Mickey Mouse Pavers

Does anyone know where I could find/purchase Mickey Mouse paver
bricks/blocks for out walkway? I cannot seem to locate them anywhere.

Thanks
-John & Lynda-

On Jan 20, 3:57 pm, Dzny...@ wrote:
> Does anyone know where I could find/purchase Mickey Mouse paver
> bricks/blocks for out walkway? I cannot seem to locate them anywhere.
>
> Thanks
> -John & Lynda-

I was sure this subject had been brought up at least once before, but
haven't found it so far. Did a brief google search and came up with
someone who used Mickey cake pans as cement molds. Maybe that will
help. I'm still going to do a hunt for you, because I am interested in
doing this myself. This spring I am making a "Fairy Garden" f
(butterfly garden) and would love to use them as stepping stones.
-Fizzie

FIZZIE <BLUEFROGBOOGIE@> wrote:


: On Jan 20, 3:57?pm, Dzny...@ wrote:
: > Does anyone know where I could find/purchase Mickey Mouse paver
: > bricks/blocks for out walkway? I cannot seem to locate them anywhere.
: >
: > Thanks
: > -John & Lynda-

: I was sure this subject had been brought up at least once before, but
: haven't found it so far. Did a brief google search and came up with
: someone who used Mickey cake pans as cement molds. Maybe that will
: help. I'm still going to do a hunt for you, because I am interested in
: doing this myself. This spring I am making a "Fairy Garden" f
: (butterfly garden) and would love to use them as stepping stones.
: -Fizzie

Just thinking of what I have seen in stock at the local Menards. I don't
remember seeing any Mickey pavers specificly, but I have seen something
that could work.

What if you get a bunch of round pavers in two different sizes. The
smaller ones should be half or less the diameter of the larger. Then just
place them as a row of hidden Mickeys. Place one large one centered in the
path. Then two smaller ones touching at 45 deg left and right. And you
could even place the next large one touching the previous small ones. So
it looks like a decorative pattern, but we would recognize it as a row of
hidden Mickeys. :)

A bed of large crushed rock filling the gaps would give you something
more solid than stepping stones. And if you want to you could make the
crushed rock bed a contrasting color. I would probably use edgers with a
scalloped top to define the walk. This would continue the row of circles
theme and keep the rock from migrating into the yard.

Just a thought.

Randy

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Randy Berbaum
Champaign, IL

Does anyone know where I could find/purchase Mickey Mouse paver
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The way Disney is with their trademark infringements, I doubt they would let
any company make pavers in the Mickey Mouse shape.


--
JerryD(upstateNY)

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:05:02 -0500, "JerryD\(upstateNY\)"
<jerryd@wherever.com> wrote:

>The way Disney is with their trademark infringements, I doubt they would let
>any company make pavers in the Mickey Mouse shape.

If it was just three circles, I don't think Disney could stop it. They
could try, but unless it had Mickey's face on it, I don't think they
could get a copyright to hold on three plain circles. All you would
have to do is change the ratio between the large and the smaller
circles and I believe it would need a whole new copyright. That's sort
of what happened with the guy who came up with the yellow Happy Face
symbol in the early 70s. He couldn't get a copyright to stick. The
design was so simple, small variations could be made to his design
that the variation became a whole new animal. Sort of like knock off
Barbie dolls. Over the years we've all seen MANY 11" "fashion dolls on
the market that look sort of like Barbie, but aren't.

But actually, it wouldn't surprise me if Disney might actually allow
this type product to be made. About 10 years ago we were buying a
fountain for our garden. While the transaction was being rung up, I
was flipping through a supplier's catalogue they had on the counter.
And honestly, they had many solid concrete Disney garden statuary
items in the catalogue. And yeah, they were Disney licensed and nicely
done. Mickey, Donald, Pluto, etc. They had a Snow White, and of course
the dwarfs as well. I had to have the Snow White for our garden. We
ordered it and it and in a few weeks we had this three foot high
statue of Snow in our front garden. Needless to say the thing was
HEAV-VY! We love looking out the window and watching people from the
neighborhood walk by and stand on the sidewalk looking at the statue
in horror. <G> We'd even put a Santa hat on her at Christmas. Sad
ending to the story is that she was stolen one day while we were at
work.

So, yeah, I'm sure that if someone could convince Disney that there
was a demand for the Mickey pavers, they probably could get Disney to
let them manufacture it.

Dave in Dallas - The one and only!
Accept no substitutes.

As for the homemade pavers, I kinda doubt anyone connected with Disney
will be visiting my backyard int he near future.
Love the idea of a Snow White garden fountain. but love the idea of a
replica of the Cinderella grotto fountain even more.
Any idea if that is available?

-Fizzie