I WORKED IN 15 MERCHANDISE LOCATIONS ON MY DCP // ranked best to worst
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Here's the one you've all been waiting for! I talk about all the different merchandise locations I worked on my Disney College Program from best to worst, and even spill that tea you've been requesting right at the end...
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This makes me sad, I worked at World of Disney during my DCP in 2016, and I absolutely loved it! There was no focus on making sales like you mentioned, it was a completely different experience. Hopefully once all the construction is finished at WOD it will go back to focusing on making magic!
Jordanne Morrow sadly what I talked about with next level courtesy started at WOD last summer and they’re only spreading it further across the resort as time goes by 😔
I’m just like you!!! I was stationed at WOD spring 2019. I absolutely hated it, and I wasn’t going to let that ruin my program so I worked in over 40 different locations and worked at world of Disney a handful of times! I really enjoyed this video it took me back
Sounds like you made the most of your experience 💛
I'm glad you kept it professionally at the end. ❤ Shows maturity... which some people lack. Lol
Kevin Myers aha thank you! Got to make the best of every experience!
What is the song that plays at the end of this video? Jw
Kevin Myers it’s a remix of Life Could Be A Dream :)
❤🎵❤🎶❤🎷❤🔊❤🎤❤
omgg i worked at mouse gear at the same time! it was my home location.i think we probably worked together lol
Oh amazing! With the amount of shifts I worked there I’m sure we did 😂 hope you loved it like I did!
Amazing video Em! Trading shifts was one of my favourite things to do too! I ended up working 12 different locations on my CEP missing it so much!
Emily Ketteridge ahh amazing!! So happy I managed to do it this year after not trying it out before! It gets addictive 😂
Emily’s Wanderland it’s so much fun! I loved it! Glad you worked the kiosks in Epcot too.. that was one of my favourite work locations in Epcot! 🙌🏼
You're very inspiring! I love that you made the most of your CP by working on as many merch locations!
This is so sweet, thank you for saying that!!! 💛
I ate at the Crystal Palace 2 days ago, on the table 2 places away from ours was a little girl. It was her birthday ( I know coz they sang happy birthday to her ) and she had gone to Bibbiti Bobbiti Boutique. She looked so cute and Pooh Bear was skipping around with her in the celebrations. The interactions they had were soooooo cuuuutttteeee!!!!!! Disney truly is magical ❤️❤️
Hey Emily! I’m doing the DCP this upcoming Spring and I’ve learned so much from your videos! :) Thanks for sharing your experiences and for all of the great advice!! ✨🐭
Magically Madz that makes me so happy to hear!! I hope you have the best program ever and thank you for watching ☺️💕
Bonjour was my favourite place to work, I was a fantasyland cast member. Love watching your videos and reminiscing.
Hannah Morrison ahh you lucked out big time with your location!! Yay thank you so much for watching ☺️💕
My sister was in Fantasyland Merch too and absolutely loved it! She was there from January 2017 to January 2018 and would go back in a heartbeat if Aussies were allowed to do multiple programs!
I didn't like working at WOD either but I met so many cast members that made it a decent experience once we graduated. Everyone has a different experience working there, good and bad. Thanks for sharing!
It's definitely the people that make the place. Unfortunately there were a few people there who made me feel kind of uncomfortable but I'm glad that wasn't your experience. Thanks for watching!
This is such a sweet, upbeat video even when ranking, love it! (ps: that happy vibe is exactly why I subbed, I love it so much.)
Thank you so much 🥰
@@emilyswanderland You are so welcome! :)
I'm so glad you loved Mouse Gear! It was my location when I did the DCP and I loved it so much!
Dani Lynn ahh you’re so lucky, it’s such an awesome location and I’m so glad I could be adopted there 😏💕
Was lovely to work with you in Mousegear Emily many times hehe! Such a shame it's all over 😭x
Sarah Legg thanks for making me so welcome!! I know I wish I could turn back time 💔
I have been binge watching your videos and I’m obsessed! You have such awesome advice and information! I’m starting a tourism course next year (I’m from New Zealand) and we have to do an internship and I’m praying that I’m able to get accepted to go to Disney and your videos have motivated me to want to work super hard so I can get in so thank you ❤️❤️❤️
Aw thank you so much!! Good luck!! 💛
Hey Emily, just found your channel, and it is cute and fun. We love MouseGear (and Epcot in general). Funny story about HTH Gift Shop. A couple years ago, during night time Xtra Magic at HS we rode Tower a couple times in a row. The folks in the shop were super nice and it was super slow in the shop, so we started playing the special edition Jenga game with one of them at the counter. We probably played about 10 or 15 minutes & all had fun. Love CMs like that. Thanks for sharing.
Keith Thompson that’s such an awesome story!! Love moments like that! Thanks for watching ☺️
I'm hoping to do the CEP someday and I definitely want to work in many locations! It adds to the experience. I think my dream role is Fantasyland merchandise because I've always wanted to be able to give pixie dust.
