I know what you mean about being excited, I don't know if I can stand it for the next almost six months.

The trick that worked for me to get a pin, I actually ended up with two of them within four days of each other, but one was 5% better off the room). I followed the "tricks" that seemed to be working for a couple of weeks. What I did was open 2 new accounts at Disney with different email addresses, then at the Disney site I saved an itinerary, not a saved vacation, when the drop down asked where I was staying I clicked "non-Disney hotel" and that I needed tickets. Worked like a charm to get the first pin the very next day in my email and the snail mail was linked to the 2nd new account I created and arrived in my mail box four days after the first one. Like I said, I'd love FD but at least I got something if that doesn't work out.