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Is this a joke?

By LordMaster96

I don't have anything good to say about this party. Whoever came up with the ideas for this year's Music Jam clearly doesn't know what music is. Tossing in a couple of treble clef decorations and trumpet shaped waterslides just doesn't do it. What happened to the vivid display of genres from 2008-2011? That was possibly some of the best ideas for a Music Jam there is. Oh, and parties really need to stop occurring outside of the main rooms. Doing this makes parties less memorable for years to come. Who decided to make this party on a cruise ship anyways? Is this a sequel to the Muppets World Tour or something? The only music that exists is on the deck of the ship. And perhaps the boiler in the ship's engine room making a couple of noises. It's a shame for this party to bear the name of an original CP party that was once loved by many.

This is Beyond Terrible...

By Sharkbate

To start off, I'd like to say I am not hating on this part to jump on the "2014 Hate" bandwagon. I'm being completely honest when I say this party is a pile of garbage. I'm not even joking. In fact, calling this party garbage may be offensive to actual garbage. That's how bad this is. This party tarnished the name of the Music Jam. Once again, the staff completely hyped up this party to be something totally amazing, but in the end, it was just another billboard for Disney. This time, it was to promote Disney's music stars. Is there a reason for them to be on Club Penguin? Absolutely not. Here is my broken down review. Note: All scores are rounded DOWN.

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Decorations: 1/10

How many rooms are decorated... two? They ignored the underground rooms, the interior rooms... pretty much everything except for the Dock and the Town. The Town is actually recycled from a previous party, and the Dock just has a tiny little pink stage and an entrance to the cruise ship. OH, and an entrance to the pointless tour bus igloos. Doesn't look like they put much thought into this one. The sky doesn't even change in the rooms... The team must have been real lazy during this creation process.

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Member/Non-Member Fairness: 8/10

Non-members have access to many different items throughout the party. Points deducted, however, because members have access to over double the amount of items that non-members get. Back in the early 2005-2009 era of Club Penguin, parties were a great opportunity for non-members to stock up on items, since all free items were available to everyone. This boost in member-only items seems to be a scheme to get more penguins to pay for membership. That's a bit disappointing.

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Music: 1/10

VERY disappointed with the music. Hard to "jam" to the classical music being played in Club Penguin's version of the Titanic. Also, what's with CP using real life modern day music tracks? Oh yeah, I forgot. Promoting Disney stars. These songs don't belong on Club Penguin. Compare the music at this party to the original Music Jam from 2008. It's depressing. Oh and that cruise ship Boiler Room music drives me insane. I can't stand it. No songs from the past Music Jam parties were present... also disappointing.

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Originality: 7/10

I will give credit where credit is due. The theme of the party is original, with the cruise ship and the performances by multiple artists. I deducted points, however, because it seems like this party was only given the name "Music Jam" because the team couldn't come up with a better name for it. Bearing in mind, the name "Music Jam" likely hyped up a lot of hopeful penguins into thinking another (possibly) final great Music Jam was on the way... but no. Just Club Penguin's version of false marketing.

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Party Rooms: 3/10

What was the point of this cruise ship? Could Club Penguin not have had the stage on the island? The rooms of this ship are pointless. There are some gems, like the water slide, but the rest is like... what? The party rooms were fairly pointless, which is the cause for the low score. An upside is the design of these rooms. They were well made, so they get points for that. Plus the transition from day to night is pretty cool. But hold on... why doesn't this "cruise" ship not cruise? It is stationary. They could have given it a cruise feel by having it leave and maybe go around the island? Similar to how Santa's Sleigh or the hot air balloon from the Festival of Flight worked.

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Games: N/A

No exclusive mini-games were present at this party. SoundStudio does not count because it is a permanent addition.

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Transformations: N/A

No transformation options were present at this party.

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Items: 5/10

There are some cool looking items. Of course, the members get the best out of them, but the non-members have a pretty sweet deal here. I did take off points for the random, unneeded hard hats being given away in that ship boiler room. Especially since this item was FREE for everyone for a few years in the Cave Mine. Seems like more laziness here. Would it have been hard to make it a different colour at least? Points also lost for the fact that you have to wait a few days to get items.

