What was your most excessive "Almost" Purchase

[Miffy2003]

Hello,

OK I expect a lot of you Disney obsesses are a bit like me. There is always far too many "must haves" in WDW that inevitably you have to not buy something - either because it was too big to transport home - too heavy for the weight allowance - or just too expensive!

What is the one thing that you really really wanted but didn't get?? (For any of the above reasons or any other reason).

Mine would have to be (sigh) the WDW toy Monorail System. Complete with working monorail(s), track, MK hotels (it drives through the Contemporary!) and from memory I believe you could also buy an Epcot loop with Spaceship Earth. I would have LOVED this in my house (though who knows where I would have put it!??)

I didn't get it because it was in very large boxes, it was very expensive, very heavy and very expensive!

I do still think, "one day"...!

What about you?


Karen

 

[Boomdocker]

That would be almost signing on the dotted line for DVC before the realisation hit that I didnt want to commit to the financing.

I must admit to getting caught up in the moment. I so wanted to do it. I'd rather aspire to it rather than over commit now.

Dream on..........................

 

[allie5]

Hehehehee...all of the above so far!! The Monorail system is sooooo cool! I did nearly get one on e-bay but the seller wanted nearly $100 to ship it .

Been there with DVC, sweaty palmed, contract in one hand pen in the other!! DH vetoed that, though and pulled me away "to think about it" .

I remember in the old "Art Of Disney" store in DTD, they used to have a hand carved Mickey Chair and desk which I ached to have. Albeit they were something like $2K for the chair and $4k for the desk, I still wanted it badly!! Just a dream though!

The Christmas shop that sells all those light up villages?? I want all of those.

Snowglobes?? I want all of them. Too heavy to bring back, sigh.

Limited edition Animation cells?? Wouldnt mind some of those as well.

Shall I go on, or do you get the picture?

 

[Miffy2003]

Oh, the light up villages! I'd forgotten about those!! You don't want much Allie!

I know what you both mean about DVC, but it doesn't count as an almost purchase for me any more!

 

[KEH]

It would have to be the Beauty & the Beast snowglobe that I know my daughter would love but which probably wouldn't make it safely back to the UK.

Unfortunately they don't sell the same one in the Disney Store here and anyway they are really expensive.

 

[Scottish_Maleficent]

I think the snowglobes are pretty expensive , and I used to think I'd never get them home in one piece BUT last year I did give in to temptation and bought one at $80. I took it as hand luggage and it did make it home safely!! So next year I'll be buying one (or two) more!!

I know what you mean about the monorail system. There is (was last year...!) a great display of it outside the shop in the Contemporary Resort. It looks so fab. I would love to buy that too. I wonder if it says 'please stand clear of the doors....Por Favor Mantenganse alejado de las puertas' LOL

But I think there are so many things that we all look at and thing .......would be nice, especially in Art of Disney and Disney at Home and the Christmas Shop.

Cath

 

[leise]

I'm soooo glad I read this thread, it's pre-warned me about DVC! I would love to go and look at DVC because I am nosy and it is my dream, but DH, as I have discovered, is an absolute sucker for any sales pitch and if I am not 100% steely hard woman saying no he will buy anything. He has bought £1200 vacuum cleaners before.....

But forewarned is forearmed, and I know it would not take mush to get the two of us signing on the dotted line for DVC..... we would love it but our bank manager would not.

 

[uktigger]

cath

a quick question on the snowglobe altough it does sound a dumb one
i was told that you could not bring home snowglobes because of the pressure in the cabin
i take it yours got home quite safely?
now reading that you bought one home makes me wish i had got one

eve

 

[Goofyish]

I almost nearly bought a Mickey leather jacket on our first trip - I still look at them every time we go.

 

[Scottish_Maleficent]

Eve
My snowglobe got home in one piece - as handluggage - but may have been different if I had put it as checked luggage for the hold.
Never realised there was a warning about cabin pressure and snowglobes!!! I think I would have been utterly devastated if I had carried it all the way home to Glasgow - via Washington and Heathrow and discovered that it was broken!!

