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.

August 6 will bring the release of two 9″ Vinylmation™ figures and one 3″ and 9″ set from the Urban #4 collection:

The figures will be released at D-Street at the Disneyland® and Walt Disney World ® Resort.

Trade City 3in Figure with Tin and Corresponding Pin

Limted Edition Condiment Set Released Today at Disneyland and Walt Disney World

Urban Series #4 3in Figures Featuring a Preview of the Upcoming Animal Kingdom Series– The Polar Bear (Top Right Corner)

Three of Urban Series #4 9in Figures

More Urban Series #4 Figures

Annual Passholder Exclusive Mr. Toad 3in Figure with Tin (Front)

Mr. Toad Figure (Back)

Vinylmation Jr. Trading Occured Throughout the Night

Park Series #5 Mystery Pin Set (Gives Hint at What’s To Come in Park Series #5)

Vinylmation Jr Series #1 Pin Set Coming In September

Urban Series #4 ‘Jumbo Pin’ Mystery Set Coming Out In End of July

JULY 2, 2010
Product Release at D-Street at Downtown Disney® District in California:

Urban #4 – 3″ Figures

Vinylmation™ Have-A-Laugh

Disney’s The Black Cauldron – 25th Anniversary Set

JULY 9, 2010
Product Release at D-Street at Downtown Disney® District in California: Vinylmation® ’55 – The Mickey Mouse Club

Upcoming Walt Disney World Resort Releases From the Official Vinylmation Site:

JULY 2, 2010
Product Release at D-Street at Downtown Disney® WestSide in Florida: Disney’s The Black Cauldron – 25th Anniversary Set

We hope all of the Vinylmation™ fans enjoyed the little surprise yesterday. It’s official: Vinylmation™ is coming to select Disney Stores. Some of you may have already found the new Vinylmation™ Toy Story, Vinylmation™ Have-A-Laugh and Vinylmation™ Urban #4 series in the new Imagination Park location in Montebello, California. Congrats! These series will also be introduced at Disney Parks and on the Disney Parks on-line store soon.

The partnership between Disney Theme Park Merchandise and the Disney Store has been in the works for several months now. There were lots of fans who wondered about having Vinylmation in Disney Stores during the live chat on April 29, 2010. Sadly, we couldn’t discuss it at that time. But we were thrilled to hear of the interest.

As we’ve mentioned before, Vinylmation™ draws inspiration from the roots of the Walt Disney Company: artistic expression combined with fantastic storytelling. We are excited to take Vinylmation™ from a Disney Parks initiative to a Walt Disney Company initiative. And the Disney Stores, especially with the introduction with of the new Imagination Park locations, will be a key partner with this expansion.

So now, Vinylmation™ is at Disney Parks, on the Internet and now at select Disney Stores.

To celebrate this partnership, here is a new wallpaper image featuring two pals – Woody and Buzz Lightyear from Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story.

 
Happy Vinylmation 01 – 1900×1200
Happy Vinylmation 01 – 1280×1024
Happy Vinylmation 01 – 1024×768
Happy Vinylmation 01 – 800×600

Oh for those wondering, the new Disney Store at the Shops at Montebello will hold a Grand Opening celebration on June 29, 2010. Here is the address: 2060 Montebello Town Center, Montebello, CA 90640. We learned Radio Disney will be there to celebrate the opening. The fun starts at 10:00 a.m. when the first 400 kids get free Mickey Mouse Ears (while supplies last!). There will also be celebrity hosts, special guests from Disney Channel, plus a meet and greet with Buzz Lightyear, Woody and Jessie from noon to 4:00 p.m.

Plenty of Urban Series #4 9″ around

Inside Animation Gallery

Inside Villains in Vogue

The stickers for Create-Your-Own Vinylmation are now available

Steven Miller was wearing some special glasses for what we’ve been told is “Dress Like a Nerd Day”. Really, that’s what we were told….

Trade City U.S.A. pins and such

May 2010 WDW pins

Chip and Dale Adventure series

Walt’s Classic Collection celebrates “Fun and Fancy Free”

Mystery License Plate Set and chasers

June 2010 WDW pins

Toy Story 3 “One Reveal/One Conceal” 20 pin set where one pin will be visible, and one a mystery

Pins of buttons….

Disney Cruise Line pins

2010 Summer Resort Collection

Prince of Persia opening, Pocahontas 15th Anniversary, Lady and the Tramp 55th Anniversary, and Toy Story 3 opening

July 2010 WDW pins

Star Wars Weekends 2010

Upcoming open edition pins

New Vinylmation pin series will have 6 pins visible and one mystery

Wide World of Sports lanyard and pins

More Trade City U.S.A.

Sci-Fi Dine-In 9″ Vinylmation

Two of the 3″ designs from Trade City U.S.A.

Walk 9″ from Urban Series #4, minus its 3″ Don’t Walk counterpart

Another Urban Series #4 9″ design

Upcoming Urban 9″ figure we don’t believe is from Series #4

Urban Series #4 3″

Big Eyes series minus 12th design that will be revealed upon release

Vinylmation trading taking place in mystery box and clear box form

More Trade City U.S.A. stuff

A closer look at the Vinylmation trading

Disney Design Group Artist Quyhn Kimball with the Figment set he designed for Trade City U.S.A.

Disney Design Group Artist Alex Maher with the Mayor Mickey sculpt he designed for Trade City U.S.A.

We have a small revision to our release date announcement we made yesterday. The figure will be exclusive to D-Street at both Disneyland® Resort and Walt Disney World® Resort on May 14 through the first weekend. Any remaining figures will be released to the other locations starting on May 17.

A limited amount of the figure will also be available on the online Disney Parks Store.

In other news, we’ve updated the Sneak page to include a look at the 3″ figures for Urban #4. Look for these figures to be available soon at both Disneyland® Resort and Walt Disney World® Resort.

Speaking of Urban #4, a mystery pin collection will be released tomorrow featuring designs from this collection. Even though this pin collection has a mystery chaser, it is not the same design as the mystery chaser from the Vinylmation™ series. So for those of you who were hoping to get a sneak peek at the chaser, you’ll just have to keep waiting.

Link to Park Series #4 Gallery

Link to Urban Series #4 Gallery