Star Wars series 1 launched at midnight on January 14th, 2011, and The Vinylmation Station was on the scene! We take you to D Street at Walt Disney World’s Downtown Disney West Side to see all of the fun and festivities, and then grab an exclusive interview with Merchandise Communications Manager Steven Miller.

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Cody Smith has returned with more photos of upcoming Vinylmation figure previews from today’s second half of the Pin Celebration 2010–Trade City USA, each day at the event they add a few more figures, so let’s see what tomorrow, the Vinylmation Showcase, brings.

Park Series #5 Preview, Coming October 2010

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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.

This weekend’s Star Wars Celebration V brought us a preview of the most wanted series, the Star Wars Vinylmation Series 1. Throughout the four day event the Disney Booth will be giving out four different postcards with a sneak peak at the figures.

Day 1: Yoda, StormTrooper, and Boba Fett

Day 2: Princess Leia, R2D2, and Lando Calrissian

On Day 2 of the event, a Disney Collectibles Panel was held, and they announced the Star Wars Vinylmation Series, and showed the whole series (minus the chaser of course).

The Series will feature: Han Solo, Chewbacca, Yoda, a Stormtrooper, Lando Calrissian, Princess Leia, R2D2, Luke Skywalker, C3PO, Darth Vader and Boba Fett.

From Official Vinylmation Blog:

Star Wars™ Weekends 2010 officially started today at Disney’s Hollywood Studios™. This year, the event celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. It was 30 years ago today that the beloved motion picture opened in theaters.

We have something exciting to share with you in honor of this special day. It’s the first approved 3″ figure from the highly anticipated Vinylmation™ Star Wars™ Series #1 – Lando Calrissian. The series will debut later in 2010 (sorry, no firm release date yet).

 

How perfect that Lando was the first figure approved since he made his debut 30 years ago today! By the way, Mike Sullivan from Disney Design Group created the artwork for Lando and the rest of the figures in the series.

 

From Official Vinylmation Blog:

 

Why the last sneak peek you ask? The six designs we’ve showcased this week will be the visible pins in the upcoming mini-pin collection schedule to release in the next few weeks. The mini-pin collection will also include a mystery pin, one of five additional designs. Since we hate to spoil a good mystery, we’ll post the images of the remaining designs after the release of the pin collection.

From Official Vinylmation Blog:

Are these the droids you’re looking for?

From Official Vinylmation Blog:

Attention Vinylmation fans on the west coast! The Disneyland® Resort is scheduled to release the Oh Mickey, Sports, and Vinylmation™ Jr. series this Friday, April 16.In other exciting news, we are happy to present the first glimpse at artwork for the Star Wars™ Vinylmation series. These designs will be featured first on an open edition mystery pin package set which will premiere in May: