You know, the interesting thing about this to me is that the NYC store was run by Parks and Resorts, vice the Disney Store arm recently re-acquired from Children's Place. The Disney Store is run out of Consumer Products.
So domestically anyhow, Disney will be back to two World of Disney stores: Florida's monster Downtown Disney (watch out for Stitch, he spits!) and California's smaller, but equally as nice, Downtown Disney store out west.
Surprisingly, Disneyland Paris does NOT have a store at The Disney Village. In fact, there are NO shopping venues at this location, only entertainment ones.
Tokyo Disney has a very highly themed shopping area, but no World of Disney/Disney Store that I can find.
And of course Hong Kong doesn't yet really have anything like Downtown Disney/Disney Village, etc.
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Michael,
Great point about the Disney Stores at the other resorts. I think it is really interesting that there is no store at Disneyland Paris. I wonder why?
I am hearing that Disney is looking to move the store to either Soho (interesting choice) or Times Square and not just close the store entirely. I a very curious to see where they decide to relocate to. Soho, while very hip, is starting to become a tourist destination with a lot of interesting shopping and restaurants but I'm not convinced that it is a great fit for Disney. Times Square is a logical, if predictable choice. Where the store is now it is amongst the highest of the high end designers about a block away from The Plaza Hotel. It is not necessicarily where you would want a "tourist family" oriented store. I think that they hoped to attract a higher level clientel for this store but I think that they missed their mark.
Have a good one!
- Karen
World of Disney Store carries the same merchandise as Disneyonline.com but the prices are much different. The World of Disney for halloween has costumes for $55, while online you can get the same merchandise for $12.99 which I think is crazy because its under the same ownership umbrella. The tourists are shopping away and being ripped off for merchandise they can purchase for 1/3 of the price online.
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