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

[SomDayMyPrnceWillCom]

My DD11 and I had our very first trip Memorial Week. We were both given a set of lanyards and pins when entering The Muppet 4 - D show which I loved! DD11 loves Tink and she and/or I wore some type of Tink item every day (shirt, hat, pins, etc.) and we were decked out with Tink stuff in MK sitting having a Mickey ice cream bar. An outdoor shop keeper near the Shooting gallery and a security guard started speaking with us and the security guard asked DD11 if she realllyyyy loved Tink noticing our apparel and she said Yes, I love All things Tink. He pulled off his cap and gave her the Tink pins he had hiding in there to give. He said she was to keep one and give the other one away.

She had a bit of a stomache ache on the day we were to do lunch at CP so we called and changed our res to a breakfast on the day we were leaving. We got one of the first res at 8:10 and were due to leave on the ME bus at 12:15 and still had to finish up packing a few things. As we were exiting the MK, I showed her a group of CM's that were all wearing pins and told her to go see if there was any last pin she may want to trade for. As she was perusing the CM's lanyards, I chatted up what I assumed to be upper management as they were in business suit type attire. The lady CM asked us how everything was going and I told her it was our first trip and we were heading out to go back home. She handed us two fastpasses and said Here, go ride anything you want. These are for any ride. And of course DD11 said Mom, you loved SM, let's go ride one last time. (I did not know of the train the entire week we were there!!!) I didn't want to walk ALL the way to the back of the park and we were pushing for time. She explained we could take the train and be back in half an hour. Well we did, how could I refuse my DD11 with her pouty lips as CM's were encouraging us to go for one last ride! When we got there however, no line and we went right on the ride. So upon exiting, I found a dad with a son and passed the tickets along to him as we sadly exiting the MK for the last time.

We had a very magical time for our first visit and while I originally thought it would be a long time before we were able to go back, I am doing whatever it takes for us to make it back again this May when we are out of school. I'm a teacher. And I have apparently become obsessed with WDW. I have always loved Disney but since my visit, I can't stop planning all the details of our next trip.

 

[jaame]

My cousin and his youngest son and myself and my oldest son were loaded into the ToT elevator when I noticed a dream team member. I leaned over to my cousin and told him someone in the elevator was going to win something. Well, lo and behold, we all received the YOMD mickey ear hats. The boys were so excited! My and cousin and I gave our hats to our sons who weren't riding with us so all four boys were very excited.

 

[stellablue]

Subscribing!

 

[moorekw]

officially received our dreams (lanyards) on 18 october at the "where's the fire" game in Epcot Innoventions West. the DF was headed out when a couple of dream team members were spotted outside the hall. i greeted them, asking how their day was going ("magical" was the response!), they then asked if we had been through the "where's the fire" game yet? we were headed to the sea, but one of the members was really insistent that would enjoy the game... really! hint taken. they also sang happy birthday to my dd!!!

not really dreams, but equally great that day. a CM at the Test Track exit shared our dd's bday, so we got a VIP pass for the ride. the pass allowed us to go upstairs where normally only GM employees are allowed to view a "behind-the-scenes" look of the ride, free soda/coffee, private bathrooms (well, private to anyone up in the offices) and a great view of the Future World area of Epcot. we then were able to receive walk-right-up privileges for the ride. really cool!!!

later that evening, we were able to enjoy VIP seating for the last Little Richard show. this was the thing our dd wanted to do more than anything else during our vacation in the world.

all in all, a truly magical bday for dd!!!

 

[queenmum2]

We've already won two YOMD Mickey-Ears and a lanyard...it's probably another lanyard - at least I hope it is so my DH can have a lanyard of his own. I've given the ears to my kids and they both have lanyards (not yomd) already. So I'm keeping my lanyard (DS - bless his little heart - thought my YOMD lanyard looked a little bare with only the two YOMD pins on it so he gave me one of his!). Hopefully this is also a lanyard so DH can have one when we go in Dec.

I got a little excited when I looked at the notice because the letter carrier had originally checked "letter" instead of "parcel". Letter would DEFINITELY have been nice, as it would have meant a really big prize. But I'd be happy with a lanyard, too.

If it is something different, I'll let ya'll know.
Tracie

 

[my3princes]

We just got back from a whirlwind weekend. Dh and I took a 4 day 3 night to WDW without our children. This was our first ever vacation without our 3 sons and it turned out to be sprinkled with pixie dust and full of magic.

