Remember when I blogged about how an alarming number of the Disney Dooney and Bourke Haunted Mansion bags were falling apart within the first week of being carried? My bag (which was a gift from my husband) lasted just 5 days before it began to break. This bag was $250. I’ll be returning it. I can’t even get a replacement because it seems that the entire line is faulty and would just break in another 5 days.

Disney and Dooney and Bourke need to fix this but I can’t get any word back from either company for over a week now. I took the Keys to the Kingdom tour last year in Florida’s Magic Kingdom and a big thing was not setting guests up for disappointment. I feel that they failed on that here – on an epic scale. After wanting this bag for a year it was a fiasco to get my hands on one when they re-released it. Then I get it and it breaks. I read that this is a new material for the bags so if you have another type of Disney Dooney yours may not have this issue. However this experience and the non responses I’ve gotten over it have put me off of ever buying another bag like this.

Click here for more pix of what is happening with these bags after just days of use.

This is a total shame because really – these bags are lovely. Disney always releases great designs. Disney’s Haunted Mansion is one of my favorite things in the world. If these bags were made of quality materials it would easily be my most favorite possession. I hope that they do not see the high number of returns they are likely getting and say that there is no market for Haunted Mansion bags. I would have bought every bag in the line and kept them if they were built to last.

After having had 4 funerals to attend in just 1 month this bag was the only thing to get a smile from me in an otherwise terrible situation. It’s stupid that it cheered me up like that, but it did. When you are going through terrible things silly things can help.

But now it’s lasting power makes Wal-Mart bags look luxe. I feel ripped off and sad. 🙁