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Ep. 055 Elephant Bathing Pool
This week we talk about Furry Friends and Disney’s decision to pull the product from store shelves. Annemarie joins us once again to give her first hand input. We also review the newly released Animation 2 series. There are a ton of new releases dates to let you know about as well. And we interview special guest Mellisa French. A teach who used Vinylmation as the base of a series of class art projects.
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Update: 1/16/12 I was so excited today when I saw Vinylmation World tweet this picture of the Japan trading boxes I’ve been looking for!
It also seems like the article confirms this light up box trading only occurs at specific times… “every Saturday and Sunday from “13:00-14:00, 17:00-18:00.” We also got to see the “spin the wheel” box that the images below refer to.
1/21/11 I was peeking at the Japan Disney Store website the other day, and thanks to the handy Google page translator, I was able to make my way around just fine. One of the interesting things I discovered was the interesting trading method they have inside the Disney Stores there. Update: 1/17/11 According to a comment by a reader, this is only available by the large Disney Store near Disneyland.
It appears that a Mystery Trading box, similar to ours, has a light on it that illuminates each door at random. The guest, instead of picking a number, pushed a “STOP” button on a control pad that halts the light on a numbered door. You then trade into that number.
It says this replaces “the wheel with the numbers.” So maybe you never got to pick you own number. The description also makes this kind of mystery trading sound like “an event” and not normal everyday trading. Does anyone have any experience with this? I’d love to see pictures of the actual trading boxes.
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Mike Boon’s Headless Horseman
Our friend Mike Boon (who you know from the cool Muppets 3 and 4 speculation art) has been working on a set of Sleeping Hallow custom Vinylmation. With the release of the Headless Horseman in the Animation 2 set, he felt it the appropriate to release his idea of what it should look like. What do you think? Do you like it more then the Disney version? Check out the whole thing, and his post about it at his site. |
Disney’s Vinylmation FB page shares a picture of an upcoming 9″ Roger Rabbit Vinylmation!!!! No word on what set it belongs to.
We saw Evilos tweet some pictures of his latest creation so we asked him about the project and his love of Star Wars.
“A lot of my work gravitates towards many things I enjoyed as a kid, Star Wars being one of them. Mickey in Carbonite was one of my early customs made before Star Wars Series One was even released by Disney. When I was a kid, I played with Star Wars figures all the time. Like most kids from my generation our youth revolved around toys, circa 1980’s. So being a Star Wars collector I’ve had a few of these card backs from Comic Con and thought to myself hey why not repackage these vinylmation into a vintage style looking toy. The challenge for me was finding custom made bubbles and cutting out a seamless spots for the ears to pop out of, so not to damage the overall look of the vinylmation. My early carded Star Wars customs, I needed to cut the ears down so they would fit. This drew most of the criticism from that series so I’m happy I was able to figure out how to keep the ears and still make it look like these were produced many years ago.
I most likely will be producing more of these and have some for trade. I would urge collectors who can make it to come out to the trading night at Disneyland Feb.16th to see these in person and maybe trade up for one. I have no real plans to sell these but I do have the Boba Fett up for auction at the moment, so If you want something unique I would ask fans to check it out:
Thank you. Evilos”
Also check out other similar work by Evilos
Park Starz Series 1 Variants Explained
Release Dates: Summer 2012 (Various)
Where: D-Streets and Online
Price: $24.95
LE: Varies
Artists: Thomas Scott and Casey Jones
Details: Each variant is sold in a stand alone tin in which you know what figure you are getting. There will be a signing on June 29th at D-Street Orlando from 5p-7p with Thomas Scott and Casey Jones.
Update 5/25/12 Park Starz Squid variant announced. Possible Comic Con release. Online release on July 13. It will be LE 2000 and $24.95.
Update 5/29/12 Release date for Abe moved to June 15. Release date for Bride confirmed at June 8. LE for Bride confirmed at 999, while the others are still 2500. Also, a $24.95 price tag is confirmed.
