Guests spreading Disney Magic

[kikiq]

We just got back from our trip and a wondeful CM started the magic by wishing us a magical trip and 32 more years of magic in our marriage. From that first day, it was like she had infused us to spend the magic. I gave away my pins to children in line, on the bus/boats, my dh gave away his bottle of water to a family that had just run out and looking for more,
and gave away fast passes in Epcot. I had the most fun taking pictures of families so that everyone could be in the pictures...remembering all the old pictures we have that only one of us is in the pictures with our kids at wdw.

 

[debbiet1]

I hope when we get to Disney if the Disney magic doesnt hit us we meet people like Snoopywoodstockus. And if the Disney magic does hit us I hope we can spread it too.

 

[Tink6666]

When we were in Disney in 2004, we met a family of 4 on the bus who had just bought a DVC membership, which came with a 2 day fast pass at all parks...well they were done for the day and were leaving the next morning and asked if we would be able to use them...of course we could we still had 3 more days of our trip left so, we were able to use the fast passes for about a day and a half since they had an exact 48 hour to expiration. It was great to be able to go up to a fast pass line, put the card in and have the currrent time come up and just walk onto the ride. We have since put these in our scrapbook as a memory of the kindness of others.

When we go in 10 days we will be sending postcard to 4 little kids that will be coming to WDW in September. Look at the paying it forward thread if you would like to do this also.

 

[debbiet1]

where abouts is the paying it forward thread?

 

[inkkognito]

I decided to wear my pin lanyard to the parks today for the first time in ages. In the drawer I also found a bunch of Castaway Club lanyards/pins. I sail Disney Cruise Line so much that I have several. I brought them with me to Epcot today and gave them to various CMs with trading lanyards. I asked them to give 'em to kids who might want to trade but who don't have a lanyard and pins. Hopefully that will help to spread a little magic to some young 'uns.

 

[zacharybsmom]

Hands down, our favorite magic moments occurred on the bus to and from the parks in August, thanks to "Steve the bus driver". His friendly personality and especially his "Disney Trivia" kept the whole bus happy. My son insisted on going wherever "Steve's" bus was going. If I knew who to get a hold of I would write the best letter to his boss.

 

[Mad Tea Party]

where abouts is the paying it forward thread?

Here you go!
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=21173718#post21173718

 

[kimnkel]

This thread is wonderful! What a relief from the whining "I didn't get anything free from Disney" and the other threads complaining about "other" guests rude behavior.

I was beginning to wonder if there was any kindness left---this thread restores some faith.

We are going to be at WDW in December and I will be doing whatever I can to spread a little magic.

Thanks, all!

 

[brodyjen]

My DD's are still fairly young to get to be "helpers" much but we are always trying to find things that they can do on their own to make someone else feel better.

On this last trip, we spent the last two days letting each girl hand out some "pixie dust" for about an hour or so. I told them they could give it to anyone they wanted, as long as they asked the person first.

My older DD and I were waiting in line at the Stand-Up Comedy, and she noticed two sisters with their mom, one of whom was in a wheelchair and the other who had a birthday pin on. DD7 told me that she wanted to give pixie dust to the sister who's birthday it was, since "she probably doesn't get much attention, because her sister is in a wheelchair". She gave the birthday girl some pixie dust, and then we went right in to the show. Apparently, the girl was so pleased that as we left the show, she found us and gave DD7 a pin for her lanyard! DD7 was *so* pleased.

The next day, I had DD3 with me - and she decided that the people who needed pixie dust the most were the CM's who were emptying the trash and generally cleaning (I agree!). The maintenance workers were so kind to her, and treated the pixie dust like it was gold. Some handed her stickers, some had some pixie dust/confetti of their own to hand to her. She found 2 Dream Team members, and got Tink pins in return. The only CM who said no was at the Mark Twain, and he had on the dark blue suit - that stuff would have been a killer to get off, so I told DD3 not to worry about it.

The girls had more fun doing that than they did getting a Tink pin in return... we'll definitely do the same here at home (DLR).

 

[charity]

I had my DS3 pass out glow sticks at night! He loved giving things to other kids.
This time of year is a great time to get cheap glow sticks.

 

[SilverMickey]

To start our vacation a million years ago:

We were standing in line at the airport. A dad was taking his son (about 6) on vacation to WDW. My fresh hubby and I were headed out to WDW for our honeymoon. The dad and son didn't have seats together... The airline said they couldn't do anything the cabin was full.

My husband and I couldn't stand the thought of this small child flying with out his dad next to him. We gave up our seats even though it was our honey moon flights.

Well this made the family happy and the little guy couldn''t thank us enough. the flight attendant was so pleased. She held us aside util everyone else had been seated and she introduced us to the plane and then sat us in 1st class!

Talk about pixie dust!

