Just for fun: What's the most unique item you ever bought as a souvenir at WDW?

[Bete]

I'm looking for outstanding ideas for gifts, etc. It doesn't have to cost much; that's not the point. Maybe, it's something unusual and practical. Maybe, it's not practical.

I'll start it off. My most unique is a Minnie round garden stone platform which retailed for $20 this past May. It was purchased at Downtown Disney.

Looking for gifts from the parks themselves, Downtown Disney or even the outlets if it has a Disney theme.

 

[pammypooh]

At the gift shop at Wilderness Lodge -

I am rather short and I have a high four poster bed that I have to jump up to get in each night. This past May I was at WL and saw a small bear motiff foot rest stool/ottoman. (Not sure proper name) It matches a decorative pillow I purchased last year and gives me that extra boost I need to hoist myself up and into bed! Love it!

Pammybounce:

 

[Pretzel]

My mickey head pin with the Canadian flag! Not the most original, but it just gives me warm fuzzies when I see it.

 

[JVL1018]

During last year's F&WF they had a stand with prints of the various country pavilions of Epcot, so I now have hanging on my bedroom wall one of my very favorite places from my favorite park:The UK pavilion.
It's definately my favorite souvenier that I've bought at WDW.

 

[meeko_33785]

A movie poster I bought at Sid Cahuenga's at MGM. It's was made to promote a re-release of Peter Pan in the 1960s and features Nana the dog (one of my favorites charactersand one that it is usually very hard to find merchendise of). It was only $5 and I love having a piece of movie history. Since then it's been fun going to Sid's and seeing if I can find any more deals like that.

 

[shakespear]

I agree with Sids too


I got a black hole and tron movie poster there

 

[Abra Cat]

My most unique WDW souvenir is a one inch tall white plaster frog my husband bought for me in France 13 years ago on our first date. I always look for another whenever we're at Epcot, but I've never found one.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

Another find at Sid's:in my case a Satine & Christian Moulin Rouge poster

 

[lisadam]

A number of years ago there was a woman writing names in Chinese - you tell her the name you want and I guess she comes up with the closest approximation of it in Chinese - I got a bunch as souvenirs for friends back home and put them in inexpensive frames.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

UK at epcot


Earl Grey teabags,ok I'm also a Trekkie and Earl Grey is the tea of choice for Captian Picard

 

[Brier Rose]

Splash Mountain is my DS 4, favorite ride.
At the Briar Patch, the little shop close to the ride, we bought "The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit", story book.
It has wonderful stories, that he recognized from the ride, and really beautiful illustration. It also had a poster that came with the book that we hung on his wall.

 

[milmore104]

The most unique gift I have ever gotten form WDW were seeds from the green thumb emporium. They is a little story behind it. You see I have really bad stomach problems. I get sick really fast without warning. Usually after I eat things that i know I shouldn't eat. Well my DH wanted to go on the behind the scenes greenhouse tour and the next avalible tour was 15 min. And I had just eaten. I said I would go but was very nervous thinking about were I could run to if I had to go to the bathroom. My husband excused himself for a moment and came back and said hold out your hand. I held out my hand and he placed a leaf in my hand. He said he got this leave from a magical tree out front. And it would make me feel better if I kept it in my hand. It really worked too! Maybe mind over matter but he bought me seeds to plant my own "magical" tree at home. Ironicly every time we go to WDW he is the only one who can find the "magic" tree and get me a leaf.

 

[tc]

milmore104: I need that magical tree. I have a similar problem. Stephen knows where every single bathroom is in WDW, so when I say, "I need to bathroom", he can direct me with ease. That magical tree leaf would be a lifesaver, lol !

 

[Virgo10]

Last year I got a monorail key chain. It opens up and becomes a flashlight!

Other items that I thought were cool include the Splash Mountain figurine that opens and shows Pooh and Tigger going down the hill on the inside. This was when they were made out of plaster and not plastic.

From this year's trip, my EPCOT Flower and Garden door mat and a glass candle holder with the Cheshire Cat on it.

Roberta

 

[milmore104]

tc,
my husband says that the "magical" tree appears only when he is all alone waiting for me (while I'm in the bathroom). He always has a magical leaf waiting for me when I come out.
And I know what yoiu mean about the bathrooms! I find EPCOT has the best ones. They have those unexpected ones placed here and there for those unexpected stops! All I need to do is look at my DH and he'll say "you need to Go?"

 

[BethC1952]

Virgo10 said

Last year I got a monorail key chain. It opens up and becomes a flashlight!

I have one of those, too, and I love it!

I have to admit, though, that the most unique souvenir I ever got at WDW (and one I would NOT recommend that you get) was a driveshaft for our 1977 Lincoln Town Car! I can't imagine how they did it, but the Car Care Center, on December 30, 1982, was able to find one somehow and replace ours! That's what I got for my 10th wedding anniversary--a trip to WDW and a driveshaft. The car was fine for several months after that, and it certainly made for some interesting conversation!

Beth

 

[Jay Since 72]

In the Department Store in the China Pavillion, I found a book about physical fitness published by the Chinese Government. It gave advice about keeping fit, and listed all the world records they held when the book was published in 1980. A large percentage of the records were in things like 'model yachting'. Bizarre. The best part was that it was only a $1. Even the person at the counter couldn't believe it.

 

[Moosysmom]

My favorite is a coffee cup with the Mickey Mouse Club Logo on it, when you lift the cup it plays the Mickey Mouse Club March. I forgot to buy it on my first trip to WDW and when a friend went back 2 months later with her family, I gave her the money to buy it and bring it back.

 

[Penny2]

I collect Mickey Mouse jewelry and have bought a bunch of pins, necklaces, and earrings over the years. They must be sets and unique...rhinestones, glass beads....the weirder and flashier the better! Most I have bought at the parks but I now buy on ebay as well.

My best 'find' for my collection actually started at AK and ended at the outlets. The year that AK opened I had to go to DW for work a bunch of times (boo-hoo) and found this really unique necklace and earrings. It was three porcelain discs on a leather 'chain'. The discs were covered in the stylized mickey animal print. The only problem was that the earrings and necklace were about $100. I had it in my hand, pulled out my Amex and got the guilts....just couldn't justify it!! Anyway to make a long story short, we went back 3-4 months later and I found the same set at the Outlets at Belz for $35....I just think I was meant to have them....don't you??

 

[DDreneeT]

I'm glad to hear that people with stomach problems go to WDW. I'm going in July and hope that all goes well for me. I sometimes have problems with my colitis and when I get excited, etc-i get nausous-like a nervous stomach. I've heard not to drink the water at WDW if you have stomach problems, did you? I'm planning on taking lots and lots of bottled water from home. I'm taking gallon jugs to refill the small portable water bottles to take to the parks.