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

[LeeLee2U]

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.

Yhat is awesome. That has got to be one of the best "mistakes" you can make at WDW!!!

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.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!! That is so awesome. You need to either do a TR and let us know the link or post some pics PLEASE!!!!!!

 

[my3princes]

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.

Congratulations!!! That is the best dream of all.

 

[twincitieserrands]

what are yoamd fast passes??

 

[mrmagicmph]

what are yoamd fast passes??

YOAMD = Year Of A Million Dreams

The YOAMD Fast Pass is one of the million + prizes that may be won as part of the YOAMD. Specifically, let us say you won one of them in Epcot on Christmas Day. You'd have a fast pass (it's a little tab on a card, as opposed to the "traditional" fast passes that spit out paper from the machine) for each of the Fast Pass equipped rides in Epcot, valid only on Christmas Day. You'll find pictures of them YOAMD fast passes somewhere buried in this thread.

Enjoy the Magic!

 

[nbodyhome]

My parents won on Saturday (castle stay), so we drove down for the evening. It was great! I have tons of pics, I just can't post where they are.

The nice thing, the suite had a small Christmas tree. I am glad we went while it was up, it really made the suite prettier.

 

[billwendy]

Hi Everyone,

Well, on December 30th, the last night of the Candlelight Processional, we had watched the 6:45 show and it was GREAT!! Well, my mom and her hubby decided to stay for the 8pm show - we left and walked around EPCOT....

Welllllll.............the line for the 8pm show was astronomical, so long in fact that my step father actually walked up to someone and asked where the end of the line was for the show. She was nicely dressed and was wearing a plaid vest.........she asked them if they had ever seen the show before, and they told her that they loved it so much - especially my mom. She then asked if it was just the 2 of them and they said yes - well.............she said that she had just been going to go get the last 2 people at the end of the line, and if my mom and bob were headed that way, then they would be the people she was going to grand a dream to!!! So, she brought them in a special entrance and sat them way down in front where they were able to chat with some of the American Singers and musicians before/after the show!!! This was the best dream ever for my mom, and I was so thrilled that she had a "dream come true!"!!

We did see the dream team around some times, but that was the dream that we got!!

Wendy

 

[tikibird2003]

In August we were in Epcot for the day and wanted to go back to the room in the afternoon to cool down and then come back and ride soarin' and watch illuminations but the come back time on fast passes was only 5:30 and it was about 3:30 The wait time was 110 min. I started to walk to a cm and ask about coming back at a later time and another guest got to them first. So plan B. There were 2 cm just standing around and talking (I thought) next to the fast pass machines. I thought lets make them work. Remember this is Aug and it is hot and muggy and all I want is a shower. So we walk up to the two cm and ask them my question (because I had heard on the boards that you couldn't do that before we left) and the answer to my question was how would you like to get on right now. I looked at the cm's and said "there is a 110 min wait" she said yes. At this point DS17 has come back to reality and says mom right now. While DD13 is trying to pull her chin off the floor and DD 10 is just speechless. The cm wisked up out a side door and into the backlot where only cast members are allowed. We were then given front row seats. I heard another guest complain as they were seated about not being able to sit in the front that they were in the front of the line I just turned and said it is our dream and held up our card that they filled out for us.

Even though it was not a big Dream it was our dream. We had ridden it in DL/CA and it was always our last ride. And one of our favorite. We haven't been back to DL/CA since our trip to WDW. I'm afraid of the let down.

 

[wdwgirl03]

We won VIP parade passes for the Jingle Jungle Parade at Animal Kingdom. It was on New Year's Day, and they said it was the first time they were offering it!

Someone also gave us some dream fastpasses that he said somebody else gave them. LOL. We didn't use them, but now I have one as a souvenir!

 

[aurora23]

On January 9th as I was entering Soarin we were given YOAMD Mickey Ears. I know it is not the most original dream, but I was so shocked that I had actually won. I had been to Disney last year and had also been sending postcards but had never won anything. I definitely did not expect to win anything on this trip. It made my day. Thank You Dream Team!