Oh my Gosh! I was at the World of Disney store when you were working there, I wonder if I ever saw you there!
Areil wore crocs I’m literally screaming
omg i worked main street east !! it was fun, you were actually in zone 1 , which was my fav bc you just look at pretty jewelry all day
Aww what an awesome location!! I always wanted to do confectionery but never got around to it 😅
when you traded shifts, how did you get the costume/uniform for the new shift, like do they have extras already there?
Each park has its own costuming so I’d go there before the shift and just drop it off on the way out ☺️
I never picked up shifts in other parks during my last program but it's on my bucket list for my next one!
That was same with me on my first program - definitely made up for it this time 😂 have an amazing time!!
I didn’t know you can switch shifts like this. Hopefully i can get into the college program next year so I can try different places 🌟 how do you work out costumes when you go to an other store location?
my home location this summer was mouse gear! i loved it so much! (icp from canada!)
Ahhh you lucked out! What an amazing location!!
Hey, I was an opening team cast member for Big Top. Pretty sure there are just a handful of opening cast left, but sorry you didn’t have a great time. I miss that place so much. I can’t believe the store was quiet! That never seemed to happen except during party nights towards the end of the night. Then your next place, FWS, was my college program location. Pretty sure I know a few people there still. Loved being at pin central the most, the character cart and pin cart, not so much. 😄
Aw it’s not your fault aha! It may have just been an off day I guess? It was oddly quiet 😂 I worked the character cart actually and that was also quiet - I didn’t mind pin central though. Everywhere is different to everyone!
Not to do with the merch but I just wanted to suggest to people the Hollywood Studios to Epcot walk. The views are so nice and you come out near the Boardwalk. It’s a lovely jogging route also, it’s not too long and it’s all on path ❤️
With an attitude like yours, you will be successful in any career. Your videos are a delight to watch.
Thank you so much!! 💛
thank you for this video, it was so helpful! :) i'm merch for spring 19 (one week til i leave!!) and just found out my home location is disney springs marketplace/co-op. i barely know anything about DS so i was wondering if you're familiar with the marketplace? i'm definitely planning on picking up shifts because i really want to work in the parks! this video gets me so excited!!
Aw yay, thanks for watching! That's awesome I know a couple people who worked there and enjoyed it :) definitely make the most of picking up shifts everywhere though as it switches up the day to day routine. Have an amazing program!!
meghan bryant ayyyyy I’m merch too but I’m in Dinoland!!
I’m so sad I never got to try mouse gear! Sounds like it was a ton of fun!
Part Of Brookes World was probably me taking all the shifts available 😂
Hey Emily! Thank you so much for this video it is incredibly helpful! I've just been accepted for the Australian DCP in merchandise and am so excited about the trading aspect of the job :DDD Did you at all have to get traded shifts approved by disney? Like for example when you agreed to swap shifts with someone on the Facebook group did you have to contact managers to let them know you've traded? Also how often were you able to swap your shift a week? (were you able to swap every shift or did you have to work a certain amount of time in your home location?) Thank you again I really love your channel and it's helped me so much through the application process and everything!
Natoro15 so glad it was helpful, and congrats!! And no you input the trade on the hub, you just need someone willing to trade. Some weeks I didn’t work in my home location at all!
oooo i got merch at future land and definitely want to trade shifts a bunch once I start!!
you’ll love it!!!!
Hi idk if you will see this but I just got my role from Merch at Storybook Circus. Not sure how to feel about it.. 😬😂 How long after training is done can you start to look to switch around? I also want to try and work in as many places as possible even if Storybook Circus is good. Thanks for the info 5 years later lol
Did you work with Olivia Simone? Her vlogs mentioned the same vibe she had at World of Disney.
Sarah Rogers we were working in the same period but I wasn’t there the day she was - because I was never really there 😅
High pressure sales techniques make me so uncomfortable and angry that I will boycott a place for life...Like Lush I will never buy a Lush prodect or even take one for free even online because they assault you and make you want to hide. They even demo on people without permission and I dont blame the workers I blame the company for making the workers do things like that. I feel that the vast majority of people do not care for that sort of thing and will leave in a rush without buying anything once those 3 refusals start up. I have left a store that I fully intended to buy a good bit of merch from because they tried to force sell me things to the point I didnt even want to be there at all
I'm hoping to apply for next summer whenever applications open. I'm stuck between applying for the cultural representative or a cultural exchange programs. Only reason I'm hesitant for the cultural exchange at this point is I'm scared of being stationed at world of Disney 😂
Aww no!!! Don’t not apply just because of WOD!! The chances of getting merch are slim and placed there even slimmer, and also a lot of people genuinely enjoyed it there!
I noticed that you almost always (sorry not sure) had a pin trading lanyard on. What do other Cast Members think of pin trading? I really don’t like it when Cast Members have a scrapper as their mystery pin because I’m trading a real pin for it. Do they know about all the scrapper (garbage) pins that are being traded?
