MrBeast and his friends played Beast Games with Wish kids and gave away props from their popular videos at the Disneyland Hotel.
Wish kid Regina Lopez was totally focused while working on a drawing with ZHC at Disney California Adventure.
Diisney cast members greeted Wish families with thunderous applause as they arrived at a private party at Disney California Adventure, co-hosted by Disney, Make-A-Wish, MrBeast and YouTube.
Nolan Hansen, one of MrBeast's friends who also has an online following of his own, played with Wish kids and their families at the party.
Goofy and other Disney characters danced and took photos with Wish families at the party.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — MrBeast helped deliver Halloween treats to Make-A-Wish families at Disneyland Resort. No, not a bunch of his Feastables candy bars – though he brought those, too.

The world’s most popular YouTuber partnered with Disney, Make-A-Wish America and YouTube to grant a Frightfully Fun Wish for 40 kids who’ve battled critical illnesses and wished to meet their favorite content creators.

“It's just really humbling. It's still crazy to me that if you ask a kid if they wanted anything, what would it be? And they'd say me,” MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, told USA TODAY at the event on Oct. 24. “When I heard that I had a little bit of a backlog of wishes, I reached out to Disney and I was like, ‘Hey, can we do something big? I know you guys do a wish every hour.’ And they were really eager to do something.”

Disney is Make-A-Wish's largest wish-granter, having fulfilled more than 170,000 wishes since the very first one at Disneyland four decades ago.

“We are always trying to innovate and dream up exciting new ways to make wishes come true,” said Disney Experiences Chairman Josh D’Amaro, who sits on the national board of directors for Make-A-Wish America. “The demand for creator wishes has more than doubled at Make-A-Wish over the past decade, so teaming up with today’s most influential creators was the perfect way to deliver a truly one-of-a-kind Disney wish.”

Wish kids were partnered with their favorite creators, 13 in all, for special activities across the resort, ranging from playing Beast Games with MrBeast and his friends to conducting a science experiment with Mark Rober to building a custom confection with Chef Amaury Guichon to creating art with Zach Hsieh, who’s known online as ZHC.

“I just feel so grateful to be in a position where I can share my joy of art with others and be able to interact with them like this,” said ZHC, who spent the afternoon with 8-year-old Regina Lopez. “And I'm not gonna lie. I'm having the time of my life.”

Lopez, who was diagnosed with leukemia a year and a half ago, said she likes ZHC “because he's creative and he makes art out of anything. And he motivates me.”

She was totally locked in when he gave her one-on-one drawing tips. When they decorated candy apples with a Disney chef, her smile lit up the whole space.

“I haven't seen her this happy during this whole time, until this moment,” said her mom, Karla, adding that Lopez was so excited, she couldn’t sleep. That was in stark contrast to their last Disneyland trip, before her diagnosis, when she was so sick she couldn’t get out of bed. “We feel like we are dreaming right now.”

Jayden Figueroa-Vicente's dream was to meet MrBeast.

“I like the way he is humble. I like his personality,” said the 11-year-old, who had a heart condition. “I like how he does charity. He builds schools, and I realized when I got his chocolate bar, when I scanned the QR code, he's trying to prevent kids from going to work, stuff like that.”

While known for what MrBeast himself calls “silly videos” and high-stakes challenges, the prominent creator has a whole philanthropic arm and takes giving seriously, wishes included.

“I understand the magnitude of it, and that's why we're doing this experience here and we're trying to give them the best day of their lives,” he said during a private party for the Wish families at Disney’s California Adventure, followed by exclusive access to Cars Land. “I've heard at least seven different kids go, ‘This is the greatest day of my life,’ which is my goal, but I'm not stopping until all of them say it.”

Any child with a critical illness can be referred for a wish, which Make-A-Wish President and CEO Leslie Motter stresses is a lasting, not last wish.

“The wish itself is just such an experience for our families and our children to feel joy and to feel hope and to have the opportunity to really have control over their outcome. They don't have that opportunity in the middle of a medical treatment. There's so much that they don't have a choice over,” she said. "They get the choice over you could go anywhere, you can have anything, you could meet anyone."

To families still in the middle of their medical journeys, she added, “We cannot wait until your wish is granted, as well.”

The reporter on this story was provided access by Disney. USA TODAY maintains editorial control of content.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: MrBeast, Disney go all out for Make-A-Wish kids at Disneyland

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