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No one else I know remembers this but I swear I'm not making it up--when Iw as in Disneyland around 1992 one of my happiest surprises was in the back of a store is a figurine of the Queen from Snow White in her Witch form--who seems static but when you step on the right stone in front of it she comes to life (an AA figure) begging and threatening you to let her out.

Is this still around? was it ever? Am I going crazy?

I'm sure you're not crazy, but alas, I haven't seen it myself. The closest thing was this:

There were these short interstitials about Disneyland or Disney World hosted by a man and a woman on Disney Channel (back when it was good). One time, the woman, who had brown hair, kind of like Nina VanHorn from "Just Shoot Me" or Mrs. Incredible from "The Incredibles", went into Cinderella's Castle, to reveal it was just white and fake inside. The episodes were all quite short, done in-between shows. Once, probably for a Halloween episode, the woman went with Cruella DeVille and Maleficent to some store. They were looking at a small figure of the Evil Queen turned into an Old Hag/Witch inside a cage, and I believe it was the birdcage-type, with black bars. I remember Maleficent saying, "I always hated her. The way she's just sickly staring at that apple", or something like that.

Conclusion: Perhaps they were in the very store you remember, and that store also sold small-scale replicas of that animatronic Witch-in-cage figure!

The show you are thinking of was called Disney Inside Out. It was not only shorts in between shows, but it's own half hour series as well. The woman was Brianne Lery (sp?). I met her one time in Disney World. However, my first and only trip to Disneyland was in 2003 and I never saw anything like that in any of the shops.

Posted the question on another forum and even got a pic of the scary witch! Man i wish they'/d put her back http://www.micechat.com/forums/showthre ... ost1326998

EricMontreal22 wrote:No one else I know remembers this but I swear I'm not making it up--when Iw as in Disneyland around 1992 one of my happiest surprises was in the back of a store is a figurine of the Queen from Snow White in her Witch form--who seems static but when you step on the right stone in front of it she comes to life (an AA figure) begging and threatening you to let her out.

Is this still around? was it ever? Am I going crazy?

Not only do I know you're not crazy, but I've seen it myself and she DOES come to life, if you use the right words.

Here's what she said:

Hello, deary. No need to be afraid. Come closer. I won't hurt you. I want you to open this cage and let me out. That's it, release me. Let me out and I'll show you some nice tricks. I can give you powers you've never dreamed of. I'll show you how to fly or how to turn water into gasoline. Please, you must help me! These chains are strong, so help me. [suddenly angry] All right! You'll regret you didn't help this poor nice lady! I can break this chain myself and you'll be sorry! I... [groans] I can do it! [growls and groans again before stopping]

That's kinda what I remember her saying.

Sounds dead on. *apparantly* she was built in the 70s during a major gas crisis (hence the line) and apparnatly for a brief time they put a 15,000 dollar pricetag on ehr to see if anyone would bite--eventually someone did. michael Jackson so (again apparantly) they built him his own...

I want one

Well, thanks for letting us know. To be honest, that life-size witch doesn't look much like the small figure I saw on that show. I think the gasoline quote is awesome. It's like teaching kids to do something dangerous.

Oh yea, and thanks goofystitch for the info on the show I saw!

Oh to clarrify she wasn't life sized--just in my childhood memory

i remember her. she was in the now closed Villain's shop. and this is my first post

Disneyfreak1990 wrote:i remember her. she was in the now closed Villain's shop. and this is my first post

That's where I saw her, too.

I really miss that villains shop they had some awesome stuff in there

Hades wrote:I really miss that villains shop they had some awesome stuff in there

And decent scenery, too.

yeah i miss that shop. why did it close in the first place anyway?

WOW! you guys are masters to not only find the pic but the dialogue too??? just wow im glad im part of a forum of disney lovers forum that know how to find all things disney !

That's pretty cool. A nice little addition. When I was at DisneyWorld in Florida they had animotronics of the Hag and Maleficent in the window of the Disney Villain Store. They moved but I would like to have seen the old Hag in the cage. Hopefully they put her back out at some point.