No way! I have the same Small World music box!!! I think my parents picked it up as a souvenir on a Disney World trip they took in the 80s before I was born! I remember playing with it all the time when I was little, and still have it somewhere! My all-time favorite are my Disney pins. We took a Disney Cruise when I was 6, and my Daddy bought a whole bunch of pins and put them in a bag. Every hour I got to reach in and pull out one of my new surprise pins! All these years later, I still collect pins, but those are my favorites! My Mom's favorite Disney souvenir is a squeaky rubber doll of Jock the Scottie from Lady and the Tramp. She picked him out as her souvenir on a trip to Disneyland (probably early to mid 60s) when she was a kid. We still have him too! Disney souvenirs have lots of sentimental value in my family!
With Pinochio coming out I dug out some of my favorites for my daughter.
I used to have a MASSIVE Piglet and Pooh. I have no idea what happened to them now, but I used to take them all over with me. I used to buckle them in the seat belt and everything. I've been searching for them online, but I haven't come across and yet.
When I was a kid, we lived about 2 hours from WDW, so we went at least once a year. Every trip, my grandma got me a new glass figurine of a Disney character. I think she liked them more than I did, but my favorite was the Bambi one, not because I loved Bambi, but because it was just beautiful, really captured young Bambi's innocence. I had them in a box in our old house, but I couldn't find them after our move . I've looked for something similar on more recent trips and couldn't find anything of similar quality.
I can't remember what the toys were, but the memory surrounding them made them favorites for years. I was 4 in the 90s and we were at Pizza Planet. It was my first visit, and I was all about toy story at that age. So, after we ate my parents took me down to the arcade area and let me play one of the claw machines. Well wouldn't you know it, just like in the movie, I won double prizes at the claw. It's one of my earliest memories!
I too have the monorail license... and have to find them, but recently got it in the 2000's not when i was a child.
I remember going in 1996/1997, we stayed off site and went to a small store that sold Disney items...I don't think it was a Disney store, but anyway. I got an autograph book and a stuffed pluto. I don't know where the pluto went to but I recently found the old autograph book that still has a few autographs.
I also got a vintage Figment. I love figment. (You can follow me on instagram under figment_girl86)
Mine is a Big Al cookie jar. My mother bought it on our very first trip to WDW in February 1979. It was on our kitchen counter for many years. My sister has it now.
2 that I got rid of over the years ..... A super cool frosted glass polynesian tiki cup that I got at a dinner once...and an awesome Big Al stuffie I bought when I was 16..... it was so much bigger and cooler than the ones sold today..... I can't believe I didn't keep this stuff
My Mom recently found an old Epcot Bag that my grandparent had purchased for me on one of our many trips to WDW (they live in Florida so we would go often). I'm thinking of taking it to the park with me when we go this time and having the characters sign it but it would be an extra bag to carry around with us. Anyway, it's just neat because it's from the 80s and you can't get them anymore.
I had an autograph book that had Walt Disney World on it. I was too shy, as a child, to get autographs from characters so I signed their names myself. I recently found the book at my dad's house and we had a good laugh. Saw everything from Donald Duck to Mark Summers.
Was also very partial to a large plush Mickey Mouse that you can place a cassette tape in his back and play it.
On my first trip (or second trip, I can't remember) I was four or five and we were staying at the Polynesian. At one of the stores there, they had rows of these ceramic figures that I absolutely fell in love with, and Aurora here was my favorite. My parents got her for me, and against all odds she survived my childhood. Now she's sitting in a cabinet in the dining room, and she's one of my favorite decorations.