"This is My Dream!" ~ A Story of a Grail... of Story's
But you know what Disney keeps telling me? Every story has a happy ending.
Docfish made sure this Story did at least =,)
Drum roll please. This is what 41 packages look like in a laundry basket
This is what 41 packages look like outside of the basket
We still have at least 3 more pins on the way to us so we have a new record at 44 grail zaps granted. Thank you to everybody who has helped make this possible. It would be a much smaller result without all of you helping!!!
I'm late to replying, but that gif pretty much summed up my reaction!
"This is My Dream!" ~ A Story of a Grail... of Story's
I am so, so... wow. Just... wow.
Okay. So the short tale of it is that... I was zapped by the amazing Sir Docfish2u.
If you came for just the short tale, then scroll through to the pictures
If you came for a longer tale, this one has to go back to when I started pin trading and joined pinpics...
I was introduced to pins at an early age, but my serious pin collecting didn't begin until my mom got me the fist of the Classic D DLR series with Brave Tailor Mickey calling up to Princess Minnie. (I want to say it was a 2011 series?) So I begin my pin journey shortly afterwards and searched the pinpic database for all sorts of pins. The highlights of my searches, however, had to do with Brave Little Tailor.
You see, I was and still am a Classic Mickey Cartoons fan. But none are as dear to my heart as Brave Tailor. The little guy is amazing in his given cartoon, but he impressed me even more so as being my favorite character of Disneyland's Fantasmic. His climatic "This is My Dream!" highlights everything I love about my absolute favorite show. Not to mention he's only gotten more impressive since they hired a real dragon for the show in 2009 (I mean, that's gotta take some guts for the mouse to face that every night)
So when I was searching for brave tailor pins, I came across one that just made my jaw drop. It featured Brave Little Tailor, and it was a Fantasmic! pin. No way. This was a unique occurrence since more often than not Mickey's Sorcerer counterpart usually takes all the glory for the show. But Brave Tailor and Fantasmic? All in one pin?
I tried to find info on the pin, and looked for it through online sale sites since I couldn't find a willing trader. Nothing.
I pretty much gave up, and it quickly earned the title of "impossible grail" in my mind.
But you know what Disney keeps telling me? Every story has a happy ending.
Docfish made sure this Story did at least =,)
I would have taken any condition of this pin... but it came beautiful, brand new... shiny in all its glory!!!
I didn't get a chance to put it in my pin book yet, but here is a glimpse of the special fitting home it has found with me =D
Thank you seems so short an expression to convey my feelings of appreciation and overwhelming amazement that you kept me in mind and were able to find this pin for me. If I could give you bear hugs for this I would. So I thought I'd conclude by picturing bear hugs in the best way I could.
:hug: Thank you so much!!! This is my Pin Dream!!! :hug:
Aw, reading this & your story made me a little emotional! :hs: Love the detailed story about your quest for the pin, and so great to now see it next to your other Brave Little Tailor items.
Enjoy & congratulations!!!
It's possible I'm sniffling. Ha ha. THIS IS THE BEST! Congrats, Story, and huge kudos to David and Amy!
THIS is why Zap-a-palooza is so awesome. It's not about getting your own grail, it's about the joy you get from seeing other people's heartfelt pin dreams come true.
Congrats Story!! I love Disney Magic and Docfish Magic :rock:
Aiiii! That's so awesome!!Congrats Story! <3 And awesome job, David!
~Merlin
Awesome! Love the story! It is amazing to me how these little pieces of metal and enamel have such cool stories for each of us. Thanks for sharing yours
Congrats Story! I don't know how David pulled that one off, that's amazing!
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So, so, so happy for you. Congratulations!
ThisOh wow, Story. I didn't even realize that the Brave Little Taylor is in the Disneyland show! Congratulations on your grail.
My mistake - I was so excited about getting my package last night that I just jumped on the other thread. Reposting my fantastic zap here per instructions, but this time with pictures. First the zap -
And now in her new home -
Many thanks again Sir David and Amy! So honored to be one of the lucky ones.
I'm sorry you had a bad dayI will start this with my week has been... difficult. My work computer had to be mailed back to the mothership in Tally due to a failed hard drive and today the spare computer would not allow me to log in and out tech people who usually get this fixed in about ten minutes decided it could wait two days. Most of my job is done on my computer, as even my bosses don't have the software I use. So today I kept jumping onto other coworker's desks while they were on break to check my email and do payroll (kind of important, no?). I put a leave slip in for tomorrow and left a half hour early since tomorrow we have a full office and there would be no spare computer for me to use and my big boss might be tempted to make me go work out in the field. Grumbled at my usual traffic for nothing mess on the highway home and the cloud that dropped just enough rain to make every drive worse than normal.
get home and grab the mail. Two LBEs. Hmm. Interesting. One is from a Letterboxer but it's not engulfed in packing tape. AH! The LBX secret Santa exchange. Most excellent. The other, I didn't recognize the name and address at first, as there are a few boxers and pin folks whose addresses I recognize a mile away. Then it dawns on me, It's David from DPF and I've been zapped! Into the house, dump the big tote bag, out of the work uniform and into my envelopes! And look what it is!
Stained glass Aurora!!! She is from 2003, the year I was liberated from high school, and is just wonderful! I'm so happy to have her come home!!! It made my gloomy day much brighter even if the cloud are still marching in before the "cold" front!
Shes moving in on page two of Aurora next to the shiny Sylveon, never to leave!
Thank you so much!
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