Nick LoCicero A few interesting notes about the latest slue of Vinylmation releases. First off, D-Tour. One of the original six designs that we saw Disney release photos of was NOT available for purchase at D-Street this weekend. Flowers & Vines has not yet, to our knowledge seen the store shelves. In it’s place was a design … Read more
Another great tweet from @vinyl79. He found this Junior 5 box at Frontierland. The picture is a little blurry, but it seems to match up with the figures we talked about earlier this week. We don't even have an official release date for these from Disney.
There are so many little details around Disney’s Animal Kingdom. So with Urban 6 photos at EPCOT and Urban 7 at DHS, Austin and I decided to take Urban 8 around AK. Many of the pictures here were taken inside the Kali River Rapids queue. As always, you can find some different pics from this … Read more
Hey Haunted Mansion fans! Not only will you get a whole mystery set released (hopefully sometime this year) but today on the Disney Parks Blog they revealed this: Wow! Designed by Caley Hicks, this LE 750 pocket watch and 3″ Vinylmation combo is simply amazing. A ghostly figure looms over a tomb on the vinyl. … Read more
Junior 5 This & That Release Date: Rumored 1/27 Price: $8.95 These pictures were found on VinylmationTraders.net. The 5th of the Junior sets is themed This and That and pairs up either objects that we are used to putting together or total opposites. Apples & Oranges How does this Jr compare to the others? I … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
Disney’s Vinylmation FB page shares a picture of an upcoming 9″ Roger Rabbit Vinylmation!!!! No word on what set it belongs to.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
The Playwright sent us this picture from the NYC Times Square store. The Statue of Liberty Minnies are on sale for $6.00! Anyone going to NYC?
@vinyl79 tweeted out this picture of a D-Tour piece he got at the Frontierland Trading post at the Magic Kingdom in Orlando. Looks like that might be the place to stop if you can’t wait til next Friday! @vinyl79 also set out pictures of the boxes. Pretty awesome!
Celeste has a great looking Bambi 9″ and Thumper 3″ to share with everyone. Bambi has flowers on the bottom of the foot from front to back and has butterflies and birds all around him to mimic the classic scene from the film. The reason I wanted to make him and Thumper was that I … Read more
It was an event filled day as Vinylmation Collectors gathered at D-Street in Florida for the release of Animation 2 on January 13, 2012. As the doors opened at 10:30am, a line of 20 people were present on this chilly morning. Although not a large crowd was present, the eager few huddled around the Animation … Read more