What have you lost in the parks?

[kevind65]

I was just thinking about this. I personally have lost my 35mm camera. I left it in the bathroom at MK....over by splash mountain..didn't realize it for about 10 minutes...by that time it was gone...checked lost and found several times that week...nobody ever turned it in.....dd also left her fanny pack in the bathroom at mgm....she literally just walked out and I asked her about it...she ran back in immediately and it was already gone...maybe 30 seconds to 1 minute tops........just wondering what and where some of you out there have lost stuff in the world? p.s. the worst thing about the camera was the roll of film in it, not so much the camera itself.. we had just had a wonderful evening at the laua and on the beach at the poly...can't understand why people don't turn stuff in, especially at disney world...oh well...

 

[Dznefreek]

My patience, my sanity, and my money.

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Originally posted by Dznefreek
My patience, my sanity, and my money.

Ditto here.

 

[jacksonsmom]

I lost a roll of developed film at Crystal Palace a few weeks back.
I believe when Tigger sat down he knock it out of my camera bag.
I was bummed because every one of pictures on there was of my son & characters. If it was just of scenery pictures I don't think I would have been as bummed.
I did try lost and found, no luck

 

[iwannabeminnie]

lol dznefreek

I lost a pair of sunglasses. I was sitting on the curb in front of the castle watching Cinderella's Surprise Celebration and took them off to take pictures. I laid them on the sidewalk between my feet. Later I had to stand up to take pictures because someone came and stood in front of me (imagine!). I took the picture and then bent over to pick up my glasses and they were GONE! That fast.

On Wednesday my neice (8 years old) hung her lanyard on the hook in the restroom so it would be out of her way (it is a very long lanyard for such a little girl). She left in there. Five minutes later it was gone. Asked at lost and found but it had not been turned in. HOWEVER..............the cast member at lost and found gave her a voucher for a new lanyard and for 8 new pins (the number she lost). She was able to replace all but one of the pins she had originally lost. She liked the one different replacement pin better than the one she lost originally.

After that the sunglasses ($4.00 Wal-Mart specials) seemed trivial.

 

[kevind65]

I'm glad they gave your niece the voucher to replace her pins...my dd did the same thing last year with some of her pins...I never even thought to ask lost and found about those...

 

[clm3]

We were at MGM in 2002 (he was 10) and heading to getting a bite to eat. He decided to stop for a drink of water and didn't
tell us, we kept walking. When we finally stopped he was no where in site. I thought I would go crazy. We walked our steps over and over again, but he was no where in sight.

Finally we found a CM who directed us to Guest Relations. Next thing we know he's walking towards us with another CM. He was smart enough to find someone to help him. I think I was more upset then he was.

We go again in March, and he's carrying his own walkie talkie, in case he decides to stop for a drink

 

[jennymouse]

I lost all of the skin on the insides of my thighs at MK one night. Yes, it hurt.

Tip: If you ever get chaffed, don't put moleskin on it. The rest of the trip I

 

[Ducky4Disney]

I made the mistake of taking my Visor Handspring with me to WDW. I brought it so I could keep track of my exspenses and gifts. I wore it in a leather pouch that clipped to my jeans. Needless to say I lost it - and on the last day of our trip! We retraced our steps, looked under benches and on rides. We went to lost & found, but someone got a nice Christmas present. Like a dummy, I didn't lock it with a password - maybe they would have turned it in if they couldn't use it.

A friend of mine used to work at WDW (he was director of the parades) and he told me that they sell all the unclaimed stuff to the employees. He said the number of cameras there was amazing!


D4D

 

[LoriMistress]

MY dh lost his Groom Mouse Ears hat at POTC...after we walked around for five minutes, he realized that he lost it. We went back to the ride hoping that someone may have found it, but no luck. We had to buy another hat.

 

[threeboysmom]

My 6 year old has lost a Disney hat every year (and each year we buy him another one!).

Our biggest & saddest losses happened this past trip - My 6 year old lost his autograph book filled with autographs & pictures of my son with each character that he had been collecting for 3 trips. I cried so much with that loss. Why wouldn't someone turn in a little boy's autograph book with pictures inside???? The next big loss was my 10 year old's hat covered with pins ($100 at least). He was absolutely devasted, to say the least. We bought him another hat, but it will take years to fill it up again with pins.

 

[kaygela]

We lost my DH's discman at IOA last year. My DS was holding it while DH and other DS went to the men's room. He put it down on the bench he was sitting on. When everyone came out of the restroom, we all walked away and left the discman behind. It didn't turn up at lost and found.

 

[gshoemate]

I lost my DS best flannel shirt at DTD. We were at the ice cream place and it was busy. So I put the shirt on a chair to show we were saving it and the next day when I went to look for it in the car, it hit me that I never grabbed it off the chair.

