actual Disney stores...

[Disneydan]

Hi extended family! Ha

Does anyone have any experiences at the stores in shopping malls?

Living up here in Connecticut I Cant get to wdw much.... but there's a Disney store about 40 mins away....


Do they usually have a good selection?


Thanks!

 

[Melonballer]

Hi extended family! Ha

Does anyone have any experiences at the stores in shopping malls?

Living up here in Connecticut I Cant get to wdw much.... but there's a Disney store about 40 mins away....


Do they usually have a good selection?


Thanks!

If you are looking for pins, then no. Disney Stores do not sell pins. Also they have very small amounts of Adult products, like clothes. Disney Store is a glorified Disney toy store for the kids.

 

[Disneydan]

Ahhhh. Figured I'd ask before I ventured out there...
thanks!!!!!!

 

[akaibara]

If you are looking for pins, then no. Disney Stores do not sell pins. Also they have very small amounts of Adult products, like clothes. Disney Store is a glorified Disney toy store for the kids.

This.
The stores suck soo much if you're over the age of ten and you don't have much interest in clothing. I miss seeing all the cool expensive collectibles that I couldn't afford as a kid.

The Disney Store in Times Square has a small selection of pins though. It seems to get smaller and smaller every time I go there though.... I've heard a couple other stores have some too. Chicago and San Francisco, I think...?

 

[Splash]

Yeah, a very long time ago I once was told that Disney Stores did sell some Pins, so I went and checked out the store here in Michigan. The pins ended up being like the little 25/50 cent pins that you can buy out of the gum ball looking machines when you enter or exit Wal-mart. But I guess that person was right. The Disney Store did have pins. Not the kind I was looking for but they were still pins.

 

[Disneydan]

Haha I dont think I want 25 cent pins

 

[eeyorespal]

Over the last 10 years the Disney Stores have gone through many incarnations. At times they did have pins, and even some framed pin sets - although the pin set were only in the Gallery stores. They had their own series, and many of them were very nice. Right now, as mentioned above, the mall stores are 95% toys.

The World of Disney store in NYC, on Fifth Avenue, was owned by Disney Parks. They had a moderate selection of WDW rack pins, plus their own rack and limited NYC pins. Some of these pins were fantastic - look up the NYC Thanksgiving pins and take a look at the Kermit pin # 34826:

Cast members wore lanyards and traded, and they even had pintrading meets. Sadly, that store is now closed.

Now there is the Disney store in NYC in Times Square, which I believe is owned by Disney Stores (not Parks). I haven't visited there, but I understand that it is basically a mall store on steroids. Lots of toys; no pins.

 

[tinkerbelle1956]

Yes I visited The Disney Store in Times Square and in comparison too the WOD on 5th Avenue, it absolutely sucks .

 

[Eric209]

They will sometimes have pins for DVD releases. I got pins for buying up & toy story 3 when they came out. But that's before I collected them.

 

[doodlebug86]

I really miss the Disney stores i remember from the late 80's and early 90's... when I had to go in with my parents and could only just see over the counters...
Of course, I also remember Snow White coming out on VHS and my mom getting it for me and my brother. Disney store used to be awesome.
My first pins were the count down to the millennium pins I got there. Still have Lady & The Tramp, and Bambi in my collection.

I did go to the Times Square Store and was really disappointed. I was so happy with the 5th avenue store cuz I could drive up there and trade (being closer then FL). Ah well. I mentioned it to the cast member who rang me out and she said she missed the pins too.
I did ask one of the ladies at the store that just re-opened near me. She said who knows, they carried pins before, maybe it'll happen again. But she did point out that i shouldn't hold me breath.

 

[KT07]

look for pins at the outlet disney store. also u can call befor and make sure they have any.

 

[Disneydan]

Kt I love your signature btw!

 

[ckuhrt21]

I've picked up a couple pins and a set in the last year or so in the Times Square store, one thing I did find funny was that they had mixed the pins with magnets and put them in a really odd place where nobody would look for them...