Disney Dream CMO Top 20 finalists revealed

All of the Top 20 finalists in Disney’s Dream Chief Magic Official (CMO) contest have been revealed in advance of online voting set to begin this weekend.

The 20 Dream CMO finalists will be further winnowed to the Top 10 before the three-week voting window opens Sunday, March 2.

The Top 3 vote-getters travel to a Disney theme park in mid-April for a head-to-head competition that will be videotaped and voted on again by the online public. The winner serves as a goodwill ambassador at Disney parks around the world for about a year.

> Watch video résumés of all the Dream CMO finalists.

> Read profiles of many of the Dream CMO finalists.

> Vote in our Dream CMO online poll — 7,487 responses so far (only the first 10 finalists to come forward were included in the balloting).

My ranking of the Top 20 Disney Dream CMO finalists (in order):

1) Patrick Hurd
2) Andy Peterson
3) Chad Thompson
4) Amy Kate Connolly
5) Justin Muchoney
6) Michael Szapkiw
7) Amanda Flood
8) Peter Yu
9) Karrie Dunkin
10) Jennifer Sechler
11) David Hawley
12) Dana Anderson
13) Daisy Francisco
14) Nicole Lee
15) David Wotruba
16) Eric Kidwell
17) David Driver
18) Tangela Walker-Craft
19) Tripp West
20) Meggin Weaver

Thanks to Kenny “The Pirate” White and Ricky “Inside the Magic” Brigante for their help in tracking down the finalists.

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Los Angeles Times Funland blog: www.latimes.com/funland.

— Brady MacDonald, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

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