Is there a Phineas and Ferb store at WDW?

[WDWSuperFan]

My daughter was watching Disney Channel today.Today on Disney 365 a Phineas and Ferb Store was featured that looked like so much fun. Anyone know where this store is?

 

[Pixie Princess]

I'd like to know as well. My DD called me excitedly in to the room when it came on, but I missed if it was at DL or WDW.

 

[antkim]

It is in the wide world of disney store in dtd

 

[cybrkitn]

I was wondering as well since they only mentioned "at the Disney Store". I figured it would be in DTD.

 

[Pixie Princess]

It is in the wide world of disney store in dtd

The DTD at both parks?

 

[dburg30]

Well it appears Disney thinks it has something good on it's hands.. Dont know if this has been linked other places or not, but this was from our local newspaper..

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A JUGGERNAUT IN THE MAKING?
Animated Disney series 'Phineas and Ferb' sets itself apart within franchise
Monday, July 5, 2010 02:51 AM
BY DAWN C. CHMIELEWSKI

Los Angeles Times


MEL MELCON | LOS ANGELES TIMES
Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, left, and Dan Povenmire, creators of Phineas and Ferb on the Disney Channel

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Scenes from an episode of Phineas and Ferb

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LOS ANGELES - As the Disney Channel prepared to launch the cartoon Phineas and Ferb, one top company executive viewed the hard, geometric shapes of the heads as too radical a departure from the round faces traditionally found in animation.

Yet any talk of forcing the creators to soften the edges of the isosceles dome belonging to Phineas - and make the other angular characters less jarring, too - was quelled.

"I said no," said Gary Marsh, president of entertainment for the Disney Channel. "This is what I love about this show. It is different and driven by someone's unique vision - as opposed to compacted by a committee."

Two seasons later, Phineas and Ferb has emerged as the cable network's first breakthrough original animated series - attracting more children and young teens than even rival Nickelodeon's 11-year juggernaut, SpongeBob SquarePants, according to Nielsen Media Research.

In a sign of its growing significance, Phineas and Ferb is drawing the full Disney treatment as the company revs up its well-oiled franchise machine.

Soon it will uncork a full merchandise line, with 200 Phineas and Ferb-related items - including boxer shorts, skateboards and boxes of macaroni and cheese - headed to stores. A Disney Channel movie, Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension, is scheduled for release next summer.

"I do believe that, within the next 18 months, this will be one of the biggest properties that we've ever had," Marsh said.

The goal is hardly a modest one from the Disney Channel, which was the seedbed for billion-dollar entertainment properties such as Hannah Montana and High School Musical. And the series - which follows the absurd lengths to which stepbrothers Phineas and Ferb will go to conquer boredom in the summer - is earning the ultimate Hollywood validation: voice cameos by guest stars.

"Everybody and their mother wants to do this show," said Bonnie Liedtke, an agent with William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. "We have requests from our clients to do the show because they watch it with their kids."

Among the stars who have recently lent their voices: Tina Fey, Ben Stiller, Seth MacFarlane, director Kevin Smith and musicians Clay Aiken and Chaka Khan.

"It is a smart television series that does not play down to kids," said Toper Taylor, chief executive of Cookie Jar Entertainment, the creator of PBS children's shows such as Arthur and Caillou. "Parents enjoy watching because there are a lot of jokes in the show for them."

Phineas and Ferb employs the same joke-a-minute sitcom pacing that makes prime-time cartoons such as Family Guy popular among adults, Taylor said.

That reflects the pedigree of the creators, Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, who have worked on The Simpsons, King of the Hill and Family Guy.

Indeed, Povenmire and Marsh incorporate sophisticated one-liners that would once provoke winces from network executives - such as the one about Existentialist Wacky Pack trading cards, in which one character remarks to the other, "I'll trade you two Nietzsches for a Sartre."

"They'd say, 'Is that joke too old for our audience?'" Povenmire said. "And we'd say: 'We don't care, as long as that joke doesn't make the kids change the channel. There's a joke coming for them in five seconds. We're playing to the adults in the room.'"

To find another elusive hit for the Disney Channel, Gary Marsh employed the same strategy that he used when he took over the once-sleepy animation studio five years ago: He raided the competition and recruited Eric Coleman, an executive from Nickelodeon.

The move was a tactful admission that the Disney Channel didn't have people in-house to develop animation with a new sensibility.

