Fake MAW buttons?

[EeyoresButterfly]

I think they are asking if you are mad enough to start making people with MAW buttons to show their GAC.

[joanna71985]

I think they are asking if you are mad enough to start making people with MAW buttons to show their GAC.

I'll take your word for it.

[Big Wallaby]

Hey, don't mind drcorey... He went over my head with that one as well. But if you say that phonetically (pronounced: foneticly) it sounds funny.

[Tinker Bell]

Actually, the ones who have it legitimately also have a GAC with a special stamp that can only be obtained at GKTW Village. If you have any questions or doubts, ask to see that (although when I am working FP Return, they show it before I can size up the group and see the buttons. If they don't have that card (or a really goo excuse as to why they don't) then I would be suspicious.

Oh, and with Make A Wish, you don't necessarily have to be dying per se, as I know of one very special little girl, Havalah (a Google search brings up her page first thing) went due to the fact she had had a liver transplant due to Biliary Atresia... an awful disease. I didn't get to meet her while she and her family were here, though I tried.

Still, if you see a child with MaW or GKTW buttons, you are safe in assuming that even if they are going to go on to live a nice long life (as I hope Havalah does), you still don't want to experience what they had to.

Just went to Havalah's website, and while her mother hasn't updated recently, I hope she is continuing to do as well as she was when she came to Disney World.

A Guest relations CM explained to me this. The children don't necessarily need to be dying, they have other criterias and so not all of the kids get a Green stamp. Apparently the GKAWV employee is the one who determines that, not us.

I have heard about this for a while and Big Wallaby is correct. Most of this people do have a GAC and at least in characters I always ask for it. We have a cast member who was in the park as a guest and heard some guest congratulating themselves in their 'special button' purchase, as it had saved them so much time. Sick I tell you.

I can forgive ignorance that some folks don't know what it is. While most people think that almost everyone know what MAW is, the fact is that many people don't. I mean is not as it's something parents would like to even know about this sort of thing. I had a MAW family on Studios who came at the end of the line and I send them to the cast member on front. The people in front of me starting talking about the 'magic pass' and what did you have to do to get it. When I explained what MAW was and what the pass consisted the mom said 'Well now I feel like shit, there is no magic in having that pass, I'll take the line any day.'

To be honest the safe bet on this is to ask for the GAC, although most have it have it on hand. Some of the MAW kids have no sign of an illness. I remember one little girl who looked fine but it gave the character a heck of a time to get her attention. She was so heavily medicated that she couldn't concentrate on them and kept on looking everywhere and walking off. The mom kept apologizing that they were taking so much time and we kept on saying not to worry. She mention that they had medicated her and the guest behind me almost started crying. It was the saddest thing.

There is a special place on hell for whoever is faking and selling this pins. There is an even better one for the one who buys it. I would rather do a line no matter how long it is to even the remote possibility of my kids having anything wrong.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

A Guest relations CM explained to me this. The children don't necessarily need to be dying, they have other criterias and so not all of the kids get a Green stamp. Apparently the GKAWV employee is the one who determines that, not us.

I have heard about this for a while and Big Wallaby is correct. Most of this people do have a GAC and at least in characters I always ask for it. We have a cast member who was in the park as a guest and heard some guest congratulating themselves in their 'special button' purchase, as it had saved them so much time. Sick I tell you.

I can forgive ignorance that some folks don't know what it is. While most people think that almost everyone know what MAW is, the fact is that many people don't. I mean is not as it's something parents would like to even know about this sort of thing. I had a MAW family on Studios who came at the end of the line and I send them to the cast member on front. The people in front of me starting talking about the 'magic pass' and what did you have to do to get it. When I explained what MAW was and what the pass consisted the mom said 'Well now I feel like shit, there is no magic in having that pass, I'll take the line any day.'

To be honest the safe bet on this is to ask for the GAC, although most have it have it on hand. Some of the MAW kids have no sign of an illness. I remember one little girl who looked fine but it gave the character a heck of a time to get her attention. She was so heavily medicated that she couldn't concentrate on them and kept on looking everywhere and walking off. The mom kept apologizing that they were taking so much time and we kept on saying not to worry. She mention that they had medicated her and the guest behind me almost started crying. It was the saddest thing.

There is a special place on hell for whoever is faking and selling this pins. There is an even better one for the one who buys it. I would rather do a line no matter how long it is to even the remote possibility of my kids having anything wrong.

Sadly, people that abuse the rules as such, don't seem to care that they are abusing a system set up to assist those that need it. They are the same SG's that will violate every rule they can, just to "get more that everyone else" because thy are "special!" Believe me, if something ever did happen to their familys and they needed to utilize MAW, they would be the first to condem such practices!

[SWTexasBelle]

I sincerely hope karma jumps up and bites all of those horrible people in the butt.
My son broke his arm the first night of our last trip to WDW. Because they do not cast it until the swelling goes down, he had his arm in a splint. We had to keep him in a wheelchair because one jostle could dislodge the two bones, and it would be off to the hospital again. It is a PAIN - and really, other than at Peter Pan, it's not an advantage. I was upfront with the CMs - we didn't have a GAC, because I thought (correctly) that we could handle it. Waiting at the Haunted Mansion was the worst - the one area not covered from the sun? The waiting area for wheelchairs. They really need to do something about that - it was just mildly unpleasant for us, but a person who was medicated or weak might well be in real misery. It was quite an eye-opener for me. I have nothing but the utmost respect for the wonderful way Disney makes the park open to all. I just want to stick those who abuse the system in Mr. Toad's Wild Ride hell - in August.

[joanna71985]

It always made me so mad when guests would complain about a MAW/GKTW family getting to go up to see the character(s). Even when I told them it would only be a minute, and they were a "special" guest, they didn't care. I especially got mad when a guest would ask where they could get one.

[Sarah Magdalene]

Honest, it does not take that long for a MAW family just to pop ahead of you. Like what, 2 mins at most? Why do people make such a fuss? It's two little minutes of your life. Get over it SG's!

[drcorey]

It always made me so mad when guests would complain about a MAW/GKTW family getting to go up to see the character(s). Even when I told them it would only be a minute, and they were a "special" guest, they didn't care. I especially got mad when a guest would ask where they could get one.

tell them, we will give you all one if you come backstage with us so we can cripple you.

[Syndrome]

Hearing about that medicated child makes me want to choke SGs and curse them to spend a week in the child's shoes. It reminds me of a family whose Disney cruise I booked; it wasn't a Wish trip, but grandma was treated the family, including her grandson with cancer, to the trip. It had to be cancelled at the last minute due to problems with chemo and a relapse. Thankfully they managed to sail a couple of months later. Sadly, the poor child was so worn out from the chemo, relapse, etc. that he couldn't enjoy the trip as a well child would. Why on earth would anyone begrudge someone like that going to the head of a line? Why can't they be happy to wait a minute so someone can take a brief break from their illness and difficulties to enjoy a ride or a hug from a character? I just don't understand it...well, maybe I do...part of the overall Me mentality that seems to prevade so much of society these days. :mad:

I never followed up to find out what ultimately happened to the child whose trip I booked. I was just too fearful that it might have been the worst so I just didn't want to know. :(