{"id":44452,"date":"2016-03-11T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/?p=44452"},"modified":"2022-05-04T22:31:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T02:31:43","slug":"you-are-here-the-starbucks-disney-mugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/you-are-here-the-starbucks-disney-mugs\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Here: The Starbucks Disney Coffee Mugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not much of a collector and when it comes to Disney collectibles I find it too daunting to even consider, but at the end of every Disney trip I wind up perusing the shops, trying to find something to commemorate my time at the Disney parks. Unfortunately, nothing\u2019s had ever piqued my interest\u2026 that is until one fateful day when I stumbled into the Fountain View<\/a>, the Starbucks shop at Epcot, and found these bad boys: Disney coffee mugs.<\/p>\n

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\"Pinable<\/a><\/p>\n

They\u2019re a part of Starbucks \u201cYou Are Here Collection\u201d and they depict major city landmarks individualized for the shops they\u2019re sold in. Want a Texarkana mug? Go to the Starbucks shop in, you guessed it, Texarkana. Fortunately for Disney fans, there are Starbucks shops at each of the four Disney World parks, a fifth at Disneyland, and another at Disney California Adventure, that offer unique coffee mugs showcasing each park.<\/p>\n

I started collecting these mugs for a few reasons. First, the finality, I knew I could collect them all and there would be a definitive stopping point. Second, there’s a weight to them that makes them feel more valuable than a plastic tchotchke you might find at other Disney shops. Lastly, just like a world scratch map or one that has you color in countries you\u2019ve been to, these mugs provide incentive to go out and visit the parks, hopefully one you\u2019ve never visited. You can purchase the mugs online, but you\u2019d be missing the best part about collecting them – visiting the parks!<\/p>\n

Magic Kingdom<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"MK<\/a><\/p>\n

All of the mugs are done up in a minimalist\u00a0style Disney fans will be familiar with. The Magic Kingdom mug is one of the more colorful with blues, grays, and yellow depicting Space Mountain, the Mad Hatter Teacups, Cinderella\u2019s castle, the Haunted Mansion, and what appears to be a sailing ship, possibly a pirate ship or something akin to the Columbia in Disneyland.<\/p>\n

Disney\u2019s Animal Kingdom<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"AK<\/a><\/p>\n

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Amongst greens, browns, and grays the Tree of Life and Expedition Everest rise up over a small village, with a safari bus heading out to the savanna where a baobab tree and a giraffe await. To me this mug has the least going on but it\u2019s calming and would be the perfect companion to coffee on a veranda at the Animal Kingdom Lodge.<\/p>\n

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Disney\u2019s Hollywood Studios<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"HS<\/a><\/p>\n

Blues, reds, yellows, and brown, this mug has it all and is definitely the most colorful and it goes a long way in capturing the glitz and glam of old Hollywood. The Hollywood Tower Hotel is on prominent display along with old Hollywood buildings, a studio entrance, a clapperboard, and of course, the water tower underneath a giant set of Mickey ears.<\/p>\n

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Epcot<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"E<\/a><\/p>\n

In my opinion, the best of the bunch. Maybe it’s because Epcot\u2019s my favorite park stateside, or maybe it’s because it has a story that includes two different variations, but first a visual description. Grays, blues, and purple show Spaceship Earth, The Land, France\u2019s Eiffel Tower, Japan\u2019s pagoda, America\u2019s show building, and Mexico\u2019s Mesoamerican pyramid and peeking out in front of the World Showcase’s\u00a0heavy hitters is a grey monorail.<\/p>\n

The monorail is where the story lies. Original versions of the mug had a purple monorail to go with the color scheme, but shortly after release it was pulled because of an incident back in 2009 in which the purple monorail hit another monorail, killing an operator. The purple monorail was retired after the incident but not\u00a0on the mugs first edition. \u00a0Once the offending mug was pulled, Starbucks put out a redesigned mug with a change to the monorail\u2019s color (grey).<\/p>\n

Disneyland<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"DL<\/a><\/p>\n

Back on the west coast we\u2019ve got the one that started it all. Blues, pinks, and grays show Sleeping Beauty’s castle sitting in the foreground as the Matterhorn looms behind. As we move along we see three of the things Disney is known for: trains, It\u2019s a Small World, and of course, fireworks.<\/p>\n

Disney California Adventure<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"CA<\/a><\/p>\n

Greens, browns, and reds set off this panorama starting with Grizzly Peak butted up against Radiator Cap from Cars Land. In the background is Mickey\u2019s Fun Wheel, The Carthay Circle Theater, and a street car.<\/p>\n

Seeing these mugs as a set highlights the care that went into their design. Where you might expect fireworks on the Magic Kingdom\u2019s mug, it\u2019s accounted for on the Disneyland mug. Space Mountain and the Haunted Mansion are absent from the Disneyland mug because these icons show up somewhere else. And let\u2019s not forget about the color, because the mugs are nothing without their color. The commingling of basic colors flowing between the mugs shows a bigger, brighter picture while each representative mug still retains the key colors and atmosphere of their respective park, allowing them to shine on their own. My favorite examples of this are the Animal Kingdom’s green and the Hollywood Studios’ burst of colors suggesting the\u00a0exciting era of early Hollywood.<\/p>\n

If all of this waxing poetically about coffee mugs hasn\u2019t tipped you off let me be frank. If you can only take one souvenir with you, let it be one of these mugs. They\u2019re colorful, fun, and definitely not a tchotchke.<\/p>\n

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A Little Extra Magic<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

During the 2015 holiday season Starbucks released miniature versions of these mugs. They\u2019re sold as Christmas tree ornaments, but if you\u2019re like me all you see is a set of espresso cups to go along with their bigger brothers and although they are not shown in any of the pictures, they do have miniature versions of both Disneyland and California Adventure so be on the lookout!<\/p>\n

Do you collect the Starbucks “You Are Here” mugs? Which one is your favorite?<\/em><\/p>\n

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