The last day of D23 Expo is here and I am still asleep in bed as of 7am. For the first two days I was getting up really early to catch the dream store, the legends ceremony, the Disney studios presentation. This Sunday morning I felt that I didn't need to attend the Cruise Line panel (which I heard met capacity), I am not a vinylmation collector so the Lion King launch was not on my radar, and I am a comic book fan so I have a decent history of Marvel comics. On my agenda this Sunday was to get the sunday Cheshire Cat pin, visit the Archives, do one last walkthrough of the floor and maybe buy a couple of pins, cells, or paintings.
I get to the Convention Center at 9:30am and there is a line set up for the non D23 members which is fairly long considering it is a Sunday. I walk in and the floor looks barren. I am able to walk freely, the Dream Store has no line to get in and a two turn snake to check out. I am in and out by 10am. I also run into a friend from Comic Con (this is important because it totally changes my agenda, in a good way). With nothing in mind at this time I thought I was gonna attend the Marvel comics panel just in hope of some freebee, but my friend convinces me to go to the Disney Store (do not get that confused with the Dream Store) and wait in line to get the Vinyl Pop Steamboat Willie. Again not a huge collector of the vinylmations I thought twice but remembered they were also selling the Kikada little wish dolls.
I go to the store and totally forgot that yesterday they presented the Disney princess designer dolls and I start looking for the Ariel doll (which was not for sale, however the whole set was) and actually grew fond of the Steamboat Willie while waiting in line. I get one of those, an Ariel Kikada doll, and make my way out of the store. My friend buys her vinylmation figures and hooks me up with a 10% discount for being a Disney Mastercard member. I would have had one but was really credit weary when the Ariel card was available and did not apply for one.
We go up to the Archives and the line is considerably shorter than on Saturday. It extended just a little past the Charter member R&R room. As we are waiting in line my friend pulls the chaser Ed hyena vinylmation figure from her 5 boxes. Score! We get into the Archives and I cannot believe they are letting us take photos. 2 years ago I believe any type of recording device (camera, phone, etc) could not be used in the Archives. Also I remember the Archives being smaller 2 years ago. Anywho I love the Rocketeer, Roger Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland, and Zorro memorabilia that was there. There was also the Sleeping Beauty book and drawing desk of a Pinocchio artist (Frank Thomas, I believe) with a Pinocchio marionette. As I stated in my Day 2 post, there was Fan art of 101 Dalmatians, the outfits that Glenn Close wore in the movies, and a scene setup of Cruella's table. In the third room was all Mickey stuff. A couple of things that caught my eye was an old mickey rotary phone that I used to have as well as the statue that used to be on Main Street and the outfit worn at the 50th anniversary of Disneyland's opening.
After the Archives, I was ready to leave, it was around noon, but my friends has the energy of one of the tweens at the expo and we do the freebee hunt. I end up getting these really neat Mickey and Minnie shaped hand soaps, Disney styled body wash and lip balm, as well as gummy snacks at the Disney healthy living booth all in the span of 45 mins. Get a couple of nice freebee bags, get a Lion King litho from the Movie rewards club, a Winnie the Pooh litho from the Movie Club, and get to see Paige O'Hara in the collectors area. I entered the Retro 51 ugly pen contest (don't think I won as I have not received a call or contact from them. I also got the noise sticks from Shake It Up! for my nieces.
I finally leave at 530 after attemping to win a few raffles, which again I failed. For a day where I thought I would be leaving around noon and getting home to finish up work for Monday, I ended being thoroughly entertained, met some good friends (who are also Comic Con attendees so I'm sure to see them there), and raked in a lot of cool Disney Freebees.
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