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According to this article in The L.A. Times, Disney will be taking back their Disney Store chain after The Children Place announced that it would be abandoning the chain.
Well, that's exactly what needs to happen.
It's only been in the last year or so since the chain has begun to get a small inventory of interesting merchandise. And that's been limited and seems to, for the most part, coincide with a holiday such as Halloween or Christmas.
I remember the Disney Store, before The Children's Place buyout, as a store that carried more collector's items as well as children's items. Since then, popular properties such as The Disney Villains and The Nightmare Before Christmas have all but disappeared from the stores.
In fact, during the 2007 Christmas season, I was looking to buy some villains merchandise. I asked one of the employees if they had anything with Maleficent, The Evil Queen, etc. and her answer? "We don't carry those guys. They're bad."
They're also Disney properties, moron. And you can find the merchandise - just not at that store.
So, hopefully, this takeover will see The Disney Store getting some much better merchandise. I'm just glad that they're not going the way of the Warner Brothers' Stores. I hated to see those guys go. Their vacancies took out interesting, licensed merchandise and filled it with chain jewelers and teen clothiers.
Blah.
