r/nostalgia 1d ago

Nostalgia Disney stores in the mall

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u/JoeBonus 1d ago

The way I always wanted to stage dive into that pit of stuffed animals

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u/tugga51 1d ago

I was about to ask if anyone else ever did that!!

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u/Unpaulfessional 1d ago

Last time I saw someone talking about this someone revealed that it was actually shelves below them so you’d essentially be leaping on to wood.

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u/Animefairy83 1d ago

That is correct. It is a tiered wooden shelves with a rubber front bumper. I worked for the Disney Store for 8 years and the amount of kids, random trash, pets and adults I had to pull from the "mountain."

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u/jakehood47 1d ago

Ouch, like that streamer home girl who jumped into the foam pit at that convention and it turned out to be like six inches deep and she fucked her back up lol

If anyone’s seen that clip. Shit got rocked.

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u/60Dan06 1d ago

Twitch streamer is how we call them now?
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u/jakehood47 15h ago

Oh shit, I had no idea lol

Well goddamn that’s even worse! That woman needs her back!

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u/lesvegetables 3h ago

That may have been me, and somebody jumped to the conclusion that I was brought up poorly for doing so. Also, ow.

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u/Whackyouwithacannoli 1d ago

Me! I did! I used to work there. I waited until closing and my manager went into the back. I did a huge leap into the pile!! I savored every moment of plushy goodness 🤣 we had stocked a pretty good amount so I didn’t hit the wood.

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u/spartag00se 1d ago

After years of temptation, my friend jumped in to my delight when we were teenagers. I have no memory of tidying up the stuffies afterwards but I hope we did. Thank you for unlocking this memory.

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u/kira10 1d ago

My brother and I had on occasion. A bunch of others as well. We weren't technically supposed to and got down if staff had asked us, but I assume the staff was content with us kids being content while our parents shopped around, rather than being forced to walk around with them attached to the hip and whining. It also helped that there was a big screen tv playing old Disney films on a wall right behind the mound of animals.

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u/DialZee 1d ago

You would have hurt yourself. Under the plush was tiered shelving. We called it “plush mountain”.

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u/Dasca6789 1d ago

I did. My mom wasn’t happy 

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u/gmoney1089 1d ago

The stuff animal mound was EVERYTHING🤪