Thursday night we did the MNSSHP. We decided to collect autographs from the characters that we had not seen on our 23 day trip last summer. Late in the evening we went to see Tarzan, Jane and King Louie. I knew that King Louie cannot sign autographs, but I had made him a customized autograph page to put in our autograph scrapbook with his picture. There was not a line at that time. King Louie was so excited to see this page that he got on the floor and indicated that he wanted me to put a pen between his fingers. I had a little difficulty in figuring out exactly how he wanted it, but his handler helped and he cafefully signed his autograph page. DH took lots of pictures of this and I was totally in shock. This must be very rare and since we are avid autograph collectors it was a great way to end our first day

Day 2 was an Disney MGM Studios day. We were there for park opening, but since we had now spent 24 days in the parks without an "official dream" being won we didn't have any expectations. As we were walking out of Tower of Terror we bumped into a Dream Team member that we had talked with extensively on our previous trip. She had been assigned to chat with the park guests on the day that we met her and she had spent about 45 minutes telling us amazing stories of dreams that she had been lucky enough to award and things that she had seen. We also talked about New England as we were both from there. Anyway we bumped into her and she recognized us as we also recognized her. She was on her way to find a family that was opening the Beauty and Beast show and didn't have time to chat, but told us to find her later and told us the area that she was assigned to for the day. We walked away and decided to hit One Man's Dream as we had never been able to spend much time there on visits with our kids. Turns out we were having a very lucky day as the Dream Team was handing out Dream Fastpasses. We were so excited and DH hugged the poor girl that was handing them out I was so excited that I was literally shaking. Honestly we weren't planning on doing much that day as we planned to take an afternoon break before heading back for Fantasmic, but it didn't matter as we had won a dream

After winning the fastpasses there was no way that we could concentrate on the exhibits so we headed off to character search. while waiting for the Green Army Man to come out we saw our Dream Team friend and went to chat with her. Her and her partner had set up a bean bag toss game near Al's toy barn and they were awarding stickers to participants. Kids and adults alike were enjoying the game. AR is the name of the nicest Dream Team member that you could ever meet. Anyway, Ar and her partner we just chatting with us about our kids and their favorite characters, souvenier requests and other misc chit chat. When the Green Army Man came out we went to get his autograph and AR followed us over and asked if we would be interested in being the Opening Family for the late afternoon Indiana Jones show. Well of course we would be. We were supposed to meet her at Indy at 4:15 that afternoon. I cannot tell you how special we felt. I also must say that I have thoroughly enjoyed talking to AR on both trips and I wasn't expecting or even hoping for a dream as I truly enjoyed listening to her stories. I highly recommend talking with the Dream Team or any other CM as they all have wonderful stories to tell and I really think that they feel just a special as we do when someone takes the time to listen AR is probably the most personable CM that I have ever had the privilege to talk to and truly the conversations were highlights of our trip. Now back to the dream. We ran into some friends from the DIS at the ABC commissary and they had fastpasses for Rockin Roller Coaster. Since we had the Dream Fastpasses we all headed off together. They got Tower of Terror Fastpasses on the way by. After Rockin Rollercoaster we headed to the exit area of TOT to wait for their fastpass time. We spotted a group of 4 Dream Team members on the Cast Only Stairway of TOT. We lingered there a bit wondering what Dream they were going to be giving out. After a little while they came out of that area and it turned out that AR was one of those members and they had just handed out the Pin/Lanyard sets at TOT. It was then that she apologized to DH and I as she was not able to award us the Indy opening as it was a different CMs job that afternoon. She said that she did have something else in mind and asked us to meet her in front of Muppets at 4 PM. So a few hours passed by and we met her as planned. She and her partner were upset about the Indy mixup. We explained that we didn't care and had thoroughly enjoyed talking to them, no worries. She then informed us that She and the rest of the dream team had combined efforts and put together a little package for us. They had remembered exactly which character's each of our sons liked and had a trading pin for each of them. They had also found the Aztec coin that my son had requested. Someone from the dream team threw in a 3 plastic coins from the Pirate and Princess party and AR and her partner had selected a year of a million dreams picture frame for DH and I. Needless to say we were blown away. This was by far a better Dream than winning a Fastpass because we could see all the time, energy and thought that was put into it. She told us that we were a very special couple/family and that she wanted to celebrate that. AR if you ever read this I cannot express in words how happy you made DH and I and our 3 boys. Thank You!!!

