The Disney Vinylmation Events page made the announcement that Villains 3 is coming to Disney Stores this summer. No other details given as of this post. So… let the speculation begin! Let us know who you want in this set. I think we are long overdue for a Gaston myself.
As we have been talking about, the Disney Store will celebrate it’s 25th anniversary on March 28. We are leaning more and more to a non-release of the light up series, but they will give us at least one special commemorative figure on that day.
This clear figure designed by Jim Valeri is filled with Mickey head shaped confetti. Each figure will actually have a unique design. No word on the price or edition size. They will be released in an open window box.
I can say this figure doesn’t excite me. I don’t see a big reason to add it to my collection. Besides not really being into the design, I don’t really see the need to add memorabilia celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Disney Store. It’s not something I can jump on. Believe me, I gave Disney a ton of my money for WDW 40th anniversary stuff, so I get celebrating milestones, but not this one. What are your thoughts?
Update: Check out WDW Trade Night Wrap Up for more complete info and better pics!
Vinylmation artist Eric Caszatt (@bigcrazy1) twetted this today:
Robots 2? Maybe, although I figured that would be a Disney Store product and I wouldn’t think Eric would be tweeting it… maybe we will see tonight at the WDW Trade Event? I sure hope we see some good stuff there like Park 8 LEs… but this will do. Look at the light on his head! This bot is fantastic.
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Ep. 062 Cursive |
On the podcast today we reviewed every set that came out in 2012 by giving it a score of between 0-10 (like the judges in Gymnastics do). Here are our scores. Post your scores on any sets and compare.
The winner of the Gold Medal (top score) was the Disney Character Star Wars set with a perfect 10.0 from both judges.
Silver went to Park 8, Park 9, Jr. 6 Snow White.
And Bronze went to the Mascot and Japanese Zodiac Series.
| Under the Big Top | Nick – 6 MC – 6 |
| Disney Store 25th Anniversary | Nick – 6.5 MC – 8 |
| Villains 3 | Nick – 8.5 MC – 7 |
| Furry Friends | Nick – 7 MC – 5 |
| Urban 9 | Nick – 7 MC – 7.5 |
| Park 8 | Nick – 10 MC – 8.5 |
| Park 9 | Nick – 9.5 MC – 9 |
| Park 10 | Nick – 8 MC – 8.5 |
| Robots 2 | Nick – 6 MC – 6.5 |
| Animation 2 | Nick – 7.5 MC – 8 |
| Monorail Cars | Nick – 7 MC – 4 |
| Cutesters at the Beach | Nick – 7 MC – 7.5 |
| Mascots | Nick – 10 MC – 8 |
| Phineas and Ferb | Nick – 8.5 MC – 8.5 |
| Disney Tunes | Nick – 9 MC – 8.5 |
| Disney Character Star Wars | Nick – 10 MC – 10 |
| Jr. 5 | Nick – 5.5 MC – 5 |
| Jr. 6 | Nick – 9.5 MC – 9 |
| So Tasty | Nick – 8 MC – 7.5 |
| D-Tour | Nick – 7.5 MC – 8 |
| DLR Commemorative | Nick – 7 MC – 6 |
| Holiday 3 | Nick – 8.5 MC – 7.5 |
| Chinese New Year | Nick – 4 MC – 7.5 |
| Japanese Zodiac | Nick – 8.5 MC – 9.5 |
| Color Block | Nick – 3 MC – 2 |
| Theme Park Favorites | Nick – 6 MC – 3.5 |
Last year we picked our favorite new vinyls as our All Star Baseball teams. This year we went to the Vinylympics and picked our Dream Basketball team. These figures not only seem like good fits for the positions but they also were the best vinyls so far in 2012.
| Position | Blind Box Bashers | D-Street Destroyers |
| MC | Nick | |
| Center | Punk Stitch | Duffy |
| Power Forward | Light Up Hippo | Stormtrooper Donald |
| Small Forward | Big Top Chaser(s) | Dapper Dan |
| Point Guard | Perry | Carl |
| Shooting Guard | Chernobog | Mascot Goofy |
| Benches | Dapper Dans King (James) Mickey |
Tattered Dress Snow White Magic Kingdom Ticket |
| Equipment Manager | Nerds Figment | |
| Team Captain | Director Mickey | |
| Coach | K. Murase | Maria Clapsis |
Leave a comment and tell us who your Dream Team for this year would be!
Over at the rarely used vinylmation.fr, there’s now word that Disneyland Paris will be seeing the release of Star Wars 2 on August 31st, 2012.
According to the site they will be available at the Pueblo Trading Post in Frontierland. That means France only has to wait a week to get them. Awesome.
Over at the DisneyStore.com they are having a Buy One Get One sale of So Tasty and Tunes vinylmation. Just pick up 2 and the second one will be free. The sale lasts from now until August 26th at 11:59 PM PST. For all the details see the image from the website below.
I understand the sale on Tunes, they have been around a while. But So Tasty feels like it just came out, especially on the heels of the Comic Con Exclusives. Maybe that experience has left a bad taste in their mouths. Will you be picking any up with this sale?
Today vinylmationtraders.com found some pictures of a new limited edition set from Animation 2. Similar to the Park 7 Kitchen Kabaret and the Alice in Wonderland Cheshire set, this looks like a limited edition set of 3″ figures. Check out Bernard and Bianca from The Rescuers.
Both figures are by Casey Jones and is $26.95.
They are from the 1977 Disney animated film.
They also reported that the Fife and Drum set will be released at $44.95 on January 27th.
Also, the 9″ Park 7 ELP Dragon for $74.95.
That seems steep for a single 9″ and our look at the side of the 9″ Park 7 shows it isn’t accompanied by a 3″.
Great addition to the set, and I’m glad to see some 3″ Limited Editions. Although I wish Fife and Drum were 10 bucks cheaper. What are your thoughts on The Rescuers?
Looks like there is a new D-Tour design out there, one that we never saw from Disney. eBay seller pincrusaders has pictures of a D-Tour design that he bought and is now selling. The packaging is D-Tour but the design was not shown by Disney when they put up the list of figures.
The headphones seem similar to the ones we’ve seen on concept art for 80’s Dale.
How many new designs will we see?
