All About Ariel

If you haven't checked out Velvet's Little Mermaid site yet, you should. It's a great site, well done, with a truckload of pictures of Little Mermaid collectibles including a large amount of snowglobes. I found about ten that were new to me that I hadn't seen before. So, take a deep breath, hold your nose and jump in. The water's fine under the sea at MyLittleMermaid.com.

New Disney Princess Snowglobe

Finally, DisneyShopping.com debuts a new snowglobe. I was starting to think we were going to have to wait until after Christmas. It is a Disney Store globe so you should be able to get it at your local Disney Store in the USA. The Princesses await their one true love at this gazebo that lights up. Cinderella spins. Music is "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" Retails for $124.50. Yikes!

New globes at DisneyOutlet.com

The Disney Outlet portion of the DisneyShopping website has 4 new globes. The prices are 19.99 each which seems like a good deal for a Disney globe but if you read the descriptions you'll see that these are no frills snowglobes that apparently don't even have a music box.

I'm always a bit confused by the snowglobes offered by the Outlet section. Where do they come from? I thought the Outlet section was for closeouts, but I never seen these globes offered elsewhere. If they are created especially for the Outlet section, why? Wouldn't it make more sense to put them in the regular shopping section and move the sale globes to the outlet section?

One last question: Why create a Happy Birthday globe if its not going to play "Happy Birthday"?