The Shining Fans Rejoice Over Rare Warehouse Find


Posted November 30, 2015 by jenearasenko

A discovery in a British warehouse is making the holidays extra special for a couple hundred fans of Stephen King’s The Shining

 
A discovery in a British warehouse is making the holidays extra special for a couple hundred fans of Stephen King’s The Shining

New York- What began as a possible adventure in certification for a small company 20 years in the past in England has ended inside a Queens, New York warehouse. In 1995 a small British souvenir company wanted to produce a snowglobe based on the popular film The Shining. Since snow will be central to the account , trapping the tales principal characters in the haunted Overlook Hotel, a snowglobe seemed like a best suited collectible. The company produced Five hundred prototypes of the globes and hang up about attempting to find the license from the studio room.

The design features a precise replica of the hedge-maze featured in the tale, along with the base features the now iconic carpet pattern.,

Since they had no experience with licensing the attempts ended up unfruitful and the remaining snowglobes certainly not sent to the studio languished in a warehouse for two decades.

Throughout the score of many years that passed a few of the snowglobes leaked, others shattered, but the remaining 349 stayed secure in their dark tomb…until the world intruded.

After the unknown contents of the storage locker were bought from a “Storage Wars” type scenario, the long forgotten snowglobes put together. Immediately realizing the uniqueness they had stumbled upon, the purchasers contacted an associate in the states and preparations were made to deliver these phones New York.

Of the 349 discovered, 321 arrived risk-free in New York where they provided their way to a secret location in Queens. Today 321 lucky fans of The Shining can purchase them on ebay by way of seller OverlookHotel-Giftshop: http://www.ebay.com/usr/overlookhotel-giftshop.

“One associated with the more fascinating factors about these worlds, besides how they was, is the concept at the rear of the design” says an OverlookHotel-Giftshop spokesperson, “he concept is that this is an item that could have even have been sold in the giftshop involving the actual (fictional) Overlook Hotel. The hotel company logo on the front with the slogan of “Come Stay With Us Forever” only assumes a sinister this means within the context associated with the story. Likewise, the hedge-maze is a marvel of ornamental landscaping as well as gardening…but horrifying within the framework of the story.”

For more information about OverlookHotel-Giftshop visit our website: http://www.ebay.com/usr/overlookhotel-giftshop

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