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It’s December, it holiday month!… and some decorations are already up. However, I must admit, these two are there all year round…

Now here is something I would like as me and my son, who is 7 at the time, will be starting to play guitar together as from next year august… (at least that is the plan at this time).

But there are more Disney guitars! Including Princesses (Via Broke Hoedown)

What do you do when you’re a Walt Disney World’s Haunted Mansion fan? You collect everything related to the attraction and give it its own room. I have been dreaming of this myself but Ricky Brigante made this dream come true for him by creating a room dedicated to the Haunted Mansion.

Make sure to have a look at the Inside the Magic Blog for more amazing and fun (but not to spooky) pictures…

You want to own a “little” piece of Disney Magic?…

How about a Disney Shooting Gallery in full working order. The Disney Shooting Gallery comes with 16 Guns and 72 Themed Gags.

This would make a nice party game, but one that would set you back for $120.000, the starting bid on Ebay for this Disney item.

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There are so many books related to Disney but I cannot remember one book that talks about Walt Disney, the man himself, the way I expect this book will do. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination is written by Neal Gabler and he had the full cooperation of the Disney Family.

… one of Disney’s daughters, Diane, did not want the book to ignore or paper over her father’s faults. Though Diane loved her father, Gabler says she asked him to present the authentic Walt Disney. That he has done in an exhaustively researched and beautifully written work that is among the finest biographies I have ever read. (Source: Gwinnett County, Georgia)

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(Pictures pins via DizPins.com)

While many of us Disney fans will have loved the beautiful Disney Yearbook 2005 it looks like it will be the only edition available.

No 2006 edition will be made as fans that purchased the 2005 edition got following mail.

Dear Yearbook Purchaser,

We’d like to inform you that your 2005 Disney Insider Yearbook, featuring Disneyland’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, will be the only edition of the Yearbook produced. Because of its limited production, the Yearbook is truly a Disney collector’s treasure. For those who signed up for the annual Yearbook subscription, there will be no further charges to your credit card, as the 2005 edition will be the only edition produced. (via The Disney Frontier)

Together with a new Celebration, “The Year of a Million Dreams” new Walt Disney World Park entry tickets have been created. While it is always nice to find some of Disney’s characters on them, making the tickets collectables even after they are used, they have done a great job creating them this time. The tickets look awesome and will find their way in my Disney Paper collection some day (I’ll be on the lookout on Ebay for used tickets). My favorite one is the one with the Ghosts from Haunted Mansion. What is your favorite one?

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How small can you make Disney figures? Small enough to fit inside the eye of a needle or on top of a fishhook! (Willard Wigan)

Via Waltarbeiter.com

If not on the blog or on DLP.Info, not in a Disney park or watching a Disney movie then I am playing with my son Jarod who just had his birthday (14th September) and was able to choose, with all the vouchers he got, this great Pirates of the Caribbean; Dead Man’s Chest “The Flying Dutchman” boat from Mega Bloks to build.

We were in for a great afternoon of Disney fun, so here is our “Building” report!

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Ask yourself the following three questions; Are you a FANTASIA fan (ore even more specific a Sorcerer Mickey fan)? Do you like one of a kind Disney collectibles that come straight from Walt Disney World? And are you a collector with some extra cash? If yes the item found on Ebay might be something for you.

Straight from the Disney-MGM Studios you can now own a Broom, created by the Disney imagineers, from the movie Fantasia. The Broom was used at the MGM Studios as a fountain and could be placed in your garden or near your pool.

See the Ebay entry for more picture. Bidding ends Sep-25-06 19:00:00 PDT, 5 days to go and the opening bid of $2500 has already been set (when I wrote this entry).

Every Monday it’s the same story, the weekend is over and it’s back to work: the first day of the week, a mountain of work and nothing much to look forwards too. Sounds like a typical Monday to most of us, unless you work the weekend or have irregular shifts.

So, how to improve the Monday? Easy, or at least it is for me. I come to the office, put on the PC and start working… but not before I open the Inside the Magic Podcast site. I check if the new podcast is live, click on the link and start listening under the headset. No Monday feeling anymore, I still have to work but with a little magic on my ears.

