A $29.99 junk journal and a $16.99 park-day checklist land at Riverside Depot
Walt Disney World has put a Disney junk journal and a "My Disney Day" checklist notepad on sale at Riverside Depot in Animal Kingdom, priced $29.99 and $16.99. The journal includes 132 pages, three sticker sheets and two rolls of washi tape, and is also listed online at the Disney Store.
A $29.99 Disney junk journal and a $16.99 "My Disney Day" checklist notepad have arrived at Walt Disney World, both aimed squarely at the guests who already keep a record of their park days. The journal ships with 132 pages, three sticker sheets and two rolls of washi tape; both were found at Riverside Depot at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
Key Details
- "My Disney Day" Checklist: $16.99
- Disney Junk Journal: $29.99
- Where: Riverside Depot, Disney's Animal Kingdom
- Also online: The junk journal is available at the Disney Store
- In the journal: 132 journaling pages, three sticker sheets, two washi tape rolls
The "My Disney Day" Checklist: $16.99
The pink notepad is built as a single-day planner rather than a diary. It gives guests space to track the meals and snacks they want to try, the attractions they want to ride and the shows they want to see, and closes with a "Don't Forget" section for the loose ends: the rider swap, the mobile order, the bag left in a locker.
The design work is all park iconography: a Mickey Mouse ice cream bar, a churro and Cinderella Castle, with the Walt Disney World wordmark set in dark pink in the bottom left corner. It is a $16.99 notepad, which is to say it is priced as a souvenir rather than as stationery, but it is the rare souvenir that is actually useful on the day you buy it.
The Disney Junk Journal: $29.99
The junk journal is the more interesting of the two, because it is Disney meeting an existing hobby rather than inventing one. Junk journaling (building a scrapbook out of ticket stubs, receipts, maps, wrappers and whatever else survives a trip) has a large, self-organised following, and a Disney park day generates exactly the kind of paper debris the format runs on.
The book is light blue, with the Walt Disney World "D" on the front alongside Cinderella Castle, the Walt Disney World logo and three fireworks bursts in different shapes. Inside:
- 132 journaling pages
- Three sticker sheets, with designs including a Mickey ice cream bar, the Disney Skyliner, the Emporium shop sign and Minnie ears
- Two rolls of washi tape, each carrying two designs: Mickey balloons and the Monorail
The sticker selection is the giveaway that someone at Disney was paying attention. An Emporium shop sign and a Skyliner gondola are not characters: they are the transport and the storefront that regular guests photograph without being told to, and they are exactly what belongs on a page about a day at the parks.
Riverside Depot, and Why Animal Kingdom Gets These First
Riverside Depot sits near the front of Disney's Animal Kingdom, in the open-air retail run that guests pass on the way in and again on the way out. It carries a broad Walt Disney World merchandise mix rather than only Animal Kingdom goods, which makes it a routine first stop for resort-wide items, and both of these are resort-wide items, not Animal Kingdom ones.
Expect them to spread. Paper goods of this kind typically turn up next at the Emporium on Main Street, U.S.A., Creations Shop at EPCOT and the larger resort hotel shops.
The Buzz
Disney merchandise has been drifting away from apparel and toward keepsakes that ask something of the guest: pin boards, sticker sets, passport books, and now a journal designed to be filled in. It is a category that survives the trip home in a way a T-shirt does not, and a $29.99 journal that turns a folder of ride photos and receipts into something you actually open again is a straightforward sell for the fans who already do this with a plain notebook.
$16.99 in the Park, $29.99 in the Park or Online
Both items are on the shelf at Riverside Depot now. The checklist notepad is $16.99 and is currently an in-park find; the junk journal is $29.99 and is also listed online at the Disney Store, so it is the one you can buy before you travel and take with you rather than fill after the fact.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. A day-planner notepad bought at the end of a trip is a souvenir; bought before one, it is the thing you actually write in at breakfast.