Maybe I'm late to the party, but have you heard of Character Warehouse?

[All Aboard]

This past weekend, we went to the Dolphin Mall in Miami for the first time. There's a store called "Disney's Character Warehouse" there. They told me there is one at Sawgrass Mills, but I am unsure if there are more in other parts of Florida or elsewhere.

But, here's what's there. All of their merchandise comes from WDW. They have clothes, toys, souvenirs, pins, etc. But, it's all CHEAP! Kids T-shirts for $4.00, adults for $8 - $10, pins for $3 - $4. Dated souvenirs (such as 2003 and 100 Years of magic stuff) for 25% of the original price or even less.

What we purchased: A 100 Years of Magic and a 2003 photo frame, $5 each. 3 grab bags of 10 pins a bag (which yielded 22 unique pins and 8 traders) for $10 each - that's right, $1 per pin. Three of the interactive Magical Moments pins from the 100 Years celebration for $0.99 each (remember, they cost $16 at the parks.) I'll probably not take them out of the package. A splash mountain shirt for our daughter $4.00. A couple of Small World dolls for $2.00 each.

Figured I'd post this in case there were any others out there as clueless as I was about this place. We're heading back at the end of June for a pin trading session for our daughter. We'll probably buy much more stuff then.

 

[mum4jenn]

Several states have these as well as Orlando having them as well. Belz outlet has two Disney outlets and there are two other outlet malls that each have a Disney outlet.

This is one of the very first stops we make when we go to Orlando.

 

[Disneyland_emily]

They usually have 10+ around the nation for limited times (have had 2 in Utah in the last year) they have several permanant stores near DL/WDW-

Its very hit and miss- The one we had in Park City last summer had some great finds but the one in Salt Lake was pretty pathetic- with mostly Universal merch-

Ive been told the ones closest to the theme parks do not sell pins though-

They used to have a web site listing current locations but I cant find it now-

The name of the places are AMS Character Warehouse

 

[Want2liveatWDW]

I found a short listing of their stores through their website. I know there are more because thye don't list their Florida stores.
AMS Character Warehouse

 

[manchurianbrownbear]

Here are websites for two Orlando area outlet malls that have Character Warehouses...

http://www.premiumoutlets.com/outlets/outlet.asp?id=17

http://www.belz.com/factory/locations/orlando/orlando_layout.html#stores

 

[ZachnElli]

Yup, we always hit the one at Premium Outlets when we are there. We were just there in March and they were selling pins. Love that place!

 

[Aimeedyan]

We usually hit the ones in Orlando when we visit... but this time I scored at the CM Property Control... so cool!!!!!!!!!! So I didn't need to hit the outlets.