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It probably just depends on location, and if they think that a particular mall gets enough business to support a Disney Store. They were going to open up another outlet near me, but backed out because the mall is like a ghost town.

There aren't as many outlets as there are regular Disney Stores. What you should do is call the Disney Store closest to you and ask them where the nearest outlet is. All Disney Stores have a complete list of stores in the US and Canada.

I've never been to Disney World so I wasn't sure whether or not they had a Disney Store.

While I'm at work tonight, I'll take a quick picture of the JB and Cinderella PVC sets and post them either tonight or tomorrow.

The Disney Store section of DisneyShopping.com was actually just added sometime last year. It's not going anywhere anytime soon, don't worry. They'll only be carrying select merchandise however. You can actually call the closest Disney Store to you and have them ship anything straight to your house. You just have to pay for shipping, and for one PVC set it would be $6.95. The more you buy, however, shipping costs actually become pretty reasonable. It's certainly cheaper than the price of gas to drive all the way there and buy the PVC sets yourself. :)
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[Sorry for posting duplicate answers--I was typing my reply the same time Cowardly Sparrow was.]
UncleEd wrote:So how do we get a Disney Store to return to a closed location?
Sorry, don't have an answer for that one.
Where are these Disney Outlet stores located at?
I don't know that there's a complete Disney Outlet store listing available online (I couldn't find a comprehensive one and I spent 15 minutes doing various google searches). The store I currently work at has a print-out of them though. Perhaps I can get a copy and post a separate thread for it.

Using the store locator tab on disneystore.com doesn't specify which stores are Outlet locations either. However, you could always plug in your area and call one of the stores that comes up to find out where the closest outlet store might be. I'll have a more exact number later tonight, but I believe there are currently around 30 outlet locations now.
Could you show us what the Disney Store Jungle Book PVC set looks like?
Here's one at ebay. You can clearly see the Disney Store logo the lower left corner.

And my apologies to Cowardly Sparrow as I completely neglected to click the target.com "enlarge photo" pics, and I would've noticed immediately that they were not the same PVC sets that the Disney Store carries. Nearly all the same molds though, and the graphics inside the packaging are indeed different as well.
Could Target be selling other sets you haven't seen?
Very doubtful, for the "exclusivity" reasons already stated. But molds are frequently reused and repackaged by toy manufacturers. That's often why you'll find bootleg toys in really poor packaging and with equally bad if not worse paint applications and designs, usually from international vendors.
So will the Disney Store merchandise be dropped from the Disney.com site yet?
I think Cowardly Sparrow's answer on "select Disney Store products" is still applicable here.
Why aren't both versions offered?
Sorry, don't have an answer for that either.
Do Disney Stores do mail order like that Delivears number does with park merchandise?
Yes, but I forsee guest ships getting nixed at some point in the future, mainly due to potential credit card fraud. Most brick-and-mortar retail stores don't take credit card orders over the phone for this reason. In the meantime, if you live in the US you can call any Disney Store or Disney Outlet store and purchase product over the phone with a valid credit card as long as you pay the shipping fee, and Disney Store will ship to anywhere that UPS Ground ships in the US.

Just to give you an example of why I believe guest ships days are numbered: another Disney Outlet location I helped open was getting calls to purchase over the phone before the store even opened. One caller wanted to buy every "Enchanted" roleplay wedding dress they had in stock. The store manager declined the purchase.

And to answer your earlier question, I have helped open Disney Outlet Stores in TN and GA.

Also, you might want to check out DISNEYOUTLET.com
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When we had a Disney Store in Erie it was always packed. People were surprised that it left and it did so with no warning at all. I literally was there on a Wed. and came back on Friday to get something and it was gone. I complained to Disney but they said they did that to avoid clearence sales.

Can't any purchase with a credit card be the result of credit card fraud though? Can you mail them a check or money order?

I've seen the set in the link before but I assumed it was a variant deal like Cinderella. Are you telling me this is the only Jungle Book PVC set the Disney Store has? The characters from the Target set are all indentical. Target has King Louie and the Wolf. This set has the girl and baby elephant instead. I just assumed the Louie and Wolf set would be sold at the DS too. I'm surprised Louie wouldn't be given how popular a character he is. I'd rather they just do a 9 figure set for more money than 2 of them like this. I'll have to check the box art but that Mowgli image is the same as my box and so is the background. I doubt this is a case of a toy company doing bootlegs. Disney would squash that so fast...

Are there 2 versions of the new Mulan set? I wondered because the Disney store site set has the mother so I wondered if there's one with the father? They could have easily filled 2 full sets for Mulan with no repeat characters but for some reason Mulan always gets neglected in PVC form.

Is that second Cinderella set without the sisters still sold in the stores?

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UncleEd wrote:When we had a Disney Store in Erie it was always packed. People were surprised that it left and it did so with no warning at all. I literally was there on a Wed. and came back on Friday to get something and it was gone. I complained to Disney but they said they did that to avoid clearence sales.
Very sorry to hear that. And I can tell you that it's highly unlikely that store was closed on a whim. Between The Children's Place and Disney, they are looking at every store's sales daily. If a store's sales are consistently sluggish and it's not an issue of poor management, it's only a matter of time before it gets closed.

