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

[Disneynut71]

these stories are great. We go next month. I hope I can add a YOMD story too

 

[iluvdiznee]

My DD (13) was given a McFlurrie for being the "guest of the morning" at the Refreshment Port in Canada @ Epcot. She was tickled to have been the one person in our group to have gotten a dream!

 

[Dreams-are-4-real]

I was at Disney for my birthday, and i was wearing one of the birthday pins, and my mother took me to get candy when i got to thte counter i started to take out my money and i looked up and the CM had put the candy in a bag handed it to me and said Happy Birthday, i was a little taken back i didn't know if it was a trick because i didn't want it to look like i was stealing the candy but he told me that the candy was a gift i have never felt so loved at disney!!

 

[jess20k]

We received the pins with the lanyards when we entered our room for Star Tours. Once we were seated two members of the Dream Team announced that we all won a dream. I was sooo excited, I didn't know what it would be. Then when they told us that it was the pins and lanyards I was thrilled. I was thrilled that we won anything!!! I didn't think I would get anything at all, because that is just my luck. So I was pleasantly shocked!

Other than us receiving our dream pin/lanyard set, we only saw the Dream Team once during our week's stay. There were people exiting Spaceship Earth and they were being given dream fast passes.

 

[LivinADream]

My 4 year old daughter was lucky enough to have a Magical Moment when we were @ MK in Nov. '06. She got to design a MR. Potato Head to be put on display, not sure for how long but really don't matter she was soo excited and proud of it. Was really neat and she got a certificate with her name on it signed by a cast member. Something she will always remember!!

 

[AprilLooWho]

I am so excited for the magic to start! We will be there in 9 days and I can think of nothing else!!!!!

 

[JFlo]

On our last morning when getting off the bus at MK, my DD3 (dressed as Cinderella for her CRT breakfast) had her picture taken by a CM on a red carpet. She was given a Magical Moment certificate to hold up in the picture, and a balloon. It was very cute.

 

[CMR81]

While we didn't have any traditional "dreams" we had some very special things happen for us while we were there celebrating my birthday!

On our first night, we accidentally ended up at the Ticket and Transportation Center without a way back to our hotel (POFQ). A very nice bus driver said he would drive us back to our hotel- and we had the whole bus to ourselves!

But the best thing that happened was when our flight home was cancelled due to the ice storm and we had to stay an extra night! We stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, a hotel that we've always wanted to stay at, and spent a fabulous extra day with the animals and lounging out by the pool.

What a great trip!

 

[calypso*a*go-go]

But the best thing that happened was when our flight home was cancelled due to the ice storm and we had to stay an extra night! We stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, a hotel that we've always wanted to stay at, and spent a fabulous extra day with the animals and lounging out by the pool.

Good for you!

I have to tell you, when I read your post it made me giggle because I immediately pictured all the animals from the Savannah lying around the pool with sunglasses and drinks with little umbrellas.

 

[LMCT88]

Hi All,

Just wanted to post my daughter was lucky again with mailing in her postcards, (I actually mailed for her), she won another set of ears. Now we have 2 on display. Hope everyone else gets alittle magic.

 

[hannah's dad]

We just got back from 5 days at WDW and won two Dreams. The first was a special one on one meet and greet with Cinderella with our 4 and 2 year old daughters. That was pretty neat.

The other one was a bit of a stretch. We were the first family to arrive at the final (8:15) showing of the American Experience at Epcot. That made us the "family of the show", which means we got to enter about 5 minutes before everyone else to pick out our seats and they introduced us as the family of the show. They also gave us a certificate designating showing up first as an official dream! I suspect we won dream #999,998 out of the one million!

The dream they ought to offer (if they don't) is personalized van shuttle in and from any destination - that one I'd love to win!

 

[bellenbuzz]

I believe its all what you make of your experience !
If it makes you smile, happy & feel good & special, then Disney did their job !!!

We got lots of small scale "dreams" but it make a heck of alot of great memories on our trip !!!

Enjoy !!

 

[allaboutmm]

We were so happy to win a few of the YOMD's prizes on our resent trip to WDW (1/31-2/5) !! MGM- A cast member (thanks Joy!) handed myself, DS, my friend, and her DD passes to walk right onto Rocking Roller Coaster. Then the cast member handed my DH, and my friends DH, passes so when we got off ( they had younger children duty!) they could walk on! AK-the line for Everest was HUGE, but we had to ride it, so as we were deciding who was going on,who was going to wait with the younger kids, a cast member( I think her name was Theressa from Brazil, she was so nice!!) walks up to us, asks if we are going on the ride, and how many, she said, " I want you to be my guest" . She walked us all the way in (the fast pass line), when we got closer to the ride, asked were we wanted to sit, my DS(10 )wanted the front, she told the other cast member , and front seat and first rows we all went!! We said good bye to her and thanked her. AK-while walking on one of the paths ( by where the tigers are) a cast member came up to us (my family and our friends) and said, "you people are in the right place at the right time",( I was hoping for the DVC!),and handed us each YOMD lanyards which had to YOMD pins on it. Our prizes might have been small but we were just so-o thrilled to have been winners!!!!!!! Just magical!!!

