Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

After a really long and busy week at work, I left the office at 5pm to drive to Orange County to go to my first Disney Vinylmation Trade Event at Downtown Disney. It took an hour and a half in the car but I got there in front of the store at 8pm. The event ended at 9pm so for a while there I was thinking I had driven to the OC for nothing but alas I arrived (hubby was coming behind me in his own car) and I had no idea what to do. So I started talking to people. Traders had all their extras beautifully displayed in little plastic bags. Mine were all jumbled inside a big canvas bag. The first lady I talked too basically wouldn't trade anything. Well, it was hard to trade with her because she had everything so there wasn't anything I had she could trade. She was basically looking for some really rare stuff. So I moved down the line and ended up talking to the guy who set up the event. I traded 3 vinyls for a Woody and another chaser. I kept moving down the line...

Disney announced that they were making Vinylmations of Afternoon Classics such as Tail Spin, Duck Tales, Rescue Rangers, etc. Instead of coming in a set of 12, Disney is selling them in sets of 2 with limited editions of 1000 each. Well, we heard that Tail Spin was going to be released online on March 2 so we stayed up until 12:30am on he evening of March 1st, as that is the time Disney updates the stock at Disneystore.com, hoping to get a set. Apparently people all over the US were waiting according to the forums on vinylmation.net which hubby is a member of. I am just glad I wasn't the guy in Florida waiting at 3:30am!! Anyhow, for some reason the site never listed the product and people were pissed. The next day we all found out that Disney had originally advertised them at $24.95 a set and wanted to get an extra $2 bucks out of the deal and spent all night updating the internet. The new price when they finally listed the product at around 11am Pacific time on March 2 ...

So hubby and I have mainly focused our Vinylmation collecting to 3" vinyls but there have been a few 9" ones that have caught our attention. Hubby "broke the seal" and bought a "Day of the Dead" 9" set (and by set, it means it comes with one 9" figure and one 3" figure) and last night, I received my first 9" set from the Disney Store, the "Mad Hatter and Door Mouse" set. Here is a picture of my latest treasure that is going with all my other Alice in Wonderland stuff.

Here is the first look at R2D2 the Vinylmation for STAR WARS. Isn't this sweet? Now who wants to be my collecting buddy?

My Vinylmation craze continues! Disney just announced today on FaceBook that the Star Wars Vinylmations are coming soon! I so can't wait!!

After some light shopping in the morning we headed to another mall as we had some time to waste before going over to see hubby's Dad. At this mall we really couldn't find anything either but stopped dead in our tracks when we hit the Disney Store. The only thing that interests me at the Disney Store these days are Vinylmation! Vinylmation are collectible Mickey Figurines that are designed by Disney animators aka the new trading pins. It's the hottest thing at Walt Disney World and Disneyland these days. There are various series to collect. The one I am most interested in is the Toy Story series. Santa brought hubby Buzz Lightyear in his stocking. So I bought two more Toy Story figurines (got the TRex and the toy Baby) and I also found a new Urban #3 figurine so I bought one of those too. What makes Vinylmation collecting fun and sometimes annoying is that the figures come completely wrapped so you don't know what you are getting until after you buy one and open ...