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

[erikaluvsdisney]

We won an extra hour in MGM after the park closed. We were in MGM on Saturday, Feb 24th and about to board the Star Tours ride when a DT cast Member put a bracelet on our wrists. When we asked what they were for, they said we would find out shortly. Once everyone in our que was seated in our "Flight craft" they announced we were winners of an extra magic hour in MGM.
At 9:30 that night we reported to the Indiana Jones Theater and were entertained by Mulch, Sweat and Shears - the landscaping band that performs frequently in MGM. Then Mickey and Minnie came out in their new blue dream attire and kicked off the dream magic hour for us. They kept Star tours, The Great Movie Ride, Rock n Roller Coaster, Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and The Muppet show open for us. They also had 2 showings of the Little Mermaid, and a special dance party for the little ones at the Playhouse Disney Theater. I was kind of disappointed my kids weren't along for this trip - my husband and I did a quick 4 days without them - they would've loved the dance party.
Anyhow, we were there with about 500 other dream winners. You could easily ride a ride, get off, and hop right back on. Mickey and Minnie were there, and you could just walk right up to them and get a picture without waiting.
MGM isn't my favorite park, but it was really cool to be a part of the whole special evening.

 

[UrsulasShadow]

My 11 yr old daughter was picked on 4/11/07 as the winner of the "Nights and Lights" prize package (adventuresbydisney.com). She was in Disney's West End (Orlando) and sat on the "lucky bench". That's all it took.

The prize is an 8 day trip to London and Paris. $25,000 (includes $5600 for taxes). Talk about a lucky kid! This was fortunate because we were thinking about making this trip anyway.

All four of us had to sign a bunch of legal docs and releases. The Disney staff was great. They made my daughter feel like a real celebrity. We hope to squeeze in the trip this year.

P.S.
Considering the $$ spent on season passes, Disney hotels, lunches at WDW, closets full of Disney princess gowns/shoes/fairy wands/, $20,000 worth of Disney Videos/DVDs/CDs/cassettes, and computer games... I may actually have recouped almost 20% of the $$ I spent on Disney products! LOL

Now THAT'S a PRIZE!!!!

 

[bdtracey]

My 11 yr old daughter was picked on 4/11/07 as the winner of the "Nights and Lights" prize package (adventuresbydisney.com). She was in Disney's West End (Orlando) and sat on the "lucky bench". That's all it took.

The prize is an 8 day trip to London and Paris. $25,000 (includes $5600 for taxes). Talk about a lucky kid! This was fortunate because we were thinking about making this trip anyway.

All four of us had to sign a bunch of legal docs and releases. The Disney staff was great. They made my daughter feel like a real celebrity. We hope to squeeze in the trip this year.

P.S.
Considering the $$ spent on season passes, Disney hotels, lunches at WDW, closets full of Disney princess gowns/shoes/fairy wands/, $20,000 worth of Disney Videos/DVDs/CDs/cassettes, and computer games... I may actually have recouped almost 20% of the $$ I spent on Disney products! LOL

that is incredible! Nice work! DW and I have almost completely forgotten about the YOAMD; we're just so excited to be going to WDW again. I'm kind of teetering on booking another trip for September. It would definitely be our b-day presents to each other (both in Sept!) and it would be fairly in expensive (compared to this one at least...)

 

[Duxy68]

Cheers for the great thread that ive spent hours and hours reading. Made my day. Lets hope when The Duxfields go that something magic happens.

 

[aterriq]

My 11 yr old daughter was picked on 4/11/07 as the winner of the "Nights and Lights" prize package (adventuresbydisney.com). She was in Disney's West End (Orlando) and sat on the "lucky bench". That's all it took.

Now you've done it. DIS'ers will be spending so much time sitting on benches, they won't be riding rides.


Congrats

 

[Vickie46]

Way to go.. great prizes!!!

 

[labdogs42]

Now you've done it. DIS'ers will be spending so much time sitting on benches, they won't be riding rides.


Congrats

I know! I'll be running from bench to bench in every park! I bet it will be an easy way to meet some fellow DIS-er's, too!!

I love hearing about everyone's dreams -- some BIG (wow!) and some little. I'm leaving for my trip in 18 dyas, I'll let you know if I get anything!!

 

[Tricia1972]

We had a lot of dreams on our trip. It was an incredible experience, truly, truly magical.

April 10 - Anniversary card/certificate signed by the CM's working at LeCellier
April 11 - Balloon bouquet and card signed by Mickey and Minnie delivered in our room while we were at MK.

April 11 - Free dessert at Kona for breakfast that said congratulations.
April 11 - V&A gave us a loaf of Orange Date Nut Bread from their Master Pastry Chef.
April 13 - Dream Fastpasses at Dinosaur (about 9:15 am) and an anniversary call from Mickey and Minnie at Downtown Disney

The funniest thing? We were honest with everyone when our anniversary was, and the only day we didn't get a 'dream' was on our anniversary itself. Though being at Disney was quite a dream.


Dreams we gave away:
April 11 - Gave away a set of FP's for Buzz to a couple standing at the end of the 90 minute standby line
April 12 - Gave away a set of FP's for RNR to a mother and a son standing at the end of a 120 minute standby line
April 12 - Gave away the rest of our anniversary cake to a family of 5 from England

 

[MNWDWMANIAC]

This thread is amazing. We can't wait till out trip in Oct! Thank you all for sharing your magic

 

[LauraAnn630]

Can someone please tell us about the post card entries?

What kind of post cards?
Where do we mail it?
How many can you mail?

and anything else we need to know.

What do you put on the post cards?

TIA

 

[DopeyKel]

We have won a total of 4 lanyards and 2 sets of ears. Everyone in my family but me has won something Maybe Disney is saving a big prize for me -- like a night in the castle or a DVC membership

 

[bdtracey]

We have won a total of 4 lanyards and 2 sets of ears. Everyone in my family but me has won something Maybe Disney is saving a big prize for me -- like a night in the castle or a DVC membership

They really oughta combine those two dreams...a DVC membership for the castle! Now that would be a dream come true!!!

I would be absolutely tickled if DW and I won anything down there! To tell you the truth I've almost completely forgot about the YOAMD simply because I'm so excited to go back!

 

[maciemouse]

This is actually kind of funny. My family, my sister's family, and our mom were at MK last December. We were leaving main street and I realized my two year old daughter lost her shoe. I told my family to wait while my daughter and I went to find her shoe. It was crowded and hot on this particular day. When I went to back track, a cast member stopped me and said my daughter had been chosen by the dream team. Macie is really shy and her favorite word at this time was "no". So needless to say I was pretty nervous about what they were about to do. Anyway, they took us to the front of one of the stores on Main Street. They let Macie decorate a manigan(spelling?) how ever she wanted. Of course she chose Cinderella. She was able to choose her shoes, wand, necklaus,and crown. Then the cast member gave Macie a wand and told her to say "Bibbidi, Bobbidi, BOO!" I couldn't believe it, She said it! Not only did she say it, She shouted it clearly. After she did this the cast members threw confetti all around her. Everyone clapped. I turned around and there was atleast 40 people watching. They also gave my daughter a wand, glass slippers, necklaus, crown, and certificate for her to keep. The funny part was my family was no where in sight to take pictures of it. We left to go find them and my mother started to get on to me. "Where have you been? We have been waiting for 20 minutes!" She was sorry she missed Macie's little adventure.

