Disney dollar
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Disney dollars are a form of corporate scrip or tokens used at Disney theme parks, The Disney Store and at certain parts of Castaway Cay, the Disney cruise-line's private island. Most of them bear the image of Mickey Mouse or a drawing of one of the landmarks of Disneyland or Walt Disney World Resort. Two small monochrome reproductions of Tinkerbell float to the sides. There is sometimes the signature of the Treasurer, Scrooge McDuck.
The dollars come in one, five and ten dollar denominations (and since 2005 also in $50) and are redeemable for goods or services at the theme parks, the Disney cruise ships, their Castaway Cay port of call and the Disney stores, unless indications to the contrary are printed on the individual bills. Also, they can simply be exchanged back to U.S. currency. They were first issued in 1987 and are collected by Disney memorabilia fans. Special editions are sometimes sold to Disney Cast Members as a form of incentive.
Disney dollars come in A dollars and D dollars. The former created for Disneyland in Anaheim, California (hence the A), and the latter D for Walt Disney World in Florida. New Disney dollars have been produced every year since 1987 except 1992 and 2004. Since 2005 they also have T dollars (for The Disney stores) and B dollars (only as $50 bills from the artist Boyer for Disneyland's 50th Anniversary Celebration). [1]
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The concept behind the Disney dollar was mocked on The Simpsons episode "Itchy & Scratchy Land". At the episode's titular park, Homer converts $1,100 to "Itchy & Scratchy Money", advertised by the ticket-taker as similar to regular money, but "fun". When the family head to the merchants within the park, they discover that none of them take Itchy & Scratchy Money.
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