]

Yay for Theme Parks! Congratulations, and thank you Luke for two [and more] wonderful forums!

[Jules]

Holy crap! I never actually expected to win! ::tears well up:: I'm sorry, let me just have a bite of something to calm myself down...

::pops in something unseen from his pocket into his mouth, grows 50 feet tall::

Awww, man...I thought it was a sweet tart...::cries harder, flooding the room:: I better hurry up with my acceptance speech before this becomes Titanic 2. Let's see...

Thank you to everyone who voted for me! I feel kind of guilty accepting this since I stole my avatar from another site whereas the other winners of tonight will have actually earned their awards. Oh, what am I saying? Four years in this joint and I finally get something for it! ::snatches award from Aaron before he realizes he snatched Aaron himself:: Whoops, sorry, Aaron. Now, to all of you who didn't vote for me, you're all pompous, bad-tempered old tyrants!*

::shrinks back to normal size::

Hehe...Umm...I think this is the part where I run, or rather, swim away. Thanks again! ::swims swiftly::

*Not seriously meant towards non-Kelvin voters..

Congrats on winning DisneyKid!

By the way, I found your speech wickedly funny!!

What I don't understand is, when did we have to vote? I don't think I ever noticed.

But anyway...happy celebrations

[lord-of-sith]

Yay for Off Topic! The one place where talking about nothing means just about everything!

[Timon/Pumbaa fan]

Yay for Theme Parks!(and Off-Topic too I guess )



Congratulations to Luke who made them and everyone who posts in them to make them worth-wild!

[Pasta67]

First off, congratulations to Luke for creating the Off-Topic & Theme Parks forums, and congratulations to everybody who has posted in them over the past year. C'mon Luke, make an acceptance speech! Or better yet, let's have the actual forums come in and say a few words!

Also, great presenter speech, LucyLover! Take a bow!

Can't wait to see more, you guys!

[Fidget1234]

So psyched that Theme Parks won!!
Congrats on the win Luke

[Loomis]

Disney Theme Parks Forum! Yay! Dat my baby up dere! Dat my baby!

You make your momma's bosom swell with pride, sugar blossom!

I always cry at these things...


Thanks to Luke for creating the TP forum. What else would I do with my time if it wasn't there?

[Lars Vermundsberget]

Congratulations, all you wonderful, wonderful people!

[Fidget1234]

BTW -Great speech Lucylover!

good luck contestants for next catergory.

[Lucylover1986]

Thanks, but so much for the whole part about only one can be the best and the winner, d'oh!

[AwallaceUNC]

Here with the award for Message Board Idea of the Year is the one and only Kram Nebuer! Yaaaaay!

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Kram:

This week we have been honoring the many wonderful resources found on our beloved UltimateDisney.com from website reviews to threads and topics of the year. Today we honor not only another thread/topic/feature of the forums but the wonderful human gift of the mind. Yes, today we award the member(s) who have come up with a brilliant idea to make UltimateDisney a better, safer, happier place to be.



To help us recognize the ideas and the members who have contributed a piece of their mind to our online community, we have two very special guests! Please welcome...



Dreamfinder and Figment!

[cue music]

One little spark
Of inspiration
Is at the heart
Of all creation
Right at the start
Of everything that's new
One little spark
Lights up for you!

Dreamfinder: Look Figment, some new friends have joined us!

Figment: Can they imagine, too?

Dreamfinder: Of course! Imagination is something that belongs to all of us.

Figment: You mean...everyone can think up new things!

Dreamfinder: (Jolly laugh) That's right, Figment. Every sparkling idea can lead to even more! And that is what we are honoring today for the UltimateDisney.com Forums.

Figment: I want to help honor our new friends!

Kram Nebuer: Sure, Figment! Just read this…

Figment: The nominations for the Best Message Board Idea of the Year are:

The 2005 UD Secret Santa Program (Luke)

"The Aaron Walla<i>n</i>ce Awards Threads" (AwallaceUNC, Jack)

Assigning "Ideal Jobs" to UD Members (2099net)

The Banning of Secret Santa Deadbeats (Luke)

Creating and Posting the "UD Forum Guidelines & Helpful Links" (The UD Moderators)

Creating a "New Other Item Thread" (JiminyCrick91)

Creating Theme Park-Related SURVIVOR Games (Timon/Pumbaa fan)

Creating Touchstone-Related SURVIVOR Games (Just Myself, Robin Hood)

The Creation of a Theme Parks Forum (Multiple members)

The Deletion of Registered Spammer Accounts on the Forum (Luke)

The Forum's <i>Toy Story</i> Banner (Luke)

Maintaining a Thread to Keep Track of Missing UD Members (Luke, Timon/Pumbaa fan)

Resurrecting The UD Member Survivor Game (Ichabod)

Figment: Wow! That's a lot of ideas!

Dreamfinder: Yes and thank goodness! If it wasn't for those and countless other ideas, our friends' online forum would probably be as dull as those Secret Santa Deadbeats.

Figment: Oh, that wouldn't be much fun...so who won? Who won?

Dreamfinder: Our friend, Kram Nebuer was just getting to that...we've taken up enough of his forty seconds, I'm sure...

Kram Nebuer: Please, do not worry. We thank you, Dreamfinder and Figment, for joining us today! And now the winner of the Best Message Board Idea of the Year is...

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The Creation of a Theme Parks Forum
(Multiple Members)

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[cue musical finale]

Dreamfinder, Figment, and Kram Nebuer:
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
A dream can be
A dream come true
With just that spark
In me and you!

(Music, characters, and some diaglogue copyrighted to the Sherman Brothers and the Disney Imagineer Show writers)
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Wam, bam, thank you, Kram!

Join us tomorrow night when we present the award for Site CD Review of the Year!

-Aaron