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Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
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To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
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We got our mugs in Aug, the new style year of a Million Dreams one. We'll be going back next month in Jan. As it will still be the Year of a Million Dreams, I wonder if they will change the mugs or not??? First person who goes in jan will have to send a photo!! (me,who hasn't figured out how to this yet, lol!)
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If it would have been me using an old mug I would have gotten into trouble. We bought new ones like honest people.
My thoughts exactly. Why does it always seem this way in life, with people who abuse the system and get away with it......yet honest people like us do something like that and we'd be sent to prison making license plates forever!!
It's $12....if I can afford to go to Disney I can afford a new mug each time.
My thoughts exactly. Why does it always seem this way in life, with people who abuse the system and get away with it......yet honest people like us do something like that and we'd be sent to prison making license plates forever!!
It's $12....if I can afford to go to Disney I can afford a new mug each time.
Yeah, taking this off topic slightly, my wife and I noticed on our last trip some food court thievery happening. A father was encouraging his two sons to eat up a plate of I THINK it was chicken nuggets or something like that, while they were still in the food prep areas, and before they had gone thru the checkouts. I overheard him saying to his boys (who were older, maybe 10 and 13ish?), "hurry up and eat this boys, then just put the plate under another one and they won't notice".
C'mon, I know that eating at WDW isn't cheap...but it isn't overly expensive either....and teaching your kids to steal, not cool either.
At any rate, I can see the CMs at the hotels not really caring too much about hotel guests using older/non resort-specific mugs.....but with the new style mugs supposed to be universal across all resorts, and probably the same for the past two years, I think you'd be safe. I've always bought a mug every year, as was said, it's $12, I can afford that, but I know that the mother of a "friend" of mine doesn't :P
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A father was encouraging his two sons to eat up a plate of I THINK it was chicken nuggets or something like that, while they were still in the food prep areas, and before they had gone thru the checkouts. I overheard him saying to his boys (who were older, maybe 10 and 13ish?), "hurry up and eat this boys, then just put the plate under another one and they won't notice".
That's just blatant theft!! What values is he teaching his kids?!!
Nope, they've gone to a "generic" mug now (it's currently Year of a Million Dreams) at all the resorts. The mug says it's good for the stay in which it was purchased (or something along those lines). The nice thing about it is that if you switch resorts mid-stay, you don't have to buy a new mug (from managements at several resorts, I asked). The new mugs have 3 different handle colors, which is nice if you have people who don't like to share (blue, silver, black).
We switched halfway through our stay in October from WL to CBR. I purchased our mug at WL, and when I asked at CBR, a manager told me that the mug was good for my entire length of stay - regardless of which resort I purchased it at!
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in Jan. As it will still be the Year of a Million Dreams, I wonder if they will change the mugs or not??? First person who goes in jan will have to send a photo!! (me,who hasn't figured out how to this yet, lol!)
What values is he teaching his kids?!! 
We switched halfway through our stay in October from WL to CBR. I purchased our mug at WL, and when I asked at CBR, a manager told me that the mug was good for my entire length of stay - regardless of which resort I purchased it at! 
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