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Mascots: 3/10

The Penguin Band is back roaming the island after a long hiatus from the island. Cadence is also around too. I am including the performers in this section because they count, right? Many points lost for the unneeded additions of Violetta, Cole Plante, Sabrina Carpenter, and Zendaya. The Penguin Band animation is top notch this time. That is one of the only areas that shows clear effort on the CP Team's part. More points lost for the musical guests not being meetable. Because of this, they have literally no purpose in the game of Club Penguin. Not saying I'd prefer them to be walking around, but come on now.

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Comparing to Past Editions: 1/10

This party does not even touch the first four Music Jams. Even Ultimate Jam was better... and that party sucked! It was a terrible idea for them to call this a Music Jam. They should have just called it the "Music Cruise". There is hardly any "jamming" going on at all. Every Music Jam prior, even Ultimate Jam, had most of the island decorated. This has to be the smallest and worst Music Jam yet. Very disappointed.

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Staff Hype/Sneak Peeks: 0/10

The staff hyped this party up to be something great... fantastic... AMAZING. It fell short... hard. This is like taking an anvil to the top of the highest mountain and dropping it to the ground. Points deducted for the party being revealed so early (also falls under the over-hype category).

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Misc: 2/10

The tour bus igloos are so irrelevant. They literally have nothing to do with the party itself. It's just another way for Club Penguin to get penguins to pay for membership so they can boast about their decorated over-sized and irrelevant tour bus. The emotes were okay. Nothing special about them.

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Sub-Score: 3.1/10

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Final Score: 3/10 (1.5 Stars)

What is this madness?

By Snowstormer

• Decorations (0/5) - Okay so let's see, what's even decorated...the Town and Dock? The Town is just recycled from the Teen Beach Takeover and the Dock, as original as it is, leaves me cold. And apparently, the sky doesn't even change in any of the other rooms. No, just...no.
• Party Rooms (3/5) - I give them credit for their originality on the ship, the decorations on it are okay. But the ship isn't even really that big. (Anyone else get reminded of Titanic? e_e)
• Mascots (2/5) - 5 out of 5 for the Penguin Band and Cadence, 3 stars deducted for the Disney Stars.
• Music (1/5) - No proper music anywhere. How is this even a Music Jam without proper music... Oh, because of the Disney stars' performances...Alright, totally makes sense. On another note, none of these songs fit in to CP anyways.
• Combined (1.5/5) - What? What? All this hype for this? I don't even know...

Piece of trash that doesn't deserve to be called a Music Jam

By Chill57181

No. No no no no no. WHERE'S THE DECORATIONS? Only two rooms are decorated on the island, and the rest are party rooms. Also, the only free item starting off is the MINER'S HELMET. The item that EVERYBODY has because it's available LITERALLY ALL THE TIME. ...WHAT!?!? The "special" guests just ruin it, we don't need these random artists we've never heard of invading our Music Jam. At least they aren't mascots though... The only thing that is good about this party is the Penguin Band is finally waddling around again, after an entire two years. I agree with Shark - even the Ultimate Jam was way better than this! Why can't CP ever get a Music Jam RIGHT anymore? At this point, I don't even WANT another Music Jam at all.

Complete and utter GARBAGE!!

By Emmz33

Are you taking the mickey, Club Penguin? This so called party shouldn't even deserve the title of "Music Jam"! There are only two rooms decorated: The Dock with the cruise ship and the Town, which was recycled from the Teen Beach Summer Jam party. What happened to the array of decorated rooms from previous Music Jams? For being a Music Jam, there isn't much music anywhere as far as I can hear. Where are the music packs also? I thought there were going to be music packs and call me an idiot, but I can't find or see them.

However, I guess SoundStudio, Free Items and the Cruise Ship are decent enough, but I think the team has been really lazy with this party. All that hype and in return we get this tosh. Finally, I hope that the team buck up their ideas and improve in the future. They can do much better than this.

Worst Music Jam ever

By JucaSLP

It is a shame that Disney is using Club Penguin parties to advertise their products and movies. Anyway, it would be acceptable if Music Jam 2014 were good, but it is simply horrible. Only a SINGLE room of the island is decorated, and few free items are available, most of them not new, like the Miner's Helmet, which anybody can get anyday, because it is always available. A very disappointing party.

