Second Urban 7 Variant- Cyclops
Well it looks like the Alien is not the only variant in Urban 7. Nick J pointed us to an ebay auction where the seller, ljmendelsohn, sold this green variant of the Cyclops for $175!
40th Anniversary Cast Trader Found!
Update: 5/21/11 According to Disney, the WDW Cast Traders at at the warehouse awaiting pick up by the various stores are the WDW resort. They will be available any day now in all 4 parks and at Downtown Disney trading locations. Have a magical search!
At the trade show tonight, DV reporter Ryan got this out of the Disney Mystery Box. It’s one of the two variants to the WDW 40th Anniversary set. This piece (and its counterpart 71 piece) will only be available by trading in a mystery box at the WDW resort. Ryan will have more info on numbers and such from the show later, but it’s nice to know these are finally here! (And they should be one of the first truly exclusive WDW pieces ever! Congrats to everyone who got one! We saw quite a few floating out there.
Celebration Variants! Where was your first visit?
Update: 4/7/11 On a hunch, we contacted our friend @milkyjoe75 and asked him to take a picture of the back of his 1st Visit 3″. Look what he found! Hong Kong also gets it’s own variant. We assume that this means there is one for Disneyland Paris also, and have contacted our friend in France to try to find out. Stay tuned!
4/6/11 Well, the rumors are true, and it looks like there will be a variant in the Celebrations 3″ set. Based on the fact that their are two parks, it looks like there are two different backs to the 1st Visit 3″. The rumor is that each one will only be available in the park it has on it’s back. But will shall see! Check them out…
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| 1st Visit Disneyland (back) |
1st Visit Walt Disney World (back) |
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| 1st Visit Hong Kong Disneyland (back) |
1st Visit Disneyland Paris (back) |
What do you think? Good idea? Bad idea?
Donald Spills All Colors of Paint in the Park 6 Variant
Our friend Aranya, over in France, got her hands on the Park 6 set when they released it last Friday (along with the TRON and Sushi set). In it she found this cool variant of the Wet Paint Donald. Makes a lot of sense right? Aranya says they cost 12.95 Euros. Could this be a direct comparison to the price here?
What do you think? Leave us a comment!
Another Cutesters Too Variant Confirmed
The Pin Connection on eBay has posted this Vinylmation up for sale:
There is a Yellow variant version of Happy Lolipops!
M.C.’s assumptions were correct! You can see the Blue Happy Lolipops on the right. We knew that was in the set. However, the boxes Cutesters Too came in had this picture:
So as it turned out, Disney tipped us off on a variant that was inside.
9″ Animation and more!
Well the big reveal was made this morning (at a little past midnight) so here’s our take of it all starting with the Animated 1 series in this post.
Two of the 9″s that are being released with the Animated 1 series on January 7th! The first is a 9″ + 3″ inch set of Elliot and Pete. Very cool. The second is Beast from Beauty and the Beast. Both look really well designed and they both make sense as larger figures as we talked about in past shows.
Later in the year four more 9″ from Animated 1 will come out. One will be the Hippo from Fantasia. Check out the tutu! (The first non-vinyl accessory!)
An then the big change in plans, and the news that will make everyone crazy! We heard a rumor that the chaser for Animated 1 would come in four variations. Well it turns out that might be closer to the truth then we first believed because we found out they are adding special Variant versions of characters randomily to boxes. Check out the non-pleasure island Pinocchio on the left and the regular version on the right (I assume the variant has no tail)
Variants almost ruined comics in the 90’s, so we shall see what they do to Vinylmation. What are your thoughts? Are you looking forward to figures to chase after to complete a set? Or are you annoyed by how large and difficult the “ultimate collection” is becoming?
Information from the 1/1/11 post at the Disney Vinylmation Blog
First Urban 7 Variant- Alien
Yesterday, (well technically today because it was blank all yesterday) Disney posted this sneak peak at the Urban 7 line. At first it wasn’t too interesting, we already knew the the alien and the penguin with the fish were part of the set. But then it hit me. That alien is different then the one we saw at the trade show!
The alien we saw at the trade show (on the right) was clear! We even commented on how cool the use of the clear was. So this is obviously a figure and it’s variant. Which is the variant however? The clear one? The solid one? Who cares? These are awesome!
What other figures from Urban 7 do you think might have variants. Check out all the figures here:
Urban 6 Variant – Blue Thumb
One of the weirdest, and thus coolest, variant choice ever – The Blue Thumb. Now maybe the gardener just hit his thumb and it swelled. Of maybe Disney’s Cirque went over to Universal and chopped off their competition’s finger, but I like it! Although the wrinkly butt is kinda strange.
Tell us what you think! Do you like the idea of variants? Or just special ones like this? (The other potential variants seem sorta lame compared to this one) Leave a comment.