Large Crowds Arrive to Pick Up 50th Anniversary Merch at Disney World This Morning
MickeyBlog was at both Magic Kingdom and Disney Springs this morning to get a look at the 50th Anniversary merchandise….and so were a lot of people!
We thought we’d take a minute to share the crowd levels with you at both locations!
Here’s Elyssa being first in line at the Magic Kingdom this morning.
The crowds to get into the parks in general were pretty steady for this Thursday morning!
50th Anniversary merchandise went on sale as soon as the parks opened.
We wanted to be there first thing before the items flew off the shelves. This usually happens with important Disney merchandise releases.
Once inside the Emporium on Main Street USA, the traffic was pretty busy.
Like us, there were a lot of people there to get a first look at the 50th Anniversary merch.
We don’t expect the 50th merch displays to be stocked for long.
Thankfully Disney World is continuing to do what we saw with the Halloween merchandise and limited purchases to two of each item per person.
This stops people from buying up all the merch and then selling it online with a crazy mark-up price.
Once our purchases were complete, we doubled back a while later and as predicted the display was practically bear!
So lets leave Elyssa and pop over to Disney Springs to see how Greg is doing!
He arrived before the shop even opened.
As you can see, he wasn’t the only one!
There was a pretty lengthy queue that formed.
Look at all of these folks lined up to get their anniversary merchandise!
For events like this, there will be cast members on hand to manage the lines.
They usually require guests to wrap around the shop and go in through a side entrance.
Once inside, the sheer size of the building made it feel not as packed!
However, the largest crowds were definitely hovering near the dedicated 50th Anniversary displays.
We did observe that the merchandise at World of Disney and Emporium were the same.
This included everything from apparel, tumblers, ornaments, prints, calendars etc.
At times, it could be hard to get a closer look at the items because crowds were so heavy.
We did recommend a lot of bloggers in the crowd!
Here we are, trying to move our way in to get a closer look at items!
The Spirit Jerseys seemed to be the hottest item of the morning.
Items are going pretty quickly.
The per person, per item limit was being enforced her too!
If there are specific items that you’re on the lookout for we recommend that you head over to World of Disney at Disney Springs or Emporium in the Magic Kingdom soon!
No word yet on whether all of the merchandise we shared today will also be available online at shopDisney. We’re watching this closely and promise to keep you posted.
MIckeyBlog will be coming to you live from Walt Disney World each week in the lead-in to October 1st which is the official start date for the Anniversary festivities so keep following along with us.
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