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Post June 26th, 2017, 2:14 am
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Good idea to keep hold of those maps you've been collecting since you became an enthusiast as an original map of the first Disneyland park has fetched $708,000 (??555,838) at an auction in California.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40401693

Anyone here collect maps? What's the oldest map you have?
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mkingy wrote:
Good idea to keep hold of those maps you've been collecting since you became an enthusiast as an original map of the first Disneyland park has fetched $708,000 (??555,838) at an auction in California.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40401693

Anyone here collect maps? What's the oldest map you have?



I have a Hersheypark map for its 1999 season, which was the first of 10 years of going to that park each year.


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I found a park map from KBF from 1985 in my attic, and that's now my "prized" map.
Ok but how desperate you have to be to voluntarily fly from another country to go to Thorpe?


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Wow so much money for a colored piece of paper :o

A map of the Heide Park from 2001 is the oldest I have.

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I wouldn't be surprised the state of this said map certainly weighed in on the price. My oldest maps and such are mostly used and quite worn. I doubt they would be worth anything above 2 numbers in that state. :lol:
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This wasn't technically a map. It was Walt Disney's original concept drawing of the park which he used to try and gain investors.
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If you insist on being pedantic it technically still is a map.
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You've got to be a pretty big Disney fan to pay that sort of money for it.


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I have a phantasialand map from 1988, I wasn't even born then. Thankfully my mom was a big Phantasialand map and kept it :)
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