Post #634462 by jokeiii on Mon, Apr 30, 2012 5:03 PM

I got a chance to speak w. Kevin & Jody at Hukilau 2011 and got to talking about the WDW 40th Anniversary stuff they had done. They said that when WDW asked, since they only get to do stuff for DL, they went a bit overboard and "submitted far more concepts than Disney had expected, including attraction replicas and scale models, a line of retro Tiki mugs for the Polynesian resort, and other cool stuff."

It seems to me the Trader Sam mugs are what were originally pitched as the "WDW 40th Anniversary" mugs for the Polynesian. Either way, VERY cool. I'm hoping these are a resounding sales success so that WDW decides to sell them at the Polynesian, saving me a ton on airfare and luggage fees.

As an aside, I may well hold the LOW-dollar record for a Miehana mug, that I picked up when I made a typo in the eBay search and some poor seller had made the same typo. It turned out that I was the only bidder and the price I paid for it was closer to larceny than a commercial transaction.