"That 70's Sleeping Beauty" Returns to Fantasyland

I had a very pleasant surprise yesterday, while visiting Disneyland. I wandered into the Enchanted Chamber shop located inside Sleeping Beauty Castle and this is what I found......

The Princess Aurora figure and her "prince" from the old Sleeping Beauty Castle walk-thru have returned! (These are from the 1970's redo of the castle walk-thru.)

I must say I was very excited to see these. I asked the cast member in the shop how long the figures had been there and she said that they had just been installed the night before! Unfortunately, one of the boots with a rabbit in it had fallen, but I'm sure that will be fixed soon.

Here's a shot taken with a flash......

....and here's a "vintage" shot I took in 1997 of the same figures when they were located upstairs in the Sleeping Beauty Castle walk-thru. The Aurora figure used to slowly rotate, but I do remember at the time that I took this, she was not rotating and hadn't been for some time.

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The cast member also mentioned that they are supposed to get other "stuff" in the shop, but she didn't know for sure what that would include. I am so happy that these were saved and that someone cared enough to restore them and put them to use again. Hopefully we will be seeing more of this kind of attention throughout the park (now go restore Tomorrowland, please!)

Which Witch?

Anyone remember that game? I think Milton Bradley made it. You dropped a metal ball down the chimney to try to take out fellow players in various rooms of the house. ANYWAY....I'm back from Tokyo, but still fighting jetlag. It usually hits me pretty hard, so I might be a little "punchy", but here we go with a new post and some brand-spanking new pics taken just last week. As for the title of this post, I know Maleficent wasn't a witch. She was a fairy. An evil fairy. A very evil fairy. I mentioned in my last post that adults are allowed to wear costumes into Tokyo Disneyland the last week of October. Well, you might look at the photo below and think that the Maleficent on the right is an official park character and that the one on the left is a park guest in costume. They are actually both park guests.

Princess Aurora below, is also a park guest. I haven't shown many park characters in my posts, but just as a side note.....the "face" characters (meaning any of them that show their own faces and aren't wearing a character "head") that walk around the park or are in the shows and parades, are not Asian. Most of them are Americans, hired here in the states and sent overseas to live and work for a contracted amount of time. I just wanted to clear that up because I am often asked if Snow White, Cinderella, Alice, etc., at Tokyo Disneyland are Japanese.

I'm not sure why Merryweather, Flora and Fauna had white dresses, but I shouldn't criticize because they were very impressive costumes.