Artists Caley Hicks and Thomas Scott will be at D-Street in WDW on March 29th from 5 PM to 7 PM to sign the newly released Cutesters 5: En Vogue series, the first to use the new Minnie platform. Like we do with all signing, we suggest that you say hi and thank them for all their hard work, even if you don’t have anything for them to sign.
Which Cutesters 5 figures will you get signed?
Someone over at eBay must have had some time on his hands. And a pair of coveralls. It looks like we have another dumpster dive find. And while this one looks better then most, we still caution anyone from ever purchasing these “finds”.
Now for the interesting part. It looks like Maria Clapsis is at it again with a great looking holiday figure. It seems like these regular figures are the reason we no longer see new editions of Holiday series. Labeled “Independence Day 2013”, this piece looks perfect. I am totally going to get my dad one. I also enjoy the old school flag in the ears, one star for each of the original states in the union. Interesting fact: Did you know that originally when a state was added they added both a star AND a stripe. That got to be too much so they nixed the stripes, and just continued with the stars. We expect to see this in stores late May or early June, but that’s just our speculation.
What do you think of this figure?
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Ep. 109 Bearded Man This week we talk to Disney Design Group artist Thomas Scott. We get a glimpse at what goes into the making of a Vinylmation line and where he sees the future of the hobby. We also get to know more about him as an artist. We also of course deliver the news of the week and the latest release dates and events. |
Can you believe Tokyo Disneyland has been around for 30 years? That seems almost impossible. To celebrate they are getting three open box figures, that I have to admit, look pretty sweet. I really like the one with the Napoleonic Sea Captain with his telescope. Two great accessories. Each figure will be 1200 Yen and will probably be available near the celebration of the 30th. The first figure celebrates the grand opening of Tokyo Disney and he holds what looks to be a retro park guide. The sea captain represents the grand opening of Tokyo Disney Sea. While the third figure is celebration the 30th anniversary with a Mickey balloon accessory.
Thanks to vinylmation kingdom and twitter user hicgrape for this picture.
Do you think one of the park sets this year will be an all Tokyo set for the anniversary, like WDW and Paris?
According to Vinylmation Kingdom, the Cutesters en Vogue series will release in Disneyland Paris about a month before the March 29 US release date. They may also show up on the Disney Store UK online site. VK had this photo on their website:
The photo shows the side of the tray which confirms our assumption that the flower bouquet is in fact the chaser. See the whole lineup with variants here.
It was Urban 2’s turn to visit Walt Disney World for some photos. See if you can guess where some of these locations are.
On Friday, April 5 Disney Design Group artist Tyler Dumas will meet with guests and sign his April 2013 Poster Art series merchandise at D-Street Orlando from 5-7pm. Tyler’s April design is one of my top three favorites of the entire series. (see the entire series here) This is a look at the calendar page:
Here is a look at the Vinylmation:
I think they translated the design to the Mickey platform as well as they could, but it falls a little flat to me when compared to the 2-D art on the poster. There will also, of course, be a pin available to purchase.
Now if Tyler’s artwork here looks familiar to Walt Disney World fans, it should. Tyler is the artist behind the Cinderella Castle collage that was used on merchandise to celebrate the 40th anniversary of WDW in 2011.
Tyler also created to logo for the “Room for One More” event at WDW that celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Haunted Mansion.
Tyler is also no stranger to Vinylmation. He has his autograph on the bottom of a few vinyl Mickey feet, including:
Click image below to reveal the Disney Store’s High School Chaser. It was posted on the Vinylmation Exchange Facebook page by JoSzz Chen. This set has came out yesterday so it’s on shelves now. I have to say that this is a pretty good chaser. Love the accessory!
Fantasia 7 will be released at D-Streets and Online on April 26. The combo was designed by Thomas Scott, will retail for $24.95 and is LE 1500. Today, we got our first glimpse of this pair.
First up is Zeus. And here he is from the Disney film…
The second figure in the pack is Hephaestus.
And here is a screen shot of him from the film…
Urban Redux Explained
Release Date: March 22, 2013
D-Streets and Disney Stores
$12.95
Artist Signing on Friday, March 22 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at D Street in Orlando. Disney Design Group artists, Maria Clapsis, Billy Davis, Caley Hicks, Monty Maldovan and Thomas Scott will there.
Update 04/01/13 Here are all 24 Super Mystery Chasers:
Update 03/24/13 If someone has pulled a “Super Mystery Chaser” they have not shared it publicly at this point. However, custom artist Josh Edwards has posted the following info:
“24 SUPER MYSTERY CHASERS(4 each from six artists) Super Mystery Chasers are blank vinylmation figurines that are personally hand-drawn by each Vinylmation designer. Each is a one of kind creation. Soooooo draw your own conclusions. To me it doesn’t sound like a full blown custom but something quick that was drawn on the figure.”
Until one is revealed, we still have to call this a rumor, but the info is said to come directly off a Cast Member set info sheet.
Update 03/22/13 Urban Redux was released today. We have a photo from Enrique Pita of his Space Monkey Chaser:
And a photo from Michael Bimonte on Vinylmation Exchange of some of the pre-packaged hand signed (not stamped on) figures:
Update 03/19/13 The Disney Parks Blog has revealed more secrets to the Redux series. They included artist signed figs, super chasers and the reveal of another variant!
“Each tray will contain at least one of each of the five known designs shown on the packaging. The tray will also contain at least one of the following three figures – a “mystery” chaser, a variant figure or a super mystery chaser. We also added fun surprises to Urban Redux, like a small number of figures hand signed by the artists that we mixed into the trays.” – Thomas Scott
You can see the Red Ninja and previously unknown Purple Monster variants above. I also love the reveal that artist signed figures are mixed into the trays. Great addition! I guess since I’m not a numbers person, I never looked at the ratios the way Thomas Scott explained above. So the fun part about buying a tray is you will get one of each of the 5 basic figures, and then you will get something very special as well. This reminds me personally of cases of baseball cards where special game used, autographed and chaser cards are seeded by ratio in the packs. I am really liking this.
We also now have a photo of that 8 box tray. We have yet to see the Super Mystery Chaser revealed to our knowledge. Lastly, the blog posted a nice photo of all three Lucky Cat combo topper variants.
Update 03/16/13 We know have photos of the Lucky Cat Combos, Variant, and what seems to be a chaser. They were all revealed at last night’s DLR trade night. All the photos in this update are from Vinylmation World.
Also on preview, was what appears to be one of the Mystery Chasers… a Space Monkey. As noted in a comment by Mystery Man, this figure has two different faces. A regular monkey on the front and a space monkey on the back (back of figure is shown in photo below).
Update 03/14/13 Set mistakenly released at DHS… some secrets of the series are revealed. Some of the highlights:
Check out this post for some discussion and updates of the surprises.
Urban Redux is the reboot of the Urban series. We have been told this series will be a little different. We do know it is a 6 figure mystery box set as opposed to the standard 12. And we have this quote from the Disney Collections Blog “This new series will be filled with lots of new surprises.” To give an idea, here is the product poster we saw at Mickey’s Circus:
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Pig, Bunny, Turtle 1/6 |
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Cowboy 1/6 |
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Ant Farm 1/6 |
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Yellow Monster 1/6 |
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Ninja 5/24 |
