The job of a theme park merchandise team is more difficult than it sounds. They’re usually forecasting 30-36 months out what will be the most popular doo-dad or collectible based on a product for which they’ve only seen some of the earliest concept art. And… Read More »New Souvenirs drive sales for Disney and Universal in Orlando
I’ve remarked a few times before how I think that Disney’s crew of Tee-shirt designers hare doing an excellent job. Here’s another batch of pictures from the last few weeks.
I wanted to highlight two great merchandise finds I made over the weekend. After a really dead period in the middle 90s, Disney’s merchandise team has really been knocking it out of the park recently (so to speak). My only complaint is that they’ve recently… Read More »Scratch and Sniff Popcorn Mickey Mouse Ears and new Antenna balls
Back with some highlights of new Holiday merchandise available at Disney’s theme parks. A new series of Christmas Tree Ornaments of your favorite Pixar characters. Matching Pixar Finding Nemo and Cars Stockings. There’s a Toy Story one too. I really like this new line of… Read More »New Christmas Merchandise Highlights
Just wanted to quickly highlight some of the new merchandise that’s available at Walt Disney World these days. Haunted Mansion Action Figures! They’ve done something like this before, but these are more affordable. This new Pirates Mickey Ears actually looks like a dead mouse skull… Read More »Highlights of New Merchandise at WDW
It’s one of the realities of Disney Animated Features, they’re just plain expensive to produce. So much that sometimes even a $400 million box office earning film, like Cars, just breaks even for the company after marketing and production are accounted for. So how does… Read More »Princess Tiana merchandise already a big hit
Disney has recently converted one of its merchandise carts into a much more permanent location on one end of Main Street USA at the Magic Kingdom. Is this an example of Disney doing something right and ditching the tacky temporary cart or have they gone… Read More »New Merchandise Location at Magic Kingdom, too much?
StarWars.com has a slideshow previewing some of the new merchandise for the 2009 Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. I dig some of those T-shirt designs. Do you see anything you like?