Saturday was our day for AK. We got to the park a bit later than we would have liked, but we had been to breakfast with a group of DIS friends so being late was so not an issue. Anyway we got fastpasses to KS then headed over to Everest. We had planned to do the Single rider line as the regular line was 40 minutes. We walked up and DH thinking he was a funny guy demanded that we be seated together, Immediately. The CMs looked at him and laughed. The started up a conversation with a wonderful CM named Eric. Eric has been on the Everest Team since opening and he was so knowledgable. Having rode the ride before I asked why the sequences occur in the order that they do. I found it strange that you approach the torn up track, the see the shadow sequence that shows the Yeti ripping up the track. I think it should be the other way around, but what to I know. Eric explained that there was more to the sequence than that, it turns out that when you meet the yeti towards the end that that is the actual scene that is depicted in the shadow scene. If you weren't traveling so fast you would be able to see another set of tracks to the side of the Yeti. Obviously we had never noticed it. Eric then offered to take us to the Control Tower for a tour. More Pixie Dust for us. The control tower has video screens showing every section of the ride. They showed us the Yeti scene and sure enough there is a second set of track there. They also showed us how the tracks switch and some other very cool mechanical things. After our tour we were escorted to the front of the line and could choose any row we wanted. Eric also explained that Joe Rodi designed the entire ride around row 9. Row 9 has the best view and the best positioning throughout the ride so row 9 is what we chose. He also suggested that if you lean as far forward as you can, nearly laying your head in your lap during the part of the ride that goes backwards you will have a heightened coaster experience. Boy was he right!!! It felt like we went through an inversion, but in reality it wasn't even close. After our ride we hunted Eric down and thanked him for the information, tour and riding tips. He then handed us fastpasses to go back on and told us to try to hold our arms straight out in front of us and lift our feet off the floor during the helix section. So back on we went. Let me tell you that I could not hold my arms out straight or keep my legs up as the force was so strong. So we had a magical moment and now you all know a few secrets of Everest so I hope that we are spreading the Magic Too

 

[.:Disney.:.Freak:.]

can't wait i leave for disney in 4 1/2 days for halloween and the food and wine fetival my family and i hope we win something

 

[mommy2jays]

thanks for all the wonderful stories, I hope to be able to post one when we go in Feb/08!

 

[Kirsty262]

I am going to Florida on Saturday 3 November and can't wait

I didn't know about the "Dreams" until now so thanks

 

[cardsbynikki]

This past trip was a birthday trip for our family, celebrating my birthday and several others. It was an 8 night trip to DL - our longest trip yet. We were staying in the DL Hotel for the first time. We had stayed at the Grand about five times.

We knew a lot of the bellhops from our trips to the Grand and they recognized us. We are pretty easy to recognize - I am 27, in a wheelchair and on a non-invasive ventilator, and on an IV pump all the time - and my 4 yr old niece has a severe vis. impairment and uses a vision cane. You don't really see that combo a lot, so a lot of the CM's know us.

One day we left the hotel to go see the Koi pond and the waterfalls, and take pictures and stuff.

When we got back to the hotel room, on my bed (which had been cleaned while we were gone) was a birthday surprise! There were 5 helium balloons - in purple and blue, my favorite colors - a box of Disney shortbread cookies, an 8x10 BW Glossy photo of Mickey Mouse, in an envelope labeled "Special Delivery". The photo said "To my Pal Nikki from your Pal Mickey Mouse". And there was a cake made out of washcloths and hand towels, with blue and purple ribbons wrapped around it, and chocolate Disney coins stuffed into it. There was also a Happy Birthday pin on the towel cake.

It was so neat! I thought maybe one of my family members had set it up, but they said they didn't. Mom asked Guest Services if they knew who sent it, and they said I had won a dream prize and it was from the staff at the hotel! I loved it. I gave two of the balloons to my niece, who tied them around her vision cane. Anytime a CM asked her about them she said "My Auntie and I won a dream prize!"

It was really fun to win a prize that was so unexpected. And so sweet of them to think of me. I wondered how they knew which bed was mine, but then my sister pointed out that my bedside ventilator was right there, so it was a dead giveaway. The CM who set it up had actually helped us a lot when we stayed at the Grand. He was filling in for someone over at DL Hotel. It was him and the CM that had taken our reservations that decided to do it.

We won some Tink pins also, and my niece and little cousin loved that.

We also got to go on Monsters, Inc twice in a row and Winnie the Pooh twice in a row. The CM said it was a dream prize, and the kids were really excited.

My niece during our last trip before this one, won a bouquet of balloons, an autograph book and pen, a Tinkerbell pin (which she traded for a Cinderella pin), and an activity book and crayons.

