Harrods Disney Store!

On Saturday the 18th July my mum and I decided to take the short trip into London to go to Harrods! There was one main reason I wanted to go there and that was the Disney store and surprisingly it was the only part of Harrods I actually spent any money in! I took some pictures of Harrods itself and the Disney Store.

The Harrods Disney store also had lovely murals all over the ceilings and I took a few different pictures of them. 

Now to show you what I bought! 

This was my most expensive purchase of the trip at £50 but I'd been eyeing it up online for a while and decided to just buy it as I'd been paid only the week before! It is still available to purchase on the Didney Store website I believe! It plays 'Once Upon a Dream' and is part of the art of Aurora collection.

 

This is part of one of the new mug series' that the Disney Store has released and it is a classic animation collection and the mugs currently available alongside this 'AristoCats' mug are 'Pinocchio', 'Alice in Wonderland' 'Bambi' and 'Peter Pan'. The Peter Pan mug however only features TinkerBell. This mug and all the mugs in the collection are £7.95 each and are all available on the Disney Store UK website. 

These are two products I knew I wanted before going into Harrods and they are the 'Harrods Exlusive' Minnie and Mickey Mouse. They retail usually for £25 each although I got them for £10 each due to an offer on in store. The offer was spend £10 or more and these plushes would be £10. Although only one per transaction would be cheaper so a helpful cast member let me do two transactions! 

This is a 'Harrods Exclusive' Disney Shopper that I really liked and it was only £1! To make up one transaction to £10 I ended up getting three! My mum is having own and I'm also giving one to my nan so it worked out well! 

Overall I think that the Harrods Disney Store is a very nice store and is well presented with lovely cast members (as usual, I'm yet to come across a non lovely one!) Although I wouldn't visit it very often due to the fact it is quite far away from the stores entrance's and is on the fourth floor but is right at the back once you've come up the escalators/lift. Also it doesn't stock any of the small Tsum tsums, only the medium and large.

Thanks for reading!

Lauren 

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The Lion King in the West End!!

The Lion King is my all time favourite film and Disney film and has been a constant throughout my childhood and into the beginnings of my adult life. From a very young age I would watch it constantly, I had everything Lion King you could imagine, from cups and plates, soft toys, pyjamas and duvet covers. You name it, I probably had it with simbas face on it. So for the first time, no idea why it took me so long, I went to see The Lion King at the West End. I really have no excuse for never seeing it before as I live just on the outskirts of London so Covent Garden really is quite close to me. I just decided I was going this year and I booked tickets to go with my mum and we ended up going on the 23rd of May 2015 for the 2:30pm matinee performance!

I had work early in the morning so I came home after and got ready quickly and we left for London at about 11am and arrived at the tube station pretty quickly after getting the bus. We got on a northern line train from Morden and changed at Kennington to get onto Waterloo branch so we could get off at Embankment.

After getting off at Embankment we walked up the large hill towards Covent Garden Market in search of Bella Italia where we'd decided to get lunch. 

We go to the Bella Italia right by Covent Garden Market and decided we would eat before going to look at the shops. My Mum got a duck pizza and I got a calzone. Both of which were very tasty! I did take some pictures but we were both hungry so I'm afraid they're not the best looking pictures but hey ho!

After finishing our food we looked around Covent Garden Market a little and I made a beeline for the Disney Store which is one of the old versions of the Disney store which took me back! It's a very small Disney Store and it was ridiculously busy and claustrophobic but I did indeed make some purchases. One being a Pop Funko of R2-D2 and a Disney Store.doll of the Live Action Cinderella. Here are a few pictures of the Disney Store at Covent Garden and pictures of what I bought. 

Next it was time to get to the Lyceum theatre in time to look at some merchandise and find our seats! I could hardly contain my excitement and took a ridiculous amount of photos of the outside of the theatre which was covered in advertising.

 

Once we got inside we headed up to the shop like place where they were selling a lot of the merchandise available at the theatre. I ended up buying a hooded jacket and two different programmes which I felt were reasonably priced. There was a lot of merchandise available including snow globes, soft toys, soundtracks, t-shirts and mugs. 

After that we went to find our seats and we were sat on the Royal Circle level with seats N26 and n25 which cost £62.20 each which I felt was very reasonable considering the view we had.

Then we waited a while for the show to start and when it did it was everything I imagined it would be. As soon as the lights went down and that first note was sung by Rafiki I just burst into tears. I can honestly say the whole show was amazing, there was literally nothing I can say was a downfall or anything like that. The vocal talent of the actors and actresses was second to none and every song that came on made me get goosebumps. We all know the story of the Lion King but seeing it on stage somehow made it more involving and the ending where simba climbed Pride rock I was literally in bits. Luckily I'd prepared myself with waterproof mascara. Overall it is one of the best musicals I've ever had the pleasure of going to see, it has close competition from Wicked which is one of my favourite musicals ever. I urge anyone that hasn't to go and see The Lion King. Even if you only go once in your life you have to experience it, the costumes, the music and the story are first class and not to be missed. 

I know I posted this a longgggg time after I actually went but I just haven't actually sat down to do it and I suddenly had motivation to do so. I know it's a slightly boring post but I just had to share!

TTYL

Lauren

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