There's a store in my district that was consistently low in sales volume and foot traffic. Many of us foresaw the inevitable closing months in advance. They closed it down the same week I was helping to open the new outlet store.

And that store's cast members got the news of the closing the week before Christmas. How's that for bad timing?
Can't any purchase with a credit card be the result of credit card fraud though?
Not if they have a valid DL with a photo ID. But you can't verify something like that over the phone. Credit card purchases also require a signature.

That's why I was so surprised when I was hired to learn that Disney Stores did guest ships from phone-in purchases. No other retail company I've ever worked for did that. Now if a guest makes a purchase in-store and wants it shipped, that's entirely different, and many retail stores will do that for you as long as you pay the shipping fee.
Can you mail them a check or money order?
No, Disney Stores don't accept either of them via US mail. Payment has to be immediate for the transaction to post on the date of purchase. They can't wait for a check or money order to be mailed.

And Disney Stores don't accept money orders at all.
Are you telling me this is the only Jungle Book PVC set the Disney Store has?
Yes, to my knowledge anyway.
I doubt this is a case of a toy company doing bootlegs.
I never said they were. I was giving an example of how they occur. But like I said, reusing molds is fairly common in the toy manufacturing biz. And in this case, obviously there was approval from the franchise which allowed Target to carry the licensed product in different packaging. I haven't seen the Target sets--what's the manufacturer/distributor's name? I can't make out the logo in the the pics--looks like CCI or something. Their name should also be on the back of the package.
Are there 2 versions of the new Mulan set?
Not that I know of.
They could have easily filled 2 full sets for Mulan with no repeat characters but for some reason Mulan always gets neglected in PVC form.
Mulan is neglected in a lot of product forms. Other than the PVC set, I believe the only Mulan product Disney's had in the last year are girls Halloween costumes/accessories and the tube-packaged princess doll.
Is that second Cinderella set without the sisters still sold in the stores?
I don't think so.

BTW, you can view nearly all the PVC sets Disney Store currently carries at disneystore.com. Look for "Play Sets" under the menu tabs for both Boys Toys and Girls Toys.

The only ones I don't see there are the new 101 Dalmatians, Bambi, and Fairies sets.
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My Disney Store left before the sale to Children's Place. Most likely it was because the lease was up because it left the same time of year it opened. In Monroeville their Disney Store left after long, drug out clearance sales only to have another one reopen in the same mall about a year or two later after Children's Place bought the chain.

" I haven't seen the Target sets--what's the manufacturer/distributor's name? I can't make out the logo in the the pics--looks like CCI or something. Their name should also be on the back of the package. "

I can't remember but it was identical to the Disney Store sets I have. I checked that out when I bought it because I found it to be so strange.

"Mulan is neglected in a lot of product forms. Other than the PVC set, I believe the only Mulan product Disney's had in the last year are girls Halloween costumes/accessories and the tube-packaged princess doll. "

Mulan has been neglected from her debut. Hercules sucked all the air out of the room in every area. When it didn't meet expectations I think Mulan was just sneaked out and did better than expected. There were only 6 PVCs released by Matel at the time, 5 from Colgate, and some from Applause. She was slightly less merchandised than Beauty and the Beast the first time around. There's almost 20 characters in that film so it's a shame not more have been done but this new PVC set may be the most ambitious to date. Mulan did have a decent action figure line in 1998 and was in fact the last Disney line of its kind.

"I don't think so.

BTW, you can view nearly all the PVC sets Disney Store currently carries at disneystore.com. Look for "Play Sets" under the menu tabs for both Boys Toys and Girls Toys.

The only ones I don't see there are the new 101 Dalmatians, Bambi, and Fairies sets."

I tried there but there are others not up there. That's why I asked. I think the Mermaid cast one isn't there either. I guess I'll have to get the other Cinderella one on Ebay. When did Bambi get a set? I'll have to check that out. I hope some of the other neglected ones get sets like Sword in the Stone and the Great Mouse Detective or even Oliver & Company or the Rescuers. That would be great if they do a tie in for each new DVD rerelease. Are Aristocates slated to get one? I sure hope so and if they get a set then any film could.
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I got 4 PVC sets in the mail today and while my Sleeping Beauty and Ratatoullie sets are in good shape the Beauty and the Beast and Ariel'ssisters sets are VERY sloppily painted. Does Disey care about quality anymore? I'm not sure if I should contactthem or not because to mail them back would probably cost more than to just buy another set when I'm at a Disney Store again. This is the first time I've been disappointed out of 8 PVC sets ordered online to date.
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By the way, is there a ratatoullie variant PVC set? I ask because the ornament set that uses the same molds has a Geusto and the food critic and the PVC set I got today does not.

