Originally Posted By Disnerd After 5 years in Downtown Disney Hoypoloi will be closing its doors. They will close around January 19th. They are currently running big discounts on selected merchandise. Rumor has it that Disney will take over the location and open a Disney Couture Shop and perhaps a Disney Home Store. Couture clothing is a style of vintage fashion designed by the likes of Fred Segal in Santa Monica. World of Disney sells this stuff. Mostly T-shirts that are distressed and covered in rhinestones and crystals. Prices start at abou $50 and run up to about $125. New store should be up and running by summer or fall of '06.
Originally Posted By pennyring Sadness... Hoypoloi is the most unique store in DtD. I always enjoyed visiting. What a bummer...
Originally Posted By smeeeko I'd love to see a Home store in DTD though! They no longer have the one in Florida and it's not like I can afford the shipping on that stuff in the catalog... =)
Originally Posted By iluvdisneyland I've never even heard of this store and I've been through Downtown Disney many many times... where is it located?
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Does anyone ever actually buy something from that place? We visit the store every time we are at DTD's West Side and enjoy looking at the eclectic collection, but it would never occur to us to actually BUY something there. Not at THOSE prices.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I'm with you RoadTrip. Great store. Fun to browse. Never bought anything in the five years it was there. Lots of expensive things.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 On every DLR vacation DD and I do a "walk through" of the store. Last month I bought some window cling on candy cane thingys, about $10. It was the first thing I bought there in the 5 years of browsing. It was unique and I'm sorry to see it go but the stores Disnerd mentioned sound good too
Originally Posted By trekkeruss It's probably a wonder that the place stayed open for five years. Maybe the owners kept hoping that if they hung on just a bit longer, they would finally turn a real profit. But in the end, there just wasn't any money to be made, and they finally decided to throw in the towel. That's how I imagine it, anyway.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Does anyone ever actually buy something from that place? We visit the store every time we are at DTD's West Side and enjoy looking at the eclectic collection, but it would never occur to us to actually BUY something there. Not at THOSE prices.> Agreed. Great to browse. Bruising to buy.
Originally Posted By disneywatcher I notice this retailer has locations in Disney World and, interestingly enough, in Chicago's Chinatown. I wonder how their other sites are doing compared with the one in Anaheim? <a href="http://www.hoypoloi.com/" target="_blank">http://www.hoypoloi.com/</a> If their Orlando store is generating more money than the one in California -- enough so that the Disney World location will remain open indefinitely -- then that could be one indication of the advantage of having major, serious tourists, who are more liable to dig down deeper in their wallets or purses, streaming through a place that screams "big time!" instead of, in contrast, "DCA: rinky-dink!"
Originally Posted By alexbook I'm just guessing, but the timing of Hoy Poloi's closing might have something to do with the 5-year leases most of the DTD stores signed when they first opened.
Originally Posted By Ursula We bought stuff from them a lot, I think. They have (had?) a lovely section of items one can buy for artistic Jewish friends of ours, such as menorahs and those threshold prayer holders. Can you tell we're not Jewish? My friend is and seemed to like the gifts. And jewelry. They had some really cool stuff.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Yes, they did have some reasonably priced items. It just seemed though that anything we wanted cost at least $350.
Originally Posted By Park Hopper I bought a CD there once and a christmas gift for a friend that was between $20 - $30. I'm sorry to see them go. They were an interesting store and one of the few Downtown Disney establishments I would visit regularly.
Originally Posted By elene I also bought a few inexpensive items there and loved looking at the items I couldn't afford. It is very nice quality and cute. I'll be sorry to see it go. I pretty much went there and to the Department 56 store and that is it. I guess I'm down to 1 store to visit now!
Originally Posted By iDisney72 Thanks for posting the link, disneywatcher. You know a store is expensive when they do not list prices on their website, and make you call a number.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<If their Orlando store is generating more money than the one in California -- enough so that the Disney World location will remain open indefinitely -- then that could be one indication of the advantage of having major, serious tourists, who are more liable to dig down deeper in their wallets or purses, streaming through a place that screams "big time!" instead of, in contrast, "DCA: rinky-dink!">> Or it could be an indication that you're an idiot who can't differenciate between DtD and DCA.
