Originally Posted By nemopoppins I was just reading in the Disneyland Encyclopedia by Chris Strodder, that there was a gift giving promotion for the 30th anniversary in which a prize was awarded to every 30th guest and larger milestones. The prizes were randomly chosen by the Gift-Giver Extraodinaire Machine. Since this occurred during the longest break I had in my life from visiting Disneyland (1975 to 1989), I was wondering if anybody here remembers details of the promotion and if anyone received a prize.
Originally Posted By Route66 I won the watch! I still have it with my captain Eo T-Shirt and my Blast to the past paddle ball.. Looking back I can't believe how much stuff Disneyland used to give away for free! Cant imagine that now, giving every guest a free souvenir. Heres a link: <a href="http://vintagedisneylandtickets.blogspot.com/2008/05/gift-giver-extraordinaire-guess-prize.html" target="_blank">http://vintagedisneylandticket...ize.html</a>
Originally Posted By Dave I do know one of our readers won a Geo Tracker in one of the giveaways back then but I'm not sure which one. Maybe he'll step up.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I still have the pins we won, plus we won lots of edible treats. They gave away cars then too. It was very cool.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins You guys are lucky. It seems like it was fun. Were the prizes given away by a ticket, as in Route66's link, or by some gift giving machine, as I understood from the Encyclopedia? Maybe it was both?
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS Wow...I won a ticket that politely informed me that I wasn't a winner. tee hee I still have the ticket, though.
Originally Posted By Route66 They did this gift giving thing a few times for the 25th, 30th, 35th, Blast to the Past.. I cant remember how they did each one. I can recall at one of them the special familly or guest went up to a huge dream machine shaped like Mickey (gears) and got to find out what awesome gift they got! And there was a McDonalds tie in too where you could win passports off the drink cups tabs things. I got like 4 admissions that summer from McDonalds, they were easy to get. I'm really jogging my memeory back to when I was a in 6th grade.. Anyone else remember this?
Originally Posted By nemopoppins ^^^That must be the machine I read about in the Disneyland Encyclopedia. But, 999HAUNTS, a ticket that said you weren't a winner? That's crazy. Were you upset? I can imagine some people were.
Originally Posted By Pollyana I won a silver one day pass. It is hanging in my Disney room...Will probably never get used.
Originally Posted By 1Gee1 >>>"...a ticket that said you weren't a winner"<<< As guests entered through the turnstyles, everyone got a ticket. Some tickets detailed what you had won and others simply said "Sorry...". Luckily, at the 30th, I won a large, plush Minnie & Mickey pair and at the 35th, I won a nice art poster of the Mardi Gras Parade. I didn't win anything at Blast to the Past, so purchased the yo-yo and paddle-ball. (I LOVED that Blast to the Past!)
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS Not a winner....my life story! ha ha! (Having the same luck in the YOAMD promotion)
Originally Posted By lesmisfan i think on the thiry fifth i have a ticket with a number that indicated i won a pass to go to disneyland!
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 I'd have to look back into my photoalbums to see which year it was but we were there when there was a big gift giving machine, I'm thinking it was about where the Walt and Mickey statue is now. We let the kids pull the lever or spin it or whatever. During our vacation they won a Mickey plush (have a picture of our son sleeping with it at the DLH, a walkman (I'm remembering that it was a red "kid" version) and a video of Sleeping Beauty which we already had but our DD acted thrilled and we gave it to my mom who was thrilled Good times, thanks for bringing this up nemopoppins
Originally Posted By believe You go thru the turnstyle and get a gift giver ticket saying that you are "Not a Winner" or you got a prize. A prize was given to every 30th guest, then 300th, 3000th, and finally, 30,000. The 30,000th guest would get a car. This would happen twice a day during busy days such as summer.
Originally Posted By sharnemec We have the Mickey and Minnie from 1985 along with the winning ticket, the botton, and the bag they came in. Google gave me this conversation and I've been researching their value. Any clue?
Originally Posted By hopemax Never won anything from the 30th promo. I have collected the pins since then though. But I did win a yellow yo-yo during Blast to the Past. I still have it. Also, we went for Easter one year, and since I was young enough I got to do an Easter egg hunt thing at the Big Thunder ranch area, I think. I won a 1 day ticket...that we couldn't use because it was the last day of our trip. So my Mom ended up selling it to a co-worker.
Originally Posted By rtjl72 we didn't win anything. but, we did go to the 30th b-day overnight party. we all received a beautiful poster for the 30th that is now nicely framed right here in my dh's home office. now, that was a good time and many memories were made that night. (go bless my fil that came with us that night but no longer walks this earth).
Originally Posted By Mickeyfan1 It was quite an event. Go to the link below and you can see a picture of the Gift-Giver Extraodinaire Machine at the Main Gate. People would gather around as it approached the 30,000 mark and then attempt to go thru the turnstiles and wind the car. A friend of mine actually won a car. I won lots of pins, a couple boxes of popcorn and one time a Mickey Mouse watch. I also have a "I'm a Winner" button that came with the watch. It was lots of fun. <a href="http://tellnotales.yuku.com/topic/4211" target="_blank">http://tellnotales.yuku.com/topic/4211</a>
Originally Posted By DBitz2 As I recall it, for the 30th the Gift Giver machine was up at the turnstyles, in the middle. It was more just a mechanized prop. Prizes were distributed via the special tickets that you got when going through the turnstyles. Here's a good review of the 30th -<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0F4mC5X3GU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...4mC5X3GU</a> For the 35th, there was a much more elaborate gift giving aparatus in the hub, where the Partner's statue was. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ecTEMjipyQ&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...=related</a>
