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| - I consider this place "The Island of Disney Theme Park Misfit Toys".
Sure, they are still selling Disneyland's "50th Anniversary" mouse ears from when the park hit its milestone in 2005. Most things generally are 2 years or so old, but there are great moments that if you go in at just the right time, you can score some great item that would have been highly priced in the park for cheap. Those are definitely fun moments, and you never know what you can find here.
They are, however, starting to take that philosophy too far now. In my last outing there, I say character art for Dreamworks animated films, which is basically the equivalent of if the Coke Store on the Strip started selling Pepsi product.
The worst offender I found, though, was these weird non-Disney "parody" shirts they're now selling, which promote things like (no joke) farting, poker, and beer. Considering I've been to Orlando and Ahaheim many a time, you wouldn't find these in any theme park. I'd wager you'd find these shirts in a truck stop or gas station.
Certainly, Disney is not that stingy that they won't or are unable to free up outdated merchandise for places like these to sell.
This store needs to figure out what it is again and perhaps read the name of what their store is to get a better idea of the type of merchandise they need to sell. If they're going to sell non-Disney cartoon items and T-shirts of the Quaker Oats guy smoking a cigarette, I'll just get my stuff and "magic finds" through eBay auctions from now on.
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