Tom Sawyer Island Paint Brushes.

[waymickey]

Thanks for the tips. I do go to both islands and I go through the caves too. I hope i can find one next time I am there.
Is the bag of gold in the cave real or rumour? I heard if you find it you get an ultimate fast pass.

[Main Street Jim]

Is the bag of gold in the cave real or rumour? I heard if you find it you get an ultimate fast pass.

"Bag of gold in the cave"? Never heard of this one. Never heard of an "ultimate FastPass", either. If you mean the "diamonds" shining in Injun Joe's cave, it's just....really good Imagineering No *real* gold or diamonds.

[CU Tiger]

We found at least one paint brush on each of the three seperate occations we tried. We were on the first boat over and there are typically 6 to 8 of us. Most are in plain view, but some are a little harder to find. The hardest one for me to find was in the cave. This was because I could not get my eyes to adjust to the dark. One year, we found 4 of them. We only kept one of the 4 and either gave them away or hid them somewhere new. It is a lot of fun, but you have to take the time to get there early and wait for the island to open.

[Grumpy.]

During our last visit to the world, it was part of our grand plan to find one of those paint brushes. We were first in line, about 15 mins before the first raft was scheduled to head over. As you may be aware, it is a pretty wide ramp down to the rafts and I found it incredible how some people ran around us as we went down to the raft. No biggie, we made it on to the first one. Then just before we reached the island, the CM told the story about the paintbrushes and they may be still out there. If you find one bring it back to him. I overheard a lady tell her son "Great, now everyone will be looking for them." I told her, everyone on this raft already knows about those paintbrushes!! Well, without revealling any hiding places, my son found a paintbrush about 45 seconds after we landed. He was ecstatic! We took some awesome pictures of him finishing the fence paint job. He walked around with that paint brush like he has just slayed a dragon! He traded the paintbrush for FP's for the six of us for his choice of SM or BTMR. Mission accomplished!!

[Tinksmom]

We found one last year in the afternoon in Joe's cave. I was estatic!!! My daughter was happy to get the Fast Passes and my husband didn't understand what a big deal it was. When we got home and he told a friend of his who is a big Disney fan, he finally got what a big deal it was. No - don't just believe the wife in the first place.

[Allenfow98]

I have actually never heard a cast member tell the story, all the times we have went. Is it mandatory or just something they do if they want to.
We did find one a couple yrs ago, it was in Jan., the parks were dead with no wait anyway, so we kept the passes given to us as a souvenir.