Getting a birthday button guarantees you nothing. Well, it guarantees you got a birthday button.
You can NOT force the magic to happen. CMs know the difference between genuine people and ones who are expecting the "royal" treatment.
If you try to force anything magical it WILL NOT happen. Yes, have your birthday button in the line of sight of CM's and when you're eating in the parks, it will get noticed. If you have ADR's, make a note in the ADR itself that there's a birthday amongst your party.
I have a great example of this... A few years back, my DGF and I were going down Main St. in the MK. We heard the Dapper Dans and we went over and watched them do a few numbers. My DGF asked if she could get a picture with them, the lead singer razzed her a little bit, but said just kidding and she got her picture. As I'm taking the picture, they saw my button and broke out into Happy Birthday. I didn't ask for it, didn't even think it would happen, but there I was, handing off the camera, getting my picture with the Dapper Dan's as they're singing Happy Birthday to me. Well, as everyone else on Main St. is hearing and seeing this, you see parents literally running with their kids to try and have the same "magical moment" be a recurring theme. Well, as soon as they were done, I said "thanks so much", got a "you're welcome" and then you hear "move out!" and off they went breaking into strolling song, meanwhile leaving all of the magic forcing parents in their dust.
Plain and simple, just wear the button(s) and go have a good time. The second you try to abuse the wearing of the button is the second you might as well take it off.
