jmskinner
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 15, 2006
After my nap and I think Jacob may have slept a little bit, we went on an adventure. Before the Dismeet, fellow Dis'er Gary, mentioned how he had gone over to Mouse Surplus. This is someplace I have wanted to go since hearing about it a couple of years ago.
I had the website up on my phone and followed the directions on it. It's about 30 minutes or so from WDW. Nothing really exciting to see on the way. Jacob wasn't very excited, he just wanted to go swimming.
Passed a candy store I thought about stopping at, but Jacob wasn't even interested in that.
I was so glad I had asked Gary for directions because he had told me that when you see a trailer with the name on it, that would be the turn. Looking for that trailer made it super easy to find. This place is out in the middle of nowhere.
I pull up and then worry, am I in the right place? Is this safe? It is just an old warehouse out in the middle of nowhere, but first thing you see is an airplane with Harambi on it. Yup, its from the Safarai at AK.
In case you haven't heard of this place, it is a surplus store for unwanted theme park stuff. I've heard of monorail doors and even actual ride vehicles(cars) being there.
There is a lot of stuff you wouldn't want. I wanted the huge gold Mickey statue (I think there were several). About 2 feet tall.
Jacob saw this right away (sorry only had my phone for pics),
He wanted to know the price, so I made him ask. Just $5000. Good thing Jonas didn't come with us (when he saw the pic he said we have Jacob's college money.) The guy that helped us said there were only two of these in the world. This one came from the FAO Schwartz in Las Vegas.
Then we found this:
Only $17,500! Wouldn't that be cool on the side of the house. Our HOA probably wouldn't approve, but I don't think it specifially rules it out. Basketball hoops not allowed, but nothing about these things (sorry forgot the name of them.)
Mouse Surplus has lots of other things, nothing I could see me buying. They do have a huge Sulley that was cool. They also have a lot of furnishings. I saw these:
We have this huge wall in our dining room that looks empty with the artwork we have, thought this painted with a mirror behind it might look good.
That was our tour of Mouse Surplus. Now Jacob was happy, we were headed back to the resort to go swimming. Again, I didn't take my camera, but I have a lot of pics from last November so I thought I would share them.