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Today we’re going back and looking at some of the newer characters from Toy Story 3. Thanks again to Mike Boon for such wonderful artwork! |
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Chuckles Toy Story 3 (2010) Voiced by: Bud Luckey The perpetually dour Chuckles isn’t fond of Lotso’s scheme to turn Sunnyside into a prison. Eventually, Chuckles makes his way into the home of Bonnie (along with Andy’s other toys) and he finally smiles after seeing Bonnie has drawn him with a big grin on his face. Chuckles with a smile would make a great variant. “Great variant ideas. They seem to be a standard in Vinylmation sets these days, so why not imagine them as part of future sets!”-M.C. |
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Trixie Toy Story 3 (2010) Voiced by: Kristen Schaal Rex’s dinosaur partner from Toy Story 3 – on-line name Velocistar237 – would look great with some real horns (Disney can use the same ones they used for Buttercup). If not, they could be painted on the ears. “I love the idea of horns. If not three, then just the one on the nose!”-M.C. |
| Mike Boon joins us every day this week with his speculation of a Toy Story Series 2 vinylmation. For past posts click here. You can also check Mike out at his own blog: baboondesign.blogspot.com | |
by Nick
In between recording the various podcasts I already do and working my normal paying jobs, I had some time I only wasted by sleeping and eating. So when Austin came to me with the idea for a brand new podcast, I said why not? His idea was to discuss “This Week in Disney History.” We brainstormed a few different ways to present this podcast, and it is still a work in progress, but we just finished our third episode and would like to present to you, the YesterEARS podcast.
About the Show
The concept we settled on is to focus on four main topics per show. They are; a memorable moment in Disney Parks history, Disney Movie history, Disney Music history and Disney Cartoon history. This format will allow us to continue into future years and not repeat topics when the same dates roll around. We also run down the birthdays of people connected in some way to anything Disney. This segment usually creates some wandering conversations about our personal thoughts about these people or what they did. In the middle of the show, we have some fun by creating a spoof commercial for one of the events we found out about that week. Each show, we also present some trivia questions for you to answer and then we challenge each other to do or watch something related to what we discovered that show.
The fantastic thing about this podcast is how much we learn about Disney history. Not just the events themselves, but all the little details that are uncovered when researching them. We hope you learn something each show and are taken down memory lane right along with us. As Disney fans ourselves, we have a connection to a lot of the topics discussed and we share our experiences with you. And we encourage you to share with us as well.
Contact Us
Website: http://yesterears.blogspot.com
Email: YesterEARS@gmail.com
Phone: 260 M EARS 28
Twitter: @YesterEARS
We enjoy seeing and spotlighting new custom artists. Today, for the first time, we share with you the work of John W. from McAdoo, PA.
Destination Vinylmation: What inspired you to put Jumba in a Santa outfit?
John: The moment I saw Jumba, he instantly became my favorite Disney Character. And even though I was not lucky enough to get one of the original 9 inch vinyls, I had to have a Jumba for my collection. So instead of just making a normal Jumba.
The image of him dressed up as Santa in the final credits of Lilo and Stitch just hit me. Plus I started doing right when we were taking down our decorations in January, so that helped me with the mood.
DV: Your second custom features Mickey playing football for the Nu-Way State Orange Crush, tell us about this fantasy team.
John: I love to play a lot of NCAA Football on the Ps3. And even though my favorite team is the FAU Owls, e like to use some created/fantasy teams when we play. And the Company I work for is called Nu-Way and my nickname is the Orange Crush because I love the color orange. So I put two and two together for a very original name. I’ve been lucky enough to win each year and hold the overall record versus some of my friends and rivals like the Oswego Ocelots, the Sunshine Valley Pirates and the Death Valley Reapers… lol.
DV: What position do you think Mickey would play if he was on the team?
John: I think if Mickey were to play football for the Orange Crush he would definitely be the QB. Since Mickey’s always # 1 and would be able to lead the team over anyone he faces. Plus he got some big ears so he can hear when defenders are coming up on him from either side. 🙂
DV: Thank you for sharing your work and we hope to see more from you in the future.
John: Thank you so much for your time and I really really enjoy the site.
