Nick LoCicero All this week, we are taking a look at the Disney artists behind the Robots Vinylmation series. Make sure to check out Robots Explained, Robots Uncovered and Podcast Ep. 30 for more Robots coverage. Enrique Pita Senior Designer Photo Copyright Disney For Disney Store Senior Designer Enrique Pita, it’s always been a dream to work for Disney. Born in Havana, … Read more
Kermit 3-D 9″ Animal 9″ Today Vinylmation.com announced that the Kermit 3-D and Animal 9″ figures that are part of the Muppets 2 set will be released on August 5th at both D-Streets. Each piece is by Monty Maldovan and will retail for $44.95. There will only be 1500 of each piece. Are you picking … Read more
All this week, we are taking a look at the Robots Vinylmation series. Make sure to check out Robots Explained, Robots Uncovered and Podcast Ep. 30 for more Robots coverage. It’s funny how much detail is put into something that is meant to be thrown out by the consumer, but Disney has given us some great packaging for Vinylmation lately. … Read more
Check out the new video from vinylmation.com that Disney made to announce the Robots Vinylmation Set. I like this video a lot. What do you think?
All this week, we are taking a look at the Disney artists behind the Robots Vinylmation series. Make sure to check out Robots Explained, Robots Uncovered and Podcast Ep. 30 for more Robots coverage. Marcella Lau Senior Manager, Design Photo Copyright Disney The daughter of a Southern California native, Marcella Lau was born and raised in Pasadena, California (the home … Read more
Disney released this picture of the backs of all the 3″ Robots. I especially love the back of the Mystery Chaser!
The Disney Store was kind enough to send us over a Vinylmation Robot to share with you today. We were like a couple of nerdy sci-fi geeks when we got this package in the mail. We carefully opened the vintage style blind box. Then ripped apart the foil to uncover… Steampunk Bot! This C3-P0 look … Read more
Ep. 030 Gold – Chaser We are half way thru 2011. Time to give out our Vinylmation report cards. On this special School themed chaser episode, we give a grade to each set released so far in 2011. We also talk about the upcoming Robots series and talk to Zoe about the Disneyland Passholder exclusive … Read more
All this week, we are taking a look at the Disney artists behind the Robots Vinylmation series. Make sure to check out Robots Explained, Robots Uncovered and Podcast Ep. 30 for more Robots coverage. Gereld Mendez Senior Designer Photo Copyright Disney After his graphic design education in Mexico City, Mexico, Gerald Mendez came to the … Read more
Disney just sent us these pictures from the site of an archaeological dig. If you have been wondering where these great looking vintage Robots came from… here are some details. Copyright Disney It appears a dig uncovered this box. It came with a mysterious warning. But The Disney Store decided to wipe off the dirt, break the … Read more
Both of these have already been seen on the shelves at Disneyland Paris, but today, Disney announced a July 29 release date stateside for both Davy Crockett and Animal Kingdom Crate. They will be released at both D-Streets as well as a “limited quantity” available at the Disney Store Online. Check them out below and … Read more
Copyright Disney We first saw Doug and Porkchop as some “dumpster dives” on eBay, now Disney has official given us some product shots and a release date. This Chris Chapman designed set will be an Online exclusive and will hit the Disney Store Online on July 29. Doug is LE 1000 and retails for $26.95. … Read more
Here is you look at both the 3″ and 9″ figures in the Robots series. Robots is a set of 11 blind box Vinylmation with 1 Mystery Chaser and 3 limited edition 9″ figures. Robots is exclusive to Disney Stores and was designed by artists Oscar Mendez, Jim Valeri, Enrique Pita, Gerald Mendez and Marcella … Read more
Earlier this week, we posted an article asking for the end of Limited Edition Vinylmation. Many of your responded both pro and con. One reader submitted a strong rebuttal to our argument. Here is Brian’s Case FOR Limited Edition Vinylmation: DV, as much as I love your site, I am in complete opposition to your cause. LE’s … Read more
This morning at 3 AM (EST) I went to check out the DisneyStore.com and look what popped up. Usually when they update the products the store does not shut, so this must mean something bigger is happening. Any ideas? Do you think Vinylmation will have anything to do with it? How long will it last? … Read more
Last week after picking up my Pirates of the Caribbean Vinylmation I figured I would go and have some fun at Disneyland. After walking around the park for a while, my bad seemed a bit too light. When I looked down into my D-Street bag, the six Pirate figures that I purchased were missing! There was … Read more