The Space Mickey Mouse design that we have for button A in machine #3 at the Contemporary Resort was replaced with a new Chef Mickey design. The new horizontal design for button A has Chef Mickey with Disney's Contemporary Resort and Chef Mickey's logos.

A new 3-die electric machine with Expedition Everest designs was put in today next to the photo pickup area inside Serka Zong Bazaar gift shop at Animal Kingdom.

The new designs are:

• Button A - Cartoon looking Yeti in middle with "Expedition Everest" above and "GRRRR" below
• Button B - Scared Mickey Mouse holding a climbing axe with Yeti reaching around from behind mountain "Expedition Everest"
• Button C - View of Expedition Everest on left with Yeti on right "Expedition Everest / Greetings from 29,000 feet! / Beware the Yeti"

A new 4-die hand crank machine with the first ever Haunted Mansion designs for Disney World has been installed. All four new designs have the Magic Kingdom and Haunted Mansion logos and have a Hitchhiking Ghost theme. One design has Mickey, Goofy and Donald as Hitchhiking Ghosts. The other three designs have a Hitchhiking Ghost on them - Ezra (Skeleton), Phineas (Traveler) and Gus (Prisoner).

A new 4-die hand crank penny machine has been installed inside the Big Top Souvenirs store that is part of Storybook Circus in the new part of Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom.

The new designs are Donald lifting weights with Storybook Circus logo, Minnie on a trapeze with Storybook Circus logo at the bottom, Goofy as The Great Goofini and Ringmaster Mickey that has Come One! Come All!

On August 17th, Cap'n Jack's Oyster Bar restaurant at Downtown Disney closed due to the construction of the new Disney Springs. There were two 3-die electric penny machines at this location. One machine had Minnie's face, Villains 1 of 7 series with Jafar and Mickey's face. The second machine had Goofy's face, Wall-E 6 of 7 and Wall-E 5 of 7.

It is unknown at this time if any of these designs will be relocated so we will be marking all six of these designs as being retired.

We have just received a report that the pressed penny machine that looks like an early 1900's fire pump has been relocated back to the Firehouse Station at the Magic Kingdom.

For years this machine was located at the Main Street USA Firehouse Gift Station. This gift store closed in 2011 for remodeling and the machine was unavailable for almost a year. After the remodeling of the Firehouse Station Engine Co. 71 building, it reopened as a place to receive a key and five power spell cards to play Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom. At that time, the fire pump pressed penny machine was no longer available at this location.

This machine eventually reappeared in January 2012 at the Prop Shop at Hollywood Studios. The designs that were available when the machine was at the Firehouse Station had been replaced with three dies that were at two different Disney resorts but had been off-stage for about 10 years.

The fire pump machine is now back to the Firehouse Station and it contains the same three designs as it did when it was at the Prop Shop at Hollywood Studios. The bad thing is that due to us assigning a catalog prefix by location, we now have three designs that were assigned a resort catalog number, then a Disney Hollywood Studios catalog number and now will have to be assigned a Magic Kingdom catalog number.

The single die quarter machine at Tomorrowland Light & Power Company Arcade at Space Mountain in Magic Kingdom has been converted to a 3-die quarter machine. The original design with Space Mickey in a ride car is now the button "C" selection. A new quarter design for the button "A" selection has Space Mountain Mickey, Pluto & Goofy. A new Space Pluto quarter design is for the button "B" selection.

The single die quarter machine at Mickey's Star Traders in Magic Kingdom has been converted to a 3-die quarter machine. The original design with Zurg is now the button "B" selection. A new quarter design for the button "A" selection has Mickey and Pluto in a spaceship. A new Tomorrowland quarter design is for the button "C" selection.