What do they do with left over things at DL?

Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS

Company D is the DLR employee store.

 

Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance

Oh so you have to be an employee?

 

Originally Posted By LOVE-DCA

You and your questions lady!!!! .. see I told you .. you could write a book with all these questions!! LOL ♥

 

Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance

A book full of questions with no answers wouldn't probably sell very well.

Hey by the way, how old are you?

 

Originally Posted By cheesybaby

Disney does NOT own eBay.

 

Originally Posted By TheParsec

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Originally Posted By DlandDug

Disney does not own eBay, and never did. They did have a business relationship for some time.

Mouse Surplus is a separate company that liquidates any number of items that Disney is finished with. The founder of Mouse Surplus left to form Surplus Kingdom.

Disney does liquidate their own material from time to time, often through Company D, a cast member only store. (They do let cast members bring friends along, though!) Other entities in the resorts (inventory control, security, etc) may also sell specific categories of items as well. (Like unclaimed lost and found items).

As far as parades go, they are very often designed to be reused at other resorts. There are presently 11 Disney theme parks in four resorts around the world. The parades are designed (often) to make the rounds. (The Disneyland Resort's Electrical Parades is about to travel to the Magic Kingdom, for example.)

The drawback in this for fans (like ME!) is that parades have become more and more generic. Disneyland's 50th was the Parade of Dreams-- a celebration of Disney's classic characters-- with only one float (the lead) truly representing Walt's original magic kingdom.

It makes good business sense, I know. But I would prefer each park have their own parades, with their own identities.

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

What really takes the cakes is when a bunch of DL parade floats are taken to WDW as a filler set for a so so Lion Kind Show and the East Coasters and Europeans thinks it's an e-ticket. Now that is sad.

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

When Fantillusion was designed for Tokyo Disneyland, it was the first parade they truly planned to ship to all the different parks. But they never considered the fact that Japan, Europe and the US all have different power requirements in their national networks.

It meant that by the time Fantillusion debuted in DLP, it actually cost nearly as much to ship, restore and convert it as it would have to design a new parade.

They seemed to overcome this with simplifying the Pixar Street Party floats though.

I agree Dug, it's a real shame.