People are waiting hours for this 'Beauty and the Beast' Disney cup
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Dan Stevens and Emma Watson pose for photographers at a media event for the live action film "Beauty and the Beast" in London, Britain. (Reuters)
People are lining up for hours to buy a plastic bottle.
A restaurant in Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Calif., has been converted into a “Beauty and the Beast”-themed haunt, called Red Rose Taverne, complete with food and drink — Grey Stuff Gateau ($6) and Gaston Punch ($5) — inspired by the new live-action film.
But the restaurant’s biggest selling item by far is its “Enchanted Rose Tumbler,” a plastic bottle with a domed top containing a plastic rose that lights up, reminiscent of the glass dome in the movie.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Though the tumblers retail for $15, the demand for them has skyrocketed so that people are selling them for more than $70 on Ebay.
“When you hold that cup, you feel like you are Belle holding that glass that covers the enchanted rose,” Katie Slockbower, a 29-year-old Orange County native and Disney superfan who bought a tumbler, told New York Magazine.
But it’s not just Belle lovers who are clamoring for the souvenir.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Slockbower said she saw resellers waiting up to two hours in line at the tavern so they could buy more than a dozen tumblers each.