Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Looks like Clover from Holiday 2 already made it down to Raglan Road in Downtown Disney
Attention: Vinylmation Traders
On Friday, March 18th from 6-9pm, there will be a Vinylmation trading event in the Contemporary Resort at WDW. In an effort to help out collectors going to the event, we invite you to leave a comment here and/or a post on our Facebook wall and let other collectors out there know what figures you are looking for. This will help everyone get a better idea of what figures to bring with them to the event. We can’t wait to trade with you and see you at WDW on Friday.
M.C.’s picture from a 2010 trading event at the Contemporary Resort
Mystery Urban 6 Vinylmation Pins Could Point to Future Figures
Thank you to Devin for pointing out a new Jumbo Vinylmation Pin he found on eBay. It’s an Urban 6 design and is the Mystery Chaser in the pin set. It is a Limited Edition of 250.
Film Camera Mickey
With a closer look around eBay, we found 3 more Jumbo Vinylmation Urban 6 Pins that are also Mystery Chasers in the pin set. All 4 pins are Limited Edition of 250.
Star Bright
Angel
Devil
Since we know the entire 3″ set, that comes out March 18th, these Jumbo pins point to possible 9″ Urban 6 figures. What do you think of these designs?
More Confusion with 9″ Animation 1
Update: 3/16/11 – Disney’s Vinylmation blog today states that the general release windows they talked about yesterday were referring to the release dates of these figures at the Disney Parks. Seems like they still might be sporadically available at select Disney Stores. We placed a call to a Tampa Disney store and they said they just got a couple Willie the Whales in on Monday. Maybe spreading out the releases across both Disney Stores and Parks will cut down on the extra 9″ figures that sit on the D-Street shelves for so long. We will keep you updated on an official release date for Animation 9″ at the Disney Parks.
Today the Disney Vinylmation Blog announced the the rest of the Animation 1 9″s release date’s are going to be spread out over the next year. Back on January 7th 2011 the first two 9″ figures were released in D-Street stores. That was Pete’s Dragon and the Beast. Now the blog states that Bolt and Merlin will officially be released in the Fall of 2011, and that sometime this spring we will be seeing Willie the Whale and the Hycacinth Hippo.
That’s interesting and all, but since January 29th, all of them have been available (on and off) at the NYC Times Square store, as well as various Disney Stores across the US. So that leaves us with the question: What is Disney doing with these? Why are they already out in some places, but not officially out? We’d love to know your opinion. Leave a comment at the bottom.
Stormtrooper of the Week #07
Don’t ya just hate practical jokes? I know Boba does. Beware!
Background photo from originaltrilogy.com
The Florida Project: Retro Mickey Sneak Peek
Today the Disney Vinylmation Blog released this picture of an upcoming vinyl from the Florida Project trade show (Sept 9-11 2011 WDW). Clearly a retro color take on Mickey, it’s color scheme is the same as a previous poster advertising the project:
This might indicate that their will be a 9″ that has this poster wrapped around it (similar to the Disneyland Poster series) or maybe just a mickey that’s colored in these colors? What do you think?
Pictures from the Disney Vinylmation Blog
and the Disney Pin Trading Blog
and the Disney Pin Trading Blog
More then an Earful
Here’s the second part of the preview Disney put out thanks to it’s 8,900+ followers on Facebook.
The Hollywood Studios Earful Tower.
This design is by Jason Zucker. No word on release date or size, but we think it’s probably a 9″. The design represents the water tower you can see in Hollywood Studios. At this point, the figure looks kinda dull. We won’t know till we see it in person, but for now it doesn’t do anything for us. I hope the final figure will have more detail in it. It would be really cool if the gaurd rail around it was actually three dimensional and was glued all around the head. Here’s what the real one looked like before the park’s name change:
Picture from mousellaneous.org
The tower was built in 1988 and was the symbol of the of the park until 2001 when the giant Sorcerer’s hat took over that role. The tower originally read “MGM Studios” but was painted over during the transition to the new name in early 2008. It’s a shame that Disney wouldn’t be putting the old logo on this vinylmation.
(In case you are wondering, the hat size for this feature is 342-3/8.)
Retro Weekend: 03/13/11
| Lots of cool news from the world of vinylmation this weekend. Here is a wrap up… |
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The Urban 6 Mickey Hats are now slated to be released on March 18th. |
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The TRON: Legacy set (already out in Hong Kong) was given a release date in the US, March 25th.
And a listener told us more about the artists involved. |
| We scored a big artist’s interview with Chris Chapman, which we first blogged about… |
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… and then we played the interview on our latest podcast. (Along with a review of Jrs. 3, Mystery Mailbag, and more!) |
| Finally, leader (listen/reader) Zoe sent in some nice pictures and information about the still not officially released Villains 1 9″/Jr sets. |
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Also worth noting is this week’s Destination Disney podcast. The gang talks with former Executive VP of Operations at Walt Disney World Lee Cockerell about Disney’s theme park’s disaster readiness. An informative listen. |
Maleficent and Sleeping Beauty: Up Close and In Hand
Here is a tweet from @zoekatherine on March 12:
“Sleeping Beauty Vinylmation! She is so cute! This is the first princess Vinylmation made! So exciting! :)”
She purchased these at the Mission Viejo, CA store. They also had the Jumba/Stitch and Julius/Minnie combos on the shelf as well. The Villains 9″ + Jr combos are not scheduled to be released until March 21st according to a Disney Blog post and the Disney Events page. Looks like some Villains escaped early. Here is a list of the stores Disney announced will be carrying these Villains:
Stockton Street, San Fransico, California
Mission Viejo, California
Cherry Hill, California
Fashion Valley, California
Montebello, California
Santa Monica, California
International Plaza, Tampa, Florida
State Street, Chicago, Illinois
North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Freehold, New Jersey
Times Square, NYC, New York
Roosevelt Field, Garden City, New York
Northpark, Texas
Zoe has been collecting Vinylmation since Park 2. Her favorite is Ariel from Park 2. Here are some more great pictures she sent into us.
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Destination Vinylmation Podcast Ep. 013 El Raton
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Ep. 013 El Raton
A big episode this week. Disney Artist Chris Chapman (Disney Afternoons) stops by to tell us about the creative process behind Vinylmation, his creations and much more. We chat about the potential Cutesters Too Variants. We review Jr Series 3 Good Luck Bad Luck. Of course we also deliver the latest news and release dates. As well as answer your questions in the Mystery Mail Bag.
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