WDW Passholder Lithographs

I just finished reading John Frost's "adventure" in getting the lithos at WDW. So I thought I'd tell a similar, but fascinating adventure ourselves in getting them this past trip.

I knew about the lithos way early in the promotion because it was mentioned on WDWMagic forum. So knowing (i) that people have already gotten their Mickey Monitor and (ii) we were going to be leaving for WDW on Feb. 28, I immediately started to figure out why we haven't gotten it yet. Even our pin friends from the Windy City Pin Traders got theirs. So we called WDW (after hunting for the right number to call). We got a cast member who was very understanding. Not only she told us where to look for the link to write to the correct people, but she was going to mail us a Mickey Monitor as soon as she hangs up.

We still went to the link she gave us and wrote a feedback that we did not get our Mickey Monitor, and that the Passholder website was horrible to navigate to be able to find a place to write back to them.

2 days after we had that phone conversation, our actual Mickey Monitor arrived! This appears to be the one we were supposed to get, and not the one that the cast member we talked to arranged to send. So we were happy. But one day BEFORE we were supposed to leave for WDW, ANOTHER Mickey Monitor arrived, with a hand-written address. We assumed that this was the one taht the wonderful cast member we talked to on the phone had arranged to send. So now we have two of them. We don't feel so bad about it because there are 2 Annual Passholder in the house, and we usually only get ONE Mickey Monitor only (we used to get 2, but for some odd reason, one of us (me) stopped getting a copy about a couple of years ago).

Now, unlike John, I didn't actually got lost at DHS in getting the lithos there, because I kinda knew where the Prop Store was, since we often have our lunch at the Backlot Catering, which is just across from the Prop Store. So I had a good idea where to go. The others were pretty easy since, as has been mentioned, they were close to the front of the park.

So we have 2 complete set of lithos. Now, as nice as they are (and they're very nice since they're free), the lithos that you can buy for.... er... what, $10? when you purchase a certain amount of merchandise were A LOT nicer (for obvious reasons). We bought 3 sets of these lithos during our shopping spree for pins at Animal Kingdom (and had them shipped directly back to our home). We are anxiously waiting for the shipment to arrive.

Now I need wall space to put them up when they're finally framed.

BTW, the discussion at WDWMagic also mentioned that some people managed to get a copy of the Mickey Monitor at certain Guest Relations offices by showing their ID and Passholder and mentioning that they never got their copy. So for people who did not get it before they left for WDW, it may still not be too late to get a Mickey Monitor and get those lithos.

Zz.