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2010 Christmas Treats at Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySEA

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For the 2010 Christmas festivities at the Tokyo Disney Resort, both Disneyland and DisneySEA featured some festive goodies in souvenir plates and cups.  These treats are quite popular with the local fans who will stand in some pretty lengthy lines to ensure they get at least one of the collectible plates or cups.  I am a diehard and figure if I am going to fly out for the holiday events, why not just get all the souvenir dishes!  As compared to other food items and theme park food prices in general, these are quite a deal at either 600 yen or 700 yen each.

Tokyo Disneyland 2010 Christmas Fantasy Holiday Desserts

As with other holidays, the two food stands surrounding the main holiday displays in Tokyo Disneyland sell desserts — one will usually sell the cup and the other the dessert.  This year, they offered a third holiday themed dessert as well!

The first and most popular dessert we tried was the soft cookies, shaped like gingerbread Mickey and Minnie, available for 350 yen.  We were at Disneyland on a Thursday night (12/16) and it was quite busy.  Of all the desserts, this one had the longest line as people were buying up cookies before the holiday fireworks began.

Mickey and Minnie soft cookies at Tokyo Disneyland for Christmas Fantasy 2010
A close up of the Mickey and Minnie soft cookies

For the souvenir cup, the dessert was a pear mousse with a little chocolate reindeer on top.  The mousse cup is 700 yen and sits inside the souvenir cup without getting it dirty.  As with all souvenir snacks, the Cast Member gives you a plastic bag to put your cup or plate in and you don’t need to waste time cleaning them as the food never makes contact with the dish!

A Christmas Fantasy pear mousse with chocolate reindeer for 2010
One side of the 2010 Christmas Fantasy souvenir cup
Other side of the Christmas Fantasy 2010 cup

To match the Christmas Fantasy cup, Disneyland was selling a strawberry cream puff, also with a little chocolate reindeer on top, for 600 yen.  Both the mousse and the cream puff were delicious and the perfect boost of sugar I needed to keep wandering and forget how cold it was outside!

Strawberry cream puff with souvenir plate for Christmas Fantasy 2010
Close up of the strawberry cream puff

Tokyo Disney is known for their attention to detail and these souvenir cups and plates are no exception.  Even the bottom of each are adorned and feature Christmas themed Disney characters.

Bottom detail of the 2010 Christmas Fantasy souvenir plate and cup

Tokyo DisneySEA Christmas Wishes 2010 Desserts

Both Disneyland and DisneySEA usually have a dessert plate and cup you can collect.  This year, Tokyo DisneySEA offered adorable dark blue plates and cups with the Christmas Wishes theme.  The souvenir cup featured a strawberry milk mousse topped with a chocolate holly leaf.  The cup is 700 yen and features Mickey and Minnie, along with gold silhouettes of Mickey and Minnie on the bottom.

Strawberry milk mousse for 2010 Christmas Wishes
Detail on 2010 Christmas Wishes souvenir cup from Tokyo DisneySEA
Other side of the 2010 Christmas Wishes souvenir cup from Tokyo DisneySEA

The souvenir plate at Tokyo DisneySEA has the Christmas Wishes design and features Chip and Dale on the bottom for 600 yen.  The dessert offered with the souvenir plate is a white chocolate mousse cake with green tea flavor.  Both of these holiday treats were available from the food stall near the S.S. Columbia in the American Waterfront.

White chocolate mousse cake with holly leaf for Christmas Wishes 2010
Detail on Christmas Wishes plate and cup for 2010
Detail on the bottom of the Christmas Wishes plate and cup

To see all the seasonal Duffy the Disney Bear treats that were available, please see the post: Duffy the Disney Bear and Shellie May Christmas Treats at Tokyo DisneySEA.

Duffy the Disney Bear and Shellie May Christmas Treats at Tokyo DisneySEA

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Of course, no holiday celebration at the Tokyo Disney Resort would be complete without Duffy and Shellie May!  For Christmas 2010, Tokyo DisneySEA offered four Duffy the Disney Bear related snacks and desserts.  There were souvenir plates and cups for Duffy and Shellie May, a new popcorn basket, and even a Duffy shaped cookie!

Tokyo DisneySEA Duffy Cookie

There is a fun treat available now — soft cookies in the shape of Duffy’s head for 350 yen.  This is a new food stall (at least it was not there when I was at DisneySEA in September), so I am wondering if it is going to be a regular fixture in Cape Cod.

Duffy the Disney Bear cookie at Tokyo DisneySEA
Close up of Duffy the Disney Bear cookie
Duffy the Disney Bear food stall
Close up of sign and decorations on new food stall

Tokyo DisneySEA Duffy and Shellie May Christmas 2010 Souvenir Plates and Cups

For the seasonal Duffy and Shellie May plates and cups, some people are under the impression you have to go to the “My Friend Duffy” show in order to purchase them, but you do not.  They have two lines — one for those who want to purchase just food and the other long line is the one to purchase food and see the show.  To purchase the souvenir desserts, go to the line on the left and tell them you are just there for food.

