Disney Store Finally Coming to Disneyfied Times Square

After closing a Disney store on Fifth Avenue last year, Mickey Mouse is marching back to Times Square to occupy the space vacated by Virgin Records last April. But forget everything you've ever wanted to forget about Disney stores—since taking back control of its retail operation from Children's Place, whose subsidiary had run the chain, Disney has planned a major revamp. The company is promising a grand, interactive store with theme park attractions and children's exhibits, with a design emulating the Apple stores. (Apple CEO Steve Jobs has a hand in this because he sits on Disney's board.) The magic starts this fall, giving Reverend Billy plenty of time to prepare his counterattack.

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By John Del Signore in News on January 6, 2010 12:50 PM

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aspiringrapper

Great news. To hell with the naysayers.

knobbynah

Naysay, naysay, naysay.

Ethan

Give the fish a drink.

99centmenu

an internet award of excellence to you, my good sir

knobbynah

Rotund women from mid-western suburbs, mom jeans, glaringly white "comfy" sneakers, blindly white turtle neck just poking out of a random football team sweatshirt. The lights of Times Square billboards dancing on fanny packs. They will be full of love and shrimp after a romantic dinner at Bubba Gump's. Then they will gently waddle across the square, like a feather on a cloud, to the Disney store. Yes, yes my love, that Minnie Mouse night gown is sexy. Nothing keeps the fires of love aflame like a 40 year old mother in an Eyore robe.

Oh, they will come....

And this will make my scrotum tingle, ever so gently.