How did I miss this?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Speaking of merch.....was at the park with family yesterday and it seemed a t-shirt themed day. I wore my shag 50th girly shirt (featuring a bunch of attraction names and kids with mickey ears) and when we got on Small World, the operator up in the little crow's nest thing looked down and asked me over the mike where I got the shirt. I yelled up that I got it at Disneyana. (Actually, a certain wonderful couple bought it for me, but that's where it was available.) When he looked puzzled, I added that it was from the 50th. He said "oh, from a couple of years ago" and looked very disappointed, which made me hope he had been thinking of getting it for a chick.

Then, my brother got asked by a CM where he got his Donald shirt. It's the embroidered one with Donald working at a diner - "Dissatisfaction Guaranteed". He said it was a few years old, and again, he was met with disappointment.

Late in the day my brother bought a new Donald shirt from the StarTrader. The CM who helped him said "I've never seen this one before, it's great!" Again, it was just like that Target sketch on recent SNL, where they seemed excited at the prospect of buying their own. (Actually, it was a very cool Donald Disneyland shirt, which I had never seen before.)

As always, it's apparent that CMs outgeek even the APers.