Disneyland memorabilia auction brings in $1.7 million

LOS ANGELES - A Disneyland memorabilia collector has taken a cue from Elsa and decided to "Let It Go."

Van Eaton Galleries says nearly 1,000 items - including a bird from the Enchanted Tiki Room show and an original skeleton from the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction - brought in $1.7 million during a weekend auction held online and in Sherman Oaks, California.

Bids came from around the world.

The top seller was a green 1970s-era animatronic Tiki Room bird, which fetched $153,400. The 1967 Pirates skeleton, which holds a cutlass and chugs from a bottle, went for $129,800.

Other items offered by the anonymous collector were the original Frontierland cigar store Indian, a 1960s Mark Twain Riverboat life preserver, a doll from it's a small world and poster artwork for "Captain EO," a short 3-D film starring Michael Jackson and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.