Mickey’s Circus- Christmas P
Release Dates:
D-Street November 16th, 2012
Online November 30th, 2012
Artist Ron Cohee
Agent P as a Christmas Tree
Agent P’s World Showcase Adventure to Replace Kim Possible at Epcot
In an interview with TravelWeekly.com recently, Disney Parks chairman Tom Staggs was asked…
Q: A number of the park rides are based on movies. How about the Disney Channel shows?
To which he responded…
A: We have an interactive experience based around Kim Possible in Epcot and will be converting it to one developed around Phineas and Ferb. It’s possible that we could see other attractions that are hard assets, but we do think about what their life cycle will be.
So, it is official: the Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure is to become history after just 3 years and replaced with a Phineas and Ferb experience that is rumored to have guests join Perry the Platypus (Agent P) in a mission to defeat the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz (cue Evil Inc. jingle).
No further details are available at this time, but stay tuned to WDWNT as more information becomes available.
UPDATE: Disney has since confirmed our report with official information
Greetings from Epcot!
All the would-be secret agents out there will find a great new interactive experience at Epcot this year.
Coming this summer, Disney Phineas & Ferb: Agent P’s World Showcase Adventure is based on the wily secret-agent alter-ego of Perry the Platypus – faithful pet to the title characters from Disney’s animated series “Phineas & Ferb.” Although just a simple pet to Phineas and Ferb, Perry turns into Agent P in each episode to help stop the misguided plans of his nemesis, Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
Epcot guests will transform into secret agents to help Agent P thwart some of Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s most daring plots. Agents will use a “high-tech secret agent device” to receive clues for each case. Solving the clues will take agents to different places throughout seven World Showcase countries at Epcot – Mexico Pavilion, France Pavilion, Germany Pavilion, Norway Pavilion, Japan Pavilion, China Pavilion and the United Kingdom Pavilion. Agents will scour each country for clues, evil “Inators,” and – with a little bit of luck – help Agent P defeat Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
Everyone ready to don their fedoras and help Agent P? I can’t wait!
Disney Phineas & Ferb: Agent P’s World Showcase Adventure will arrive at Epcot and the current Disney Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure will close in summer.
Release Day Friday: November 30, 2012
Only two items released today and they are both online releases of products already available elsewhere.
Next week is set up as a slow release day as well. According to Disney, all we will see is the Mad T Party LE combo in California.
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Everything is Better with a Platypus
Disney has officially announced a Perry the Playpus set! First question, what has taken so long? No great details other than what looks like a May 25th release and it is called an Open Edition series. Meaning it points to an open window series that will be around for a while instead of a limited release which is what they call the blind boxes. The announcement on the Vinylmation Blog is not for the set release, but for an artist signing with Ron Cohee on Friday, May 25 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at D-Street Orlando. We are so excited to be bringing this news to you and hope there is more in the near future. But for now, speculate away on the characters and mark May 25 on your calendars. Some of the givens should be: (all pictures copyright Disney)
Phineas
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Ferb
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Perry
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Agent P
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Candice
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Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz
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A great choice would be Major Monogram
WDW Trading Event; News We Learned
The WDW Trading Night was full of previews as usual. Not much we haven’t seen in some form or another, but some great news including: Release Dates for Park 9, Duffy and Park Starz Variants. A ghost bride reveals herself for the first time. We got our first look at the Mascot Series. And oh ya, we learned of more Mickey’s Circus vinyls for the fall event!
MICKEY’S CIRCUS
Registration: May 19
Event Dates: September 7-9
Details: We were told of some Vinylmation that are not yet in the preview catalog, but will be available for the event. There will be two 9″ figures each with an LE 100. The CMs would not disclose the identity of the figures. There will also be another 3″ two pack featuring two bears. Again, the identity of the bears was not disclosed, but we can speculate based on the pins and Disney bears that we know. No Vinyls were on display, but we did get a look at 3 of the special pins:
Breakfast Pin
Dessert Pin
Early Bird Pin
MASCOTS
Release Date: June 22
Price: $12.95
Details: 4 figure open window series. Foam fingers, flags and hats highlight this series.
Donald! The faces on this series are amazing. The hat is fantastic.
Goofy has one of the best accessories I have ever seen… foam finger! What do you think of the shape of the right arm to make that effect happen?
Mickey has a cool baseball cap.
We have seen this Pluto, but this is why you don’t buy dumpster divers… the real figure comes with a flag. How cool is that!!?? Maria Clapsis has out done herself with this series.
PARK 9
Release Date: July 20
Price: TBA
Details: 12 figure blind box series. We have seen a picture of the pin box in the past, but we have some higher quality pictures of the pins here that show some of the detail.
AK Camp Mickey and Minnie Bear, AK Bat, ???
Typhoon Lagoon Gator, Dapper Dan, MK Train
Flick’s Flyers, Phantom Manor (Disneyland Paris) Ghost, Dumbo
Skyway
No Dole Whip pin, but the figure was on display
So was the Dumbo
PHINEAS AND FERB
Release Date: May 25
Price: $12.95
Details: 6 figure open window series. We got our first real up-close look and see the detail in the ears.
