Kind of a funny story about the 60th stein...when I got to DL last Sunday, my first instinct was to go to Hungry Bear to see if they had them. My hopes were dashed when I didn't see them on display by the register where they usually put out the souvenir mugs. Asked the CM working there, first she thought I was talking about the poison apple steins, but when I said no the 60th ones with the castle on top, she said that they didn't have them anymore and she didn't know if/when they would get them again. Well after I left there feeling a bit sad, thinking that if they weren't there then it was unlikely that they were anywhere else, I walked by Golden Horseshoe and decided to peek in to see if maybe the steins were in there. I saw them on the display by the register and thought "Yay!" and immediately got in line, although to be honest I still wasn't quite convinced that they even had any...I thought maybe they still had the display ones up but weren't actually selling them. The whole time I was in line I was thinking about how I would convince them to sell me the display model if they didn't have any other ones in stock, LOL. Of course it all ended up being silly, since when I got up to the register I could see a whole bunch of them sitting on the back counter. It wasn't long after walking around DL when I realized that the things were being sold EVERYWHERE, except of course the first place my instincts told me to look.
They even had them at the Plaza Inn beverage station where you could fill your own (wish I would have known that, would have gotten mine there so I could pick out the "nicest" one).
The 60th popcorn bucket, well I wish I would have taken the Disney merchandise advice that I usually try to follow, which is "If you see something you like, you
best buy it right then and there because it might not be there when you come back for it." All the carts had the Halloween buckets, except for ONE in the Small World Mall on Sunday, which had the 60th bucket. I passed it on the way walking towards Small World/Toontown, and when walking back, the cart was gone. Saw it again there later in the evening, then it was gone again when I went back over there for PtN and fireworks.
Was at DL for another two days and never saw that cart again. I'm going back in December and there will probably be Christmas buckets all over, but maybe I'll have better luck next year during a non-holiday period.
