what the he#%.....i would b there had i known....i have 3 P. APs..... how do i get to know of deals... im very sad now...we spend way to much on all our pins...oh guess we get a discount at park...but still...im let down that i missed this...would have been good for kids...
Kory - you didn't miss anything. The past two years, DLR has had AP summer sales (from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.) at WOD. It is open to DVC, Club 33, and AP holders. Lines start forming at 4 or 5 am, sometimes earlier. You basically have to be there really early to get into the line and be one of the first in (think of those Black Friday deals). I went there last year and never got in the door after 3 hours waiting. This year, we were prepared and made reservations for Plaza Inn in case we weren't able to get in. By the time we arrived, it was packed and when I asked at the 1/4 way (closest to front of line), they had already been waiting 2 hours! 2 hours! And it's packed!
2-3 years ago, DLR had a really good deal - 3 or 4 weekends of AP sales (or maybe it was 3 days - Thursday through Sunday, don't remember which). The first day/weekend, if you were in the first 100, you got a free Vinylmation figure; the second day/weekend (which is the one I did), you got a free Kooky pen (got Woody), don't know what they gave the third day/weekend. The day I went (Saturday), it was lightly drizzling, we arrived 10 minutes before the store opened, and were still within the first 100. Now that was a good time (also got $1 trader pins because they sold a pack of 4 pins for $4).
Here's a link to the one they had later in 2010:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/ent...g-Seasonal-Sale-quot-12-4-10-discount-details
Not sure how it was because I didn't go to that one...hmm, maybe I did, if that's around the weekend Tangled came out....
From 2009:
http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/ent...ent-Saturday-December-19th-in-Downtown-Disney
Maybe I went to that one; I remember it was cold and rainy (we had our Disneyland ponchos on)