Yesterday, while walking home after shopping for fun fabric to make yet another coolish new t-shirt, we stopped at a little second hand store at Carlton and Homewood. They pile things up to the ceiling and and fill their tiny space with old-time little gems, you know, the kind of stuff you remember growing up with. They also have a big collection of old movies on video I like to rummage through every once in a while since I’m still looking to get my hands on Song Of The South, the Disney movie never released in its entirety on this side of the Atlantic… I understand there is controversy about the film’s content but since I’ve yet to see it, I can’t say what it really is about… I really like the songs and the animation part of it, so I’d like to see the whole thing once and for all… (Alert to all my bestest of friends in the UK where the full version was released in the past… you name your price!)
Anyway, while I was rummaging in the movie section, I could hear DR talking with the owner:
DR: Is this really $10
Owner: You can have it for $5
DR: Would you take $2 for it
Owner: Sure, sold.
Now, DR never bargains, so the fact that he did this was just amazing and I simply assumed he had just found a toy robot. I didn’t think anything of it at the time as I was buried deep in old Disney movies, looking for the one, no time to investigate what he was buying.
I wasn’t successful yet again this time, so we left. Once on the sidewalk I noticed a Disney box in the bag DR was carrying, I asked what it was and I screamed like a girl when he took this out:
Treasure!!!
Les règles de jeu
YEHHHHHH!!!
Ready for framing
The only pieces left…
A genuine 1960 Parker Bros. Disneyland Monorail Game! Made right here in Toronto too!!!
The box is a bit manky, and a few playing pieces are missing, but that’s not the point, it’s not like we’ll ever play with it, the thing is the board is immaculate, perfect for framing if we wanted to AND it just takes me back to our last trip to Disneyland last Spring… AAAAhhhh Mr. Disney. You make everything good again.
You didn’t hear the part where I said: “$10? I only have a $20. Will that do?”
Then I grew a pair.
Imagine me not squealing like a pig when I found it!
I would’ve screamed the house down if I found something like that!
I’d frame the sucker, you can still take it down to play it when the urge takes you. That is simply too good not to have on show all the time!
Question:
Can your VCR play PAL videos?
f1969: No, but it’s easy to have a PAL video transfer. I was also just made aware of ebay UK and they have tons of copies there, just need to find someone who ships to North America.. YEH..
Ahhh, Song of the South…it’s a teeny bit racist, and in the mad push to sanitize everything by Disney and Warner Brothers, it’s gonna stay locked in a vault forever. I don’t get it, because they’re fascinating documents about society’s attitudes towards other races at the time.
I totally agree… and will add that it’s no more racist than Gone With The Wind was… I actually saw the movie on youtube in 10 parts and it was a lot of fun to watch…