 

[bdtracey]

This is actually kind of funny. My family, my sister's family, and our mom were at MK last December. We were leaving main street and I realized my two year old daughter lost her shoe. I told my family to wait while my daughter and I went to find her shoe. It was crowded and hot on this particular day. When I went to back track, a cast member stopped me and said my daughter had been chosen by the dream team. Macie is really shy and her favorite word at this time was "no". So needless to say I was pretty nervous about what they were about to do. Anyway, they took us to the front of one of the stores on Main Street. They let Macie decorate a manigan(spelling?) how ever she wanted. Of course she chose Cinderella. She was able to choose her shoes, wand, necklaus,and crown. Then the cast member gave Macie a wand and told her to say "Bibbidi, Bobbidi, BOO!" I couldn't believe it, She said it! Not only did she say it, She shouted it clearly. After she did this the cast members threw confetti all around her. Everyone clapped. I turned around and there was atleast 40 people watching. They also gave my daughter a wand, glass slippers, necklaus, crown, and certificate for her to keep. The funny part was my family was no where in sight to take pictures of it. We left to go find them and my mother started to get on to me. "Where have you been? We have been waiting for 20 minutes!" She was sorry she missed Macie's little adventure.

That's super cute! Congratulations!!!!

 

[RmrJmrGrl]

When my stepmom took me in Jan on our 2nd to last day we were the family of the day!!! We were in MGM and we were in the front of the line at the gate to go in and they said out of the blue, "Do you want to be our family of the day?" We were surprised but we said yes! We got our own elevator on the Tower of Terror (just the 2 of us in one elevator) and our picture for free!! And then later in the day at one of the stores the clerk asked me a couple of questions about Hannah Montanna (my fave show on disney channel!) And I got a certificate! Then when I was in Downtown Disney I got a free sample of a slushie at the candy store! So if anyone or their kids is going for the first time go to the guest relations and ask for a first visit pin!!! Very good idea you are recognized alot around!!!!

cinderella14

Congrats on your win! How fun. I've never heard of a fist visit pin! Is this something you can do at all the parks?

BA

 

[LauraAnn630]

How many post cards have you sent out already?

I bought 80, sending out 4 a day...just sent the first 4.

I really want the pins! Or something really big!

I cant help but wonder how many a day they are getting.
Would they really catch it if we send more than 1 a day?
Guess I wont take that chance just yet.

 

[PopArtGal]

I sent 18.

I have 2 left to send.

And no win yet

 

[coffman6]

We too were very lucky...Our Spring Break trip to WDW we were touched by the dream team twice!! Once our group of ten received dream fast passes at AK and then two days later DH and DD were on the Haunted Mansion and they received the lanyards with special pins. We were very excited and felt special!!

 

[UrsulasShadow]

I cant help but wonder how many a day they are getting.
Would they really catch it if we send more than 1 a day?
Guess I wont take that chance just yet.

When I first started sending out postcards, I didn't notice the caveat that you could only send 1 a day, so I sent out up to 4 a day for a few weeks. When I noticed my mistake, I dropped it down to 1 every other day for a while (thinking that may compensate for my mistake). Evidently it doesn't matter, though, and they don't keep close track of how many entries they get from one address/one name, because I've won several times. Almost all of the prizes came after ALL the entries were submitted, and came at several separate times (I assume from several separate drawings). I wonder if they just pool all the entries as they come in.

 

[Sarahboo]

Yesterday (Saturday April 21) we won Dream Fastpasses at Animal Kingdom! We were on our way back from Rafiki's Planetwatch at 10:50am (I looked at my watch because I knew you guys would all want to know :lol: ).

We were headed down the pathway and about 6 people were stopped right in the middle of the walkway. My husband (who doesn't like walkway stoppers) said "Excuse me!" kind of loud, and they told us that they were told to wait here, so we waited patiently behind them and not a minute later a Dream Team member appeared and announced that as part of Disney's Year of a Million Dreams Celebration we were chosen to recieve a prize and she opened her little bag and handed us all Dream Fastpasses!

It was perfect because we could only stay in the park until 2:30 that day before heading off to the airport, it allowed us to fit so much more in than we would have been able to otherwise!

It was so much fun to wear it all day! Everyone kept asking us where they could buy them. :lol: