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I have to admit that I spent years as an anti-IKEA (and Trader Joe's and The Gap) snob. Perhaps it was my fear of assimilation brought on by pop culture like DEVO videos or Fight Club. My cynicism has palliated through direct experience - IKEA is much more proletarian than bourgeois - and the stuff tends to be pretty darn good (as evidenced by the many comments above).

I'm still not really into The Gap generally, but that's probably because I don't groove on their stuff at this point, not because of any vestigial punk rock attitude.

My DVD shelves (and bookcases) are from IKEA, and they hold and look as good as similar pieces of furniture that cost several times their price.

And since we're on the subject of Disney geekery at IKEA (or at least the OP was) - when I recently went back to IKEA in Emeryville to pick up an extra screw that had been left out of a box, the customer service rep proudly showed me her Mickey Mouse tattoo.