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I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978

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Re: I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978

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Post by dfinlay »

nogridbag wrote: post #15

These letters matter a lot to kids. I sent my video game idea to Nintendo as a little kid and I had the same reaction seeing that envelope from Nintendo in the mailbox addressed to me. I think it was also a bit more special pre-internet as these companies felt a bit more magical and mysterious. You can only read about them through video game magazines and see their names in the credit scenes at the end of the games.…

That VHS was one of my favorites. Me and my sisters would watch it over and over. Love how camp it was.

Re: I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978

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Post by tetris11 »

ge96 wrote: post #38
nogridbag wrote: post #15

These letters matter a lot to kids. I sent my video game idea to Nintendo as a little kid and I had the same reaction seeing that envelope from Nintendo in the mailbox addressed to me. I think it was also a bit more special pre-internet as these companies felt a bit more magical and mysterious. You can only read about them through video game magazines and see their names in the credit scenes at the end of the games.…

> weird VHS tape I don't remember this episode of Firefly

I can see where a lot of youtube content creators (WizardsWithGuns comes to mind...) derive their cartoonish humour from

Re: I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978

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Post by socalgal2 »

bze12 wrote: post #26
hodder wrote: post #3

The best part about it is his rollercoaster the Quadrupler would have been much more fun than Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.

It doesn’t even go upside down once, let alone 4 times

But it does have a goat chewing dynamite.

Re: I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978

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Post by RobCodeSlayer »

At age 13 I pitched a candy idea to Mars Bars as part of a school project to write business letters. I loved Snickers at the time but was tired of unwrapping so many fun-size ones from Halloween. I told them something like - “you should just put the fun-size candies in a big resealable bag, so people can eat as much as they want without dealing with the wrappers. You can call them unwrapped minis. All you have to do is create new packaging and re-use the fun-size bars!”

I found the CEO’s corporate address somewhere online and sent the letter to him, never to hear back.

Then, around 8 months later, I saw my first ad for Snickers Unwrapped Bites on TV and freaked out. They had immediately implemented my idea, which as a kid was amazing, but I’ll never forgive them for not writing back. Especially because none of my friends ever believed me.

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Post by nathancahill »

janwillemb wrote: post #25

As a 10y old, my father taught me about logical ports. I took a very large piece of paper and in a few days, I designed a tic tac toe "computer". It had LEDs that indicated the next computer move, based on the position of the pieces: every single possible state of the board led to a specific "next move" led. I do not think it actually would have worked, but of course I was very proud of my design at the time. Unfortu…

One of the things that got me in to "coding" when I was 9 years old was building tic tac toe in Excel, locking the window size to 3x3 cells and then implementing clicks as links to the next board state, with the "computer" having already played the next move. The whole sheet had every possible board state written out by hand.

Re: I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978

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Post by andix »

nogridbag wrote: post #15

These letters matter a lot to kids. I sent my video game idea to Nintendo as a little kid and I had the same reaction seeing that envelope from Nintendo in the mailbox addressed to me. I think it was also a bit more special pre-internet as these companies felt a bit more magical and mysterious. You can only read about them through video game magazines and see their names in the credit scenes at the end of the games.…

A lot of companies and organizations actually reply to letters/emails of any kind. Often very appropriately and not just with some boilerplate text.

I guess they have to deal with so many annoying complaints, so they are really happy if there is something joyful once in a while.

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Post by kraig911 »

nogridbag wrote: post #15

These letters matter a lot to kids. I sent my video game idea to Nintendo as a little kid and I had the same reaction seeing that envelope from Nintendo in the mailbox addressed to me. I think it was also a bit more special pre-internet as these companies felt a bit more magical and mysterious. You can only read about them through video game magazines and see their names in the credit scenes at the end of the games.…

I so much wish we could all get together as engineers and make a site where kids can write to and send videos etc on and we just praise them and tell them their ideas are good as a community.
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