What did you get during the Year of the Million Dreams Giveaway?

[Matt@WDWR]

We won dream fast passes over 8 times. It got to the point that we were embarrassed about it. :rotfl2: Once we walked through Interventions and got them. We then went off to ride Mission: Space where we were given them again as we entered the pre-show! (We gave away one set to a family we saw a little later). Our favorite memory is that we first won them at Animal Kingdom at Rafiki's Planet Watch. Right afterwards, my wife felt our baby girl move for the first time! We joke that Audrey must have realized it was an exciting time too.

We also were chosen as a "VIP family" for American Adventure while on our anniversary trip and given a certificate (although I think they might do this regardless of the celebration going on.

[cathie1327]

I didn't get anything :( Not that I was really super upset about it, but I really just wanted a pair of the ears. Once I found out I couldn't buy them, that really bummed me out lol. I mean, of course the castle stay or fastpasses would have been cool, but really, I just wanted the ears lol.

[Matt@WDWR]

I sorta wanted the ears too! haha but after my fastpass luck, that was a tad bit selfish on my part!

[UrsulasShadow]

I got many sets of ears and 2 lanyard/pin sets for mailing in postcards.

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

Nothing nada zip zilch.........after 6 visits during the giveaway. Guess we are just unlucky.:sad:

[Matt@WDWR]

Cool! Oh I just remembered that my older two daughters got those Tinkerbell pins that cast members could give away. They loved thta!

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

Cool! Oh I just remembered that my older two daughters got those Tinkerbell pins that cast members could give away. They loved thta!

I did get 2 sets of Tink pins. Forgot about that. I thought you meant dream ears or fast passes. soooooooo I did get something.

[wellesleyprincess]

We got ears getting on to Buzz Lightyear. What was funny was we were going to go buy ears right after.

[parrotheadlois]

not a thing:sad2:

[3guysandagal]

....depressed.

[NWOhioAngela]

Three trips/no wins

[mikelan6]

I wont a few of the ear hats from the post cards.

While at the parks, I won NOTHING.

[cchev]

Yeah....pins and lanyards....always was hoping for those super fast passes ha, especially during the Holidays :)

[bellaDisneydncr]

lets see... maybe 4 trips: won nothing... I wanted a dream fastpass so badly. not just to use but to have afterwards...

[KatMark]

We won ears getting off Splash Mountain; we won four sets of ears when we were home. Our biggest surprises was when we returned from our trip this past September there was a box in my foyer. I thought it was one of the two shipments I had sent home of souvenirs, etc. It wasn't. It was a box of Dream Giveaways. The box consisted of a stuffed Minnie and Mickey in their Year of a Million Dream outfits, a photo album, a photo frame, a jumbo coffee mug, a can of jelly beans, a lanyard and pin starter set, a tote bag and a gift card. I figured the gift card was probably $25 and tried to look it up online. It indicated online that I had to call a toll free number to get the balance. I did as instructed and the gift card was worth $385.00. I immediately called Disney and had it applied to this year's trip.

[shmedly123]

14 park days and all we got was the Norwalk virus.:sick:

:scratchin

[Annette_VA]

Not a darn thing. Three trips during the promo & nothing from any of them.

However, we did just have a 'magical moment' last week. My boys were made honorary Lost Boys. When we got off Peter Pan, 2 CMs were there. They asked how we liked the ride, etc. and told the boys they had a surprise for them. They had the boys recite an oath then they sprinkled them with pixie dust and gave them certificates saying they were honorary Lost Boys. We also got 2 front of the line passes we could use anywhere in MK. It was quite cool. We ended up not even using one of the passes because all the lines were so short.

[krissy2803]

....depressed.

HA! Yea..I was once in Disneyland and twice in WDW and won nothing. But I did make a TON of new memories, and the new friends I made at Mousefest are worth more than anything! :hug:

[Dr. David Q. Dawson]

Well, we were one of the lucky ones. While sitting on a bench at Downtown Disney I was approached by 3 cast members telling me I was a lucky winner. After a few questions they took me to one of their offices inside the Grand Californian Resort. After we got there they told us that we won the $500 shopping spree at the World of Disney store! They had us to meet back at the store at 3:00. When we showed up we were greated by 2 corporate types, a 'shopping assistant' plus a Disney corporate photographer who took our picture the whole time we were shopping. Very fun. But $500 goes FAST...!

[Masonic Mouse]

We went three times durring the year of a million dreams. We won once. Year of a million dreams pins and lanyard. We won them entering One Mans Dream at, at that time MGM Studios. I collect pins so I loved it.

