Year of Million Dreams -- anyone else get something yet? Post your wishes won here!

Another "family of the hour" here! We walked in to MGM and were greeted by Josh who took us to our first two attractions, gave us fast passes for another and VIP seating for yet one more. It was fun having our own guide for a little while.
 
Am I wrong to say that I will be very disappointed if I don't get some magic during my upcoming trip.....this thread is making me so envious of those that did... :worried:
 
Nah mommyesq, you aren't wrong. It's just how you feel. I am not envious of those who recieved something, but rather SURPRISED that so many have gotten something. It actually gives me a lot of hope that I may at least witness some magic being sprinkled if not be the actual recipient. I still have my fingers/toes.eyes etc crossed that we may win the DVC membership...we can dream right?
 
I haven't read all of the posts, so I might be repeating, but here's our experience. We had gotten FASTPASSES to ride Soarin on 10/01/06. As we were standing in the line watching the pre-boarding video, a couple of girls in light blue shirts and gray vests stepped up and told us to start putting our hands together....so we did. They then proceeded to tell us that we were the very first recipients of Epcot's Dream FASTPASSES. How exciting!!!! :cool1: :Pinkbounc :cheer2: Later in our vacation, we spent about 30 minutes speaking with a castmember about the whole "Dream" process. It's going to be a great year for the Disney dreammakers.
 

dizneetravelagent said:
I haven't read all of the posts, so I might be repeating, but here's our experience. We had gotten FASTPASSES to ride Soarin on 10/01/06. As we were standing in the line watching the pre-boarding video, a couple of girls in light blue shirts and gray vests stepped up and told us to start putting our hands together....so we did. They then proceeded to tell us that we were the very first recipients of Epcot's Dream FASTPASSES. How exciting!!!! :cool1: :Pinkbounc :cheer2: Later in our vacation, we spent about 30 minutes speaking with a castmember about the whole "Dream" process. It's going to be a great year for the Disney dreammakers.

The first! Wow, that is really magical :grouphug:
 
I have a few, none are from YOMD (yet, we're going in February so it's always possible!)

Our first trip to WDW we had a birthday breakfast for DD #1, she was turning three and loves the princesses. We surprised her with the breakfast and she was just thrilled to be eating at the castle and was literally too stunned to speak for quite awhile. Next thing we know Aurora is at our table and pulling DD#2 out of her stroller and having girl time with both DD's. She called over the other princesses and by the time they were done the three kids were covered in kisses - it was just amazing.

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Belle getting kissed by Belle :cloud9:

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Ami when it was over...

Poor DS was hiding under the table for most of this, but the princesses got him anyways. :lmao:

The second one was April 2005 at Disneyland, it was our last day there before driving out to Vegas and we were all sad to be leaving. We'd saved the Aladdin show for last and were running (with two strollers) to get in line. A CM showed up with a magic lamp and asked DD#1 and DS if they wanted to make a wish on the lamp. They did and wished for good seats for the show, the CM told them to follow her and she'd see what she could do. We were taken to the VIP holding area and were allowed in several minutes before everyone else to find our perfect seats. We were front row center :woohoo: it was amazing!! DD#2 clapped and bounced through the whole show (she was 10 months old) and the other two were just glowing they were so excited and happy. The whole thing was topped off by Aladdin waving to the kids - DD#1 is still talking about it. :goodvibes :love:

We had a lovely CM at DLP give us an employee discount on tickets on our last trip too since most of us were getting APs and DD had a normal ticket he gave us a discount, he made our morning!
 
This is truly the greatest thread there is to date. There is so much great stuff to read here it can turn a bad day into a good one. I hope we here great things for all the diser's here. Maybe even a DVC mebership? So good luck to us all and hope all of your Dis trips are truly great ones!
 
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We were there sept.27th through oct.3rd and we had a few magical things happen to us. first we got to ride in the front of the monorail. our driver was really nice and let my two DSs push the buttons to close the doors on our two stops. one at the magic kingdom and the other at the cont. resort, also on our first park day we went to Animal Kingdom. one of the CM in dinoland traded pins with my youngest son.(his first time trading) he got a magical moments card and has since become a pin trading junkie. :rotfl: he wouldve rather been pin trading than riding rides sometimes. We also tried to spread a little bit of Pixie Dust. while we were on the bus my father and husband gave up their seats for other people to sit. my youngest asked why daddy and dad-dad were going to stand and I told him that a gentelman always gives up his seat. I asked him if he wanted to sit on my lap and give up his seat for someone else who was standing, and he did. the lady that sat next to him thanked him and called him a gentelman (wich he loved). also during the sept 29th MNSSHP it was getting really close to the time for the parade we brought my two young cousins with us who are 9 and 6 as well as my mother and father and ofcourse two sons. well the kids started getting hungry before the parade so we went down to frontier land and found a great spot. left the kids with my parents and DH and I started out looking for some food. we thought about pecos bills but they had a line and we didnt really know how long they would take, we didnt want to miss the headless horseman. we (by accident) walked past the turkey leg stand and found the popcorn stand. we bought three buckets of popcorn. one for each set of kids and one for the adults to share, we also bought drinks. When we made it back to our spot a family is sitting there and the kids kept saying that they wanted some popcorn. the father kept telling them that mommy has gone to get some food for them he just hopes she makes it back in time for the parade before the street gets closed off. my husband showed a random act of kindness and gave the family one of our popcorn buckets. the father looked at us like he couldnt believe that we were being so nice to them and offered to pay us, but we didnt take any money from him, just wanted to spread a little magic of our own :goodvibes and it made me proud to be married to my husband :love:
 
