From Official Vinylmation Blog:

How many of you already have the Vinylmation™ Toy Story series? We will be releasing the three 9-inch figures on Friday, September 17 at D-Street in California and Florida. The three figures were designed by Thomas Scott who also designed the 3-inch figures.

The Bo Peep figure is a 9-inch plus 3-inch set and includes one of her sheep.

 

The remaining two figures include the Evil Emperor Zurg and one of the Little Green Men (who isn’t so little). You may recall that we had a 3-inch Little Green Men figure in Park Series #2.

 

 

The Zurg and Bo Peep figures will have an edition size of 1200, while the Little Green Men figure will have an edition size of 1500.

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

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.

Disneyland Release Information:

AUGUST 27, 2010
PRODUCT RELEASE

D-Street at Downtown Disney® District in California

-Annual Passholder – Mr. Toad

-Toy Story

Walt Disney World Release Information:

AUGUST 27, 2010
PRODUCT RELEASE

D-Street at Downtown Disney® West Side in Florida

-Annual Passholder – Mr. Toad

-Toy Story

Disney’s Animal Kingdom® Theme Park

-The Animal Kingdom

AUGUST 29, 2010
EVENT

Trade City, USA – Vinylmation™ Showcase at Epcot® – World ShowPlace
The first-ever Vinylmation™ Event will take place on Sunday, August 29 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. This “Vinylmation™ Showcase” will be held in World Showplace at Epcot®. It is part of the annual Disney Pin Celebration which this year has the theme of “Trade City, USA.” As the story goes, the newest subdivision in Trade City, USA is called Vinylmation®, hence the event. There are some unique items that have been created just for this event, and we’ve planned so much more.

In addition, at the event there will be quantities available of the following Vinylmation™ collection:

-Annual Passholder – Mr. Toad

-Toy Story

-The Animal Kingdom

-Disney Pin Trading 10th Anniversary

From the Disney Parks Blog:

I loved playing with toys when I was little. I still enjoy playing with toys only now they include more technology and are more expensive. Like many parents, I took my kids to see Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story 3” on opening day in 3-D. Besides being a wonderful film, it brought back many memories of toys I played with when little. Now a whole new generation of “kids” (yes, the little ones and those that refuse to grow up – you know who you are) will be happy to see the latest Vinylmation “toys” – the Toy Story series. I spoke with Thomas Scott, lead designer for Vinylmation, about this new series.

“Work began on the series in summer 2009,” explained Thomas. “I suggested an entire series saluting the trilogy of Toy Story films. This gave me a range of characters to select from including some characters not featured in the newest film.”

The series will be sold as a Limited Release mystery set. In other words, there are 11 known designs and one Mystery Chaser. Lin Shih from Disney Design Group worked with Thomas on the packaging. He digitally illustrated the Buzz Lightyear and Woody characters on the packaging using the same techniques used by the animators of the Toy Story films.

Thomas explained the key component to what makes the Toy Story series different than other Vinylmation series.

“New in this series are accessories,” continued Thomas. “I thought to make this series work, we needed some key accessories like Buzz’s helmet. And if Buzz Lightyear had a helmet, then Woody and Jessie would need hats. These accessories were essential to making the characters more recognizable.”

I personally love Buttercup (as unicorns rule!). I asked Thomas about his favorite design.

“I like Big Baby,” Thomas said. “When I was designing the characters last summer, I didn’t have many details about the storyline. I only had character model sheets to reference, and Big Baby was the one character that I was drawn to the most.”

Anytime we create merchandise featuring Pixar characters, partners at Pixar review the designs to ensure character integrity is maintained. This is similar to how all Disney character merchandise is reviewed by Disney trained artists. Thomas talked a little about the partnership.

“Ben Butcher is our contact at Pixar,” continued Thomas. “He was an outstanding partner who was very enthusiastic about Vinylmation and helped me to select characters for the series. It was because of his support that this series was created.”

Speaking of partnerships, with the launch of the Vinylmation Toy Story series, we have taken Vinylmation from a Disney Parks initiative to a Walt Disney Company initiative. Select Vinylmation series will soon be sold in select Disney Store locations as well as Disney Parks. Vinylmation will also continue to be sold on our Disney Parks On-Line Store. Look for the Vinylmation Toy Story series coming to Disney Parks in late July/August.

Now if you will excuse me, it’s play time.

While at D- Street in Walt Disney World yesterday for the Condiment Set Release (which did not sell out), reader J. Alamed (greenhpper) noticed some new ‘displays’ along the ceiling of the store.

Group Shot of Various Upcoming Figures.

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From Official Vinylmation Blog:

The world needs more Unicorns like Buttercup. Don’t you agree?

 
Buttercup – 1900×1200
Buttercup – 1280×1024
Buttercup – 1024×768
Buttercup – 800×600

Fellow Disney blogger Michelle Harker posted an article and video featuring West Coast artist Noah yesterday on the Disney Parks Blog. We heart Noah and LOVE (that’s with capital letters) the 5-foot Vinylmation figure he created that was inspired by World of Color (yes, we still can’t wait to see that show!!). The interview he did is a lot of fun so we hope you enjoy as much as we did – SEE IT HERE.

Noah also shared with as a picture he took with his camera during the morning that video was shot. Awesomeness!

 

The Toy Story Series was released yesterday at the Disney Store of Montebello, CA opening. The 12-figure set is blindboxed, and features characters from all three Toy Story films. The set features:

-Woody
-Buzz Lightyear
-Rex
-Hamm
-Green Army Man
-Jessie
-Bullseye
-Wheezy
-Lotso
-Buttercup
-Big Baby
-Evil Dr. Porkchop– the Chaser

For individual images, be sure to head to our Toy Story Series Gallery. All images courtsey of Evilos.com.