The infamous Queen Elsa Dress: still driving parents MAD!!!!!

[famy27]

If anyone is still looking for Frozen dresses at retail prices, the Disney Store has a new plan to make sure parents aren't wrestling on the floor to get them and that they don't end up in the hands of resellers. I'm happy to share details if you want to PM me.

 

[Kelly014]

Today my DD pretended to be Anna for a good hour by sitting on a rocking horse while wearing a random winter hat and a blanket on her back as a cape. She even got the dog involved and screamed "Elsa" at him for a while. Imagination is a beautiful thing...cheaper too!

 

[AmyB2006]

Are parents really paying upwards of $1000 for.... a dress? A costume dress that they will outgrow in less than a year???

Seriously, the world has lots its collective mind.

 

[chrismb22]

My sister found her daughter with her long blue gardening gloves on last week. She was like "how cute, she is gardening" and the 3.year old was like " no mommy, I'm Elsa!"

They can make anything what they want it to be.

 

[AmyB2006]

For those of us watching the unbearable angst, this is really funny-- the 9 types of Frozen parents. Think of the kids!!!

http://www.mommyish.com/2014/04/11/****-parents-disney-frozen-toy-shortage/

OMG, how classic. That was a funny read. People really are crazy.

And I have to agree with the last FB post pictured on there. WTH is an Easter Present?? LOL Easter is jelly beans and chocolate bunnies. Easter is not a mini-Christmas. ROFL.

 

[ciera321]

Do they get these dresses occasionally at DW? We're headed down next month and I love to browse all the stores. If, by chance, I saw some, I'd be more than happy to grab a couple if someone really wanted them.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

Disney's not selling them for $1600. Not sure it's Disney's fault that people are willing to pretty much compete to see how much they can spend for these dresses on eBay.

Saw loads of Anna dresses available at the Norway pavilion, but Elsa apparently sells out the second they hit the shelves.

Disney could flood the market with the dresses...but if that happens they'd just be stuck with a lot of dresses when the hype ends.

If Frozen is "financially crippling" parents, I don't see how that was the choice of anybody but the parents themselves.

why in hell would someone pay that money for something a kid might wear for a few weeks/months before they get tired of it, it rips, or they outgrow it?

They are spending for the opportunity to brag about how they got something that is in high demand and their family or friends didn't manage to get for their own kids.

 

[WishingMom]

Does anyone know if the dresses have been available at WDW within the past day or so? I'm guessing No!

 

[Ginny Favers]

Anyone want my DD's size 10? She got it and THAT DAY decided she wanted to be Anna instead. Grrrrrrrrr.

I told her to stick with the Elsa dress because she's already a snowflake.

 

[buggy2727]

If Frozen is "financially crippling" parents, I don't see how that was the choice of anybody but the parents themselves.

Exactly, it's not like the price of wheat or milk or a true necessary staple to life!!!

They are spending for the opportunity to brag about how they got something that is in high demand and their family or friends didn't manage to get for their own kids.

Again, exactly this!!! There are so many cheaper substitutes available (like Etsy) that the kids would love just as much as the super expensive ones. Heck they even like garden gloves But it's the parents that have to buy it so they can show off - cause the kids don't know the difference between something that costs 10 or 1000 (at least mine don't). My girls love Frozen, Elsa in particular, but I can't even see paying $150 in the Disney store for the dress! Heck I didn't spend that much on their Easter dresses!!! Actually, I didn't spend anything cause they were hand me downs from their cousins but that's besides the point And if my kids stopped believing in Santa or the Easter bunny because they didn't "get what they wanted", then I did a bad job as a parent.

 

[skylizard]

Etsy...starting around $30. Some really great seamstresses there, and you can get custom sizing. Most are much nicer than the mass produced ones.

Exactly. I don't get the whole craze. Kids will be over it pretty quickly once the next disney movie rolls around. You can go on etsy and get a custom made dress for less than $50 for your little one to play dress up in.
Here's one from etsy under $50:

 

[Golden Rose]

DD3 actually held an Anna coronation dress and an Elsa dress in her hands (at DL last month), and decided she wanted the Anna dress. I was relieved, because the only size they had in the Elsa dress was the XXS, which she can still wear, but probably only for a few more months, and they had XS in the Anna dress. She likes both sisters, and she loves to put on her Anna dress and get out her various Frozen toys and act out the movie.