Cute seasonal sign for Duffy and Shellie May souvenir desserts

Thankfully, I had my husband with me this trip so I did not look like a total pig ordering all four desserts!  When I was out in September, I was all alone (except for the Duffy Bears in tow of course) and felt completely self-conscious ordering four desserts and one drink!  I ended up eating only two and took the other two back to my hotel for breakfast the next two days!

For the 2010 Christmas event, Tokyo DisneySEA sold Salted Caramel Mousse for the souvenir cups (600 yen each) and Strawberry Custard Tarts with the souvenir plates (700 yen each).   Proof of Tokyo Disney’s attention to detail is further demonstrated in the desserts as each contains either a Shellie May or Duffy cookie on top — they do not skimp and feature just the Duffy Bear dessert they put on each plate or cup.  It’s the small touches like this that make me fall more in love with the Tokyo Disney Resort.

Shellie May Christmas 2010 plate detail
Front side of the 2010 Christmas Shellie May cup
Back side of the 2010 Christmas Shellie May cup
2010 Christmas Duffy the Disney Bear souvenir plate
Front side of Duffy the Disney Bear 2010 Christmas souvenir cup
Back side of Duffy the Disney Bear souvenir cup
Detail on the bottom of the Duffy and Shellie May souvenir cups and plates

As with all the desserts I’ve had at Tokyo Disney – these were excellent!  The salted caramel mousse was awesome – so light and just a perfect blend of sweet and savory.  The strawberry custard tarts were moist and flavorful, without being overly sweet.

Shellie May salted caramel mousse cup
Shellie May strawberry custard tart
Duffy the Disney Bear salted caramel mousse
Duffy the Disney Bear strawberry custard tart

Duffy Seasonal Popcorn Bucket

The popcorn stand near Aunt Peg’s in Cape Cod still had the Duffy seasonal popcorn basket when we were there.  I had already seen photos online and was a little disappointed to find Shellie May was absent from the bucket.  Really kicking myself for not getting the Halloween one when I was there since they were both on it!  The Duffy popcorn buckets are not cheap, yet the lines rival those to get into Aunt Peg’s during a Duffy release.  The buckets are 2,600 yen, which includes milk tea popcorn, and if you want the matching shoulder strap, the price is 3,200 total.

Duffy sign on the popcorn cart
Duffy the Disney Bear popcorn cart seasonal signs and decorations

While the price for the popcorn bucket is high, the quality is high and they are quite detailed.  The handles are removable and they even include “plugs” to give them a finished look if you are using the strap.  I was never really into collecting popcorn buckets, but they are quite popular in Japan and I now have two Duffy ones and several seasonal ones as well.

Detail on 2010 Duffy the Disney Bear popcorn bucket
Detail on strap you can purchase with your Duffy the Disney Bear popcorn bucket
Close up detail on cap to put on bucket if you take handles off
Detail wording on the Duffy popcorn bucket

Which is your favorite Duffy and Shellie May seasonal treat?

Tokyo DisneySea Halloween 2010: Duffy, Duffy, and even more Duffy!

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My main purpose for this trip to the Tokyo Disney Resort was to pick up the new Halloween Duffy merchandise and check out the opening weekend festivities.  I was a bit nervous based on events past that I would not find any Duffy merchandise left since it seems to sell out instantly and was released several days before I was flying in.

Much to my surprise, I arrived at the TDS Thursday (Sept 9) afternoon and there was tons of merchandise available!  Pretty much every store that sells Duffy had plentiful stock of costumes, pouches, duffel bags, keychains/cell phone charms, etc.  After buying every single new Duffy and Shellie May item available, I headed off to check out the decorations (see my post Tokyo Disney Sea Halloween 2010: Seasonal Decorations for photos of TDS itself).

I found a number of people with very well-dressed bears hanging out in Cape Cod taking photos of their bears with the Halloween decorations.  There were several groups that had the bears dressed in the current Mickey and Minnie costumes from both Disneyland and DisneySea.  I also saw several large sized bears dressed up, which I’ve never seen in the past.

Sadly, I was alone on this trip since Brett was still back in the Netherlands on a business trip so I had the embarrassing task of ordering all four souvenir desserts if I wanted the cups and plates.  Nothing like walking up and ordering four desserts and one drink!  The cups were filled with a holiday mousse and the plates had a sweet potato tart.  While I certainly did not eat all four of them, I did nibble on one of the tarts and the mousse cup.  Each dessert had the Duffy or Shellie May head cookie on top.

