2025 goes to be a giant yr for the Disneyland Resort, because the Mouse Home gears as much as have fun the unique theme park’s seventieth anniversary. Whereas some updates are coming to present points of interest, just like the controversial Walt Disney animatronic, it looks as if extra time is being spent on the continued revamping of the Downtown Disney District. Within the final month, two new shops have opened together with a brand new meals market, and two extra spots are slated to open within the coming days. As thrilling because the adjustments are, I’m already questioning the existence of one of many shops.
Theme park reporter Scott Gustin just lately shared photographs of the rethemed The Disney Costume Store location which can now be known as the Disney Storyland Boutique. The brand new signage was noticed final week, however that is the primary time followers have gotten a peek inside, and judging by the photographs, the Imagineers pulled out all of the stops when it got here to the theming. Sadly, it doesn’t appear like the identical will be mentioned for all of the merchandise.
The Disney Storyland Boutqiue Appears to be like Attractive
In response to LaughingPlace, the shop is ready to open to the general public on Friday, January 24. Judging by the photographs each stories shared, the shop is vivid, colourful, and appears straight out of a fairytale. There seems to be a beautiful signal spelling out the shop’s title with totally different letters resembling totally different animated characters, like an “R” that’s completely Remy from Ratatouille. There even appears to be a mini mountain of stuffed animals that’s giving ‘90s Disney Retailer vibes (if , ).
The brand new retailer options loads of neon lights spelling out phrases within the form of beloved characters. Nevertheless, the spotlight of the design may be that the shop has been damaged down into character-themed sections. Sew followers will discover all his merchandise on one wall, and there additionally appears to be spots for much less mainstream characters like Marie and Baymax.
However The place Is The Unique Merchandise?
There’s no denying that the shop seems to be attractive, nonetheless, from the photographs shared, loads of it seems to be like the identical merchandise you could find within the different outlets in Downtown Disney and within the parks. Actually, many of the objects we see are already within the a lot bigger memento store World of Disney a number of steps away from this new location. Which begs the query: did we actually want one other retailer with so lots of the identical objects in it?
There definitely are some objects within the Disney Storyland Boutique you can’t discover elsewhere, no less than on this nation. The Disney Retailer Japan Sakura merchandise, a preferred line abroad, haven’t been obtainable within the U.S. earlier than and now and might solely be discovered right here. The query is that if there’s actually sufficient unique merch to justify a wholly new retailer.
Sadly, this appears to be a brand new development relating to shops on the Disneyland Resort. A number of years in the past, shops used to solely carry objects that mirrored the theme. For instance, while you exited off of one among Disneyland’s finest points of interest, Star Excursions, you entered into a present store brimming with Star Wars merchandise you can solely discover there. That’s not the case anymore, as increasingly more generic Disneyland souvenirs have crept in. And with this new retailer seemingly promoting the identical outdated objects, I’m frightened the times of discovering one-of-a-kind, hard-to-snag merch are lengthy behind us.
Even when there is not an excessive amount of unique merch on the Disney Storyland Boutique at the moment, the potential of extra sooner or later exists. In response to Disneyland, the shop will “repeatedly rework its theming” over time, so down the street, we may nonetheless see much more cool stuff you possibly can’t discover elsewhere.
Regardless, I’ll nonetheless be popping into the brand new retailer after I make my subsequent journey all the way down to Downtown Disney. Right here’s hoping by then they’ve revamped a few of the merchandise choices.