What happened to Disney Merchandise?
miste2blue
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Hello everyone! This is my first time starting a discussion thread (hope I'm doing it right)......but I have to ask the question, and I'm sure someone will have an opinion on this...but what the heck happened to the quality & uniqueness of Disney branded merchandise? I am NOT that old and I remember back in the 90's when the Disney Catalog was in full swing.....I remember being SO excited when the new catalogs came out.....there was always at LEAST 10 things in the catalogs that I wanted for my very own....that I could never afford of course, but the excitement was there. WHAT HAPPENED?
I saw a "blink" of the "old" Disney merch for the Disneyland 50th, but now with the WDW 40th, it almost could be mistaken for the same merch....SHAG items & such...don't get me wrong, I DO like the vintage shag merch, but there used to do DIFFERENT merchandise for Disneyland & Walt Disney World - seems like that is never the case anymore. I also get that its more cost effective for Disney to do this things the way they currently are....but there's still a little part of me inside that is CRYING out to spend money on Disney merch now that I'm older & have a little extra cash (though not much - let's be serious).....but Disney's making it very easy for me to say "No Thank you."
Anyone else tired of the 2nd rate merch that is currently out there right now?
I saw a "blink" of the "old" Disney merch for the Disneyland 50th, but now with the WDW 40th, it almost could be mistaken for the same merch....SHAG items & such...don't get me wrong, I DO like the vintage shag merch, but there used to do DIFFERENT merchandise for Disneyland & Walt Disney World - seems like that is never the case anymore. I also get that its more cost effective for Disney to do this things the way they currently are....but there's still a little part of me inside that is CRYING out to spend money on Disney merch now that I'm older & have a little extra cash (though not much - let's be serious).....but Disney's making it very easy for me to say "No Thank you."
Anyone else tired of the 2nd rate merch that is currently out there right now?