Disney looking for new mansion resident

BigJim, the 10-year "guarantee" is the same one that applies to those personalized bricks you see in front of the Magic Kingdom entrance.

Ours was one of the first ones to go in -- about a dozen years ago -- and it's still there by the turnstiles. Heck, they even scrape the blackened gum scraps off it from time to time!

But, yes, that 10-year boilerplate is just so Disney's parks don't become so overrun with lifetime sponsorships that they would refuse themselves the right to move the headstones without moving the bodies.

Personally, while I think the idea is very cool, no *normal* Disney patron will end up on the tombstone. It will likely end up being the name of the kid os some rich white dummy.

The money that they will be making for the kids is a good thing (and positive PR will always help the bottom line), but I think they could have created much more excitement (and money) by simply raffling off the chance. Sure, one person may indeed feel compelled to pay (say) $100,000 for this, but are you telling me that you dont think it is equally plausible to believe that (say) 1000 people would up $100 dollars for the chance? Especially being tax-deductible and for the kids?

Good idea...less than perfect implementation.

lata, jeremy

--broke as a joke

Paris said:

But, yes, that 10-year boilerplate is just so Disney's parks don't become so overrun with lifetime sponsorships that they would refuse themselves the right to move the headstones without moving the bodies.

Bodies? Moving bodies? Moving headstones and leaving bodies? How's that again?

RatherGoodBear said:

Bodies? Moving bodies? Moving headstones and leaving bodies? How's that again?

It's been awhile since I've caught Poltergeist -- though I guess it will probably be on a bit this time of year -- but I think Craig T. Nelson's line was "You moved the headstones but you didn't move the bodies?"

What did this end up going for? I cant seem to find it on ebay.

Thanks,
DMC

$37,400

Dave Dragon, go Dave Dragon, and the Star Force Five!

That is amazing! I still expected it to go higher than $37,400. I just hope that the person that bought it will be able to see it from the ride. Hopefully it won't end up on the back wall somewhere.

I wonder in a year or two the 999 ghost will come back and the tomb stone will still be sitting their.

I don't know Disney is very detail oriented. They have a tendancy to be very pricise with their information. Time will tell. Those of you that live in California and go to Disneyland will have to let us know if they change it.