 

[strawberryblonde]

I lost my coat at Disneyland Paris on a cold Feb. day. I took it off to sit on while babyswapping at Space Mt. When the other 3 adults came back I jumped up to ride with my DH leaving the kids sitting on my coat. When I got off the ride, kids were packed up into the stroller and my coat was gone. It was turned into Lost and Found though

My DH set down our $300 camera by the fountains in Epcot this past April. I was most worried about the roll of film inside. That was turned into L + F as well

My DD dropped her lanyard full of pins in the elevator at Contemporary Resort. They dissapeared almost instantly and were never turned in. I got to sit on hold for lost and found central line for over a half an hour a few times during our vacation checking to see if anyone had turned it in. No one mentioned a new lanyard or replacement pins, that would have made DD very happy. I gave her a few of mine and pinned them to her outfits to wear. She could trade with those but I didn't want her losing a lanyard again. Lesson learned though, keep a close eye on your pins. I've read of a diser losing an entire bag of pins , so sad.

 

[drusba]

We have been to WDW a lot over many years, and items lost and never recovered include:

1. Two 35MM cameras, left one at a table in San Angel; having failed to learn our lesson, we left another at a table in Biergarten.

2. Four Disney sweatshirts at different times; it gets warm, kids take them off, they get set down and you never remember where they were left.

3. Seven Disney hats; most often left at restaurants; damn the etiquette of taking off your hat indoors.

4. Two kids retainers. The guilty believe they left them at restaurants. Never recovered; God only knows what someone else might want with them.

5. Four pairs of sunglasses; three were left "somewhere" according to the guilty; the other we believe was tossed into the 3D glasses bin at the Muppets show; we discovered sometime afterwards that the guilty one no longer had her sunglasses but still had a pair of 3D glasses.

6. One pair of sandals; we do not know how long it was after they were discarded that we discovered the guilty one was barefoot.

7. One pair of underwear; the quilty one apparently took them off when going to the bathroom and forget to put them back on. Thank God, she was wearing a Minnie dress that at least went to her knees. You don't want to know how we (and unfortunately numerous others) discovered they were missing.

 

[BriarRose59]

On our most recent trip (Dec 14-28, 2003) I left my Canon camera and a bag of pins hanging on the side of the stall in the ladies room at Epcot, the one by Spaceship Earth. It wasn't until we were seated at Le Cellier and had ordered that I realized I didn't have my camera. The manager called a store that was close to the restroom and they went to look, but the camera was gone. He said I should check with L&F in a couple of hours, but when we finished lunch I went back to the ladies room, no camera. I went next door to the camera shop, they said no one had turned in a camera, but if they had it would have immediatly gone to L&F. I went to L&F who told me that the camera shop was wrong, that if the camera had been turned in it would be locked in the manager's office at the camera shop, then picked up when L&F makes its sweep about every 2 hours. I just happened to ask at the other gift shop next to L&F and lo and behold the CM I spoke with had indeed accepted the camera and bag of pins . . . while he was working his shift in the camera shop about an hour earlier! He walked me back to the camera shop and got my camera and bag of pins out of the manager's office. So, the moral of this story is KEEP ASKING! Apparently one hand (or shop) doesn't always know what the other is doing.

 

[Cmadsen]

On our trip to WDW Thanksgiving week we found more forgotten items than I've seen in all my previous trips combined! We found and turned in a beautiful baby's sweater our first night there. Two days later we were at AK and someone had lost a huge pink bag. It was just laying on the ground and we thought surely someone would be coming for it. But then people started to kick it, so we picked it up and turned it in to the nearest CM. On our last day there we sat down on the bench next to Tinkerbell's shop and someone had left behind a camcorder so we turned it in to the CM in Tinkerbell's. We're very hopeful that these folks got their items back. I'm not naive enough to think that just because it's Disney World people don't steal or take things, but I do believe in looking out for others and hope someone might do the same for me. And just to be on the safe side...I tape all loose items to my body with duct tape so I can't leave them behind
Happy New Year all!

 

[paracelsus]

Four years ago one of our children lost her retainer somewhere at AK. Two years ago, the diamond fell out of my wife's wedding ring SOMEWHERE in Fort Wilderness.

 

[Battleship Bob]

Haven't lost anything yet (haven't been at WDW since '75) but I'd be willing to bet a small fortune that DW will lose her lunch on Mission: Space if she dares to give it a try.

 

[kaylajr]

our first trip DD lost a minnie hat 5 minutes after we bought it

that is the only thing so far

except of course as the earlier poster said
our sanity our money and our patience

But we found several things
in the two trips we have found
2 cameras
1 hooded fleece
and a three year old little girl ( that one was scary but a cm and a very scared Dad were only seconds away turn your back for one second and there gone she was just walking up the street in toon town rather than scare her with stranger adults my 6 year old started talking to her about minnie mouse while my DH went for the CM )

hopefully we won't lose anything in sept. when we go back