From Steve Birnbaum brings you the best of Disneyland 1982:
One of Disneyland's least obvious pleasures is the wicked witch who occupies a glass-walled cage in the center of this shop. She has a bulbous nose, huge round yellow eyes, and a black mouth, and she looks so altogether frightening that little children cling to their parents, especially when, every so often, she moves. Her chains clank, and she begs you to let her out, promising to show you how to fly and to turn water into gasoline if you do and then threatening you if you don't. She was originally part of a display in the windows of Walt Disney World's Emporium. At the last minute, a crew of imagineers decided to animate her and added the audio only hours before shipping her to California. So successful was this creation that it is occasionally difficult to concentrate on the shop's wares, which include original "cels," short for celluloids, from Disney animated classics (priced from around $75 for a single image unframed to about $1,000 for a set of four in a good case); interestingly enough, similar items used to sell for $1 each in Fantasyland. Disneyland Wedg. wood plates, Mickey and Minnie Christmas figurines and plates, Mickey Mouse telephones, and similar items round out the selection. To see the witch in action, ask the Disneylander at the cash register. Don't forget to look at the exhibits of Disney products from past decades in the case along the south wall.