EDL #1 Euro Disney - Opening Day Disneyana
Item Number: 106
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
This package includes the following items: (please also see 'Special Instructions/Notes' below for additional details)
1. Newspaper - Euro Disney Resort Paris Vol 5 April 1992 Used
2. XL White Short Sleeve T-Shirt - Opening Crew 1992 (Mickey in hardhat) with price tag.
3. Medium White Short Sleeve T-Shirt - I survived Opening Day (Mickey wiping sweat off) with price tag.
4. Blue Felt Baseball Cap with red stitching - Opening Crew 1992 with price tag.
5. White plastic coffee mug - Opening Crew 1992 with price tag.
6. White Ceramic Mug - Euro Disney 1 Avril '92 [Tinkerbell & Castle Damaged/repaired.]
7. Plastic Keychain - Opening Crew 1992 (Mickey in hard hat)
8. Button - WDI Grand Opening Celebration April 11, 1992 Euro Disneyland [WDI exclusive.]
Special Instructions
Postage: the winning bidder will be charged for Priority mail shipping costs, including additional insurance if needed. Other shipping arrangements may be available on request, if mutually convenient and agreed on for both the auction organizer and winning bidder.
Questions: the donor is willing to respond to requests for additional information about the items; please contact the auction organizer.
Think of it, 50 years after the Yanks land in France to rescue it from captivity, the Yanks land in France to captivate it. It was an impressive political, industrial and military event to build up a force strong enough to assault Normandy in the 2nd World War. It was an impressive political, industrial and cultural event to build up enough structure and promotion to assault Marne-la-Vallee in the '90s. D-Day had arrived.
In the three years to the Resort opening, thousands of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) and other Disney employees went to France for construction of the Disneyland Park and the hotels and infrastructure. But part of the agreement was that local and European construction teams be used. Not only that but the call went up all through Europe to hire and train cast members in The Disney Way.
And all these new Disney employees and their families went through the usual park birthing pains, just like Disneyland, Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland and came out melded into a determined Happy force. This is their Birthday Celebration.
This package is made up of items that an EDL Cast Members could purchase from the Company Store during the first few months after opening. Some of the original price tags were left on the items for the collector's benefit.
(These are items that were available for the cast members on opening day at Euro Disney. The donor took a Disney Employee Disney Vacation Package tour of France, Paris and Euro Disney in October 1992 (6 months after Opening Day) to experience it first hand. The donor was the only Imagineer on this Disney Employee tour and suggested that they stop off on their park tour at the Employee Store at Euro Disney before being released for the day of fun. That is where the donor got most of the items here.)