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[Laughaholic]

This morning I compiled this list from various websites of free souvenirs you can find all over WDW. I thought I would share this with everyone if they didn't see it in the souvenir reply.

Magic Kingdom

- Free family photo from MVMCP or MNSSHP.
- Be the first in line at Magic Kingdom. You can recieve certificates, magic wand filled with candy, pixie dust and you get to chose the magic word to open the park. Arrive about 1 hour prior to opening gates.
- Free Mickey shaped straws at Cinderella's Castle. They come when you order your drinks in the keepsake mugs.


Epcot

- At Innoventions East, you can build a small robot at Fantastic Plastic Works -- and take it home with you!
- At Innoventions West, go to the Xerox Pixography exhibit, watch a three-minute show and then the Cast Members will take a digital color photo of you and your group and mount it on a calendar or Epcot background for you to take home!
- Also at Innoventions West you can send your friends or family an e-mail postcard from the IBM exhibit.
- At Innoventions East you can send your friends or family a video clip by e-mail from the Internet Zone/Disney.com exhibit.
- At the end of Mission: Space attraction, you can send free e-mail postcards at the Postcards from Space booths in the Advanced Training Lab.
- At the end of the Journey into Imagination attraction, in the Kodak "What If!" Labs, you can send a video postcard and add special effects--"Imagination style!" .
- Get a free color photo of you (& your family) at Pixography in the Knowledge Vortex by Xerox, Innoventions West, Epcot.
- Free souvenir pin when you take the Undiscovered Future World Tour at Epcot.
- Recipe cards from Food & Wine Festival.
- Things kids make at Epcot Kidcot stations.
- In Jan. 2003, If you arrived about 45 mins. prior to park opening and browsed the shop, the cashier/sales clerk asked Disney Trivia and gave away several free Disney collectibles to the person with the 1st correct answer.
- Explore three of the activities at Epcot's Innoventions to get your very own driver's license valid on the Road to Tomorrow. Get a copy of the map on your way in, and after each activity, see an Innoventions Cast Member before traveling to your next stop.


MGM/Disney Studios

- 'Clean Plate Club' sticker from 50's Prime Time Cafe.
- The complimentary holographic glasses Disney gives away for the The Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights (at MGM during the Christmas season.)
- The glow in the dark frisbees from the kids meals at the Sci Fi Dine-in Theater restaurant at MGM.
Kids drinks get a free glowing ice cube in their drinks at the Prime Time Cafe (also available at the SFDIT).
- Also in the restaraunts, you sometimes get a little stick to hold sandwiches or burgers together or show which is cooked a certain way. Some have logos or shapes on them.

Animal Kingdom

- You get a free pin when you take the Wild By Design tour at the Animal Kingdom.
- Mickey spoon/straws are given with frosty lemonade in Animal Kingdom.
- Children can start the Pocohantas Forest Friends show. They will pick the first child in line. She got a certificate and some colored feathers or leaves.


Resorts

- Resort newsletters.
- Soaps & Shampoos from WDW Resorts.
- Some resorts have free resort postcards.
- Walt Disney World Resort pens.
- Leis from he Polynesian Luau.
- Drinks coasters from resorts.
- Resort ID cards.
- Hidden Mickey list from Wilderness Lodge.
- Sand bucket and shovel from kids meal at CBR.
- At The Whispering Canyon Cafe in Disney's Wilderness Lodge, you can get a certificate for riding "The Pony Express". (fun for children 3 years through 13.)


All Parks

- Photopass.
- Park maps.
- Napkins.
- Plastic shopping bags.
- Mickey confetti, sometimes sprinkled on you at certain WDW restaurants. (also after parades, park openings, Wishes, etc.).
- Character autographs.
- Birthday button (from park guest services on your birthday).
- Colored confetti and streamers from shows.
- Unused Fastpasses (duplicated, unavailable).
- Free stickers they give sometime's around the park.
- Children who are too young to ride on an attraction can ask for a certificate from the attraction that enables them to get to the front of the line the next time they are at Disney and are tall enough to ride. The cast member fills in the date and child's name. The certificate is for the child and the entire family to move to the front of the line upon their next visit. The certificate also makes a beautiful souvenir that can be framed.
- Honorary Bus Drivers License for the Disney Transportation System.


Other

- Menus (apparently you can ask for a menu at any restaurant and they may give you a free copy).
- Stickers, sometimes given in shops, ask when you're paying.
- Children's menus that have coloring pages on the back.
- Swizzle sticks from drinks.
- Perspex Mickey ornament, character costume fabric swatch & badge, given to each person who takes the Backstage Magic Tour.
- 'Co-Pilot's license' when you ride up front on monorail.
- Used tickets.
- Some drinks are served in souvenir glasses.
- At Blizzard Beach you can get a free cup with the childrens meal and at typhoon lagoon we got a bucket and spade with the childrens meals.
- If it's your (or someone in your party's) birthday, let everyone know about it.
- Birnbaum's Walt Disney World 2005 has a coupon in the back good for a FREE Disney pin, redeemable at the World of Disney store in Downtown Disney. While I wouldn't buy this book just for the pin, if you are going to buy it anyway, might as well take advantage of the freebie!


Things you can do for free (or for a small price): http://www.mousesavers.com/freestuff.html


Anything else to add?

[Caldercup]

WOW - what a complete list. As I was reading this, I thought of a few and wooop... there they were on your list!

Great job!!
Eileen

[TroianRae]

How neat!! Thank you!!

[chezp]

Thank you so much for that - that'll come in very useful.

[LizardCop]

Thanks, that's the best list I've seen yet!!!

[DawnDenise]

Always looking for a complete list like this. Thanks a bunch!

[my2girls]

Thanks for the list - I copied it and will keep it with my passporter. I think I might make it a game for my 2 girls when we go in August. Give them a few items on the list each day, and see how many they can collect.

[BabieeMelly]

Wow what a list!

[lauren-roxy]

I didn't realize that Disney had so many freebies! Thanks so much for compiling that list!!

[Joy J]

Thanks so much for compiling and sharing this wonderful list of freebies! I knew about some of the items on the list but there were several I'd never heard about before so it gives me something new to try out on our next trip.

Joy

[LorinMO]

What an awesome list. Thank you so much for putting it together!

[Goofy'sGal]

That list was a thing of beauty!! Thanks so much for all your hard work!!

[Wendyismyname]

Excellent!! I'm gonna copy and paste and pass the list out at our Disney Planning Dinner/Meeting!! Thank you!

[joyjoy]

Another one - Chopsticks from Lotus Blossom in Epcot are in a paper sleeve with a lovely Nine Dragons logo on them. I see it everytime I open my silverware drawer at home.

[Laughaholic]

Thanks guys! Hope you liked it!