 

[Mermaid_Ariel]

Felt the need to revive this thread!

At MVMCP on 12/11, while we were waiting for the first parade on Main Street - DF and I were trying to get a picture of us together. So, I'm trying to do the holding the camera out with an extended arm with us squished together.

When all of a sudden, a really nice guy walked up to us and offered to take our picture together. We thought that was so cool and thanked him!! Ever since he did that, I offered to take pictures for people the rest of the trip. It was so nice to see people's faces light up the way ours probably did! Love to spread magic!

 

[JoyMouse]

Taking pictures for people is nice. We've done it too, and had it done for us. It is good to have some vacation pics with us all in it for a change. On one trip, a family of four (just like us) was leaving for home and still had several meal vouchers left. They just gave them to us. It was so nice and kind of them. We surely did enjoy all of the food, there was tons of it from each meal! All of the kindnesses that you see there, wouldn't it be great to see them all over instead of just in the parks? What difference that would make in our world! Merry Christmas!

 

[Joie]

It was our last night 1/3/08 at the MK and we had 6 fastpasses for big thunder mountain for 615p-715p we had dinne reservations at tony's for 625 so we could not use them so i gave them to 3 guys randomly at tommorrowland they only had 15 mins to wait to ride and they could ride it 2 times in a row...they were truly excited they were like "wow!!!dreams do come true here" and calling me an angel... pretty funny but it was a good feeling i could do that now i guess that this is how the dream team feels every time they give away a prize

 

[distherapy]

These are great! Thanks for sharing - it really helps get me (even more) excited for our trip.

 

[cassmat]

Today we were made happy, lol!!
Standing in front of Test Track, no fast passes, 90 minute wait. A man came over, 5 passes and said they couldn't use them, would we like them? Oh yes, we thanked him profusely!

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Last trip was a mother/daughter trip w/DD10. We lined up very early for the parade in MK so we would have a good spot. Right as the parade started a very rude woman pushed her way from the back and pushed my DD out of the way. I said "excuse me" and she started ranting about how much money she paid and was not about to miss the parade. I told her we too had paid good money and had had the forethought to line up early. With that her equally nasty husband pushed through and began cursing me. The crowd around me started to notice and came to my defense. (There's a happy part -- and it's coming, I promise). Standing to our right was a young couple, probably late teens/early 20's. Anyway, the girl took my daughter by the shoulders and placed my DD directly in front of herself telling her she had been patient and deserved to see the parade. She also apologized for the other couples' rude behavior (even though she didn't know then). That kind gesture more than made up for the rude couple and also reaffirmed my faith in the younger generation.

One other magic moment on a different trip -- Cinderella dinner at Grand Floridian. We chatted with our server, Tony, who we found out happened to originally be from our area. It was nice to meet someone from home and when we asked for his autograph and picture with our daughter, he was shocked we'd want him in her autograph book. He's the only "person" in our daughter's book and we still think fondly of him to this day. Thanks Tony from Jersey City!

 

[john2u]

On Friday we were the lucky family to receive Dream Fast Passes coming off Its a Small World Attraction for all the major attractions in MK. My DW, DD, and myself were very excited to recieve this Dream. My daughter and myself used all of our fastpasses on the Dream ticket. Anyway when we were on the monorail going back to the resort, my DW was talking to a 10 yer old girl about the DREAMS we received that day in the park. Yes, we had 3 Dreams that day. The little girl said, "I see you won the magical dream mickey ears and fastpass." Anyway to make a long story short, the little girl was almost in tears that my wife gave her her dream fastpass. The mother was speakless at first and then said thank you soooo much and the little girl gave my wife a BIG huge. This made our vacation and there vacation very special.

thanks john

 

[toocherie]

Well, I couldn't believe how hard it was to give out 50 free necklaces. I encountered so many people saying no thanks or just walking by my DD7 trying to pass out some Magic.... Another woman even commented that we should have been on a 20/20 undercover assignment about how people are afraid to take free things, even at Disney. I tried and I hope that I made some childrens night a bit more Magical and fun!

A couple of years ago a friend of mine gave me his box seats for the Hollywood Bowl--his only requirement was that we had to give out glow sticks at intermission--he bought a huge lot of them at the beginning of every season and it was his tradition to give 100 or so of them out to kids at intermission. Well, we did it--and also couldn't believe how hard it was to give them away! People are just so darned suspicious . . . . usually when I explained to the parent that it was really 'free' and that we didn't want anything in return other than the smile on their kid's face they would relent.

 

[toocherie]

Two questions . . . . I noticed many people giving away unused DDP credits . . . I thought that the credits were non-transferable? I can see how you could get away with it for CS meals but do you have trouble with unused TS credits?

Second--has anyone ever encountered issues bringing in a bunch of glowsticks or other treats to the park? I would like to do this when I go to WDW in November.

Thanks!