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If there is only one Disney book you could own it has to be “From Sketch to Reality” by Didier Ghez and Alain Littaye. This book is amazing, over 300 pages filled with pictures and stories about the beautiful Disneyland Park in Paris. It has all the artwork and Imagineering secrets collected in a masterpiece. There is up to today no other book created for any of the other parks as this one for the Paris Park. I was very lucky to meet Didier Ghez when the book’s first edition was produced, had a real nice chat and had my book personalized. (Thank you Didier)…

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For many Disney collectors no introduction is needed when talking about Mousesurplus; a company, based in Orlando, specialized in buying and selling Disney World memorabilia. They even have a Mark IV Red monorail for sale.

Dreamfinder Forever has visited the new Mousesurplus location and brought back a collection of pictures of all the goodies that will make the Disney collector’s heart skip a beat. You’ll see the Monorail car, Mr Toad Vehicles, Snow White Scary Adventure vehicles, AstroJet, Pinatas from the Mexico pavilion at Epcot, Show props, Hotel Items, the life size Walt Disney Statue, and a whole lot more.

As a collector myself I would love to walk around that place one day…

You might wonder if gold is still a good investment with the price it is going for at the moment. In 2001 you would pay about $275 an ounce, today that will be around $600. (If I only knew 5 years ago). Who says $600 it the top price? I have no idea what will happen in the next 5 years with the gold prices. (I guess for that you’ll have to find some specialist analysts).

If you decide to invest in gold and you’re a Disney fan maybe you want to buy 1,500 troy ounces of 24-karat gold (0.9999 fine).

If 1,500 troy ounces is what you’re looking for then why not get it in a form of our beloved Mouse?

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For some, Pin trading is part of a Disney holiday while there are others who still wonder what the collectors see in this little pieces of metal. I do collect them myself but narrowed it down to Halloween and the once I like. I used to try to get more, but as I cannot be at the parks all the time missed out on the once I collected or wanted and started to cut down. Sure, Ebay is a place to go if you want to get some, but with some of the prices being doubled I could not bring myself to buying them. As I wanted to keep it fun I now get what I like on my trip, with Halloween being the main interest.

It looks like I am not the only one thinking like this as Disney decided to end most of their pin trading events in the Walt Disney World Hotels. Although Disney doesn’t say why they end the events but they do admit that he number of visitors was going down.

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Today I found a strange kind of Disney “Pirates of the Caribbean” toy in Toys’R’Us. The toy is a car in a form of a skull, not really looking like anything that is related to the movie it is borrowing the name from.

There must have been about 8 different cars in this set, most of them in form of a skull or embodied with skeleton.

The toy car is produced by the company Simba and it looks like it’s only for the European market.

What boy doesn’t like to play with cars? There will not be many. So with Cars out in the cinema, and merchandise being sold out at many location (so it seems when people talk about it) it proofs that cars is a real “toys for boys” hit. I must admit, I did check on those Cars toys myself and I’ll be getting something related to it on my next planned Disney visit. I hope I can choose from all the goodies (if not sold out)

If you like remote controlled Cars check out RadioShack Corporation. They just released a collection of Limited edition 1:16 scale RCs and 1:64 scale ZipZaps micro Radio Controlled Cars from the Disney/Pixar production. I am sure many boys’ hearts would beat a little faster when seeing those toys. And I am not talking about those children’s hearts only, I am sure some dad’s might be skipping a heartbeat to…

What do you do when your Ebay stockroom has 10.000 McDonalds toys. You rub your hands together and smile because Disney McDonald toys are the hot items at the moment and a profit is coming your way. Prices have doubled, even tripled since the news spread that Disney’s contract with McDonalds would not be extended.

it was a May 8 story in the Los Angeles Times that really sparked sales. Before that article, eBay reports that sales of Disney Happy Meal toys were in the single digits. In the last week of May, that number jumped to 27, and it nearly doubled during the first week in June.

The average price spiked too. During the last week in May, the average price was $4.26; a week later, it was $7.75; and a week after that, it reached $13.33.

You can read the full story on Forbes.com, but don’t believe everything they say…

For ten years, the two companies had a match made in corporate heaven through the cross-promotion of Happy Meals and Disney films, showcasing characters such as Shrek, Winnie the Pooh and Cinderella in the colorful fast-food boxes.

Now you can own a “Walt Disney Effigy Life Size Museum Wax Figure LE of 1”. Just visit Ebay and place a bid.

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