Please check out the gallery below for all the Duffy related merchandise, souvenir cups, and of course all the dressed Duffy Bears roaming around DisneySea!

Photo Essay: 2010 Halloween Costumes at Tokyo Disneyland

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After finishing up whirlwind trip last month that took me to all the Disney Theme Parks in the span of one month, I can honestly say that nothing compares to the Halloween costumes at Tokyo Disneyland.  If you only visit Tokyo Disney once in your life, I recommend doing it during the Halloween festivities (perhaps I am a bit biased though given Halloween is my favorite holiday).

I was at Tokyo Disneyland for opening weekend of the 2010 Halloween festivities and pretty much spent the entire day on Friday photographing guests costumes!  It’s one thing to see the amazing outfits they make for the Duffy Bears, but it’s quite another to see the attention to detail and magnificent creativity that goes into their own Halloween costume designs.  An interesting note about Tokyo Disney Halloween celebrations — the rules are quite different from the US Parks.  At TDL, you must dress as a Disney character.  Many of the costumes I saw were based on seasonal events or outfits donned by Mickey and Minnie or Donald and Daisy at various events and celebrations.

Without a doubt, my favorite of the day were the two dressed like the 2010 Mickey and Minnie outfits for DisneySea’s Mysterious Masquerade.  I spotted these two when I was hunting down pins in the store next to the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.   The girl in the elaborate Minnie dress indicated she made all the costumes, including for the Duffy Bears!  My Mom, who is a seamstress, said the costumes here look as though the spiderweb designs were hand cut and appliqued (or a fusible material was used to adhere them to the black fabric).  Given that this was only the second day of the Halloween festivities – much of her review and preparation came before she could ever see the Mickey and Minnie 2010 costumes in person!


TDL was filled with nearly every Disney character costume imaginable.  Some included groups going as the same character, while others included rather ingenious interpretations.  Many girls were dressed as Easter Bunnies – these outfits were adapted from the 2010 Easter parade that was part of the Easter Wonderland celebration earlier this year.  There were also tons of Disney princesses — a few complete with matching Duffy or Shellie May costumes as well.

Here is a look at a few of my favorites from the day (be warned – photo heavy post):

After spending most of the afternoon photographing costumes and Park decor, I started to head out and finish shopping when I spotted the best costumes – Duffy and Shellie May!!!

I turned around and caught up with them to ask if I could get a couple photos of them.  Super cute outfits and quite ingenious!  I was rather surprised these were the first Duffy costumes I had seen.

I wish I had been able to spend more than one day at Tokyo Disneyland on this trip and definitely plan to make the Halloween trip a 4 day excursion for sure.  Take a look at the rest of the Halloween costumes in the gallery below.  Enjoy!

All photos copyrighted by Erin De Santiago and PoohsTravels.com

Other related 2010 Tokyo Disney Halloween posts:

Halloween 2010 at the Tokyo Disney Resort: Opening Day at DisneySea

Tokyo DisneySea Halloween 2010: Seasonal Decorations

WDW: Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party Recap and Photos

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On the fourth stop of my “round the world” Disney Parks trip in September, we arrived at Walt Disney World just in time for this year’s Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party.  I have never attended any of the events at Walt Disney World so this was a completely new experience.  We arrived around 5pm and were surprised to find Magic Kingdom was not that crowded (granted it was a Thursday afternoon).

We managed to hit every ride we wanted — Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, and Space Mountain were our top 3.  I was shocked to see Haunted Mansion does not get the regular holiday makeover that the Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Resort attractions do.  Outside the Haunted Mansion was the “dead” woman interacting with guests in line, which was absolutely hilarious.  We managed to capture most of her act in video, which I will post here as well.

After coming from Tokyo Disneyland, I have to say I was rather disappointed in the costumes (or lack thereof).  Tokyo Disneyland was filled with some of the most amazing and unbelievable costumes you could dream up, whereas I only saw a few people dressed up at WDW’s Magic Kingdom.

We attended the Villains show, the Halloween Parade and enjoyed a few treats around the Park.  In this post, I will share the photos from the Magic Kingdom Park decorations.  Stay tuned for posts on the Halloween Parade and Villains show!

Tokyo DisneySea Halloween 2010: Seasonal Decorations

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During seasonal events, Tokyo Disney Resort definitely pulls out all the stops with the multitude of decorations and themed elements that make each visit so magical.  During my two visits to DisneySea on Thursday and Saturday (Sept 9 and 11), I took a ton of photos of the decorations for the “Mysterious Masquerade” event.

Other Tokyo 2010 Halloween related posts:

Photo Essay: 2010 Halloween Costumes at Tokyo Disneyland

Halloween 2010 at the Tokyo Disney Resort: Opening Day at DisneySea

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