My wife and I were at the World from Sept 29-Oct 5. We got an actual Magical Moment on our last day, with a certificate. On our last day we went to MGM, and I wanted Pizza Planet (I love that place) for lunch. We got there 30 minutes before they opened. A CM came up to us and asked my wife if she wanted to play as many video games as she wanted until Pizza Planet opened. This lady followed us around for about 25 minutes turning video games on untill 11am. It was a great experience and a nice way to cap off our trip. :wizard:

The cerificate was framed as soon as we got home and now lives on her desk at work.
 
madcat said:
we bought three buckets of popcorn. one for each set of kids and one for the adults to share, we also bought drinks. When we made it back to our spot a family is sitting there and the kids kept saying that they wanted some popcorn. the father kept telling them that mommy has gone to get some food for them he just hopes she makes it back in time for the parade before the street gets closed off. my husband showed a random act of kindness and gave the family one of our popcorn buckets. the father looked at us like he couldnt believe that we were being so nice to them and offered to pay us, but we didnt take any money from him, just wanted to spread a little magic of our own :goodvibes and it made me proud to be married to my husband :love:


Isn't it wonderful how something so simple can be so magical? You are teaching your children a great lesson. :thumbsup2 It may have been something so small to you, but i'm sure it meant something special to them.
I love reading these stories. Keep them coming! popcorn::
 
It is so true that the "Pay it Forward" attitude is alive and well at WDW right now. The day that our family was given the dream FASTPASSES, we felt so lucky to have been chosen. We noticed a family talking about not being able to afford to rent a stroller. I heard the mom say that they just didn't have the extra money for it. I talked with my kids, and they agreed that this family needed a "Dream". Without letting them know that we had overheard their conversation, we asked them if they would like to have our stroller. They were completely overwhelmed by the random act of kindess. It was the best. Just think.....the Dream Team gets to do this every day!!!!!
 
We were there last week and were in line for It's a Small World. At the top of the line, there was a member of the dream squad standing there saying hi to everyone. When we got to him he asked if we wanted to be the cruise directors for ISW. We said yes...my girls got to take turns standing in the booth that overlooks and runs the boats and wave to everyone. They announced our family and said that we were helping celebrate a year of a million dreams. We got a certificate that says we were cruise directors.

It was really neat :goodvibes
 
katebeth said:
We were there last week and were in line for It's a Small World. At the top of the line, there was a member of the dream squad standing there saying hi to everyone. When we got to him he asked if we wanted to be the cruise directors for ISW. We said yes...my girls got to take turns standing in the booth that overlooks and runs the boats and wave to everyone. They announced our family and said that we were helping celebrate a year of a million dreams. We got a certificate that says we were cruise directors.

It was really neat :goodvibes

This didn't happen to you late Saturday evening did it? As we were getting off Small World, we saw a couple of little girls up in the booth. One of them was on the phone with the castmember on the platform. It was lightning outside, and we thought Small World would be a good place to go in case it started raining. Was it you that we saw??????
 
I am so hooked on reading this thread! I have to do it on the sly because the whole trip I am planning is a surprise. I am bursting to tell my kids about the YOAMD! The funny thing is, Once they do know about the trip - I may not tell them about YOAMD because I do not want them to expect something. I have to admit I am fantasizing about winning dream fastpasses, a night in the castle, DVC membership..... but in reality it is a dream just to be going on the trip! Keep the stories coming everyone!
 
disneyleslie said:
Okay - not to sound stupid but what does it mean when everyone says they are subscribing?????

Leslie :)

If someone wants to keep track of a certain thread they can subscribe to it. You can subscribe to it by posting to it, which some still do, but it isn't necessary anymore but some people still don't realize that. All you have to do is click on "thread tools' and then choose 'subscribe to thread'. It's that simple!