Jeff

[AnneR]

We got free french fries at Fairfax Fries on one trip and then in October we got Dream Fastpasses twice. The first one was at DHS, we were killing time waiting for our fastpass window for TSM. Wondered into One Man's Dream and there they were. The second time was on our last day, we had eaten at CP before rope drop and had rode BTMRR first. We saw a dream team member at the exit when we left the station on the ride, crossed our fingers and sure enough as we exited we got the Dream Fastpass.

Our mission that day was to ride all the FP rides (except Stitch) before we had to leave for the airport (11:30am). We did it - we could have done it without the FP as it was just not that busy.

Anne

[Luuvebugg]

We didn't "win" anything in either one of our 2 trips, but my then 4 year old was made into a honorary "fairy godmother" for the day. We were in one of the stores on Main St looking at princess costumes and we were approached by 3 employees. They made her feel so special when they gave her a wand and put together an outfit on the manequin in front of a ton of people walking on Main St....and they gave her a certificate so we would never forget it!
So cute!

[auroralark]

We unfortunately didn't win anything, but my parents wound up winning pin and lanyard sets on their trip, which they kindly gave to me, since I collect pins.

[noladave]

we are in the zip, nada, nothing crowd.

We barely missed fast passes twice - once at haunted mansion, and once in Animal Kingdom by safari.

[DVCsince02]

2 Tink pin sets
Lots of stickers and tattoos for the kids
2 short DVD from Playhouse disney

[lisalonglash]

We won dream ears exiting from Splash Mountain - so much fun! :goodvibes

[MkyMws]

I got a 10 day vacation with my family...no wait I paid for that.

OK...wait I got to spend 10 days in the sunshine in Florida instead of shovelling snow in Canada.

That was about it for me.

tim

[Disneylover:)]

We got a set of Tinkerbell pins and YOAMD Mickey Hats. YAY! It was so magical and exciting! :cool1:

[sunshine girl]

I was at WDW a lot - I don't even know how many times I visited - but didn't win anything either! Oh well.

[maroo]

First, we got a trip. The trip of a lifetime and we are so thankful for that!!!

It was a Make A Wish trip. Not an official "dream"...but a dream for us in the YOAMD!

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq324/mblaine/gktw%20playing%20pics/100_1341-1.jpg



Second: Mickey made Lauren a "Princess for the Day" and William was made an "Honorary Mousekeeter," too! A completely magical moment for the whole family!!!

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq324/mblaine/DHS/IMG_3646-1.jpg


Third: They moved the parade for us! :rotfl2: It was raining, thundering and lightening and we told the kids that we were at the end of the parade route. Turned out, we were at the beginning, and didn't know it! The CM that told Lauren's dad found out that Lauren was on a Wish Trip and gave the whole family buttons that said "Congratulations!!" and told the whole family and all the people around us that the parade was being turned around so that it would come to us first! :rotfl: The kids STILL think it was moved for them!

Here is a picture of our group (minus her Mom, camera shy!) and the awesome CM that thought to do this for us! :)

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq324/mblaine/last%20night/IMG_3559-1.jpg

[lisalonglash]

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq324/mblaine/gktw%20playing%20pics/100_1341-1.jpg

What a beatiful girl! princess: It sounds like you all had a wonderful time :goodvibes

[Michele]

We made 6 trips during the promotion and we got dream fastpasses once. The bad part of this was we got them on a trip where the kids weren't with us. So I was dissappointed that my DS's didn't get the experience.

[Bricket]

What a beatiful girl! princess: It sounds like you all had a wonderful time :goodvibes

She is the most beautiful little girl I've seen in a long time. What a cutie!

[maroo]

She is the most beautiful little girl I've seen in a long time. What a cutie!

She is a beautiful girl, both inside and out!

And she was as happy as she has ever been that day! It shows, too! I love that picture! No hospitals...no IV's...everything is accessible...no crummy homework that takes forever... just having FUN!!!! (This is at Give Kids the World, by the way!)

[safetymom]

We won a coupon for a free 5x7 photopass picture. That is all in over 100 visits to the parks. :( I wasn't expecting anything but I sure wasn't overwhelmed with freebies. All I wanted was the Dreams Ears. My daughter bought the hat for me on Ebay.

[*NikkiBell*]

After 4-5 trips during YOMD, I got nothing. Oh well, maybe next time. Ugh. :(

[LMO429]

We won Dream Fast Passes at Animal Kingdom in May 2007

We also won Dream Fast Passes for California Adventure & Disneyland in Oct 2008

[pilgrimr]

After 3 trips to WDW we did not get anything. We were disappointed a little. We went once do Disneyland and we got a set of lanyard and pins one day and fastpasses the next day. So at least we got that.

[Kimberle]

Nothing, not a thing during 2 week long trips. We saw people getting Ears while getting off Soaring, people next to us while waiting for Crush got stuff, etc. Always so close, but never us. I really didn't care, but it's awfully hard to explain to a 8/9 year old why she can't have blue Mickey ears.....:sad2: I really hated that promotion, I'm so glad it's finally over.

