Former Shop // latest change 1988
Adventureland · Magic Kingdom · Walt Disney World
Former Shop · the memorial record
This shop is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
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Closed and rethemed into the Zanzibar Shell Company, coinciding with the retirement of Magic Kingdom ticket books and the conversion of the neighboring Adventureland ticket booth into retail; the new shop shifted focus to shells, shell jewelry, and wind chimes.
Opened with Magic Kingdom as an Adventureland hat-and-bag shop ("Tropic Toppers"), selling hats and toy jungle animals from a sunny patio facing the Jungle Cruise entrance.
Per the documented record, Tropic Toppers at Magic Kingdom opened on Oct 1, 1971.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Tropic Toppers is dated 1988: Closed and rethemed into the Zanzibar Shell Company, coinciding with the retirement of Magic Kingdom ticket books and the conversion of the neighboring Adventureland ticket booth into retail; the new shop shifted focus to shells, shell jewelry, and wind chimes.
The latest documented change (documented 1988): Closed and rethemed into the Zanzibar Shell Company, coinciding with the retirement of Magic Kingdom ticket books and the conversion of the neighboring Adventureland ticket booth into retail; the new shop shifted focus to shells, shell jewelry, and wind chimes.
2 documented changes, dating back to 1971 — the fan-kept shop changelog nobody else keeps.
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