We're at the half humoring her point. Not willing to pay over a $100 for a single play costume, or wait in a 5 hour line, but willing to pay Disney's original exorbitant price for the Anna costume and get a FP for A & E...

 

[luvmy2babies]

Plenty of options on Etsy. I didn't need the dress even though my daughter the diva loved it. But she loves Anna and Elsa. She'll be 11 when we go to WDW next month and past playing dress-up. But in her size I can't even find a shirt around here or online.

She's heavily into pettiskirts; so, I got her a t-shirt and pettiskirt set on etsy to wear in the park on one of our MK days. Super cute and $31 plus shipping. It arrived in a few days and it's adorable.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/182507...utfit-frozen-outfit?ref=listing-shop-header-3

 

[heartse]

If they are going for that crazy of money I really have got to get some fabric and make a dress... already have the etsy shop set up.

 

[rrali33tt]

Geez Louise ...i think I could have paid for my entire wedding if i had hoarded frozen merchandise when it first came out in theatres and sold it on ebay later on lol

 

[chigirl]

I run a resale shop and someone donated a never-used Elsa Disney store dress, tags still on...company policy is to price it and sell it, but my pricer was a new guy, in training, who had no idea about the film. He priced it for $2.99 and it went out to the floor, in a cart, with other stuff...funny thing is, the guy who bought it (I rang him up) had no idea, either...it was senior day and he even got 15% off! He said it was for his great-grandaughter, who was coming for a visit this weekend and it "looked like a cute dress-up dress". I told him that if he had internet, he might want to check it out online before he gave it to her. Believe me, I had to go back and speak to my pricer! I also have NO IDEA why someone would donate it and I was thinking I'd get a frantic call all day yesterday from someone saying it was a mistake, but I did not.

For what it is worth, I think the movie is awful. My 21 year old DD, who is studying animation and has good friends who study at CalArts (where all the famous animators went), all hate the film. I am like the world's #1 Idina "Adele Dazeem" Menzel fan, but I just wish Lassetter would have Pixar do the CG and Disney do the hand-drawn, classic stuff. Not sure why this movie caught on fire, but oh well.

 

[jtowntoflorida]

I can't believe that I lucked out and got one back in January, when ONE just happened to come in stock at our local store.

Any word on the Anna coronation dress? That is a beautiful dress and it would be nice to have one.

 

[LBIJim]

this. when I was growing up my parents laughed me out of the Magic Kingdom if I asked for anything more fancy than a set of Mickey Ears or a tee shirt.


why in hell would someone pay that money for something a kid might wear for a few weeks/months before they get tired of it, it rips, or they outgrow it?[/QUOTE]

To reinforce the illusion that they're good parents?

Or at least "better" parents than those unable to obtain/afford scalper prices.

I agree with all comments on free markets and just not paying through the nose for such things.

However, some of these eBay sellers are doing some pretty underhanded crap, like bribing retail salesmen to sell them the bulk of these dresses before the customers who want them for their little girls can get to them so they can sell them for massive premiums without adding a hint of value to the process. They bring to mind the popular meme of The Dude from The Big Lebowski with the caption "You're not wrong, you're just an *******."

I wouldn't call for any action to be taken, I can't think of anything that I would support. But I hope this same bunch of jerks takes a bath over-investing in merchandise for the next Johnny Depp stinker that Disney throws a bank at.
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That's why the markup is so steep for the hit merchandise. To make up for past failures and to insure against future ones. Sounds like a reasonable policy to me.

Jim

 

[mefordis]

Are parents really paying upwards of $1000 for.... a dress? A costume dress that they will outgrow in less than a year???

Seriously, the world has lots its collective mind.

I know. What is up with this generation of parents? Why do we have so much guilt (I'm including myself in there, not because I buy Elsa dresses, but other things I've bought/done in the past)? Why can't we say "no"? My mom said "no" to us all the time, and without any guilt whatsoever (that I could detect at least).

 

[Pooh2]

Are parents really paying upwards of $1000 for.... a dress? A costume dress that they will outgrow in less than a year???

Seriously, the world has lots its collective mind.

Agreed!!
I did not pay that much for my daughter's wedding dress!