Disney General - The saddest fandom on Earth

[neverendingmidi]

Anyway, went on my last Disneyland trip before Fall- because fuck Disneyland in the summer- and there's so, so, so much Americana/4th of July merch.

@Unnecessary Surgery Land
Not quoting because you got a long post, but the America stuff is for the 250th anniversary of the founding of America.

Also May has similar stuff in most stores (not necessarily Disney, but most physical stores of varying types) for Memorial Day. It's only a few weeks away.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

so, so, so much Americana/4th of July merch

over in the irls at Home Goods type places I'm seeing a MUCH heavier move to murrica, like twenty murricas for every rainbow

 

[Archeops]

Sounds like they're trying to reign in the aggressive Disney Adult/Autist (is there truly a difference?) that was becoming the main part of the pin trading thing.

Good luck, pretty sure they'll be dealing with a frighteningly large number of adults throwing a fit about this.

I’m mostly hearing positive things about it, a lot of casual traders and some professional traders don’t like the attitudes that some of the Frontierland mega-traders have (although the latter group only hates them because some people have zero social awareness and actively try to trade multiple pins and/or money for one pin).

One of the main complaints I’m hearing from traders is how vague Disney is being regarding what constitutes as “small handheld Pin Trading accessories” to the company, there are some binder-style pin carriers that can be held in the hand but for one reason or another Disney hasn’t actually specifies what fits that classification.

Anyway, went on my last Disneyland trip before Fall- because fuck Disneyland in the summer- and there's so, so, so much Americana/4th of July merch

How could you forget the wonderful Sam Eagle popcorn bucket we’ll be getting next week?

 

[Scientifically Inaccurate]

With Peter Docter saying fuck off to Tumblr storytelling, them canceling that god-awful magical girl show, the park hiding the sequels... I kinda have hope for the future. Almost. Sort of.

About a year ago Disney World had an area with carnival games they were shutting down. They had exclusive dinosaur plush toys for prizes, but they were rapidly running out of these with the closure still months away. Next thing you know normal plush toys were being used as prizes. They never came right out and said it but everyone came to the obvious conclusion that these were overstock that wasn't selling. It wasn't any new stuff and most of it were things that were an obvious swing and miss like the nuimo of the girl from Turning Red and a plush toy of the female sloth that appears in Zootopia for five seconds.

What should make an appearance but pride Mickey and pride Stitch plushes. In Fall/Winter. And they had enough to last until it shut down.

And that's their heavy hitters. Stitch gets his own day where they release a fresh Stitch line to go along with all the normal stuff a month in advance. They release like four Mickeys per year because they usually sell. But they had plenty of these things still laying around.

What does that say about how well pride sells?

I had to witness the sad sight that was a young boy being offered the choice between a brachiosaurus and a pride Mickey and choosing incorrectly. Poor kid probably just wanted any Mickey and didn't care about the color of his shorts but still.