 

[kimsuenew]

This past trip was a birthday trip for our family, celebrating my birthday and several others. It was an 8 night trip to DL - our longest trip yet. We were staying in the DL Hotel for the first time. We had stayed at the Grand about five times.

We knew a lot of the bellhops from our trips to the Grand and they recognized us. We are pretty easy to recognize - I am 27, in a wheelchair and on a non-invasive ventilator, and on an IV pump all the time - and my 4 yr old niece has a severe vis. impairment and uses a vision cane. You don't really see that combo a lot, so a lot of the CM's know us.

One day we left the hotel to go see the Koi pond and the waterfalls, and take pictures and stuff.

When we got back to the hotel room, on my bed (which had been cleaned while we were gone) was a birthday surprise! There were 5 helium balloons - in purple and blue, my favorite colors - a box of Disney shortbread cookies, an 8x10 BW Glossy photo of Mickey Mouse, in an envelope labeled "Special Delivery". The photo said "To my Pal Nikki from your Pal Mickey Mouse". And there was a cake made out of washcloths and hand towels, with blue and purple ribbons wrapped around it, and chocolate Disney coins stuffed into it. There was also a Happy Birthday pin on the towel cake.

It was so neat! I thought maybe one of my family members had set it up, but they said they didn't. Mom asked Guest Services if they knew who sent it, and they said I had won a dream prize and it was from the staff at the hotel! I loved it. I gave two of the balloons to my niece, who tied them around her vision cane. Anytime a CM asked her about them she said "My Auntie and I won a dream prize!"

It was really fun to win a prize that was so unexpected. And so sweet of them to think of me. I wondered how they knew which bed was mine, but then my sister pointed out that my bedside ventilator was right there, so it was a dead giveaway. The CM who set it up had actually helped us a lot when we stayed at the Grand. He was filling in for someone over at DL Hotel. It was him and the CM that had taken our reservations that decided to do it.

We won some Tink pins also, and my niece and little cousin loved that.

We also got to go on Monsters, Inc twice in a row and Winnie the Pooh twice in a row. The CM said it was a dream prize, and the kids were really excited.

My niece during our last trip before this one, won a bouquet of balloons, an autograph book and pen, a Tinkerbell pin (which she traded for a Cinderella pin), and an activity book and crayons.

Wow ~ what a wonderful vacation! That is awesome! Thank you for sharing your story! Happy belated birthday by the way!

 

[shewelch]

1) We met the family that stayed in the castle the night before after having our Royal Table breakfast. They were all starry eyed and the big burly dad was shaking with excitement while he showed us his pictures on his digital camera.

2) We received YOMD lanyards after my oldest daughter rode the Thunder Mountain Railroad for the first time ever- and she decided to give her lanyard away to her grandmother that didn't ride but had just bought her a purple lanyard and tink pins.

3) We were family of the show at MGM Playhouse Disney and my youngest daughter danced with glee throughout the show after meeting JoJo and Goliath.

4) Not official YOMD, but my hubby talked to Crush and the Monsters tagged me on the laugh floor on different days.

5) Mouskeeping played hide and seek with our stuffed pets all week.

6) MIL and hubby tolerated each other quite well for 9 days- now that's Disney Magic!

 

[ucancallmeflower]

6) MIL and hubby tolerated each other quite well for 9 days- now that's Disney Magic! [/QUOTE]

 

[LeeLee2U]

We just got back from a whirlwind weekend. Dh and I took a 4 day 3 night to WDW without our children. This was our first ever vacation without our 3 sons and it turned out to be sprinkled with pixie dust and full of magic.

Thursday night we did the MNSSHP. We decided to collect autographs from the characters that we had not seen on our 23 day trip last summer. Late in the evening we went to see Tarzan, Jane and King Louie. I knew that King Louie cannot sign autographs, but I had made him a customized autograph page to put in our autograph scrapbook with his picture. There was not a line at that time. King Louie was so excited to see this page that he got on the floor and indicated that he wanted me to put a pen between his fingers. I had a little difficulty in figuring out exactly how he wanted it, but his handler helped and he cafefully signed his autograph page. DH took lots of pictures of this and I was totally in shock. This must be very rare and since we are avid autograph collectors it was a great way to end our first day

