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Old 06-06-2006, 11:51 PM   #1
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begins October 1, 2006!

Want to spend the night in Cinderella's Castle?

Want a "Golden" FastPass? (I can only imagine what this is!)

I am happy to report that this is an official Disney website. Now I can go to sleep and have magical Disney dreams about having Fantasyland all to myself and my dd for an hour! Would that be cool or what?




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COOL!!!

I think I will go check out that website right now!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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Warning - it is very slow on dial up and may not have all the features because it's so slow. I can't wait to get to work tomorrow and try it on the fast connection! (Don't tell my boss!)
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It looks wonderful!
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AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 06-07-2006, 02:20 AM   #6
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Dumb question: how did you find it? i was looking for a link from the Destinations part of the Disney website but didn't see anything.
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It looks fantastic!!
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I just entered!! Looks really cool
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That's interesting. I guess there'll be no break between the HCOE and this new celebration. And nothing (at least so far) was mentioned about Epcot's 25th....

My understanding of the "Golden FastPass" is the idea that you'll have a VIP tour - which would get you into anything without a wait. (But it just sounds like part of the sweepstakes and not something available to all guests.) Unless I missed something...
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This is cool! I have to wait till I'm home to enter!
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ok so I think I just entered.....was all you had to was sign in????? member name or email and password???
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