From Official Vinylmation Blog:

We have some news regarding the release of the Nightmare Before Christmas Collection coming up this Friday, September 10. As special courtesy to all of our Vinylmation™ collectors, the D-Street locations at both the Disneyland® and Walt Disney World® Resorts will be opening at 8:00 a.m. We can’t wait to see everyone there! As a reminder, the limited edition Vinylmation™ Figures will be limited to two Figures, per style, per Guest, per day.

And now a quick update … for those Guests looking for the Vinylmation™ Toy Story series on the DisneyParks.com/Store today, we have a bit of unfortunate news that we just learned. The release of this series on-line has been delayed a week (darn that Lotso!!). It will now be released on September 15. We send our apologies for any confusion this may have caused

From Official Vinylmation Blog:

The Vinylmation™ Team gave an extensive sneak preview of upcoming series planned for late 2010 and 2011. You can see logos and some artwork for those series on the Sneak Page. Look for addition updates and images from that Vinylmation™ Conversation later this week.

We also have some exciting news about upcoming releases planned for September 2010.

• Two Urban #4 – 9″ Figures by Mike Sullivan and Thomas Scott
• Vinylmation™ – The Nightmare Before Christmas 3″ and 9″ figures will be released on September 10, 2010. These will be released at both D-Streets in California and Florida.

Cody Smith has returned from a final day at Trade City USA, today was the Vinylmation Showcase. Not only did we have the ultimate preview area, but also taking place was the Vinylmation Conversation, a 30-minute information presentation by Steven Miller of upcoming news and previews in the Vinylmation World.

Let’s begin with a Park Series #5 Preview of the whole set (excluding chaser, and a few 9in Figures)

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Today Cody Smith took a trip to Day One to Pin Celebration 2010, Trade City USA, which offered many previews of upcoming Vinylmation Series. The Vinylmaiton booth said that each day they’ll add more previews to the booth, so expect more images each day.

First, we have a preview of an upcoming, Open Edition, Open Windowed Series of Flags

Holiday Series #2 Preview, the Halloween 9in is said to be out before Halloween, and the Snowman 9in is a 9in/3in Set with the 9in Snow Scene, and the 3in Snow Girl

Toy Story Series (Featuring 9in Zurg, 9in Little Green Man, and 9in/3in Set of Bo Peep and Sheep)

Park Series #5 Preview

Urban Series #5 Preview

Pin Preview of Urban Series #5

Special Walt Disney World 40th Anniversary Figures

Upcoming Miscellaneous Figures Coming Soon (DVC Exclusive, Disneyland Attraction Poster, and others)

Finally, we have a preview of the upcoming Nightmare Before Christmas Figures (in pins, will have figure pictures tomorrow). We learned that the set will not be blindboxed, and instead, be Open Windowed. For more news on upcoming pins to be released be sure to check out the Disney Pincast.

The Official Vinylmation Site has been upgraded.

On the Home Page, it features information about the Grand Opening of D-Street this Friday, April 16th.

Join us for the Grand Opening of D-Street at Downtown Disney® WestSide in Florida on Friday, April 16 starting at 9:30 a.m.

As part of the festivities will be a special artist signing with many Vinylmation™ artists. The signing will take place across from D-Street from 2 pm – 4 pm.

The artists currently scheduled to attend are:

• Thomas Scott (Vinylmation™ Jr and other figures)
• Lisa Badeen (Cutesters and other figures)
• Eric Caszatt (Oh Mickey and other figures)
• Randy Noble (Many Vinylmation™ figures)
• Tyler Dumas (Sports Jr. & other figures)
• Monty Maldovan (Muppet & other figures)
• Quynh Kimball (Many Vinylmation™ figures)
• Dan Howard (Many Vinylmation™ figures)
• Maria Clapsis (Many Vinylmation™ figures)
• Adrianne Draude (Many Vinylmation™ figures)

The site has also updated its Vinylmation Figure Vault and Sneak sections of the site to feature the latest releases including Oh Mickey, Sports and Vinylmation Jr. #1. In the Sneak section features previews of the Big Eyes, and Nightmare Series.

The Vinylmation Visuals post on the Disney Parks Blog has let us onto several pieces of information.

• Space Mountain 35th Anniversary 9in Figure to be released this Friday, April 9th at D-Street
• There will be a Jack Skellington as Sandy Claws 9in Figure in the upcoming Nightmare Before Christmas set, coming out Fall 2010 (check out the picture on Vinylmation Visuals with Giant Chaser Mickey Figure, above the head is a picture)



• That same picture shows off several of Holiday Series #2 figures, St. Patrick’s Day Shamrocks, Jack-O-Lantern, and a Valentines themed figure



• Some artwork for window displays feature the Buzz Lightyear Space Ship and a Monstro inspired Vinylmation Figures (presumably in Park Series #5, as it features the Abominable Snowman)



• Mr. Toad Annual Passholder Release will be out sometime during Summer 2010
• Vinylmation.com will get an updated site within the next couple of days

-I attended the Disney Trading Night at Disney’s Contemporary Resort on Friday and took a few photos of the preview table. All of these photos will be added in a larger format to the Released and Upcoming Galleries:

Park Series #4 and the Epcot Flower and Garden exclusive

Upcoming 3″/9″ 2-pack featuring the Horned King and Gurgi from The Black Cauldron

A look at three pieces from the upcoming Nightmare Before Christmas series

A look at Urban Series #4

A look at Park Series #4 pins which will be released on Thursday at both WDW and DLR

Disney Design Group artist Monty Maldovan shows us the back of the Horned King Vinylmation

As well as the apple above his signature on Gurgi

-D Street is coming to Downtown Disney at the Walt Disney World Resort, here are some pictures of the exterior of the store as it looks right now:

-Our Released and Upcoming Galleries have been updated with over 100 new images, so be sure to check them out!

The official Vinylmation website blog:

We really enjoyed seeing so many Vinylmation fans at the recent “Conversation With…” held at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa on Wednesday. We hope everyone had a great time learning a little more about the world of Vinylmation. While driving back to Disney Theme Park Merchandise, Steven realized that he misspoke about an upcoming new “Open Edition” series called “Big Eyes.”

“Big Eyes” will feature a variety of Disney Characters in a window box. Originally, this series was planned as a Limited Release Set. But We loved the artwork so much, and we wanted Guests to have the ability to select their favorite Disney characters, so we made it an “Open Edition” series. During the conversation on Wednesday, Steven mentioned there was a “chaser” in this set. There was … but not any more. Look for this series coming soon.

As for the Vinylmation that randomly waltzed into the shot (look top above right) … no clue. Though we heard he is a Doctor.

The “hiding” Vinylmation in the background is Dr. Finklestein from the upcoming Nightmare Before Christmas collection if you were wondering. Pictures of other characters from the “Big Eyes” collection can be found HERE.