Day 2 was an Disney MGM Studios day. We were there for park opening, but since we had now spent 24 days in the parks without an "official dream" being won we didn't have any expectations. As we were walking out of Tower of Terror we bumped into a Dream Team member that we had talked with extensively on our previous trip. She had been assigned to chat with the park guests on the day that we met her and she had spent about 45 minutes telling us amazing stories of dreams that she had been lucky enough to award and things that she had seen. We also talked about New England as we were both from there. Anyway we bumped into her and she recognized us as we also recognized her. She was on her way to find a family that was opening the Beauty and Beast show and didn't have time to chat, but told us to find her later and told us the area that she was assigned to for the day. We walked away and decided to hit One Man's Dream as we had never been able to spend much time there on visits with our kids. Turns out we were having a very lucky day as the Dream Team was handing out Dream Fastpasses. We were so excited and DH hugged the poor girl that was handing them out I was so excited that I was literally shaking. Honestly we weren't planning on doing much that day as we planned to take an afternoon break before heading back for Fantasmic, but it didn't matter as we had won a dream

After winning the fastpasses there was no way that we could concentrate on the exhibits so we headed off to character search. while waiting for the Green Army Man to come out we saw our Dream Team friend and went to chat with her. Her and her partner had set up a bean bag toss game near Al's toy barn and they were awarding stickers to participants. Kids and adults alike were enjoying the game. AR is the name of the nicest Dream Team member that you could ever meet. Anyway, Ar and her partner we just chatting with us about our kids and their favorite characters, souvenier requests and other misc chit chat. When the Green Army Man came out we went to get his autograph and AR followed us over and asked if we would be interested in being the Opening Family for the late afternoon Indiana Jones show. Well of course we would be. We were supposed to meet her at Indy at 4:15 that afternoon. I cannot tell you how special we felt. I also must say that I have thoroughly enjoyed talking to AR on both trips and I wasn't expecting or even hoping for a dream as I truly enjoyed listening to her stories. I highly recommend talking with the Dream Team or any other CM as they all have wonderful stories to tell and I really think that they feel just a special as we do when someone takes the time to listen AR is probably the most personable CM that I have ever had the privilege to talk to and truly the conversations were highlights of our trip. Now back to the dream. We ran into some friends from the DIS at the ABC commissary and they had fastpasses for Rockin Roller Coaster. Since we had the Dream Fastpasses we all headed off together. They got Tower of Terror Fastpasses on the way by. After Rockin Rollercoaster we headed to the exit area of TOT to wait for their fastpass time. We spotted a group of 4 Dream Team members on the Cast Only Stairway of TOT. We lingered there a bit wondering what Dream they were going to be giving out. After a little while they came out of that area and it turned out that AR was one of those members and they had just handed out the Pin/Lanyard sets at TOT. It was then that she apologized to DH and I as she was not able to award us the Indy opening as it was a different CMs job that afternoon. She said that she did have something else in mind and asked us to meet her in front of Muppets at 4 PM. So a few hours passed by and we met her as planned. She and her partner were upset about the Indy mixup. We explained that we didn't care and had thoroughly enjoyed talking to them, no worries. She then informed us that She and the rest of the dream team had combined efforts and put together a little package for us. They had remembered exactly which character's each of our sons liked and had a trading pin for each of them. They had also found the Aztec coin that my son had requested. Someone from the dream team threw in a 3 plastic coins from the Pirate and Princess party and AR and her partner had selected a year of a million dreams picture frame for DH and I. Needless to say we were blown away. This was by far a better Dream than winning a Fastpass because we could see all the time, energy and thought that was put into it. She told us that we were a very special couple/family and that she wanted to celebrate that. AR if you ever read this I cannot express in words how happy you made DH and I and our 3 boys. Thank You!!!

