Alex, Muskegon, Michigan

My favorites are the Mickey Mouse items that aren’t normally saved as collectibles. Such items are quite scarce, but often not expensive when they do turn up: things from the 1930s like a Mickey Mouse toothbrush, underwear, sweatshirt, and matching scarf and purse. My favorite Mickey Mouse cartoon is Brave Little Tailor.

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Larry, Marion, Indiana

Early park admission tickets are still good for admission, unless marked otherwise, so your friend’s ticket value is the current admission price. There is little or no additional collectible value associated with the tickets.

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Will, Wheat Ridge, Colorado

It was just for fun. Tom Scherman’s Iron Man from the early 1980s was non-functional and was used for photo ops that day posing next to Ward Kimball’s Chloe locomotive, supposedly to have a race. For more information on the Iron Man, see the Tom Scherman blogspot http://tomscherman.blogspot.com/2010/10/tom-schermans-iron-man-and-great-race.html. Scherman is best known for intricate models …

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Steve, Rochester Hills, Michigan

Supposedly Dick Van Dyke very much wanted to play Mr. Dawes Sr., just for fun, and even prepared a screen test to show Walt Disney that he could believably portray the old man.

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Elizabeth, Illinois

Discovery Island closed in 1999 soon after the newly opened Disney’s Animal Kingdom provided a better venue for showcasing animals.

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Rush, Madison, Alabama

That independently produced film has no association with The Walt Disney Company.

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Eric, Lemon Grove, California

There is a report on that trip in the Disney Twenty-three magazine from Summer 2010 (“In Search of Disney,” by Dave Smith as told to Steven Vagnini).

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Tom, Claremont, California

Cubby has a Facebook page.

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