I went to Knott's with my kids and our nanny, and to no one's surprise, the boys wanted to stop by the gift shop on our way out. They'd both just gotten Snoopy plushies from my mom, and my three-year-old Wade B. asked me repeatedly for "Snoopy's friend" Woodstock, to add to his stuffed animal menagerie.
We'd seen Woodstock plushies a few times throughout the day, mostly as carnival prizes that I refused to waste money trying to win. Instead, I took them to Snoopy's Camp Store, where to my surprise, the Woodstock selection was pretty thin. There were a couple of Woodstocks in costume, which Wade rejected ("I want the one without the hat"), and only one small plain Woodstock.
I allowed both my boys to go around the store and pick one thing each, subject to my approval, and both Wade and his six-year-old brother selected that little Woodstock. My nanny also picked up a Snoopy doll to buy for herself, and I assured her it was on me. I was open to buying T-shirts for the kids, too, but there were weirdly almost no options in either of their sizes.
I checked out and was a little stunned when the total rang up at over $100. It turned out that those two puny Woodstocks--the only two in the store, neither of them labeled with a price tag--were from a Steiff x Snoopy Peanuts collection, and cost over $40 apiece. A stronger person might have changed course at this point, but my boys were both set on that stupid Woodstock, and I guess they were at least high quality products. I did also determine that they weren't marked up at the Knott's store. That's just how much a Steiff stuffie costs.
Anyway, checkout was otherwise easy, and my sons both love their Woodstocks and fight over them minimally because there are two (I do fear the King Solomon situation that will arise should one of them go missing). Do I wish Snoopy's Camp Store stocked a more normal Woodstock? Sure. But I enjoyed spoiling my babies on our special Knott's Berry Farm day. read more