 

[dbgardener]

Our Dream was granted before we even made it to WDW! When we arrived at Orlando Airport and checked in for Disney's Magical Express to Animal Kingdom Lodge, I had a nice conversation with the lady checking us in and had told her this was our first visit to WDW. She asked if we were celebrating anything special, and I told her that our grandson was turning 3 on our last day. After finishing checking us in, she told me to gather the rest of our family and meet her by the door. When we got to the door she was standing with another cast member, who said that Mickey had heard that it was going to be Cameron's birthday and he had a special surprise! When we walked out the door there was a limo waiting to take us to our Hotel! Cameron was given a special dreams certificate and they took our picture for us to remember the occasion.

 

[calypso*a*go-go]

Wow -- another new and unusual wish reported! I tell you, I just shake my head in awe at the creativity that has gone into this promotion. Keep it up Disney...you're doing a great job!

 

[eoth]

No, unfortunatly

 

[eoth]

Did not get any yet

 

[Narnian_Princess]

I have been to WDW several times since the YOAMD promotion started, and while not expecting dreams I always hoped to get one but never did. This morning at AK my dad and I went to Expedition Everest. I always wait in line to sit in the front row, but this time instead of just a few people in line there was a HUGE line for the front. So I decided to just go where I was put, and we were placed in the middle of the car. While we were waiting, I noticed over at the exit were members of the Dream Squad. I nudged my dad and said, "Once again it looks like we'll be late for whatever's happening over there." So we watched until our train came, but the Dream Squad never did anything. I fully expected them to be gone by the time our ride was over, but SURPRISE, the CM announced over the loudspeaker that we were the winners. We got the YOAMD lanyard and pins, and I couldn't wait to put mine on! I probably looked like an idiot walking around all day with not one but two lanyards (I was already wearing my standard lanyard), but I couldn't just not wear my Dream.

 

[rtwx2]

I am anxiously awaiting our trip in August but I had to post a great moment that happened to us in March of 2001. We were celebrating our return to America from living in Japan with a trip to WDW. I don't know what I was thinking taking 3 little children (ages 3,5 and 7) to Disney at Easter time but there we were on our first day. It had been played up big since we were finally living back in America.

Well, we arrived at MK at about 10 am after a 5 am airplane ride, and got to Splash Mountain at about 11 (that was to be our first ride; but the crowds were so bad it took us an hour to get over to it.) The standby line was 2 hours and the fastpasses were being given out for 10-11pm! We tried explaining to our 5 year old (who had been drawing and having me draw disney characters for 2 years and had learned to read from a disney tour book by himself!) that we would have to wait until the next day to go on Splash Mountain. He started crying, quietly and I was trying to comfort him. He, again very quietly said, "I wished I hadn't come to Disney because I love it so much." A man in a suit, stopped as he was walking by and said, "what did you say?" My son, stopped crying, and said, "well I still love Disney but I don't like today." The man asked why and my son said, "we got up really early this morning so we could ride Splash Mountain and now we can't." The man in the suit, (no name tag) said, "I can fix that" He took us in the exit for splash mountain, put us in the next boat and gave us fastpass tickets for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad on which he had scrawled a signiture and said they were good at anytime. While I normally wouldn't want to reward crying, it was a very unusual situation and the man from Disney saved our day. We have been good customers since then having been back 4 times in the past 6 years. And my son who is now 11 wants to work for Disney as an Imagineer.

 

[2poohbears]

We were at WDW JAN 29-FEB 5, 2007. We received 2 dreams...

The 1st was at Peter Pan's Flight...it was almost lunchtime and there was a long line. As this was one of our boys' favorites this trip, we decided to get a FP and return later to ride. When we went to put our card in to get the FPs, a CM dream team member stopped us and said he had something special in mind, asked us to park our strollers and come back so he could explain. He explained to my 3 y/o sons that they were to be honorary lost boys and as such would get to ride immediately. In order to be lost boys, they would, of course, have to be sprinkled with pixie dust (which the boys LOVED)! He gave them a certificate with their names on it as "honorary lost boys" - it had autographs from Peter Pan, Wendy Darling, and Tinker Bell! He then escorted us to our very own ships, ahead of everyone in line! The boys carried the pixie dust tightly in their hands throughout the entire ride. I had to pry it from their hands and save it in my purse for them.

The 2nd dream was at lunch at Crystal Palace the next day. We had 11:30 am reservations. When they called us up for our table, they told us we were the "first family" and would help prepare everyone for lunch by leading them all in Pooh's exercises. Piglet and Pooh came out to help us and we all sang "Up, down, touch the ground..." Then, Pooh and Piglet took each of my sons by the hand and led us into the restaurant, where a CM took a pic of our family with Pooh and Piglet....then Pooh and Piglet took the boys each by a hand and led them to our special table, which was decorated with curly ribbon, pixie dust, homemade biscuits, and our very own "bear" bottle of honey. They presented us with a certificate, which all the characters signed. It was really fun!

FYI---It was especially nice to receive dreams this trip, as our first night in the hotel, one of my sons accidentally slammed the bathroom door on the other's pinky finger. We were in ER until 11:30 pm that night so my son could get 9 stitches in his pinky finger (after driving from 3am that morning until 3:15pm that afternoon to get to WDW). It made for a rough trip...we thought of going home the next day, but the boys were SO excited to be at WDW - we decided to stay as long as my son seemed not to be hurting too much. I think the excitement probably distracted him from the pain a lot, so we were probably better off staying anyway. They enjoyed the trip, and we decided to take them back in May!