When you subscribe, you can get notified when someone posts something new to that thread by an email notification. I prefer just subscribing to threads I'm interested in (via thread tools) and then checking to see if anyone posted to my threads by just going to my User CP rather and see them all listed together, rather then getting email notifications all the time.
 
akaDaddy said:
We were in the MK last week and while sitting on a bench in Tommorow Land my wife and 4 year old daughter was approached by a cast member, Pat, who introduced herself as a member of the Wishes Team. She opened up her backpack and offered my daughter several coloring pages as well as a pack of crayons for my daughter to color with as they waited for my oldest daughter and I to finish Space Mountain. Pat talked with my wife for easily 5 minutes about all the aspects of the Wishes program and when I arrived she introduced herself to me and my daughter. I noticed her name tag was different and had her hometown, Ashland, KY on it. After I commented, she informed us that this would be the new nametag beginning October 1 but the Wishes Teams were wearing them now. She was extremely nice and open about the program and said that the Teams primary duty would be just talking to guests and granting small favors all day long. Things like free snacks from the stands, fast passes to those in the standby line and other little things like that. She also mentioned that they are discussing a Noon time parade along with the afternoon parade. When asked about the infamous night in the castle she said the details were still secret on how that would be handled but she was really excited about just seeing the room. Before she left, she took out a autograph book and asked my daughters to sign it. That made their day!

Later in the week, we were at the hat shop at the front of Main Street which does the names on the hats. They do charge $2.00 per name now, which they didn't charge for last year. We witnessed a Magic Moment when they gave a lady with three hats the names for free. I noticed that the cast member had a white notebook on the counter that had Magic Moments Wishes on the from which she used as a log of the free names.

Anyway, our families time with Pat was very neat we will remember it for years to come.

What a dream job that would be!!! :cloud9: 'Walking around Disney all day doing good deeds!! I wanna play . Heck that would be more fun than receiving the gifts in my opinion.
 
labdogs42 said:
Of course! I'd love to know if anyone wins something from a mail in entry. That reminds me -- I need to enter!! Good luck everyone!!

How do you do that?
 
BelleBoo&AmisMum said:
I have a few, none are from YOMD (yet, we're going in February so it's always possible!)

Our first trip to WDW we had a birthday breakfast for DD #1, she was turning three and loves the princesses. We surprised her with the breakfast and she was just thrilled to be eating at the castle and was literally too stunned to speak for quite awhile. Next thing we know Aurora is at our table and pulling DD#2 out of her stroller and having girl time with both DD's. She called over the other princesses and by the time they were done the three kids were covered in kisses - it was just amazing.

DSCN1464.jpg
DSCN1480.jpg
Belle getting kissed by Belle :cloud9:

DSCN1471.jpg
DSCN1482.jpg
Ami when it was over...

Poor DS was hiding under the table for most of this, but the princesses got him anyways. :lmao:

The second one was April 2005 at Disneyland, it was our last day there before driving out to Vegas and we were all sad to be leaving. We'd saved the Aladdin show for last and were running (with two strollers) to get in line. A CM showed up with a magic lamp and asked DD#1 and DS if they wanted to make a wish on the lamp. They did and wished for good seats for the show, the CM told them to follow her and she'd see what she could do. We were taken to the VIP holding area and were allowed in several minutes before everyone else to find our perfect seats. We were front row center :woohoo: it was amazing!! DD#2 clapped and bounced through the whole show (she was 10 months old) and the other two were just glowing they were so excited and happy. The whole thing was topped off by Aladdin waving to the kids - DD#1 is still talking about it. :goodvibes :love:

We had a lovely CM at DLP give us an employee discount on tickets on our last trip too since most of us were getting APs and DD had a normal ticket he gave us a discount, he made our morning!

wHAT A WONDERFUL TRIP! :cool1:
 
wow...WOW is all i can say, to have the 4 disney princesses with your two princesses all in one picture? wow! i love all the kisses on the baby. what a wonderful memory!

BelleBoo&AmisMum said:
I have a few, none are from YOMD (yet, we're going in February so it's always possible!)


DSCN1464.jpg
DSCN1480.jpg
Belle getting kissed by Belle :cloud9:

DSCN1471.jpg
DSCN1482.jpg
Ami when it was over...

Poor DS was hiding under the table for most of this, but the princesses got him anyways. :lmao:

The second one was April 2005 at Disneyland, it was our last day there before driving out to Vegas and we were all sad to be leaving. We'd saved the Aladdin show for last and were running (with two strollers) to get in line. A CM showed up with a magic lamp and asked DD#1 and DS if they wanted to make a wish on the lamp. They did and wished for good seats for the show, the CM told them to follow her and she'd see what she could do. We were taken to the VIP holding area and were allowed in several minutes before everyone else to find our perfect seats. We were front row center :woohoo: it was amazing!! DD#2 clapped and bounced through the whole show (she was 10 months old) and the other two were just glowing they were so excited and happy. The whole thing was topped off by Aladdin waving to the kids - DD#1 is still talking about it. :goodvibes :love:

We had a lovely CM at DLP give us an employee discount on tickets on our last trip too since most of us were getting APs and DD had a normal ticket he gave us a discount, he made our morning!
 

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