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

[S. C.]

What is a TSA lock?

I was wondering too so i googled it.

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[S. C.]

Double Post.

 

[cstraub]

I was at Disneyland on Oct 13 and I did not see one person get a prize. I did not see any special fast passes or pins or anything at all.

 

[mrzrich]

I was at Disneyland on Oct 13 and I did not see one person get a prize. I did not see any special fast passes or pins or anything at all.

This is something I wanted to address, this thread makes it seem like these magical moments are happening continuously and to almost everyone.

I just returned from a 5 day trip, and saw one family with Dream FP. I never saw anything else exciting happening.

I just don't want people to read this thread and get all excited only to be disappointed when nothing happens.

If something happens great, but the odds are slim.

 

[Mike Bartenhagen]

We just returned from a week at the parks and saw many people with Dreams Fast Passes. We received several magical moments if you want to call them that. It appears to me that 999,999,900 of the Magical Moments are just little certificates although my youngest daughter was given a Magical Moments pin which had the same pin attached that she was to give to someone else (she gave it to her sister). She was also chosen to be the first to go down the SSR slide when it opened. The rest of the kids were given several certificates to certify that they had a magical moment for doing things like playing a matching game.

Mike

 

[Tigger714]

You know what, you may have just confirmed something for me. While we were there this summer, for two weeks, I didn't see any guests give anything out. But then I read all about guests giving out glow sticks and such. Which I think is VERY cool. Anyway, I started thinking..... well, chances are, from all the stories, we may be lucky enough to recieve something, but if not, I don't want the kids to be disappointed. They will understand, but they may still be disappointed. So.... I would like to use this opportunity to further teach them how much fun it is to GIVE and how much fun it is to SPREAD the magic. Well, when we go in Dec, I don't think I can get a big box of glow sticks on the plane. So, what if I made little Mickey icon shaped Christmas cards, with a little ribbon tied on it... with Merry Christmas from us, our name and town, and hand those out? Do you guys think that is a lame idea? I mean, you are right! This is about spreading magic. That IS why we go! And if we are not there, we are wishing we WERE!

I just took my nine year old to our local distributor and picked up 50 glow sticks and 50 glow necklaces. We bought lime green ribbon to hang them with and little tags to write a message on. He is so excited that he gets to help "spread the magic" ! The whole project cost just under $50.00!!! I'm thinking this will have to be a annual family project now. It's great to teach our kids compassion and unslefish giving. So, if your there 10/27 thru 11/5 and some crazy family is giving out glowsticks you'll know it's us!!!!

 

[kxmeeh]

just a quick question...are there any yomd's being granted at the water parks?

 

[cleo]

I'm going to Sticky this thread at the top of YOAMD board so that it's easy to find as the board gets busier. It should be fun to see how many replies it gets by the time YOAMD ends!

 

[tomerin]

Taking my laptop would cure all my problems. Trusted them with the expensive equipment??

this will be my 4th trip to wdw travelig with my equiptment. i take along a digital camera, a video camera and my latop. i have never ever had a problem ever. we always seem to arrive early and you can ask bell servces to lock up your equiptment and they give you a reciept and either you can have it delivered to your room with your luggage or you can pick it up yourself.

in fact when we stayed at the WL i always left everything on the table. usually it was the laptop and one of the cameras. mousekeeping made it a point not to touch anything on the table when they came in to clean the room.

 

[katytrott]

Could anyone help me out here? We went on our trip on 30th Sept and have only got back. Previous to going I had heard so much about these dream giveaways, but knew it did not officialy start till we were there. This picture was taken on the Fri 6th Oct at Epcot probably around 4pm near the Land pavillion. I saw these CM members come out behind Living Seas and stroll along towards Imagination and thought they were the Dream Team. My mum and I followed them for a while to see what would happen, but they just kept strolling. We had to loose them after a while because we were meant to be meeting my DH and DS outside Living Seas. I took a picture in the hopes that someone on the Dis boards would recognise this.

Are they the Dream team? Does anyone know what they gave away if they were?

 

[elgerber]

That is the dream team. That is what the bags looked like that they pulled our dream fastpasses from, but there could have been any number of things inside of them.

 

[poohbear919]

No Dream Team Magical Moments for me (yet) - but my trip isn't for another 19 days! I'll post what I see/anything that happens to us when I get back!

I was wondering too so i googled it.