How cool is Agent P’s hat?
Candice’s expression makes more sense now that we see Jeremy is in her ear! Great touch!
Buford. Artist Ron Cohee went with clear ears and put some tufts of hair up into them.
Doofinshmirtz
Ferb. A better job could not have been done without a mold change to capture Phineas and Ferb’s faces!
Phineas
NERDS ROCK!
Release Date: no date given
Price: TBA
Details: Stitch and Figment “add-ons” to open window series. A really bad tease because no release date given, but they must be getting close… right???
Figment
Stitch
DUFFY
Release Date: June 22 (online), July 6 (parks)
Price: TBA
Details: 2 figure open window series
I was worried about the color, but looks great in person.
The detail in person is great. They look so well produced and designed. Also, the size of Duffy sitting is the size of a 3″ Vinylmation. It appeared it might be a bit bigger. Not a bad thing.
PARK STARZ VARIANTS
Release Date: Varies (see below)
Price: TBA
Details: 4 variant figures to the Park Starz series. Each has an LE of 2500
Haunted Mansion Bride (June 8). The surprise of the bunch and in my opinion the best. Makes perfect sense and looks great.
Figment (June 22 online only). Love the sweater. The online only release for such a localized WDW character makes little sense to me.
Abe Lincoln (May 25)
Yeti (June 22)
First Look: Phineas and Ferb Vinylmation!
Update: 4/27/12 Where’s Perry? On there he is! In Agent P form. Picture from @njoysiscarett. We’ll need to see him in greater detail. but he looks kinda like the other Perrys we’ve seen from custom artists.
What a great unexpected news day!!! As we see the concept art for the new Phineas and Ferb interactive game coming to EPCOT later this year, Tomio posted these preview pictures of some of the Phineas and Ferb Vinylmation figures.
Phineas, Ferb, Candice, Doofenshmirtz and Buford are shown. Where is Perry??? Hopefully this isn’t the entire lineup. We are thinking a May 25th release for these as there is a signing set up at D-Street Orlando that day with the artist Ron Cohee. And from Attractions Magazine, here is a look at the concept art I mentioned:
Robert Ashburn’s 4/12-13/12 Epcot & Magic Kingdom Photo Report
WDWNT Reporter Robert Ashburn visited Epcot and the Magic Kingdom this weekend, and he took plenty of photos from both parks to share with us:
Test Track graces the maps during its final days
You still have a month to check out the Flower and Garden Festival
Habit Heroes and the soon-to-open VISION House on the signage inside Innoventions
Still closed…
The VISION House still behind walls
Opens April 22nd, but we’ll have media coverage beginning April 21st
Habit Heroes and VISION House are both not on the wall yet
The ImageWorks at Imagination! looks empty since the new company took over
Amazing Pictures is now in charge of this photo location
Work continues on the facade of the Seas with Nemo and Friends
This seperate and elevated piece of pavement will take guests to a new queue area for Turtle Talk
A new whole in the facade will be the entrance for Turtle Talk
Inside the queue, a new enclosed area is visible, this will be the Turtle Talk queue
Today was the last day for the original Test Track, it closes tomorrow for refurbishment
MouseGear has an entire section of Phineas and Ferb merchandise
An interesting new shirt
Sorry Oswald, but I like the classic character shirt…
Pretty cool!
Some new shirts with a tropical theme
The “unfriend” shirt is pretty brilliant
A new EPCOT Center shirt
The Southwest Black Bean Flatbread is a fairly new offering
Moving to the Magic Kingdom, the tarps on Center Street are gone
It looks great
Plaza Ice Cream is back after a lengthy refurbishment
The menu is pretty much unchanged, but the interior was spruced up
A short line for Sorcerers? Wow…
The new menu at Sunshine Tree Terrace
The torches were turned back on after years of just sitting there, which is a very good thing to see
The flash shows the great job they did repairing the facade
The Avengerail passing through the Contemporary
Jeff Lukas’ 4/15/12 Downtown Disney Photo Report
WDWNT Reporter Jeff Lukas visited Downtown Disney on Sunday and has some newsworthy photos to share with us, so let’s take a look:
They are pretty much rebuilding the entire top portion of the building
Concept art of what it will look like when completed
The conversion of this section to the Lava Lounge has begun
The signage around marketplace was freshened up not too long ago
I can’t believe this is still open…
The former trading area outside of Disney’s Pin Traders is now a Ridemakerz demonstration area
New shirts with the fab five…
It’s a bit strange that Goofy looks modern and the others have a more classic look
Some new tropical-themed shirts
Phineas and Ferb shirts
New Pirate shirts
I really like these 2012 shirts
Weird…
That’s funny…
Still cool…
Still closed…
KUNGABUSH!
One fo the few things open in Pleasure Island
This is scary…
I hope so…
Blink by Wet Seal opened recently
No visible changes to the Splitsville facade
PEOPLE!