Originally Posted By Doobie This topic is for discussion of the March 27th edition of Kim's Corner at: <a href="News-ID120100.asp" target="_blank">http://LaughingPlace.com/News-ID120100.asp</a>.
Originally Posted By Santa Monica You know, I collect the fastpasses also. And I wouldn't trade any of DLR's for Florida's. Florida is just a little slip of paper (really thin and cheap) and it has the name of the ride and time. that's all. Nice little article. Very nostalgic.
Originally Posted By Faaip de Oiad OMG i also collect those type of things! i keep so when i get older, i will know what i did when i was younger! i collect most of the things you do.
Originally Posted By JenniBarra Another great column, Kim! : ) I really enjoyed the pictures of your various paper collectibles. BTW, do you happen to know if those 30 year "not a winner" tickets have any value beyond sentimental? (I ended up getting a whole stack of 'em through a holiday gift exchange a couple years ago.)
Originally Posted By Marcomboy This was terrific. While reading your rticle I kept saying to myself "I remember that" or "I have that". Very nice. Like you mensioned in your article, it is comforting to know that there are more obsessive compulsive people like myself.
Originally Posted By WRabbit This brought back some great memories. Thanks for sharing with us. I still have the employee ticket I bought on my last day back in 1989. It was $20.50, green/white, with a picture of Donald Duck. Times have certainly changed. Plus somewhere out at my parents' home are the ticket books from the very first time I ever went to the park (1978).
Originally Posted By karlg I also very much enjoyed the article. Some of the best memorabilia has almost no monitary value. I have everything from napkins, pens, free guides and the like to some items costing thousands of dollars. I was sitting at Tommorrowland Terrace with a new friend I had made through the Carolwood Pacific Society and was talking about what we collected. My friend Mike said "Oh, I only collect paper items." I responded like a drunk at the Betty Ford Clinic "Paper, yes, I started by collecting paper!" Karl
Originally Posted By JimG Great contribution, Kim. Those _casual_ things from Disney parks are often more evoking of Disney memories than are the company's "official collector" items, and usually a heck of a lot less expensive! =)
Originally Posted By Tannerman I'd love to see some higher resolution scanned park maps on the site. Would be a nice feature (and could make great desktop wallpaper). Thanks for the article.
Originally Posted By karlg Tannerman, It turns out that the park maps are pretty much unreadable if blown up to to the size of a 19 or 21 inch monitor with say 1280x1024 pixels. You need about 6000x3000 Pixels if you want to be able to read the text. Certainly you could get an overall impression. Maps are somewhat different from most other images in they while they are very large, the are ment to be viewed up close. Usually things that are large you view from further back to get an overall impression. As destop wallpaper you really have to fade them as they are kind of busy which makes it hard to see what is on the desktop (I have used it before).
Originally Posted By Roger Rabbit This has to be the best column I've read so far! What memories! I still have tickets, guidebooks and maps from 1993 that I will never throw away. I even have Circus Fantasy, 35th Anniversary and Mickey Mouse 60th Anniversary buttons. Some I found at the last NFFC convention.
Originally Posted By mattlori Wow! Great article! Seeing just a few items from your collection makes me with I lived closer to one of the parks. Though I collect paper, like a lot of people posting here, I live in Canada, so it's really hard to build up my collection! I only get to the parks every three or four years. Still, like you said, it's the small items with sentimental value that seem to mean the most. The things that bring back memories of past trips and good times mean more to me than an old map that may be worth some money (though I'd love to have the map as well!) There should be a place where people like us can get together to trade extra items that they have. It might be better than some of the eBay prices I've been seeing lately, and I know I'd feel better giving some things to someone that I know will appreciate them! If anyone has any ideas, let me know! Maybe I can work it into my web site in the future! Anywyas, enough for now. Kim, I hope we can see more items from you collection in the future! Matt Disney Paper Resource Center <a href="http://disneypaper.tripod.com/" target="_blank">http://disneypaper.tripod.com/</a>
Originally Posted By trekkeruss OH, I know the Feeling! While I'm not at the level of big-time "accidentals" collector that Kim appears to be, I do have my share of the odd-ball Disney items that I picked up "just because." For instance, I have a bunch of match boxes, plastic utensils, and such, from when I attended the grand opening of DLP [known then as "EuroDisney"]. I also have from my last trip to DLP [Nov 2000] a packet of butter that has a image of Mickey wearing a chef's hat on it...it's been sitting in my refrigerator since then! I think I need to run upstairs now and open up some of the ol' plastic bins...
