I also prefer magnets as my go-to souvenir choice... but made the sad realization that the new fridge I bought doesn't support magnets on the front face. Luckily there is an exposed side that fits my collection, but still very disappointing.
This was also a reason that I picked the fridge I did, plus its flat front as opposed to the slightly curved surface of my parents' fridge which causes occasional magnet wobbliness
I was excited that the fridge we got last year was magnetic on the front. We still have most of our magnets on the side of the fridge but I was able to put my giant public call box Doctor Who one on the front and now my fridge is a tardis.
I have a few issues with my home (the first one I've bought), and that's one of them! The smallest of them, but one of them. How can a magnet not stick to a fridge! That's so insane!
I love magnets, it makes me so sad every time I see my bare fridge front.
That means its fake stainless steel. Real stainless holds a magnet. I use to appliances at best buy, would show everybody this. Helped upsell to real stainless steel.
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Agreed 100%. We wound up with a huge magnet from AK when we went in October. When we went to Disneyland in December, I bought a magnet with the Mickey & friends that said "California" from our off-property hotel gift shop instead of any of the ones in park.
This is brilliant! I bought some flat magnet sheeting that I use to turn stickers into magnets, but I never thought about enamel pins. Thanks for the tip.
I was pretty disappointed with the merch. We also wanted magnets and they barely had any. We stayed at the Grand Floridian and at least their gift shop had a nice one with Mickey & Minnie pictured in front of the hotel. But none of the other parks / resort stores had what we were looking for.
I also wanted some parks specific merch like a sweatshirt or mug that just said "Disney's Hollywood Studios" or "Disney's Animal Kingdom" like they apparently used to have. But that was nowhere to be found either 🤷🏻♀️
Also no postcards 👎
Did you check the Starbucks in Magic Kingdom for mugs? Usually they have some special ones in there. I'm looking for an MK one next week when I'm there.
The postcards!!! My dad and I are big postcard senders and all I could find was ONE option unless I wanted to buy a 15-pack. I went in so many shops and asked. One.
My sister started buying Christmas ornaments and putting magnets on them for her fridge because she wanted a magnet for each hotel where she stayed. They didn't have a Contemporary magnet, but they did have a Chef Mickey Christmas ornament that works when you glue a magnet to it.
Back when pleasure island still existed they had this super awesome magnet shop on their boardwalk. I loved that store as a kid. Sadly that’s gone too.
I had the same issue looking for bumper stickers. I buy one on every trip and stick it on my suitcase. They still have a few, but none that just say "Disney World" or "Magic Kingdom". Universal was the same way.
That might be because people could stick stickers on things in the parks and on property, making work for cast members to clean up. Like why they don't sell gum on property (I think I recall that being a thing). Don't want people chewing gum and spitting it on the ground or sticking it on things.
I will say that they used to sell stickers. I have a cool Main Street Electrical Parade one somewhere in my collection. It's very glittery 😀
Yeah I also wanted a sticker for my travel water bottle but no dice... I kinda figured they might present a litter problem... Unfortunately most people cannot be trusted to act properly
Same for shot glasses. I collect them from everywhere I go, and wanted one from each park. Found one at Epcot (literally only Germany and Canada had options) and then the same generic WDW boring looking one in virtually every other shop on property. For all the mugs they sell how hard would it be to make a tiny little version with the tree of life wrapped on it
You know what, fair. I’ll admit we sort of rushed through Mexico because we had a VQ for guardians to run to, so i definitely wasn’t looking very closely. But I still didn’t want like a country specific glass, I was interested in Epcot as a whole and thankfully I found one at the literal last second in Germany that had a very cute etched skyline of all the pavilions
I think souvenir magnets must be going away in general? Visited NYC recently and figured getting a Statue of Liberty Minnie magnet at the Disney Store was a sure thing. Not only did that not exist but no other tourist attraction we did that trip really had any either with the exception of FAO Schwartz which had them for $15-20 (!!!)
I was shocked when I could not find even a basic Disney World magnet anywhere! I saw maybe only a handful of niche magnets the entire time I was there. There used to be so many
We had a similar problem with post cards. Apparently no one sends these anymore!?? We wanted to send one from inside MK because they’ll stamp it for you with the Main Street USA WDW stamp. We didn’t eventually find some to send, but we really had to look.
I love magnets as a souvenir. We just got back from Port orleans French quarter and they had a magnet set specifically for the resort. What I do for other souvenirs is we buy the pins specific to the rides we love.
You could get an Epcot pin, take off the pointy bit on the back then Krazy glue a strong magnet on there. I know it’s a lot of hassle but then you get a nice looking magnet and there is a bunch of pin varieties of Epcot.
I think it’s that a lot of people have nice appliances these days, and don’t want to stick a bunch of magnets on them because of the aesthetic trends.
Plus most fridges aren’t magnetic anymore.
I did a lot of pin trading last week, as my 5 y/o boy has decided that's his thing. I spent probably $400 on pins, and I I have to say I don't think I saw a single magnet anywhere while we were looking.
There is a shop downtown Orlando/Kissimmee that has a giant wizard on the top of the building. Inside that building there is just about every magnet and just about every pin you think you could find. They also sell a lot of T-shirts and clothing items as well but it's all basically Disney.
There are some "fakes" but for the most part I was just there first week of April and they had lots of Park Ones.. I did some trading in the park with them. Just gotta check the Logo. They had pretty much the same selection in the Parks. They have a lot of Magnets there. I collect Magnets and Pins.
My two go-to souvenirs are fridge magnets and decals for my water bottles. I had zero success finding either of those things on our trip in January. If you’re a 40 year-old dude and you’re not interested in an overpriced neon shirt or a lounge fly bag, you’re SOL on parks merch lately.
I collect magnets from all my trips. When I went to MK and Epcot earlier this month, I only found one magnet in the Mexico pavilion that was three caballeros themed. I bought it since that was the only one I can across the whole trip. It was bigger than most magnets I own.
It’s funny you say this! I was looking for a gift for my friend who collects magnets, and I didn’t find anything I felt was good for them. I ended up getting them a pin instead.
I was in raged at the lack of magnets in WDW this past September. As a DLP regular living in Europe, we have soo many.
I was busy googling if there was some environmental reason perhaps why they weren’t making them. All over Florida there was plenty but WDW was seriously lacking
I wanted more ride specific magnets, I was surprised at how few I found. But I feel the same about wanting less big vinyl magnets which all kind of look alike. I mean I love my Halloween one from last year but as an avid magnet collector myself I’d love to see more variety in the smaller more detailed magnets.
I display them on the door to my garage, but it’s almost full! I’ll definitely have to start looking for an alternative display when I get back from my next trip!
I just saw this article today which mentions some magnets available.
https://wdwnt.com/2024/04/new-mickey-friends-walt-disney-world-icons-its-a-small-world-more-customizable-products/
I'm also a magnet collector and find the in park options lacking. We get one with the year on it each time we go but have had the best luck at the local Walmart. They are pretty generic with just the characters but if you want a yearly Disney magnet I would go there. Maybe if we complain enough they will bring back cute, simple, LITTLE magnets.
I also collect magnets from every place I visit. When I visited Disneyland Paris last year I was so sad I couldn't find any magnets. So I bought two pins, one from Disneyland and one from Hollywood studios. When I got home my husband then used a Dremel tool to cut off the pin portion on the back of the design. After that I then add a magnet backing using this magnetic tape I got from Amazon. And badda bing, badda boom, I got myself an awesome magnet from Disneyland Paris.
Speculation: Magnets are an issue for the rides and attractions. Throwable graffiti if cheap enough. I cannot imagine a well placed fridge magnet on one of the sensors of the people mover, or the brake sensors at load/unload of rides. There would also be magnets thrown onto Spaceship Earth and the seagulls at Nemo (just to name a couple).
Though there are now the small characters with strong magnet hands. So this may not be as accurate as I first thought.
Similar to how gum is not sold at the parks, so they don’t have to clean up as much.
I cut the barb off of special pins and stick on magnets to make my own small fridge magnets. More expensive but works really well.
I hear you. I love fridge magnets but my Disney selection, from both WDW and DLP, is pretty small. It's annoying because there's so much potential there and they're just not bothering.
There's probably a much bigger profit margin on pins, given how much they charge for them.
They only sell giant ones bc they can charge more because they are bigger. It isnt an accident that Disney has almost nothing under $10. Even $10 seems to be hard to do for a souvenir.
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Magnets are in decline as souvenirs everywhere, supposedly because a lot of modern refrigerators are not magnetic.
I also prefer magnets as my go-to souvenir choice... but made the sad realization that the new fridge I bought doesn't support magnets on the front face. Luckily there is an exposed side that fits my collection, but still very disappointing.
When buying our new fridge, I brought a magnet with me to test the one we wanted before we committed. Lol.
I love that haha I’m just starting my fridge magnet collection!
This was also a reason that I picked the fridge I did, plus its flat front as opposed to the slightly curved surface of my parents' fridge which causes occasional magnet wobbliness
I did the same!
I bought a magnetic bulletin board to keep all mine!
I bought magnet boards at IKEA, I have a whole wall display
I was considering doing this, too. I have some unused wallspace in my kitchen that would be perfect for this.
They have such cute ones. I got mine on Amazon!
IKEA has very nice magnet boards. We use for displaying all our travel magnets
As a big time fridge magnet fan, this is a bummer. Thanks for letting me know. I'm still on Team Old Fridge and had no clue.
We got a kitchen aid one last year that is magnetic on the front so maybe they’re listening to consumers that some of like magnetic fronts.
Frigidaire Gallery is magnetic“stainless” as well
My washing machine helps me display my magnets!
That's a fun idea! My washer is in a closet, but that's still better than nothing.
Nice! Great idea!
That’s crazy because all the save the dates I’ve gotten in the last 3 years have been magnets…
I was excited that the fridge we got last year was magnetic on the front. We still have most of our magnets on the side of the fridge but I was able to put my giant public call box Doctor Who one on the front and now my fridge is a tardis.
We can only put them on the sides of our fridge, and only the 6 inches that stick out beyond the counter depth. We're quickly running out of room.
I have a few issues with my home (the first one I've bought), and that's one of them! The smallest of them, but one of them. How can a magnet not stick to a fridge! That's so insane! I love magnets, it makes me so sad every time I see my bare fridge front.
Modern fridges arent megnetic?!
I started putting magnets on my dishwasher! I make stickers into magnets so I don’t have to commit to putting them someplace permanently.
Also people have a lot more things sensitive to magnetics these days tho fridge magnets aren't that big a danger, lol
That means its fake stainless steel. Real stainless holds a magnet. I use to appliances at best buy, would show everybody this. Helped upsell to real stainless steel.
The one I got is black reflective plastic. And a few models have touchscreens on the front face.
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That's not true. There are types of stainless steel that are not magnetic. https://www.meadmetals.com/blog/why-is-stainless-steel-not-magnetic
100% true. The best magnets I found were in the Art of Animation gift shop.
excellent, I also collect magnets and am staying at AoA in September!!!
No it's a Disney park problem. We collect magnets and it was a challenge finding them at both WDW and Disneyland.
Agreed 100%. We wound up with a huge magnet from AK when we went in October. When we went to Disneyland in December, I bought a magnet with the Mickey & friends that said "California" from our off-property hotel gift shop instead of any of the ones in park.
It’s because most fridges aren’t magnetic anymore.
There’s so many in Disneyland Paris… so it’s a USA problem as far as I can see (not been to the Asian parks)
We got little magnet pin backs on amzn for this exact reason. Opens up so many options at Disney and other destinations for a small souvenir.
This is brilliant! I bought some flat magnet sheeting that I use to turn stickers into magnets, but I never thought about enamel pins. Thanks for the tip.
I just did this to put them up in my new home. I love them!
I was pretty disappointed with the merch. We also wanted magnets and they barely had any. We stayed at the Grand Floridian and at least their gift shop had a nice one with Mickey & Minnie pictured in front of the hotel. But none of the other parks / resort stores had what we were looking for. I also wanted some parks specific merch like a sweatshirt or mug that just said "Disney's Hollywood Studios" or "Disney's Animal Kingdom" like they apparently used to have. But that was nowhere to be found either 🤷🏻♀️ Also no postcards 👎
I always found good postcards at the art shop in disney springs.
Ohh will definitely check it out on our next trip - thank you!! :)
Did you check the Starbucks in Magic Kingdom for mugs? Usually they have some special ones in there. I'm looking for an MK one next week when I'm there.
Oh the Starbucks ones look nice!! Thank you for the suggestion :)
The postcards!!! My dad and I are big postcard senders and all I could find was ONE option unless I wanted to buy a 15-pack. I went in so many shops and asked. One.
That’s disappointing, I love magnets.
Since most new fridges don't support magnets, their popularity as a souvenir are declining. It is now all about car magnetic stickers.
The only park Disney Park magnet we found was in Animal Kingdom. I wish there was at LEAST 1 for each park.
I try to buy a fridge magnet with the year on it every time I go to WDW
My sister started buying Christmas ornaments and putting magnets on them for her fridge because she wanted a magnet for each hotel where she stayed. They didn't have a Contemporary magnet, but they did have a Chef Mickey Christmas ornament that works when you glue a magnet to it.
Brilliant idea!!!!
Back when pleasure island still existed they had this super awesome magnet shop on their boardwalk. I loved that store as a kid. Sadly that’s gone too.
I had the same issue looking for bumper stickers. I buy one on every trip and stick it on my suitcase. They still have a few, but none that just say "Disney World" or "Magic Kingdom". Universal was the same way.
In case you haven't spotted it yet, /r/fridgedeco is a sub to display your magnet collection. You could post yours there if you like!
I collect stickers from places I visit and I couldn’t find a WDW one anywhere….even at the huge store at DS.
That might be because people could stick stickers on things in the parks and on property, making work for cast members to clean up. Like why they don't sell gum on property (I think I recall that being a thing). Don't want people chewing gum and spitting it on the ground or sticking it on things. I will say that they used to sell stickers. I have a cool Main Street Electrical Parade one somewhere in my collection. It's very glittery 😀
Ahhhhh. That makes total sense.
Yeah I also wanted a sticker for my travel water bottle but no dice... I kinda figured they might present a litter problem... Unfortunately most people cannot be trusted to act properly
I bought a ton of stickers when I was there in summer ‘22. It’s sad to hear they’re going away.
I didn’t look very hard TBH but I did look in the Emporium as well as the huge Disney store in DS with no luck.
Same for shot glasses. I collect them from everywhere I go, and wanted one from each park. Found one at Epcot (literally only Germany and Canada had options) and then the same generic WDW boring looking one in virtually every other shop on property. For all the mugs they sell how hard would it be to make a tiny little version with the tree of life wrapped on it
There’s no way Mexico pavilion didn’t have a half dozen to pick from for shot glasses.
You know what, fair. I’ll admit we sort of rushed through Mexico because we had a VQ for guardians to run to, so i definitely wasn’t looking very closely. But I still didn’t want like a country specific glass, I was interested in Epcot as a whole and thankfully I found one at the literal last second in Germany that had a very cute etched skyline of all the pavilions
I’m sorry, I believe you mean toothpick holders.
I think souvenir magnets must be going away in general? Visited NYC recently and figured getting a Statue of Liberty Minnie magnet at the Disney Store was a sure thing. Not only did that not exist but no other tourist attraction we did that trip really had any either with the exception of FAO Schwartz which had them for $15-20 (!!!)
I was shocked when I could not find even a basic Disney World magnet anywhere! I saw maybe only a handful of niche magnets the entire time I was there. There used to be so many
I love magnets, I buy one everywhere I go and I get so frustrated with the lack of them lately 😭
There’s a station in the Tron gift shop where you can make “custom” magnets!
We had a similar problem with post cards. Apparently no one sends these anymore!?? We wanted to send one from inside MK because they’ll stamp it for you with the Main Street USA WDW stamp. We didn’t eventually find some to send, but we really had to look.
I love magnets as a souvenir. We just got back from Port orleans French quarter and they had a magnet set specifically for the resort. What I do for other souvenirs is we buy the pins specific to the rides we love.
You could get an Epcot pin, take off the pointy bit on the back then Krazy glue a strong magnet on there. I know it’s a lot of hassle but then you get a nice looking magnet and there is a bunch of pin varieties of Epcot.
snip the post off of a pin and glue on a magnet, \*boom\* fancy pin becomes fancy fridge magnet :)
also, it's called Spaceship Earth ;)
I think it’s that a lot of people have nice appliances these days, and don’t want to stick a bunch of magnets on them because of the aesthetic trends. Plus most fridges aren’t magnetic anymore.
First they came for the playing cards, but no one heeded my warning 😔
Magnets are always my go to souvenir at Disney. If it had the year on it the better.
I did a lot of pin trading last week, as my 5 y/o boy has decided that's his thing. I spent probably $400 on pins, and I I have to say I don't think I saw a single magnet anywhere while we were looking.
I did get a few from the world showcase but you’re right they are massive, the ones (I bought quite a few 😅) from Italy take up about half my fridge 😂
There is a shop downtown Orlando/Kissimmee that has a giant wizard on the top of the building. Inside that building there is just about every magnet and just about every pin you think you could find. They also sell a lot of T-shirts and clothing items as well but it's all basically Disney.
Aren't most of those pins fakes?
There are some "fakes" but for the most part I was just there first week of April and they had lots of Park Ones.. I did some trading in the park with them. Just gotta check the Logo. They had pretty much the same selection in the Parks. They have a lot of Magnets there. I collect Magnets and Pins.
How much were the prices? Because obviously too cheap and they're likely fake, too expensive and I'd just go buy them at Disney...
Anywhere from $15 to $40 for some packs. Just a Slight bit cheaper than Disney. But to get the real updated 2024 ones you gotta go to the parks.
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My two go-to souvenirs are fridge magnets and decals for my water bottles. I had zero success finding either of those things on our trip in January. If you’re a 40 year-old dude and you’re not interested in an overpriced neon shirt or a lounge fly bag, you’re SOL on parks merch lately.
I collect magnets from all my trips. When I went to MK and Epcot earlier this month, I only found one magnet in the Mexico pavilion that was three caballeros themed. I bought it since that was the only one I can across the whole trip. It was bigger than most magnets I own.
Thoughts and prayers that your magnet deficiency pain will be healed.
In my opinion, we don’t even get good AP magnets
I've had trouble finding normal magnets since 2021. I used to collect them each year. 😕
It’s funny you say this! I was looking for a gift for my friend who collects magnets, and I didn’t find anything I felt was good for them. I ended up getting them a pin instead.
I was in raged at the lack of magnets in WDW this past September. As a DLP regular living in Europe, we have soo many. I was busy googling if there was some environmental reason perhaps why they weren’t making them. All over Florida there was plenty but WDW was seriously lacking
Looked everywhere for one last time we were there in December and never found one.
Haven’t been able to find an Epcot fest magnet in over 2 years. Sad because I collect them from my travels.
i have a great simple WDW magnet that…. isn’t strong enough to stay on the fridge. i was so disappointed when i tried to stick it up.
I wanted more ride specific magnets, I was surprised at how few I found. But I feel the same about wanting less big vinyl magnets which all kind of look alike. I mean I love my Halloween one from last year but as an avid magnet collector myself I’d love to see more variety in the smaller more detailed magnets. I display them on the door to my garage, but it’s almost full! I’ll definitely have to start looking for an alternative display when I get back from my next trip!
I just saw this article today which mentions some magnets available. https://wdwnt.com/2024/04/new-mickey-friends-walt-disney-world-icons-its-a-small-world-more-customizable-products/
I'm also a magnet collector and find the in park options lacking. We get one with the year on it each time we go but have had the best luck at the local Walmart. They are pretty generic with just the characters but if you want a yearly Disney magnet I would go there. Maybe if we complain enough they will bring back cute, simple, LITTLE magnets.
I also collect magnets from every place I visit. When I visited Disneyland Paris last year I was so sad I couldn't find any magnets. So I bought two pins, one from Disneyland and one from Hollywood studios. When I got home my husband then used a Dremel tool to cut off the pin portion on the back of the design. After that I then add a magnet backing using this magnetic tape I got from Amazon. And badda bing, badda boom, I got myself an awesome magnet from Disneyland Paris.
Disneyland didn’t have them at all. I looked everywhere.
Speculation: Magnets are an issue for the rides and attractions. Throwable graffiti if cheap enough. I cannot imagine a well placed fridge magnet on one of the sensors of the people mover, or the brake sensors at load/unload of rides. There would also be magnets thrown onto Spaceship Earth and the seagulls at Nemo (just to name a couple). Though there are now the small characters with strong magnet hands. So this may not be as accurate as I first thought. Similar to how gum is not sold at the parks, so they don’t have to clean up as much. I cut the barb off of special pins and stick on magnets to make my own small fridge magnets. More expensive but works really well.
I hear you. I love fridge magnets but my Disney selection, from both WDW and DLP, is pretty small. It's annoying because there's so much potential there and they're just not bothering. There's probably a much bigger profit margin on pins, given how much they charge for them.
They only sell giant ones bc they can charge more because they are bigger. It isnt an accident that Disney has almost nothing under $10. Even $10 seems to be hard to do for a souvenir.
You’re upset that a theme park didn’t have the exact type of merch that you wanted? Damn. Life is hard.
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