Saturday was our day for AK. We got to the park a bit later than we would have liked, but we had been to breakfast with a group of DIS friends so being late was so not an issue. Anyway we got fastpasses to KS then headed over to Everest. We had planned to do the Single rider line as the regular line was 40 minutes. We walked up and DH thinking he was a funny guy demanded that we be seated together, Immediately. The CMs looked at him and laughed. The started up a conversation with a wonderful CM named Eric. Eric has been on the Everest Team since opening and he was so knowledgable. Having rode the ride before I asked why the sequences occur in the order that they do. I found it strange that you approach the torn up track, the see the shadow sequence that shows the Yeti ripping up the track. I think it should be the other way around, but what to I know. Eric explained that there was more to the sequence than that, it turns out that when you meet the yeti towards the end that that is the actual scene that is depicted in the shadow scene. If you weren't traveling so fast you would be able to see another set of tracks to the side of the Yeti. Obviously we had never noticed it. Eric then offered to take us to the Control Tower for a tour. More Pixie Dust for us. The control tower has video screens showing every section of the ride. They showed us the Yeti scene and sure enough there is a second set of track there. They also showed us how the tracks switch and some other very cool mechanical things. After our tour we were escorted to the front of the line and could choose any row we wanted. Eric also explained that Joe Rodi designed the entire ride around row 9. Row 9 has the best view and the best positioning throughout the ride so row 9 is what we chose. He also suggested that if you lean as far forward as you can, nearly laying your head in your lap during the part of the ride that goes backwards you will have a heightened coaster experience. Boy was he right!!! It felt like we went through an inversion, but in reality it wasn't even close. After our ride we hunted Eric down and thanked him for the information, tour and riding tips. He then handed us fastpasses to go back on and told us to try to hold our arms straight out in front of us and lift our feet off the floor during the helix section. So back on we went. Let me tell you that I could not hold my arms out straight or keep my legs up as the force was so strong. So we had a magical moment and now you all know a few secrets of Everest so I hope that we are spreading the Magic Too

How neat!! I love our story. What an awesome CM!
We also have 2 CMs that are very special to us. 1 is a photopass photographer named Jennifer and the other is a dream team member named Amy

 

[KLukas]

We won dream fast passes the last day of our trip in MK!!! It was awesome. I was really glad we won when we did, cuz those fast passes kinda spoil ya.

I was about to give up

 

[dudleydog]

Where and what time did you win them?

 

[alyssarella]

We just got back yesterday from a week in the World and won some official dreams and had a few "Magical Moments". We won dream fastpasses at Epcot on our 2nd day... it must have been just before 10:30am because we were rushing to the Princess breakfast in Norway when a cm was motioning for people to go across the path she was on... well, since I've been on the DIS for a while I knew to just go where she wanted me to even if it made us a little late for our breakfast. Then on Thursday we won the lanyards getting off of Goofy's Barnstormer - must have been 12:30-1:00ish. And on Friday my daughter and I won dream fastpasses at MGM on the Rockin' Rollercoaster.

We also had little magical moments... one at the Soarin' souveneer booth where my kids had to figure out who's feet were hanging off the Soarin' seat. One where my youngest dd4 was wearing her Cinderella costume and the bus driver made a comment about her being a princess, then when we pulled into the MK he stopped at a different place than normal and started honking (we were clueless about what was going on) then when we got off he introduced dd to a cm that was stationed at this stop and she said we had won a magical moment and took dd4's picture with a poloriod and said that she was going to be in there million princesses and pirates promotion (I still have no idea what this is) then plopped a pirate hat on ds6 and took his picture too. She got all sorts of info on us and gave us a family fastpass for our trouble. So that was cool with us. DD10 and DS6 also got chosen for the Jedi Training and DD10 was chosen for the pirate tutorial with Capt. Jack. I think there were some other things too but I can't remember off the top of my head.

It was a great trip and I can't wait to go back!!!!

 

[twoanddone]

Great stories of the YOAMD! We went to the MK back in October. IT was our little one's first time and really our first time together We were in line at Dumbo and we asked a family in line ahead of us where they bought their OUr first time buttons. THe dad said at our hotel they give them. I told dh that we would request back when we got back and without hesitation the little girl and boy took off theirs (they were 6 and 7 I foudn out). It touched us that they were so young and offered our children their souvenirs without even requesting it. We talked during the line and found out the little boy was really into police and fireman stuff. My dh is a police officer and has coins with his badge emblem on one side and his squad's nn on the other. HE happened to have a couple with him and gave one to each of the kids. We seen them later at the parade and the dad said the little boy was on cloud 9 he has real police "money" lol I was so happy we had something to give back and now that we are going to Disney in Christmas he is making sure he brings some more!

 

[Tinkerbella001]

We were in Disneyland in February and the kids were doing some pin trading. The CM they were trading with asked if they had seen the comercials about YOMD and DD4(3 at the time) got so excited and asked if he was going to blow some magic on them like on TV. He said yes and gave them both a special Tinkerbell pin for their lanyards. It was priceless and they still talk about it today...

 

[Yani]

COLOR="Magenta"]We went to Disney at the beginning of October...I really wanted to get a wish granted...but I knew the chances were slim. However, while @ EPCOT, waiting to get on the Nemo ride we were pleasantly suprised with "Year of a Million Dreams" Mickey Ears! We formed a huge commotion because EVERYONE in our party got the Mickey ears (we were 7). It was a wonderful experience!!! Thank you Wish Makers![/COLOR]