Buena Vista Street windows now cluttered with merchandise
 

So long, beautiful windows of BVS. Apparently people were too stupid to figure out that the stores might have merchandise even though their windows were set to reflect the period of BVS, so the stores people have shoved a bunch of mannequins and crap in the windows. A lot of the detail is now covered up.

That is a shame. The windows looked very cool before they mucked them up with merchandise!

It's the type of change I'd be relatively indifferent too (and if you'd asked me that I've seen them I'd have just said that they were already displaying merchandise).

But I do feel the stores' pain. It wasn't until we were on our way out of the park the second time that we actually remembered they were operating stores. Closed doors, and I suspect the subliminal (even if I wasn't consciously paying attention) impact of prop-filled windows had me just interpreting them as regular fake facades.

When we were walking out, Adrienne asked me if Lani had been in the Elias store yet and my reaction was "oh yeah, that's a store."

I agree with Alex that you kind of forget they're not just facades. It may be the shut doors? The streets in Hollywood for example are just facades with window displays and doors that don't open. It has kind of the same feel.

Perhaps they'd sell more if things weren't quite so expensive.

Yeah, I think it's a shame, but I understand why at the same time. Part of the problem is how open the area is. On Main Street in Disneyland you are walking close enough to the store to see what's inside, and wan't to walk in.

Another issue is having a whole new land that 90% of the people want to spend the bulk of their time in. I think once the novilty of Cars Land wears off a bit, more people will spend more time on Buena Vista Street.

So, I think they need to strike a better balance of prop & merchandise, and choose the merchandise better so as to not have such a striking difference of old & new.

Next time I'm there I will look at it, and perhaps voice my opinion.

Also can't they do like Main Street where some windows are period, and some are current merch? Not all mixed up.

I disagree: I don't want an "Emporium" on BV Street.

Thank you katiesue. Can you please apply for a management position at Disney Merchandise. They are apparently clueless.

Are there that many windows they can work with?

It would probably help if the doors weren't reflective so that you could walk by and actually see people inside the stores from outside.