Monday, June 1, 2015

Theme Parking: Disneyland: The Nickel Tour is too expensive

  • With the return of my Disneyland obsession, I find my myself seeking out blogs and websites that I haven't been paying attention to over the last ten years. One of the blogs I found was Tom Bricker's Disney Tourist Blog. The post that caught my attention was My Disney Theme Park Library, a list of his accrued books about the Disney parks. I didn't have to read very far into his Disneyland section before finding Disneyland the Nickel Tour: A Postcard Journey Through a Half Century of the Happiest Place on Earth. His describes it as "[u]nquestionably the best book about Disneyland". A stronger recommendation I could not imagine, so off to the internet I went.

  • A quick Google search turned up this Amazon link.
  • Jiminy Cricket! I guess I should have kept reading his review. About halfway down the paragraph he also writes, "Unfortunately, it’s also rare and incredibly expensive." Tom, you aren't kidding.

  • Here is my plan: I'm Kickstarting the purchase of the book and running the site, then I'm writing off the price as a business expense on my taxes. Bulletproof, right?

  • Maybe not. I console myself with the thought that, as expensive as my hobby can be, it will never be as expensive as it gets for some.

  • Theme Parking is a new category for posts related to my lifelong obsession with Disneyland.

4 comments:

  1. Hey, I have long been a huge fan of Disney parks, Disneyland in particular. it's a shame about the book. The Disney Company has a habit of creating artificial scarcity (e.g., the Disney Vault), even when it can't possibly benefit directly from that scarcity.

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    1. Disney is good at two things: making magic and making you want more. They have that second one down to a science.

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  2. Well I do have to say the book is expensive and rare. There are two versions of the book also. The one with the red cover which is the first edition came out in 1995 and the blue cover one which is the second edition came out in 2000. The second edition has been updated with new postcards that came out after the first edition was released. I have them both and I know a lot of collectors so I will keep an eye out for you

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    1. That's very cool. It sounds like an amazing book. I hope enjoy yours.

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