[DISNEYNV]

We were there three times and didn't win anything...bummer! We saw a lot of families with the dream passes this past December and kept hoping it would be us but no luck. Oh well. That is awesome that some of you have won multiple times! We should have went with you:) Lol

[disneydad78]

We got dream ears before in line at soarin!!son got a everest pin from Elton at park rope drop,,epcot,....:cool1:

[Lease]

We had 3 trips, totaling 25 days in the parks during the promotional years. We won dream fastpasses on the Pangani Forest trail on our second trip. I still think we got the best "free" souvenir which will easily be the most expensive souvenir ever from WDW. Our triplet boys are due in April :hourglass

[Tonya2426]

During the two years of the YOMD promotion I was in the parks a total of 35 days and I got SQUAT!!! No fastpasses, no ears, no night in the Castle, nothing ... but 35 wonderful days. :goodvibes

[diz4ever]

Four trips during the year and one time we won dream fast passes at the studio. But during one trip we were staying at POP and I was doing laundry. :laundy: Just as I was about to put all the laundry into two dryers a maintenance guy came in and said I could dry everything for free. He turned on the machines for me. I count that as a "dream" win! :cheer2:

[ms*mountaineer]

We got a bunch of the blue YOMD ears - we were among the first people on Goofy's Barnstormer one morning, so as we exited the ride, we all got ears. Since there was no line for Barnstormer, we just kept going through the queue again and again - each time, we were handed ears! Until their stack was gone.

So we had ears to give as gifts when we got home!

[OKW Lover]

The only thing we got in the ~2.5 years of a million dreams was a better parking spot at Epcot one visit. Since we visit ~30 days per year, it appears that our luck wasn't very good.

Oh well, we still enjoyed Disney! :thumbsup2

[mickeyart]

In 2 trips to WDW we got, DreamFastpasses at Animal Kingdom (dinosaur), Pin & Lanyard at Magic Kingdom (Buzz), and Hats at Hollywood studios (toy story) :cool1:

[Bornteach]

In our 8 trips during the promotion we didn't get anything. I even stalked a dream giver and asked her questions!

THankfully the kids were too young to know they missed out on anything!

[sixbits8]

We did not get anything special, just a plain old Fabulous vacation!

[Timon-n-Pumbaa Fan]

I won one Dream FP out of 3 trips and over 20 park days. On the last day of our December 08 trip, I was alone, yet again, at Epcot. I saw the Dream Team heading for TT and asked if it was a good time to be riding TT, one of them shouted back that for some, it was a very good time to be riding TT. So, I went up the single rider line, all the way to the top, even with a 20 min wait time posted outside. At first they didn't let me in, but then the guy recognized me from outside and invited me in. :cool1:

Our December 08 trip that we planned for over a year and a half included Corey's mom. Her mom was all up for the trip. It was supposed to give them some mother daughter time. Make some great memories and such, but her mom wasn't as honest with us as she could have been about just how bad her health had become. I don't think that she has even accepted for herself about how little she is still able to do. Because of this, Corey spent a large part of our trip caring for her mom instead of enjoying her mom and our vacation.

When I won that Dream FP on the last day, I finally had something that I could give back to Corey to give her a little silver lining. When they finally arrived at Epcot sometime, just after noon, because her mom wasn't up and out to any park before noon the whole trip, after we finally got into the swing of hitting all of the Santas and Storytellers, I gave Corey the Dream FP and told her to go play and I took care of her mom. At first, she didn't want to take it, but she did and she was very glad that she did. She didn't like not being able to do stuff with me, which I totally understand that but she was glad to be able to do something, which was a freedom that she didn't have for most of the trip.

If I was only going to be blessed with just one Dream out of the promotion, I think that I got the best one possible. I was able to help my partner to enjoy a little Disney magic. For that, I will always be grateful to Disney's Dream Team!

[Dismom+two]

The kids and I, on Mother's Day weekend got fastpasses at AK. I was so excited!! The kids were looking at me like I was crazy...ok...so what if I am..but that's besides the point!:crazy2:

[DavidandLeahZ]

We got the Dream Fastpasses at MK last year when we were coming off Peter Pan. It was so fun! We didn't use up all the rides on them(2 of us were pregnant and couldn't go on the big rides), so we gave them away to a family who was just coming into the parks when we were on our way out. They were so excited and that made our day even better!

[howlongtillsummer?]

We won an extra hour party at Epcot. We were heading into Journey into the Imagination and were surpised to see the queue stretching outside the door. Just inside were the Dream Squad giving out wristbands and lovely big badges saying "Where my dream came true..."

My husband, daughter (5) and I loved the party outside test track. She spent the whole time dancing with characters while my husband and I took turns to ride Mission Space and Test Track with no wait.