Cath

 

[Netty]

The thing i really wanted to bring home last year was... a 6ft high christmas decoration PALM TREE covered in lights from wal mart
Glad I didn't last year as when i watched at the carousel everyone picking up their items that they put in the hold most were smashed to pieces broken and boxes ripped
I always bring a snow globe back, the best way i find is to take it out of the box wrap it up in bubble wrap and put it in hand luggage and then under the seat in front of me no probs up to now
Jeanette

 

[uktigger]

jeanette and cath,

thanks for that looks like i'll be buying a snowglobe when i go in october

eve

 

[Shugmac]

Hi EVe,
I have now brought 3 snowglobes back on the plane, the last time was 2 of them one went on as hand luggage as the box was too big to go into the case and the other went into the case with a towels padding the top and bottom of box and clothes round about, you would be suprised how tough the polystyrene is round about the snowglobe the kids could stand on the box no problem and they came home in one peice the only problem we had was with the one as hand luggage on our connecting BA flight from Gatwick to Edinburgh it didnt fit anywhere so had to go into the cabin crews locker but they were quite helpful about it. So i would say buy a couple some of the ones out there you are not likely to see them sold here.

Sharon.

 

[uktigger]

hi sharon

thanks for your help buying a s/globe is now on my top priority list

eve

 

[MsPennieLane]

It's the monorail system I'm after, I want it to go in my 2nd bedroom (which will be turned into a Disney bedroom for all my plushes and cushions etc). I am hoping to buy it in September - a friend of hubby's sent a lot of stuff back in a box from Florida via FedEx and said it was a gift and he didn't have to pay any customs on it so am going to try the same thing - and you need to make sure that the person you send it to (I'm sending ours to my mum) knows to say it's a gift as they will get a call from FedEx about it. Fingers crossed this will work for us too. Anyone tried this before? I also fell in love with a snowglobe and it was huge, I think it had about 4 different globes on it with Snow White & her Prince in one, Princess Aurora and Prince Philip in another, Cinders and Prince Charming and Belle and Beast in another and they were dancing, sooo cute. It was $120 so we were a bit worried about it breaking. I also wanted to bring home most of the Disney At Home store, too many goodies in there lol

Anz

 

[profdsny]

Before I saw the topic was Disney, I was going to answer the villa in Switzerland. Really. But at WDW it was the Waterford tiara. Very nice, but the misses said she'd have no place to wear it. And I wouldn't. So....
We did by DVC, however, and it was one of the best purchases we ever got.

 

[Astrid]

Not quite along the same lines but, nevertheless ... a few years back a friend asked me if I'd go to Downtown Disney to the gardening type shop place (can't remember the name ) to see if they had any paving slabs with Winnie the Pooh imprints on them.

She then sent me a text to see if I could bring some back for her if they had them ..... der ..... I think not!!!

Ah, now, those big snow globes ... big sigh - dream on Astrid!

Astrid x

 

[Funky_dino]

Ok there are 3 things, 1st of all a Jack skelington and rag doll sally snow globe in one of the shops in the Disney village, i loved it so much but was too heavy to get home, damn you baggage allowence! Secondly A mike (from monsters inc) bowling ball in the team mickey store, also in the village. And finally a Pop art style painting of mickey and minnie in the art of disney store, I wanted it so badly but i was a few hundred short and my credit card was already dying a horrible death before i even went hehe. I studied pop art at college a few years ago and would have made me so happy to have bought it. Oh well.

 

[florry]

One of those Giraffes that roam around the savannah in Animal Kingdom Lodge........

Couldn't fit it in the suitcase though......LOL

Florry

 

[tinkerbellsfan]

WE ACTUALLY BOUGHT THE MONORAIL LAST JULY AND HAD PUT IT OFF FOR 2 YRS BUT WE GOT IT FOR MY 10 DS. IT WAS LAID OUT IN OUR LIVING ROOM FOR A WHILE AND WE THEN PUT IT AWAY. WE NOW BRING IT OUT A CHRISTMAS TIME AND PLACE IT UNDER OUR TREE. WE ARE GOING IN AUGUST (SOG) AND WILL PURCHASE AN ADDITIONAL PIECE. MY KIDS LOVE THAT IT TALKS AND SOUNDS JUST LIKE THE REAL VOICE. MY 9YO DD COLLECTS THE SNOW GLOBES AND HAS ABOUT 6 AND GETS A NEW ONE EACH XMAS. I THINK THE MONORAIL IS SUCH A GREAT THING TO HAVE AND BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF OUR TRIPS!