Anti Club Penguin. Operation Disney

By CGaming99

This party was a disney party completely! Number 1. We have to wait for items again, no one wants to wait! Number 2. Whenever Sound Studio lets you listen to a song, its not yours and the penguin who made it is not in the room where the song is getting played. Number 3. Almost the whole island has not been decorated, why would you put all of your attention to a cruise ship, which has annoying modern songs. They also have a whole bunch of useless rooms with nothing interesting in them. The mascots: All the new people who were introduced aren't even mascots! They're all on a stage playing a song, what is the point!? They don't give you a background at all! I know there are some pros but not enough to make this one star. 2014 seems like one of the worst years for Club Penguin, due to the fact that disney ruins all the imagination and fun a lot of the time. I hope the Frozen party is better than this.

Ouch.

By Green Ninja

Cruise Ship Takeover. 'Nuff said.

Not a Music Jam

By Nando144

Only two decorated rooms on the island, no new backgrounds for Cadence and Penguin Band. Worst party of 2014. 2008-2011, it was a good party with various musical rhythms. They destroyed the Music Jam like they did with the Medieval Party.

A Musical Mess

By Brookelas

Um... when I first logged in to this party... I saw the lobby room. Okay... then I go to the Cove... not decorated... I go to the Plaza... not decorated... I then go to the Snow Forts... NOT DECORATED... then I go to the Town, decorated... but from the SUMMER PARTY LAST YEAR! This party SUCKS almost as bad as Star Wars Takeover.

• Decorations - 0/5 - ... They are not even Music Jam related. AND THERE ARE ONLY 2 ROOMS DECORATED!!!!!!!!
• Storyline - 0/5 - Hm? Musical Guests on a Musical Cruise from Disney? Hm? Hm? Hm?
• Party Rooms - 2/5 - I don't mind the ship, but it still kind of bothers me that the whole party is on a boat. On top of that, it doesn't even fit a musical theme AT ALL! I am giving it a 2 because its designed nicely, but just not for this party.
• Transformations and Party Games - 5/5 - Technically SoundStudio isn't part of the Music Jam, but they hyped it up more than anything else... so yeah... (and you can play it in the party rooms too)... Because I feel bad giving a party a SUPER LOW score... I am counting the EPIC SoundStudio.
• Music - 0/5 - For a Music Jam, the music sucks. Sounds like they just downloaded the songs from Youtube, reused SUMMER songs (not the epic Music Jam ones)
• Free Items and Catalogs - 1/5 - Just... NO! The only one I like is the puffle hat, and MAYBE the neon hat. BUT SERIOUSLY...
• Quest - 0/5 -...
• Other (More Minor) Details - 0/5 - Reused emotes, and meeting mascots is USELESS since you can get the BGs from the performance...
• Party Hype - -2/5 - NEW CATEGORY! Anyways... this party was overhyped... but not only that... the team said they liked THE PERMANENT SOUNDSTUDIO more than the party. An overhyped party that even the CP team hates... That scores -2 for me... I am sorry!

Um... 6/45...! Congrats on scoring a 0.5/5 from me CP. But I am going to round it down because of the fact it is AWFUL compared to Music Jams in the past... ITS NOT EVEN A MUSIC JAM!!!!! Plus my awesome SoundStudio score technically isnt part if the party...

Okay, what?

By Hat Pop

They definitely built up waaaay too much hype for this party and for SoundStudio. This new game is nothing to write home about, and while some of the sound effects I found pretty funny, it's DJ3K without the cool animations/interface. The Music Jam itself was what I'd like to call a lazy effort - even the selling feature of having special guests appear was rather boring (despite interesting in-game sprites). They "decorated" two rooms of the island, and one of those was from last year's Teen Beach! This is supposed to be a Music JAM, and in comparison to all of the previous years this falls pretty short. The cruise ship I surprisingly found a liking for, but for an event like this it just...doesn't really fit (this would've been better for a summer-type event I think). Could they have made it move or something, too? I know they're fully capable of features like that. I know they're fully capable of much better than this. Then why did this party fail to meet any expectations?