Disney dollar
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Disney dollars are a form of corporate scrip or tokens used at Disney theme parks, The
Disney Store and at certain parts of
Castaway Cay, the
Disney cruise-line's private island. Most of them bear the image of Mickey Mouse or a drawing of one of the landmarks of
Disneyland or Walt Disney World Resort. Two small monochrome reproductions of Tinkerbell float to the sides. There is sometimes the signature of the Treasurer, Scrooge McDuck.
The dollars come in one, five dollar denominations from 1987 to 1989 and in 1990 they also added the ten dollar bill to the list, and are redeemable for goods or services at the theme parks, the Disney cruise ships, their Castaway Cay port of call and the Disney stores, unless indications to the contrary are printed on the individual bills. Also, they can simply be exchanged back to U.S. currency. They were first issued in 1987 and are collected by Disney memorabilia fans. Special editions are sometimes sold to Disney Cast Members as a form of incentive.
Disney dollars come in A dollars and D dollars. The former created for Disneyland in Anaheim, California (hence the A), and the latter D for Walt DisneyWorld in Florida. Since 2005 they also have T dollars (for The Disney stores).
New Disney dollars have been produced every year since 1987 except 1992, 2004 and 2006.
In 2005 only, Disneyland (A) and DisneyWorld (D) released a $50 bill for A & D) "and" they also produced a different looking special edition $50 Disneyland (B) (qty=1500) and DisneyWorld (D)(qty=500) that were designed by Mr. Boyer, (Mr Boyer personally signed a select amount of these bills) for Disneyland's 50th Anniversary Celebration). [1]
Disney dollars are exchanged on a one for one basis with US currency - one Disney dollar for each dollar tendered. Disney dollars can be 'purchased' using non-currency methods such as credit and debit cards. The Disney dollar program is a source of revenue for the Walt Disney Company. The company assumes that a certain number of Disney dollars will never be redeemed. The idea is that individuals will fail to realize that Disney dollars have a real value and should be treated as cash. The assumption is that a substantial percentage of the Disney dollars will be thrown away, kept as souvenirs or forgotten.
Disney Dollars are created with anti-counterfeiting features [2] such as microprinting, and hard to scan/copy reflective ink and imprinting on the front and back of the bill. In addition the bills are printed with serial numbers and letters which are unique to each bill. Security Features
The concept behind the Disney dollar was mocked on The Simpsons episode "Itchy & Scratchy Land". At the episode's titular park, Homer converts $1,100 to "Itchy & Scratchy Money", advertised by the ticket-taker as similar to regular money, but "fun". When the family heads to the merchants within the park, they discover that none of them take Itchy & Scratchy Money.
-don't happen that often!!
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