Just a small update, sorry if this doesn't warrant its own post. I heard back from Attractions Magazine. I was hopeful that perhaps they'd at one time had some sort of dedicated effort to archiving wake-up calls from Orlando resorts since they had a few on their Soundcloud, but the person I contacted told me it was never that formal. If they heard a cool wake-up call, they uploaded it, and that was pretty much the extent of it. So they don't have any more but the Spongebob calls they already uploaded.
Now I've really exhausted all my leads. I find it unlikely that the now-Holiday-Inn would still have the recordings in whatever form they used them for the wake-up calls, and I doubt the current Nickelodeon resorts would still be using them since there are now different calls recorded for things like the Nick Birthday Club.
If anyone with more experience searching or with a bigger platform in the community would like to give advice or help get more eyes on the search, I'd really appreciate it.
In it they actually show the webpage for Dora Calls You and it's as you described on the previous page, but unfortunately real blurry:
Nice find! It also has the exact Spongebob image I described on the previous page. The URL shown there is secure.uvoxnetworks.com/dora/
It's interesting that neither of the commercials mentions Blue Calls You!, even though it's shown on both the Spongebob and Dora websites. (By the way, the image for Blue is of her-- 2D, not Blue Talks-- holding a yellow landline phone.) I also didn't receive a Blue Calls You screenshot when I spoke to UVox.
If there's any interest in other UVox searches, the web page screenshots I got were:
- a few celebrities pages (Britney Spears, Madonna, one of misc. celebrities, and KISS-- presumably official)
- NASCAR drivers (offered through Sprint Powercard, available to be sent FROM Sprint Power Vision or Sprint PCS Vision phones)
- "ESPN SportsCenter Call Central" (the featured call is Allen Iverson)
- "Disney Character Calls" (post-purchase of a Disney cruise)
- Spongebob Calls You
- "Frozen II: Join the Journey" (these are interesting-- they were QR codes placed on cardboard standees around Walmart stores that, when scanned, would allow you to call a phone number with a message from the character on the standee: Olaf, Kristoff, Elsa, Anna, Sven, and Mattias. Only Olaf's survives today, as far as I can tell. Some QR codes also seem to have been on the Walmart website at one time.)
- A different page for Disney Cruise Character Calls (the modern page you see today)
- Disney Princess/"Disney Enchanted Calls"
- Disney Character Calls Holiday (available w/ purchase of a Disneyland Resort vacation package)
- Disney Character Call from Crush from Finding Nemo, available with purchase of a AAA Vacations Disneyland Resort package
- Disney Store Character Calls from Woody, Buzz, or Jessie, sponsored by Visa
- Barbie Call Time
- Dora Calls You
- Elmo Calling/It's Elmo Calling
- Build-a-Bear / Hugtime Call (from Bearemy)
Also, glad I looked through those again, because I noticed something that slipped past me last time. There's an image for a "Barbie's Birthday Rewards Calling Card" that could redeem a free call from Barbie. Not that they'd work anymore-- they would have expired over 20 years ago-- but it'd be cool to see if any of those physical cards survived out in the wild, if they were even made at all.
If anyone wants me to describe any of these further, I can. I think it's alright for me to describe them since UVox makes it public on their current site who they have formerly worked with, all these websites were public at one time, and I'm not actually sharing branded material (like images).
In it they actually show the webpage for Dora Calls You and it's as you described on the previous page, but unfortunately real blurry:
Nice find! It also has the exact Spongebob image I described on the previous page. The URL shown there is secure.uvoxnetworks.com/dora/
It's interesting that neither of the commercials mentions Blue Calls You!, even though it's shown on both the Spongebob and Dora websites. (By the way, the image for Blue is of her-- 2D, not Blue Talks-- holding a yellow landline phone.) I also didn't receive a Blue Calls You screenshot when I spoke to UVox.
If there's any interest in other UVox searches, the web page screenshots I got were:
- a few celebrities pages (Britney Spears, Madonna, one of misc. celebrities, and KISS-- presumably official)
- NASCAR drivers (offered through Sprint Powercard, available to be sent FROM Sprint Power Vision or Sprint PCS Vision phones)
- "ESPN SportsCenter Call Central" (the featured call is Allen Iverson)
- "Disney Character Calls" (post-purchase of a Disney cruise)
- Spongebob Calls You
- "Frozen II: Join the Journey" (these are interesting-- they were QR codes placed on cardboard standees around Walmart stores that, when scanned, would allow you to call a phone number with a message from the character on the standee: Olaf, Kristoff, Elsa, Anna, Sven, and Mattias. Only Olaf's survives today, as far as I can tell. Some QR codes also seem to have been on the Walmart website at one time.)
- A different page for Disney Cruise Character Calls (the modern page you see today)
- Disney Princess/"Disney Enchanted Calls"
- Disney Character Calls Holiday (available w/ purchase of a Disneyland Resort vacation package)
- Disney Character Call from Crush from Finding Nemo, available with purchase of a AAA Vacations Disneyland Resort package
- Disney Store Character Calls from Woody, Buzz, or Jessie, sponsored by Visa
- Barbie Call Time
- Dora Calls You
- Elmo Calling/It's Elmo Calling
- Build-a-Bear / Hugtime Call (from Bearemy)
Also, glad I looked through those again, because I noticed something that slipped past me last time. There's an image for a "Barbie's Birthday Rewards Calling Card" that could redeem a free call from Barbie. Not that they'd work anymore-- they would have expired over 20 years ago-- but it'd be cool to see if any of those physical cards survived out in the wild, if they were even made at all.
If anyone wants me to describe any of these further, I can. I think it's alright for me to describe them since UVox makes it public on their current site who they have formerly worked with, all these websites were public at one time, and I'm not actually sharing branded material (like images).
Blue was the Blue Talks version, although the illustration was a 2D design like in the flash games Flash game example:
