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

[Mischa]

Congrats on your 16th anniversary! DH & I celebrated our 16th this year too (at Disney World of course!)

Very cool about the pin. Your story of giving the elderly woman the other pin brought tears to my eyes. How sweet!

This was partly our 16th anniversary trip, and we ate at Rose and Crown for lunch on 11/28. Our server was a lovely girl named Emma, and after the meal she brought us a certificate and two Where Dreams Come True Tinkerbell pins. On the cards it read "One for You" and "One to Give". We were really pleased, because we've never gotten any of the lanyards or fastpasses or anything.

I'd planned on looking for a kid with Tinkerbell pins, but at MVMCP on 11/29, I was taking a smoke break by the Tomorrowland Speedway, and saw an elderly woman sitting by the fence in a wheelchair, watching the cars go by. I watched her for a little bit, then decided, "I'm going to give this to her." I think she reminded me of my granny, who passed away earlier this year.

I approached her, told her about our anniversary and how we'd gotten the pins, and told her I'd like to give her the other pin. Turns out that she couldn't have been a better recipient. It was her very first trip to Disney, and her son and daughter-in-law had started a pin collection for her. On her lanyard was a CBR pin, and the cute one with the characters that says, "My First Trip". She looked really happy to be getting the pin.

I think more than getting the pins from Emma, I was happier being able to spread a little pixie dust of my own.

 

[J. Galt]

Just back from our trip and we received so many Dreams... both official and unofficial. What a great trip! We got a lot of free food (extra fries, extra milks, etc.....), lots of stickers given out to the kids too. I also got a dream fastpass one day at EPCOT. Although I couldn't use it, my nephews were beside themselves with joy when I gave them mine! We sat next to a couple during Turtle Talk with Crush who got a free fireworks cruise for the MK fireworks (they were sitting at the Contemporary eating dinner and a CM approached them and asked them if they wanted to see the fireworks - they even got a cooler stocked with drinks and snacks on the boat!). But the best event of all happened yesterday morning. On a whim, I told my husband I was going to try for breakfast at Cinderella's Castle. I walked up to the counter and started to say to the CM, "I know this is probably impossible....", and she said, "You never know, dreams happen. How many people in your party?" I told her four and she said, "Get them here as fast as you can and that is your Magical Moment!". I was floored! I got a huge smile on my face, the CMs all laughed, and I ran as fast as I could to find my family (who were munching on cookies on Main Street - nice breakfast!). We were seated within a half hour. I thought they would stick us in the back corner, but we had a beautiful table right by the windows. Then Aurora came over and stood with us during the "Make a Wish" ceremony thing they do. My girls were beside themselves with glee!!!!!!!!! This almost made up for my horrific trip home last night (we didn't get home until 3:30 in the morning! 7 hours later than planned!)

Oh... and in the spirit of "paying it forward", we bestowed some small "dreams" of sorts on others. My husband bought beers for the couple behind him in line at the UK. He said that the guy was in a wheelchair and had just come back from Iraq. He said he was a pretty young guy, there with his wife, and my husband told him that he wanted to buy him a beer to thank him for all that he did for our country. I was busting with pride for my hubby!

For my part, I returned a lost little girl to her parents. She had wandered out of Pooh's Playground. I watched to see if she was going to any of the families sitting by the strollers, but she just kept going. I told my husband to watch our kids and went to retrieve her. Her parents were pretty happy... they had that frantic look about them when we got back to them. By the way, it was pretty crowded there this weekend and I saw a lot of little ones wandering away. Someone always got them back to their families, which was nice to see, but it was a good reminder how quickly something like that can happen.

 

[J. Galt]

deleting duplicate

 

[Got Quattro?]

We 3 dreams over thanksgiving week last year.

#1 - My daughter 6 and nephew 6 were waiting in line with their grandparents in the tomorrowland speedway. Thanks giving week, it was a 90+ minute wait. 2 dream members came up and said they needed 2 race cars drivers to test a 2 new cars on the speedway. The 4 of them were taken out the back of the line, over the bridge where the exit line is and they jumped in the 1st 2 cars. We got 90 min of park time back.

#2 - We were staying at the Beach Club and my wife daughter and i were walking to the boat dock to ride to MGM at around 10:30am. Two life guards who were working the boat dock asked if my daughter could help them find a pirate who stole their treasure. So we got on a pontoon boat with them. Toured the lake, then spotted a cm in a water sprite with a jolly rodgers flag. We chased him down, docked the boat and my daughter caught him. He gave her his pirate treasure 9toy rings and such) a pirate hat and eye patch. We were then driven over on the pontoon boat to MGM for our own private taxi.

#3 - At MK, pirates broke, and everyone in the ride got a any ride MK fast pass that expired in 3 days. We were leaving for home in about an hour and couldnt use them, so we found a family and gave them 13 passes. Paid it foreward.

We are going for a land and sea trip january 2008. I hope we have good luck again.

 

[PK56]

see below

 

[PK56]

After an 11.5 hour drive that should have only been 9...we are still feeling the glow. We started saving the day our grandaughter was born and 3 years and 9 months later we got to watch her enjoy her first (hopefully of many) trips. A couple of special things happened this week:
1) The absolute highlight of the trip - while eating those gigantic muffins at the Main Street Bakery we were approached by a CM who asked Madison who her favorite princess is and arranged for one of the 5 minute private visits with Cinderella which was of course captured on videotape to treasure for a lifetime.
2) Everyone got the light blue and silver mouse ears after a Safari ride at the Animal Kingdom.
3) Madison's mom got chosen by Captain Jack at the Pirate tutorial (the only adult in the group and we thought it strange but since she adores Captain Jack we didn't ask questions).
4) Madison's dad got chosen to be Bob Scratchit in the World Showcase Players "A Christmas Carol".
5) DH and I got on a sneak preview ride for Spaceship Earth which thrilled me because I was really bummed that it was still under rehab.
6) After mentioning the bad reviews we read here about Raglan Road to our server Colin he didn't charge us for a round of beer and threw in a sample glass of another. By the way, the meal was excellent and Colin was a doll!

All in all it was a pretty perfect first trip for our little girl.

 

[officer tigger]

On Monday 12/3/07 we got off the Haunter Mansion ride and got a dinner for our party at Chef Mickey's.
The dinner was for all members of our party (6) for 5:30 that night. When we arrived we did not have to wait as a table was set up in the corner for us. We got a photo session with Mickey and got six copies of the picture. The characters each spent a lot of time with my daughters and the prize was really great.

 

[luanne]

My dh, sister and I all got our fast passes to tower of terror, which sister and I were going to see how dh made out first and he would let us know how it went. None of us had ever been on it before. He came back after using his fast pass and sister and I still had time on our fast pass, so we decided to try it since dh said we would do fine. We got inside and they told our group that we had been chosen for yoamd fast pass for the day. We came out smiling both from the ride and and prize and proudly showed dh. He was a little envious but then discovered that for most of the rides we didn't need them since the park was not very busy. We have a nice souvenir and it was thrilling just to be in the lucky TOT spot at the right time.

Luanne

 

[ILoveMickeyandMinnie]

DH and DS got lanyards and pins while in the preshow area of dinosaur! They were super excited!

 

[KimAshton]

I got a dream fastpass at Epcot. Luckly, most of the rides were walk on so we got to use the fastpass for later. Got to do soarin' and test track twice.

 

[Saratoga Souris]

My nephew and I got Dream Fastpasses in the AK this morning while on the Maharaja Jungle Trek. Since AK was not crowded, we didn't need to use them. We have them (totally intact) and will keep them as amazing souvenirs.

 

[TinkELGEE]

Hey all,

Hubby and I are AP holders, and have been not lucky enough to win anything other than the 2 "Keep one, Give one Tink pins" the first week of the original promotion. (not complaining.) Spent two weeks there in Sept/Oct, nothing.

Just spent a busy three days there (12/12-14), and on our first morning, we were walking the animal paths near the safari exit at AK when we found two cm's (not wearing the old plaid vests) when they told us we were in the right place at the right time. We, and a few behind us got the new MouseEars, these have all white ears on the black base, with the only markings on the front. We were thrilled. The next morning we were at EPCOT, on line for Soarin and heard the same statement..you are in the right place at the right time. This time we got the EPCOT FP's, and were delighted. It was empty enough that we did not need them, so we have 4 new souvenirs. By the way, when I went to have our names sewn on, I mentioned that we had been guests since 1973 and had never owned "ears" before. The lovely CM waived the cost, and gave them to me free.

We also got to ride the newer version of Spaceship Earth, too. Loved it so far.

We noticed, for us, the common factor was, popular rides at the park, not the first group to go through, in fact it was just around 9:30-10:00 AM time frame both days. Just something to think about.

Here's hoping that others have magical trips too!!

 

[kmab00]

Wednedsay December 12, 2007, while waiting in line for Narnia at MGM, we were awarded with Dream Ears by the Dream Team!!

I was so excited that I couldn't contain myself...I had never won anything from the Dream Team before!!! After we were finished with Narnia, my family and I all put on our "New ears" and found a Photo Pass Photographer to take our picture!!!