Now to go slightly ... Just wanted to say that I love that you told us this! I google everything - and my colleagues at work make fun of me because of it... It answers their questions every time though!

 

[wdwholic1206]

I just LOVE reading all these stories. Thanks for spreading your pixie dust. Keep them coming. I can only hope that my family will get a piece of the "Magic" on our up coming trip. Although it will be a surprise for them seeing they have no idea we are going!

 

[PopArtGal]

Sorry to be slightly off-topic but speaking of yomd....did anyone see the new planning DVD yet?

 

[David R]

We spent a few hours at Typhoon Lagoon this afternoon and a CM approached us and gave us free refillable mugs!

 

[sanjdill]

Just got back on the 20th and had a great time at WDW with two grandsons, ages 1 and 3. Our three year old was picked at MGM Movie Ride to be the tour director. He had to shut the doors on some of the cars and give the thumbs up for them to start. Just a small thing, but made him feel so important and he's still talking about it. He received a nice certificate with his name on it. This is a great thing for Disney to do and is making a lot of lifetime fans. I want to go back already. The parks seemed to be a little more crowded than when we've gone in the past at this time of year.

I have been reading these posts and enjoy seeing the magic go on daily.

 

[ralph303]

The Great movie ride is one of my favorite rides. Its great.

 

[chipscamping buddy]

We had just gotten off the carousel and went into the line at Snow White today when Mary Poppins arrived at the carousel. She promptly entered through the exit nearest us and went and got on a horse. We were able to watch for the next three rounds of the carousel as she stayed on and the people getting on started to realize it. Then it was our turn to get on Snow White and my 6 yr old DD wanted to ride in the front by herself. She was worried, she didn't think the cast members would allow her to ride alone, but they smiled at her and told her it was okay.

Guess who was waiting when we got off? Yep, the Dream Team. They told my DD that because she was so brave, she had won a special wish. They gave her a shiny new penny and escorted us to the wishing fountain where she was able to make a wish and throw the penny in. They then gave her a special certificate and a Snow White stcker.

A little later, we were getting off Buzz, and one of the cast members looked at me and said "Hey Donald". She remembered me from the MNSSHP the night before when I was wearing a Donald Duck Costume. Disney Magic at its finest.

 

[doodlebugs]

We were entering the Magic Kingdom in the afternoon last Tuesday and as we were walking down Main Street, a family approached us. They had been given dream fastpasses for the day and were leaving the park early. They still had five or six attractions they had not used---SM, BTR, Philimagic.... Anyway, they passed the dream on by giving us their dream fastpasses!!! What super nice and generous people---they certainly made our day!

 

[dis ms.]

WARNING: this is long. If you just want the facts and not all the details, feel free to scroll down to the summary.

We were at WDW October 8-13 and my kids received several wishes.

Our first day there, we were browsing at a shop, and a CM just handed my kids cotton candy. Later that same night, we were shopping (again) when a CM let the handful of kids in the store pick out a free candy bar.

Another day, we were first in line for the "Voyage of the Little Mermaid". A CM noticed that my DD had on a Jasmine t-shirt. He said, "You're the cutest little princess I've ever seen." Then he got on his radio thingy and said, "Ariel, I have Princess Jamine coming your way." Next he instructed us to sit in a certain area during the show and said that Ariel would sing directly to my DD. When Ariel came out and started singing, she looked right down at my DD, who was just in Heaven after that!

A couple of times, CMs played special games with the kids, too. My DS got to go bowling with an eyeball (don't ask!) in the Tower of Terror gift shop. A CM in the Star Tours shop played several games of Star Wars tic-tac-toe with both kids.

The biggest wish happened at MGM. We were standing around waiting for the "Stars and Motor Cars Parade" to begin. A CM asked me if my kids would like the best seats in the house for the parade. I said, yes, of course. Then, he asked if my kids would like to be IN the parade! So, we got to stand at the parade entrance and see all the characters as they were starting out. Many of them came over and shook the kids' hands. After all the characters came out, we (and the other families that were chosen to be in the parade) got to walk the parade route behind Pluto, who posed for a pic with the kids afterward.

SUMMARY of wishes my kids received:

Cotton candy
Candy bars
Ice cream
Ariel (sort of) sang to DD
They were picked to be in MGM's "Stars and Motor Cars Parade"

The wishes really added some magic to our trip.