 

[Steffiesunshine]

We won YOAMD lanyards with 2 pins on Thursday as we were getting off the raft from Discovery Island. We are now pin collectors!

 

[mandidel]

We were just at Disneyland over the New Year holiday (Dec 31-Jan 3), and a dream cast member approached us. They said we had been noinated by two custodians (who were stading there beaming) for VIP Fantasmic Viewing that evening! We were so excited, but, as it turned out, Fantasmic was cancelled due to high winds that evening. It was a bummer that we did not get to "realize" our dream, but it was just so cool knowing that regular people like us get chosen!

 

[wdwgirl03]

On January 9th as I was entering Soarin we were given YOAMD Mickey Ears. I know it is not the most original dream, but I was so shocked that I had actually won. I had been to Disney last year and had also been sending postcards but had never won anything. I definitely did not expect to win anything on this trip. It made my day. Thank You Dream Team!

Hey, I have been wanting those mouse ears for so long! LOL!

And OMG, small world, I live in Whitefish Bay too!!!

 

[labdogs42]

Wow -- those are some really cool dreams! I love that VIP parade pass. That would look great in my scrapbook! I still love reading about everyone's dreams and I want to see pictures of that engagement, too!

 

[hlane]

WOW, this thread is making me cry!! My kids think I have totally lost it

 

[MamaTroubl]

my sister and her best friend won Dream Ears while meeting the Princess's at MK on tuesday. I'm completely jealous, but oh well. I still have 3 more days to try and win something. Lol they are just neat looking in real life.

 

[kmab00]

I know I said this already, but I wanted to add pictures!!!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - MGM (now Hollywood Studios - I won't get used to that! )

As we approached the line for Narnia, we saw these guys!

I FREAKED when I saw them and said, "Look!! It's the DREAM TEAM!" The guy in the white vest probably thought I was crazy because he kind of gave me a look!

They handed us our ears and said, "Congratulations! You have won Year of a Million Dream Ears!"

Me inside of the Narnia exhibit. I was SO excited that I couldn't CONTAIN myself!!

Afterwards, we found a photo pass photographer and had a picture taken with all of us wearing our ears!!

It was awesome!!

 

[Bowman1]

Sunday 1/13 around 11a.m. , My DS and I won in ears at Epcot- in Innoventions near the Robot building contest. We were very excited. Dream Team was in the standard garb.

We are passholders and go to Disney at least 2 days per month. This was our first win!

Thanks Mickey!

Also we saw them granting Princess wishes the same day across from city hall at 1p.m. in the MK but were not selected.

 

[Old School Pooh Fan]

Last Friday, I was entering Pizza Port at Disneyland with my sons, brother and his girlfriend and this nice staff member, (not wearing the blue and white uniform) asked me if I would like to participate in blah blah blah. I couldn't hear her!! I thought she said "survey" so I said "Sure!" Next thing I know, she's walking us around the food area, sitting us at a round table marked "reserved" with a while linen tablecloth, blue linen napkins, silverware, glasses and a menu. Then she proceeded to "serve" us dinner. She took our order, got and delivered our food and drinks and when it was time to pay, we walked up to a cashier and she rattled off our order to her. Then she said we ge the Deluxe Discount 15% off our food. It was awesome! We didn't have to wait in the lines to get our food, drinks and pay. We just sat and at like at home. It was so cool. When we were done, they cleared the table and made it available for the general public again.

 

[pedigot1]

WE won dream fastpasses in animal kingdom in the pangini forest trail, about midway through, on october 1st 2007 at about 10am. Loved them

 

[NYPDwife]

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!

Tears came to my eyes as I read this. Not a lot of people realize or even appreciate what our troops go through for us. I think what you're husband did was pretty amazing!! More people should say thank you!