MARYSVILLE — Chance Mair got a unique opportunity to represent the Puget Sound region on the Internet when Disney’s “A Christmas Carol” train tour pulled into the King Street Station at Seattle over the Fourth of July weekend.

Chance, a 12-year-old Marysville boy, and his mom, Christine Mier, entered a contest at King Street Station July 3, for Chance to appear on the Disney Movie Surfers Web site which is promoting Disney’s upcoming movie adaptation of “A Christmas Carol.” On July 5, Christine received a call letting her know that Chance had won the random drawing.

“It was early in the morning,” Chance said. “ My mom said, ‘We need to have a serious talk,’ so I thought I was in trouble at first,” he laughed.

Christine drove Chance back to King Street Station in Seattle, where the Disney train was waiting for them. Chance had already caught a preview of the movie, so Radio Disney recorded an online video segment in which he talked about what he’d seen, both during his July 3 tour of the train, and during his more in-depth look at its features July 5.

“I said, ‘Hi, you’re in Seattle,’ and I told them my favorite parts of the train, and my favorite part of winning the contest,” said Chance. Chance’s favorite part of winning the contest was the prizes that he received, including a baseball cap, T-shirt and digital video camera, all imprinted with the “Disney Movie Surfers” logo, as well as a lanyard VIP pass, the latter of which he deemed his favorite prize.

“In the train, you could look around and see how the movie was made, where people wear the suits with all the balls on them,” Chance said of the CGI movie, which uses motion-capture animation. “In the last train car, they had a computer that could morph your face into any character from the movie. That was my favorite part.”

While Chance was still so excited about the experience that he nearly became breathless just from describing it, he admitted that there were a few difficulties during the taping of his video clip.

“I had my glasses on one time,” Chance said. “Another train started up another time, and I said my last name, which you’re not supposed to say,” he confided with a smile.

You can catch Chance Mair’s moment of Internet fame at the Disney Movie Surfers Web site, where you’ll need to click on Seattle.