Coleman, who oversees Phineas and Ferb, is creating new series that borrow the elements he considers keys to success: a look that distinguishes a show from other animation, a willingness to take risks and stories that center on characters he calls "confident misfits."

One new show that will make its debut in the fall, Fish Hooks, follows three aquatic characters who attend Freshwater High, a school in a giant fish tank in the center of a pet store.

Coleman described it as a visually arresting collision of 2-D digital animation and photo collage.

"We are striving to be a generator of new content and new characters that can help fuel other parts of the business."

 

[WDWSuperFan]

Wow, thanks so much for the repllies. I knew I could find more info here! Sounds like so much fun and we will make a stop at DTD just to see this!

 

[kifuller4]

well, guess this means I need to make a rather large payment on the Disney Visa..... gotta get my Phineas & Ferb merchandise..... I hope they have Doofenshmirtz too!!!!!

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[GoofyforDisney3]

I hope they have some Candace stuff. My DD loves her.

 

[disneyJMD]

have you checked at the local disney store--they are starting to get quite a bit of their merchandise. Also, I think the store could have been the new "ImaginationPark" Disney stores. My kids were very interested in this as well.

 

[karmutt]

When I was at Disneyland on Saturday, I saw a kid with a Perry, the Platypus shirt on. It just had Perry's eyes and beak and was Perry green. I thought it was awesome. It's available on Amazon. I'm contemplating getting it. The placement of the eyes and me being female would create an interesting 3d effect.

 

[eeyoremommy]

The store shown in the Disney 365 segment was one of the new Disney Stores. It was not at WDW.

 

[Nettaboo]

The store shown in the Disney 360 segment was one of the new Disney Stores. It was not at WDW.

I have seen this commercial a couple of times and I agree with the quoted.. I don't think it is at WDW.. I was just there last week and I saw no place in WOD where it was and I walked that whole store more than one time.

 

[helloconnie]

I made a trip to The Disney Store at my local mall yesterday and front and center was a huge Phineaus and Ferb display. I bought my 5 year old 2 tees, one with Doofensmirtz saying "Cures you Perry the Platypus" and one with Perry dressed with a coconut bra, grass skirt, glasses, and has agent hat. The shirt read something like "That's a little wierd!".

They had toys as well.

I do remember seeing P&P merchandise at the stores at WDW in early June.

 

[natcat117]

When I was at Disneyland on Saturday, I saw a kid with a Perry, the Platypus shirt on. It just had Perry's eyes and beak and was Perry green. I thought it was awesome. It's available on Amazon. I'm contemplating getting it. The placement of the eyes and me being female would create an interesting 3d effect.

My sister and I bought that shirt at the Disney Store! We're planning on wearing it in the parks on our upcoming trip.

The effect is lost on me, though.

 

[carone0318]

I got a similiar shirt for my ds a few months ago through the disney store online. It was a personalize one that is lime green with just Perry's eyes and beak. I just never personalized it.

He loves it, it's one of his favorite shirts - along with the teal Perry shirt that was men's adult size, just got an adult (S). It's a little big, but he likes it that way.

When I was at Disneyland on Saturday, I saw a kid with a Perry, the Platypus shirt on. It just had Perry's eyes and beak and was Perry green. I thought it was awesome. It's available on Amazon. I'm contemplating getting it. The placement of the eyes and me being female would create an interesting 3d effect.

 

[eeyoremommy]

Some of the Walmart stores carry both a child and adult Perry shirt like that. You just have to look. We found one for DS 6 last year before the Disney Store started carrying them. There are two differences - the color (Walmart more turquoise blue and Disney Store more teal green) and the Phineas and Ferb name on the sleeve (found only on the Disney store shirt) besides the difference in price $7 - $7.99 vs. $12.50 for child. DH and DS already have them to wear for WDW later this year. If I can't find one I like, I may get the Perry one for me.

 

[liznboys]

The store shown in the Disney 365 segment was one of the new Disney Stores. It was not at WDW.

I have seen this commercial a couple of times and I agree with the quoted.. I don't think it is at WDW.. I was just there last week and I saw no place in WOD where it was and I walked that whole store more than one time.

I agree. My kids were all excited when they saw it on 365 too, but then I did a google search and found it was about a new Disney Store in California.

 

[BrerMama]

Hot Topic has adult size Perry shirts, too. My 16 year old has two...

 

[karmutt]

The effect is lost on me, though.

The eyes will be bulging... quite a bit, in my case.