Pride Merchandise

[OKW Lover]

Hopefully they will be stocking new merch around Spring Break, or at least prior to June.

I was in Epcot with my daughter (and son) last weekend. She was specifically looking for pride merchandise and all we could find was a meager row of the same pins they've had for a while now.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Might have to rename this thread "Where did all the pride merchandise go?". I was at DHS this morning and hit all the major shops. Didn't spot any pride stuff at all. What's up?

I also did a small part of Epcot, but none of the shops.

 

[Chuck S]

I hope they have some decent Pride T-shirts by Early June.

 

[BorderTenny]

If you have a connection to a Cast Member, there's some of last year's Pride merch currently at Cast Connection. Had a CM friend/former coworker take me there today. Picked up a couple of the embroidered t-shirts for $12.99 each. There were also some spirit jerseys and a few of the baseball jerseys (size small only). I don't expect this year's stuff to come out until sometime in May.

 

[ClaraOswald]

Saw this on Facebook. Pride Ears at Disneyland....

 

[Grim Grinning Ghostie]

They don't have to pretend to care about us now that rights are no longer in vogue, so I imagine the selection will remain fairly meager until June rolls around for them to drop a few performative offerings before quickly tucking all that away again come July 1.

 

[JM_97]

Boyfriend and I might just get stuff from Etsy before our trip.

 

[juliebee]

Saw this on Facebook. Pride Ears at Disneyland....

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They have them at Disney Store online now. They are SO pretty!!! Ears are painful for me, but I love these so might give them a try!

 

[Chuck S]

They don't have to pretend to care about us now that rights are no longer in vogue, so I imagine the selection will remain fairly meager until June rolls around for them to drop a few performative offerings before quickly tucking all that away again come July 1.

Don't forget, manufacturing and shipping from overseas suppliers has changed a lot over the last few years. Remember when everything was basically shut down from COVID, many suppliers didn't survive, and not everything has become available again. And costs have skyrocketed. Disney has to try to find a balance between supply and demand, the last thing they really want is to heavily discount leftover merch in the current economy.

Disney makes $$$ marketing merch to us and other groups, but overall the merch has gotten more generic. There isn't a lot of park/ride specific stuff anymore either, though that is starting to come back slowly.

 

[DCLGirlie]

Don't forget, manufacturing and shipping from overseas suppliers has changed a lot over the last few years. Remember when everything was basically shut down from COVID, many suppliers didn't survive, and not everything has become available again. And costs have skyrocketed. Disney has to try to find a balance between supply and demand, the last thing they really want is to heavily discount leftover merch in the current economy.

Disney makes $$$ marketing merch to us and other groups, but overall the merch has gotten more generic. There isn't a lot of park/ride specific stuff anymore either, though that is starting to come back slowly.

Eh, the fact they were up to debuting Halloween merch shows that they are getting things sourced and in on time, they just decided to not prioritize Pride

 

[Chuck S]

Of course Halloween would be a priority, with multiple Not So Scary and Oogie Boogie Bash private ticket events on both coasts. WDW since the inception of Gay Days never did anything as a Private Ticket, while Disneyland has a private ticket event in October. The Same with the Christmas parties. So some of it has to do with it never being an offical Disney Sponsored event in Orlando.

The Private ticket event for Gay Days in Orlando is always the result oif a water park (Typhoon Lagoon) being rented for the night by a promoter, Totally different histories between the East and West coasts. If WDW ever starts doing their own private ticket events, expect more merch in June. Generally, the most we see are some pins, a T-Shirt or two, a hat or ears, maybe a mug (those come and go) and may a few little trinkets.. I'm hoping we'll see more in the futore, with Josh D'Amaro as CEO, as he better understands the Florida market, and being younger at 55 than Bob Eiger, but there certainly hasn't been time for him to implement much, yet, as most everything current as far as Merch and Park contruction was started under Bob Eiger. And the promoters have really focused it being Gay Days in Orlando, rather then Gay Days at Disney, even though Disney is where the event started in 1991 with a group of local friends wearing red shirts on the first Saturday of June in the Magic Kingdom. Once the promoters took conntrol, and let's face it their sole objective it too make $$$, Gay Days Orlando never had an official Disney branded hotel, but always focused on offsite locaations that would let them set up a sales conventions area, and control the pool area for a day, which Disney, California or Florida is not going to allow. Disney conventions are more geared to confrence tyoe conventions than sales floors. Remember, in the first couple of years, in the early 1990s, Disney World even posted portable signage at park entrances disassociating themselves for the "event." 2013 was about the first year we saw any "official" Disney merch, with a red T-Shirt with six Mickeys of pride colors. And it said simply Walt Disney World 2013. And some of the Merch, like hats, never even made it to the parks, but were available only online through the Disney Store, over the years. I've got two Disney branded pride hats that I never saw in the parks.

 

[OKW Lover]

Saw a new pice of pride merchandise at DAK - It's a rainbow mickey key chain, or some such device.

 

[Chuck S]

Saw a new pice of pride merchandise at DAK - It's a rainbow mickey key chain, or some such device.

I kind of like that.

 

[OKW Lover]

I was in Epcot today (last day of Flower & Garden) and checked a couple of spots for rainbows. All I saw were these pins which have been pretty much standard.

I was also looking for special photo backgrounds but only noticed one:

 

[ClaraOswald]

I wonder if Disneyland has any photo ops like that. I don't remember seeing any the last time we were there in June.

 

[Chuck S]

I wonder if Disneyland has any photo ops like that. I don't remember seeing any the last time we were there in June.

I don't know, as Disneyland has Pride Night ticketed events. https://disneyland.disney.go.com/events-tours/disneyland/after-dark-pride-nite/

 

[ClaraOswald]

Ah...yeah...I bet they only do the photo ops at the parties. Bummer.

 

[OKW Lover]

Ah...yeah...I bet they only do the photo ops at the parties. Bummer.

There will be photo pass people there all the time.

 

[ClaraOswald]

There will be photo pass people there all the time.

At Disneyland, I don't think there are any photo spots for Pride, except during the nighttime parties.

 

[juliebee]

Not merch, but I noticed they have some Pride Disney MagicMobile pass designs available. (They could have always been there, I'm not sure). There are 3 styles.