What Was the Most Useless or Ridiculous Souvenir from WDW?

[PrincessAli]

What item did you absolutely 'Have to Have' from WDW---until you got home and thought--'What was I thinking?'

 

[drcmk]

My daughter used her own allowance to buy Princess Atta sunglasses that were really cute--but maybe $15 (three years ago). They broke in less than a day.

I guess helium balloons are the most useless souvenir, but I still can't resist.

 

[kilee]

All the "character" hats. Once we get home, nobody wears them. Like the sorcerer hat, or the goofy ears hat. I have so many of them. I have probably spent hundred's on these things. And we never take them the next trip, just keep buying more.

 

[Emy'sMom]

Last year we were looking in the shops at the Contemporary while we waited for our PS @ Chef Mickey's. My DD (5) saw these pink/sparkly mickey head antenna ears and just HAD to have them - especially since they were the last pink pair available. They cost $6. She wore them for maybe 2 minutes and that was it - she refused to put them back on. Her Dad & I had to have the "money-doesn't-grow-on-trees---you-can't-buy-everything-you-see" discussion.

It's funny because right before the photgrapher at Chef Mickey's snapped our picture she put the antenna ears on. So, now everytime I look at that picture I think of the $6 we spent on those antennas ears!

Debbie

 

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I would have to say any of those light-up-spinny-things they start selling at dusk... however I do have a cool story about a souvenier we bought.

It was a silk rose on a long stem but there was a tiny lightbulb in the centre of the rose so it glowed.. like belle's rose from Beauty & the Beast... it is actually really beautiful when it is lit.

Anyway, we bought one... but a few months later - here in Toronto - we went to see the Beauty and the Beast broadway show and I told my daughter to bring the rose (as they were probably selling them - and she would whine that she wanted another)

But you know what? They were selling plain long stem silk roses but my daughter had this lit one... all the Mom's and daughters were looking all through the lobby to see where to get one... we kept having people come up to us and ask where we bought it in the theatre... there were girls walking past us with plain roses crying that they wanted the light up one... I even had one Dad offer to buy it for 20.00 - but my daughter would not budge... we still have it and I laugh everytime I see it lit about that Beauty and the Beast show.

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[DNSDisney]

Emy'sMom-- we have those too but in blue! My DD did wear them for an entire day though but that was it. This yr I am getting smart though. She is much tighter with her own money than she is with Mom or Dad's (monopoly) money. So this yr I am giving her Disney Dollars to spend and when she runs out that is it for souviners!

We also have more light up things for the parades at night than I can count. But I must say they have great batteries in those things. Found one the other day in her toy box from 2 yrs ago and Pooh is still spinning and lighting up! LOL

 

[tlens]

My daughter wanted one last year and it totally was NOT useless for us. (Although when we bought it we figured it would be) She played with that thing in line and when we got home, she would play with it in bed at night until she fell asleep. (Still does) The good thing about this was that you have to press a button to make it go so when she would fall asleep, it would shut off, thereby saving batteries. We're taking it along when we leave in 2 weeks!

(BTW, my daughter is 3...I guess it all depends on the child

 

[keithomas]

Both my kids had to have one last June. My DD's falls into the USELESS category. It sits on her nightstand and collects dust and falls over whenever anyone bumps the table. My DS's on the other hand is in the USEFUL & USED category. He's not tall enough to pull the light string on his ceiling fan at night to turn on the light, so if he needs to check his alarm clock etc. he grabs his "sorceror mickey spinny thing" and barely presses the button so he doesn't spin...but ligts up! Sometimes that kid is a genious!

 

[jenelope]

I bought pink leopard print fuzzy dice at the Rock n' Roller Coaster store last fall. Forget wondering what I was thinking when I got home- I wondered that about two feet from the cash register.

 

[April in Disney]

My DD has a collection of 14 at this point. I have been taking them with us on everytrip to WDW, but they each get a use of about half an hour if not less in a year.

 

[aurora19]

Great Thread - another reminder that one child's trash is another's treasure.

We have a few of the spinny things - my kids LOVE them. We take them to fireworks and to the Disney on Ice shows (so I don't have to buy more )

We have bought mickey hats and since my kids will NEVER wear them again, we have gotten into the habit of presenting them to a child who is checking into our hotel the day we leave. It usually guarantees a big smile - plus I don't have to take it home!

 

[barbeml]

A plastic Spaceship Earth drink mug. It was a pain to drag around the park the day I got it. The handle is hollow, so it is impossible to clean. And those big straws never come clean either.

However, I adore my 2000 Spaceship Earth trinket box. I am looking at it right now.

 

[Jen D]

Heh. MOST souvenirs are useless. I was annoyed when my husband spent THIRTHEEN DOLLARS on a hundred-years-of-magic mini-basketball. Not a full-sized basketball that you can use, mind you.

I think coffee mugs are some of the best souvenirs. Useful, can remind you regularly of your trip, and doesn't clash with the rest of your life (coffee mugs are supposed to be novelty.)

 

[grinningghost]

A Tower of Terror pen that's pretty cool looking - it has a falling elevator in it. Looks fun, but it doesn't write.

 

[drcmk]

Not purchased at Disney World, but at our local showing of the Disney Princesses on Ice--one blinking maribou trimmed magic wand ($15--broke in one day) and one magic mirror that shows pictures of 4 princesses and plays a tune when you push a button (20!), still works but has used a lot of batteries. Plus the program and coloring book (never used). I would not have purchased these things, Grandmom and Grandpop did.

 

[Bill3]

There are no ridiculous souvenirs from WDW!

 

[manchurianbrownbear]

Barbeml, I'll take your Spaceship Earth Mug! Very Funny, I was just thinking that is one of the souvenirs that I DO use and DIDN'T pay a lot for it!

 

[loopy]

My husband bought my daughter, then 9 a hula skirt and bathing suit top to go with it plus he bought her a personalized pink (ugly) umbrella. The hula skirt was put into the 'dress up' box when we got home, the umbrella still hangs out in the garage. Oh boy, we needed those!!!!!

 

[bunnyfoo]

I'll have to throw in another vote for the character hats... I've got a sorcerer's hat which is sitting on top of one of my stuffed animals in my room It was lots of fun to wear it while at MK though...

 

[OhMari]

Dumb me, put my sunglasses onto my shirt when I went on Space Mountain. I loved these things, but wasn't thinking. I felt them fly off. I had to go buy a pair, cause the sun hurt my eyes$18 buc for disney sunglasses.

I went to Lost and Found and they said to call or come at Midnight, we left at 11:00. I called the next morning and they found them at Space Mountain and they are shipping them back to me for free. Yaaaa!

This past Christmas I ordered Snowglobes for my daughter, the princess 3 that make one! One came broken and when I called, they were all sold out so they sent me a voucher for replacement cost.

I got my daughter pj's, another snowglobe and myself a 3/4 sleave white crew shirt with a little Mickey on it on the shoulder with Pixie dust.

When I got to Florida it was to hot to wear it, but on the last nite I had nite duty and wore it and everyone liked my shirt and wanted to know where I found it.