Disney’s Cheapest Build-Your-Own Experience Is Now at Disney Springs!

Disney has a whole category of experiences where you make the souvenir instead of buying it.

Build a droid. Build a lightsaber. Get transformed into a princess. They are among the most popular things Disney sells, and the reason is obvious once you have done one. A shelf full of merchandise is a shelf full of merchandise. A thing you assembled yourself, in a room with someone who taught you how, is a different object entirely. You remember building it. You tell people about building it.

The catch with nearly all of them is that they live inside the parks. Droid Depot and Savi’s Workshop are behind a Hollywood Studios ticket. The princess makeover requires getting into a park or a resort. You cannot casually decide on a Tuesday afternoon to go make something.

Which is what makes this new one worth paying attention to.

Guests can now craft their own poison apple at Crystal Arts by Arribas Brothers in Disney Springs, and Disney Springs does not require admission to anything.

What It Is

The experience is called Craft Your Own Poison Apple, priced at $89.

A new sign appeared at the store on Wednesday, September 30, displaying a sample version. The apple is small and see-through, with crystals visible inside. The sample on display held red and green crystals.

The sign lays out the format in two lines:

“Trick: Craft your own apple Treat: Choose your magic crystals”

So the apple is the vessel and the customization is the crystal selection, which is very much the Arribas Brothers wheelhouse.

Crystal Arts is located in the Marketplace area of Disney Springs.

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Why Crystal Arts Is the Right Place for This

If you have walked past Crystal Arts a hundred times without going in, it is worth knowing what the shop actually is.

Crystal Arts is operated by Arribas Brothers, a family glass business that has been cutting and engraving glass at Walt Disney World for decades. They are one of the longest-running independent craft operations on the property, and the work is genuinely done on-site. The engraving happens in front of you.

In an era where a lot of Disney retail has drifted toward the same merchandise you can order online, a shop where someone cuts glass by hand while you watch is an increasingly unusual thing to find in a shopping district.

Which is relevant to something else happening at this store.

The Store Is Also Adding a Silhouette Studio

Part of Crystal Arts is currently under construction for a new Studio for the Silhouettes area.

It has been described as including “an interactive wish builder spot” with “cool lights” and other new features. What an interactive wish builder actually is remains unclear, and Disney has not elaborated.

But the direction is interesting. Silhouette cutting is one of the oldest crafts in Disney parks, a skill where an artist cuts your profile freehand out of black paper in about a minute. Adding a dedicated studio for it, in the same shop now offering a build-your-own glass apple, means Crystal Arts is leaning harder into handmade experiences at a moment when plenty of retail is going the other way.

That is a genuinely good sign for anyone who has been complaining that Disney shopping feels increasingly generic.

The $89 Question

Eighty-nine dollars for a small glass apple is nothing, and it is fair to ask whether it is worth it.

Two pieces of context help.

First, within Disney’s build-your-own category, this sits at the lower end. The park-based experiences generally run considerably higher, some of them several times this price. For a hands-on experience with a finished object at the end, $89 is on the accessible side of that range.

Second, and more importantly, there is no ticket attached. Every other major build-your-own experience at Walt Disney World requires you to be inside a park, which means a ticket, which means the real cost of the experience is the price plus admission. Disney Springs has free parking and no admission at all.

That makes this arguably the most accessible make-your-own souvenir experience at Walt Disney World, and for Central Florida locals without annual passes, possibly the only one that is practical.

About the Halloween Timing

Worth flagging, because it affects whether you should hurry.

The sign uses “Trick” and “Treat” as its two headers, which is unmistakably Halloween language, and the experience appeared on the last day of September.

Disney has not announced an end date, labeled it a limited-time offering, or said anything about its duration.

So this could be a seasonal offering tied to the Halloween window, or it could be a permanent addition that simply launched with a seasonal sign. Both are plausible, and nobody outside Disney knows which.

If you want one and you are visiting in October, the safe assumption is that it may not be there in December.

A Note for the Villain Crowd

The poison apple is one of those props that has quietly become shorthand.

It is from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which is where Disney animated features began, and it has become the item Disney villain fans reach for most, showing up on everything from ears to drinkware to jewelry. A glass version you assembled yourself, with crystals you selected, is a meaningfully more interesting object than another printed version of the same image.

If you have been wanting a villain souvenir that is not a t-shirt, this is a better one than most.

Before You Go

The experience is at Crystal Arts by Arribas Brothers in the Marketplace area of Disney Springs and is priced at $89.

Keep in mind that part of the store is currently under construction for the Silhouette Studio, so the layout may be different from what you remember.

And given the Halloween-coded signage with no announced end date, going sooner is the lower-risk choice.

Source: On-site reporting from Crystal Arts by Arribas Brothers at Disney Springs on September 30, 2026.