 

[disneytraveler]

While on vacation recently from Dec 10th -16th i received 2 Dream Lanyards . The first one i got when i was walking out of the
Pagini Trail next to the Safari ride. There were 2 Dream team people there
telling us to come closer because they have something to share. The second
one i received at Downtown Disney.

 

[jlm]

I have been a "quiet observer" on the disboards for almost a year. I joined when I saw you could have someone send kids postcards from DW. So thank you so much to who sent my kids (Olivia 8, Christopher 5 and Ben 2) postcards! They thought it was fabulous! I'm sorry I can't remember who sent them!
We were at DW 12/8-13th. On Sunday I thought MK had EMH opening at 8am. Well, when we arrived I was asked if we were there for bkst? I said, no we are here for EMH. The securtiy guard smiled and said, you are a bit early-the park opens at 9am today! My husband was giving me such a hard time that we were 70 minutes ealy for opening! So our kids took picutes of birds, my ds who is 2 fell and scrapped both knees. (glad I had the band-aids!) A CM came out to the enterance gate by where we were "making ourselves comfortable." She said, "Mam, can you come with me?" I was a bit worried-thinking we are loittering and we will have to leave! She said to me, "would your family like to open the park?" I said, "of course we would!" We have never been to MK before so I had no idea what we were in for! She gave my kids all autograph books and pins. We then road the fire truck to toontown and had the play area to ourselves. The train came in that we were riding on-apparently that one is only brought out for the opening and that is it. We were met by Mickey, Daisy, Mary Poppins, Bert, Alice, the Mad Hatter, Clarabell, Horace, and chip-n-dale. It was so amazing! They all signed the kids' books. I kept telling my kids that this doesn't happen to everyone. This is a very special thing-savor every moment! We rode the train in and Mickey sat by us. We got off the train and stood at the top of the rails. We counted down and all threw pixie dust out at the opening. We then were able to get a bunch more photos with Mickey....
It was definately a dream come true! I am so grateful that I made the mistake of when MK had EMH.
We had a few more things happen to us over the next few days...although nothing compared!!
My two older kids and I we able to ride soarin` by ourselves. We had got a baby swap because my ds (2) was sleeping. My dh and dd, ds didn't get out of the ride until 945pm! They let us then go in by ourselves and every cm working the ride came out and told me to "have a good flight." It really touched my heart that they would do that!
Another night on the way out of Splash Mtn a cm told my son to "come here buddy." He thought he was in trouble...the cm gave him a huge bag of cotton candy and told him to share.
We had the trip of a life time! That is what we thought it would be is once-not anymore. We are hooked on Disney! We are know planning on making it an annual or semi-annual family trip! A big thank you to everyone to contributes to this board! I found answers to all of my questions, and the information was extremely valuable!!!
sorry if I have a ton of misspellings! I am trying to type fast before my dh gets off the bus.

 

[glitterkittyy]

The CM at MK are just wonderful. My daughter Katie, who is 7, is a big time pin trader! She has passed the lanyard stage and now has a portfolio she takes with her to do her trading. A CM traded pins with her then gave her FOUR Tink Year of a Million Dreams pins. Katie came running back to me so excited that she couldn't even tell me...she just pointed to the pins. Then she quickly shared them with her sister as well as a little girl who was on her first visit to WDW. This small gift absolutely made her day!

 

[Britbrie]

This is not an official YOAMD, but one night of our trip my dbf brought me to a carriage ride at Port Orleans. There were rose petals all on the carriage, and at the end of the ride, the CM handed me a Cinderella pillow made out of carnations and a glass slipper.

After she handed me that dbf PROPOSED!!!!!! We got pictures and I even got a tiara to put on. When we got back on the boat to get back to DD, the boat driver asked us what the crown was all about. We told him and he got on his radio before taking off. When we got off, he told us that he had gotten us reservations at Fulton's for that night!!!

On the last night, we had ADR's for Cali Grill, and our server brought out a piece of chocolate cake with congratulations written on it!

It was the best trip of my LIFE.

 

[Osjah&Landon'sMom]

Whenever I need a "good" cry I just come and catch up on the posts here... ugh... I love it! Most of these bring tears to my eyes but in a warm fuzzy way... keep sharing... I'll be back LOL

 

[retiredkid]

Britbrie, official dream or not, it was the very best dream ever! How romantic! Please post photos.
Congratulations!!

 

[Cee]

On Monday, Dec. 10, my DD(26) and I were getting on Star Tours at the Studios
and the Dream Team came on and gave everyone the Ears! It was so great.
For the rest of the day all the other CMs were congratulating us. We also
received a beautiful Tink pin from a nice lady at Guest Relations when we were
picking up our passes. I couldn't believe we actually got stuff! I thought it
only happened to other lucky folks, not me!