Some people on Test Track were just doing laps for the hour! Not even getting out of the car.:rolleyes:

And were also got a free choc chip cookie at Blizzard Beach. :lmao:

Seeing the Dream Squad always gave me butterflies after this!!:cheer2:

[That_Australian_Kid]

Cool! Oh I just remembered that my older two daughters got those Tinkerbell pins that cast members could give away. They loved thta!


we bought those on ebay. hahaha

[Whipperwhirl]

bubkis

[DWFan4Life]

We didn't get anything. We just want a pair of ears. :sad1:

[jewjubean]

We got dream fastpasses at Animal Kingdom. We ended up not using them because the lines were so short, but they did come in handy for Kali River Rapids when we got to cut to the front of the line.

[aGoofyMom]

We had 3 trips during the promotion and just before leaving on our last trip, we rode HM and got dream ears on our way out. Exactly one year from that day until we arrive again.

We didn't "win" anything in either one of our 2 trips, but my then 4 year old was made into a honorary "fairy godmother" for the day. We were in one of the stores on Main St looking at princess costumes and we were approached by 3 employees. They made her feel so special when they gave her a wand and put together an outfit on the manequin in front of a ton of people walking on Main St....and they gave her a certificate so we would never forget it!
So cute!

We had one really long trip where DD got the Fairy Godmother on our first night there, then got to wake up Tinkerbell, introduce the Voyage of the Little Mermaid, and JR Chef of the Day at Yachtsman Steakhouse. She got certificates for all of these, and DH got one commemorating his Birthday dinner at California Grill. I got nothing but pixie dust and magical memories from it all - and I carry that with me all the time! pixiedust:

[DaveH]

nothing.

[manhattan]

Nothing nada zip zilch.........after 6 visits during the giveaway. Guess we are just unlucky.:sad:

Same here....after too many visits, nothing!!

[Disney Khi]

We were there for a week in March 2008. Both times my husband was the lucky one to win for us. We each got a pair of mouse ears at AK and we also won Dream Fastpasses on RNR at DHS. DH was so proud of himself for being in the right place at the right time! Although, it was thanks to my well-timed restroom stop in AK that we won the ears! :rotfl:

[Mr. Plutes]

My wife and I got a ride back to our car. Which was at the Animal Kingdom.

Hey that was cool. It beats walking LOL

[Praying Colonel]

We really wanted Dream FPs but never got them. Oh, well...

1 time we were standing at Aloha Isle waiting for it to open in the morning so we could get our Dole Whips, and 2 members of the Dream Squad walked by and started chatting us up. I got so excited because I thought we were going to get a Dream laid on us, but turned out not to be. It was cool though--it was fun to talk to them.

We got lanyards coming out of Peter Pan. We were so excited, you would've thought we'd won a night in the castle. It was just fun getting picked.

[MelissaFromRI]

We went to WDW 6 times during the years of a million dreams - 3 times in 2007 & 3 times in 2008 - and nobody in my family of 3 received ANYTHING!!! That's right , NOTHING :mad:
We were disappointed to say the least...

[firsttimemom]

ZIP!

We were there at least 4 times (trying to think back to when the 'year' started.

But we were at the house of the mouse which was certainly better than staying home.

[stitchlover]

When we went in March '07 we won Dream Fastpasses at Animal Kingdom. It was kind of cool, it was our last day on site.
In March '08 we were looking at the wait time board at DHS and a dream squad member was standing there. He asked what are you wanting to ride? We told him Rockin' Rollercoaster. The wait time had a ? over it. He told me if I could guess the wait time he would give me fast passes right then and there. Well I guessed correct. This was our third year in a row to travel there and it was the first time we were able to get on the ride. It was pretty cool!
I'm gonna miss the idea that you might get a little surprise this trip.

[Stroller Boy]

While standing in line for Soarin' the whole line recieved a YOMD lanyard and two YOMD pins. Pretty cool actually. Still haven't taken them out of the wrapper, lol.

[Matt@WDWR]

Another favorite Dreampass win was when we were in the queue about to ride Soarin and everybody about to ride Soarin got the fastpasses. Needless to say, we got back in line for Soarin again! haha

[CAJUNWDWFAN]

We won dream fastpasses getting off big thunder mountain back in November 2006 (promotion had just started in October). Didn't win anything October 2007 and didn't win anything June 2008.

And I won 4-5 sets of mickey dream ears in the postcard mail off.

[oc_tony]

My family and I were at Epcot last summer, and my wife and I didn't really want to go on Test Track again, but 7 year old DS really wanted to so as we were waiting to go into the room for the safety speech we noticed a more than usual number of cast members. We all go Dream Fastpasses!! As cool as getting on the rides was, we just loved that we got something. We have them all in a safe place at our house. It was awesome!:goodvibes