Souvenir choices will vary from place to place. Sometimes you have to be careful. If it's something you can buy at Target, Wal-mart, Toys R Us or even the Disney Store, you can figure that buying it at Disney World includes a $5-$10 mark-up. So it's best to stick with the ones you can't buy anywhere else or at least aren't able to buy easily.
The Japanese store in EPCOT, Mitsukoshi, is full of examples of this. Many of the toys you can find at Toys R Us or similar places. With the exception of the Pokemon section. This is actually a mini-version of the now defunct Pokemon Center stores and has things that could only be bought at Pokemon Centers or online. In the last six months, however, this section has been cut drastically since even the Pokemon Center website has closed down.
DVDs are better purchased off-site, although there are a few Disney World specific ones that can’t be found outside of Disney World.
Then we come to the best place to buy toys, where most of the toys are not available anywhere else and the prices are actually reasonable, normal prices. There is just one catch: You must like Star Wars.
Tattoine Traders outside of the Star Tours ride, is a small shop for the crowd it generates. Even more so since they added the “Build Your Own Lightsaber” station a few months ago. It’s actually a reasonably priced souvenir since it costs the same as buying one of the Electronic Light Sabers at any store that sells toys, except each lightsaber is uniquely made by the buyer. There are instructions for making the specific lightsabers of various characters, including Darth Maul, or you can get creative and come up with an entirely new one. A Tattoine Traders Castmember is always on hand to aid in building the lightsaber so that it will light up and make sounds properly.
Although, the regular Darth Tater Mr. Potatoheads are marked up, the special Star Tours only ones, such as Luke Frywalker, aren’t unreasonably priced. The same goes for the action figures of Disney characters as Star Wars characters, stuffed Ewoks and Wookies, toy blasters unavailable anywhere else and of course, the Star Tours vehicle toy.
If you are a Star Wars fan, or know one, this is definitely the store to check out and it has the most value for your dollar of any store in all the Parks!
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2 comments:
Luke Frywalker is creepy!
Frying just does not seem like the Jedi way, does it? But then again, how could a potato with 70s hair *not* be creepy?
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