We love pin trading!! It's so fun and a quick, easy way to interact with guests. It's pretty sucky if a cast member puts their worst pin as a mystery one and they shouldn't do that generally
I’m not going to lie, WOD just sounds like a regular retail store. I work in retail at a major store, and that’s exactly what we have to do. Up-selling is key.
Yup that’s true but in the past Disney has always seemed to put the magic before profit and it’s sad to see that changing
So when you trade, do you need like a weeks notice so you can get your costume?
You are the cutest! Fun video!
A Man aw thank you!! ☺️ I’m glad you enjoyed it 💕
I went to disney this year twice for the first time in about 5-6 years (although i have been there about 30 times).. The last time i had gone "disney springs" was downtown disney... I was SO disappointed with what they had done to the place. There are only like 2 main disney stores, and everything else is like a regular mall... So upsetting. I loved the Mr. Potato head factory growing up where you could build your own potato head, and then do the parade... Really sad, but I guess the profit is what mattered.
With all of those costumes, do you have to return them at the end of the shift?
It was pretty cool seeing you in all those costumes. Any chance you could wear your hair like Princess Leah and dressing up in a video for like the opening for Galaxy's Edge? ;)
TheSInSurfer I won’t be going anywhere near galaxy’s edge for a while after it opens - that place is gonna be crazyyyy 😅
@@emilyswanderland Fair enough. I completely agree and as I always pay what ever price I can, when possible(think universal fast pass), to avoid waiting in the long Lines. Well, Maybe we see you back here for WDW 50th, in 2021!! By then there will be lots of new things to experience and do.(Galaxy, Tron, Update to Thunder MTN, Guardians Coaster, Ratatouille, Update to Everest, and to Disney RR, etc, to name a few) We can do a GoFundMe if need be! lol. I still think you'd look cool doing that retro Princess Leah hair style. Really Hope to see you back for the 50th Anniversary Celebration. Peace!
I will 100% be back for the 50th no matter what!! ☺️🙌
@@emilyswanderland - Well, Until then, dedicate the Song, "Run" by George Straight to you. Take care!
When you pick up shifts at new locations, how do you know what the costumes required are? Are you allowed to check out costumes for multiple locations?
On the hub they have a costuming page with all the details you need, and then you go to that park's costuming to pick it up. The cast members working there will also help you! And you can check out up to 5 complete costume sets - at one stage I had 5 different location costumes out, so just one per place, because I was trading everything :')
Emily’s Wanderland that’s really cool, thanks!
You're welcome :)
I'm just wondering as you have to wear so many costumes, how does that all work? 🤣
You just go to the different costuming locations for each park and check out one set for your shift! You can have up to five sets of costumes out at any one time ☺️
How did it work with all of the different costumes you had to wear? Did you just show up to your shift and you would change there?
Each park has its own costuming so I’d go there before the shift and just drop it off on the way out ☺️
Emily’s Wanderland oh cool!
This must sound like such a silly question but who took pictures of you in all your costumes? Like were leaders chill with doing it or ok with your flatmates coming in and doing it? If I get on the CEP costume pics would be a goal 🙈
hahKay my friends came to visit me at work! Nobody ever minds if people take photos for you as long as you’re not taking time away from other guests/a busy register or whatever ☺️
How do you get all the costumes if its not your home location? once you have a costume for a location did you keep it for your term or return it after the shift?
You can only have 5 costume sets out at a time so I would just drop each one off at costuming as I collected the next one ☺️
@@emilyswanderland Ah thank you! I've been loving your videos sooo much! Im from Canada and plan on applying for CEP summer 20' ! I can't wait
Thank you so much for saying that!! Good luck! ☺️💕
do you have any plans of moving or working there again?
Nope, just living it out here in London ☺️
I just got my itinerary and I’m not really happy with my location. Am I able to switch locations sometimes if I’m in a resort
Once you’ve got your proficiencies you can trade! But you need alcohol training to work at a resort
Emily’s Wanderland I am in a gift shop at the resort
How does it work with getting dressed for work in merchandise
You pick up your costume from the park/resort's costuming centre and get changed before work :)
Emily’s Wanderland isn’t that far to drive to get up extra early to do that
You can take out up to 5 costumes at a time, and costuming is as you enter backstage in most places
Do you get to keep your costumes?
nope sadly!! or you could but you wouldn't be rehired ahaha
Do you get a discount on merchandise?
Yes it is 20% and 40% during the holiday season :)
How r u definite for roommates when u meet people on the Facebook page
Kam K you’re not! You just apply for housing together and link up and hope :)
Emily’s Wanderland oh k
are merch the only cm's who can pin trade?
I think so yep!
Nope! I worked at a restaurant and one of the greeters(hostess) had a lanyard to trade with guests. We also had a bulletin board out everyday so guests could trade pins.
So basically it's a massive intern programme with fancy Disney language dropped in. Ok.
Yes, it’s an internship! No, it’s not fancy! All the “Disney language” words are used to maintain the show for guests and create a truly immersive experience for them at the parks :)
You are so sweet, if I had a grandson your age I would give him your email😂