Episode 094 Purple Gear Bear

Ep. 094 Purple Gear Bear This week we cover many news items surround Pixar 1, Extreme Wrestlers and the Classic Collection. There are a lot of new release dates to go over. We also give a full review of Park 11 and answer your questions in the Mystery Mail Bag.  Listen in Popup Player Download … Read more

Another Variant for Donald Duck

Why did I not make this my actual prediction on the last podcast? In our preview for Park 11 I said an easy possible variant would be the different character Fun Wheel cars. Well it turns there is a Donald Duck variant of the Mickey Fun Wheel car. I found this picture on the Vinylmation … Read more

Disney Character Robots Release: November 19

The Disney Store decided to attempt a little reboot of the Robots series. They announced back at Mickey’s Circus how Robots 3 will be Disney Characters as robots. Now, we have a release date for the series of November 19 at Disney Stores. On Friday, the Disney Vinylmation Blog reveled 4 never before seen designs. … Read more

Extreme Wrestlers Get Extremer!

The Extreme Wrestlers of Vinylmation will feature a 9″ LE figure to go along with the blind boxes. The figure will have an edition size of 1,000 and a retail of $59.95. It will be released at Disney Stores on October 29 along with the 3″ Blind Box series that will retail for $9.95.

Artist Katie Kelly’s 2012 Festival of the Masters Custom

Artist Katie Kelly, who is up for Favorite Disney Commissioned Artist at this year’s Dee Vees, will have a Vinylmation for sale at this year’s Festival of the Masters at Downtown Disney in Orlando. This one-of-a-kind 9-inch figure will have a retail of $950.00. The 37th Festival of the Masters is an open-air fine arts festival at Downtown … Read more

Park 11 Chaser!!! Spoiler Alert

Picture is from @SOTMKBlog. It is the former Orange Stinger attraction at DCA. – Great article on Yesterland.com about the Orange Stinger’s history and then eventual transition into the Silly Symphony Swings.

Disneyland Classics Signing Cancelled

We all knew it was going to be a long two days for Eric Caszatt when the Classics collection comes out, but today the Vinylmation blog announced that the signing at Disneyland would no longer take place. The one at WDW is still going on though. No word on what exactly happened, but it’s sad … Read more

D-Street Orlando Update 10/17/12

Just a few quick notes about some items at D-Street Orlando. They still have a handful of the LE 2500 Popcorns Clown Dumbo Variants around the store. They also have a bunch of the LE 2000 Fantasia #1 Combos behind the counter. And then this beautiful new 9″ Custom Fortune Teller Mickey has shown up in the … Read more

Nightmare Before Christmas Photoshoot

Halloween is almost upon us and for Disney fans, that means images of Jack, Sally and the rest of the Nightmare Before Christmas cast dance around in our heads. So we took NBC around the Haunted Mansion and Liberty Square at the Magic Kingdom for a day to snap some photos and share them with you. Jack … Read more

Extreme Wrestlers of Vinylmation

This set just keeps getting better and better. A few days after pictures leaked onto the net showing the Extreme Wrestler series, Vinylmation.com has announced they come with trading type cards! Each figure will come with their own card with their name, bio, hometown and signature move! Love it. The packaging design is great as … Read more

Crush and Squirt Pixar Combo to Release in 2013

The Disney Parks Blog posted an article about merchandise related to Finding Nemo at the Art of Animation Resort and in it mentioned the Pixar 1 9″ Crush and 3″ Squirt combo will release in Spring of 2013. Photo from Disney Parks Blog The article also said we should see the Pixar Little Green Men and Tuck … Read more

Episode 093 Orange Pink Gear Bear

Ep. 093 Orange Pink Gear Bear We talk about the set list for Park 11 and the pictures that were leaked of the new Extreme Wrestlers series. Japan has some new Christmas vinyls and we cover the full release calendar. We also announce the nominations for the 2012 DeeVees and begin the voting process. Listen … Read more

2012 Tokyo Disney Sea Christmas Vinyls

Thanks to Tomio Keisuke, we have a look at four new 2012 Christmas themed Vinylmation figures that will be released in Japan. They will be released at Tokyo Disney Sea for 1200 Yen and be made available during their Disney’s Christmas celebration between November 7 – December 25.

Park 11 Set List Revealed

At the release of the first Fantasia combo today at D-Street, Vinylmation Exchange’s Cheryl Harris Kramp snapped a photo of the Park 11 set list. Of course Park 11 is Disney’s California Adventure themed and we have seen a few of these before, but the new ones are: Crush from Turtle Talk with Crush. Francis … Read more

Park 11 Explained

Park 11 October 19 $12.95 12 figure blind box series based on Disney’s California Adventure Park. Update 10/13/12 All of set list revealed including combo topper. Pictures of all figures added. Update 10/10/12 DCA themed Mickey Combo Topper will also be released on 10/19 for $24.95 along with the blind boxes. Park 11 will also get an … Read more

Lighting Up the Magic Kingdom

As the sun goes down just a bit earlier these days, the Magic Kingdom lights up that much earlier. Have you ever really explored all the different lights around the park? Austin and I did… with the help of the Disney Store 25th Anniversary Light Up series. Bambi stalks the hunters at the Frontierland Shooting … Read more