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UncleEd wrote:When did Bambi get a set?
I thought I had mentioned that one earlier in this thread. Sorry. Seems like we started getting shipments of the Bambi set around early to mid-December.
I hope some of the other neglected ones get sets like Sword in the Stone and the Great Mouse Detective or even Oliver & Company or the Rescuers. That would be great if they do a tie in for each new DVD rerelease. Are Aristocates slated to get one? I sure hope so and if they get a set then any film could.
That would make sense commercially to release a new PVC set with each new DVD/Blu-ray release, but that's all in Disney/TCP's hands.

I think it's very likely we'll see a Aristocats PVC set. Kids, and especially girls, love puppies and kittens, and girls toys are what Disney Stores specialize in. So an Aristocats PVC set seems a no-brainer to me, but then merchandising opportunities have been overlooked before too. As they say, we shall see what we shall see...
UncleEd wrote:I got 4 PVC sets in the mail today and while my Sleeping Beauty and Ratatoullie sets are in good shape the Beauty and the Beast and Ariel'ssisters sets are VERY sloppily painted. Does Disey care about quality anymore? I'm not sure if I should contactthem or not because to mail them back would probably cost more than to just buy another set when I'm at a Disney Store again.
Disney does have a high degree of quality control with their product because they have such a high standard, but you have to keep in mind that this product is being mass-produced overseas by people who are likely working for mere pennies per hour. I'm sure not every item is inspected for QC.

Sloppy paint applications are unfortunately common in the toy industry. I've been collecting Transformers for 20 years, and two recent lines from Hasbro have had some serious QC issues and very sloppy paint aps. But again, it's mass-produced, assembly-line type product and they just don't take the time to inspect every item before they get shipped out.

These days, toy mfr's are probably just more concerned with whether or not their paint contains harmful amounts of lead.

I've also noticed several of the Rat sets in store have poor paint aps. But when the set's on clearance for $2.99 most people don't seem to care.

If you're that unhappy with it, exchange it--the online store does have a solid return/exchange policy. Look for the "Return/Exchange Policy" link at the bottom of the disneystore.com main page.
By the way, is there a ratatoullie variant PVC set? I ask because the ornament set that uses the same molds has a Geusto and the food critic and the PVC set I got today does not.
Only the one set, to my knowledge. There is another Rat PVC set on the market, which you can view here:

http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2 ... c-figures/

The Disney Store set does not include Gusteau.

However, the Remy action figure set does include a translucent Gusteau figurine. (It's clearish, not the gaudy purple you see in the above link.)

I bought the Remy fig because it was on clearance for $1.50, and that didn't include my cast member discount. He's in my car's rear window, waving at tailgaters.

BTW, if you'd like to have my Gusteau PVC fig--if you'll cover postage, I'll send it to you for free. Just send me a PM.
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I have over 2,000 Disney PVCs and I kno all about paint ops being bad but these are bad enough to mention. My Lumiere has a blob of black below his eyebrows like he has a unibrow and Arilel has a blob on her arm. This is what I mean by sloppy. It's more than just painting outside the lines.

Wow, you got a great deal for a Remmy figure. I got them all in my box for 3.00 each. I haven't opened them yet but I guess I have that Guesteu you do. Thanks for offering though. I still wonder why there were characters in the ornament set you can't get as PVC.

I have that other PVC set from your link as well. It's the one you could get in regular stores.

Unfortunately my clear Violet from the Disney Store took a tumble to the floor yesterday and her head snapped of. What makes it especially irritating is I could have bought an extra for 3.00 when I was there last year. I paid full price for her on an earlier trip when the film came out.
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UncleEd wrote:I still wonder why there were characters in the ornament set you can't get as PVC.
Possibly supplied by a different mfr is one reason.

And it's fairly standard that Disney Store releases only 1 PVC set per title. Of course you're well aware as a collector that there have been some exceptions for more popular characters (Cars and Princesses for example), but generally that's the way it's been. Even if they had molds of additional characters to choose from, they may have decided that 6 figures was adequate for the Rat set.

BTW, if you don't want to wait until the Bambi set is available online (and from what's been discussed in this thread regarding exclusivity, who knows if it even will be), call your nearest Disney Store and see if they have one in stock, buy it over the phone and have it shipped to you.
UncleEd wrote:I have over 2,000 Disney PVCs and I kno all about paint ops being bad but these are bad enough to mention. My Lumiere has a blob of black below his eyebrows like he has a unibrow and Arilel has a blob on her arm. This is what I mean by sloppy. It's more than just painting outside the lines.
Unless you're particular about the toys' condition, you should look into tips from toy "kitbashers" (as they're called in the anime and Transformers fan community) about how to safely remove sloppy paint aps and do your own touch-ups.
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UncleEd wrote:I have over 2,000 Disney PVCs and I kno all about paint ops being bad but these are bad enough to mention. My Lumiere has a blob of black below his eyebrows like he has a unibrow and Arilel has a blob on her arm. This is what I mean by sloppy. It's more than just painting outside the lines.

You have over 2,000 PVC's? Here I was thinking my collection of figures was a fair size :lol: Of course I don't know anyone else who collects Disney figures.......I'm not really familiar with PVC.....does that include all those McDonalds toys as well or is it just those figures from the Disney Store sets?
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I don't understand why you'd sculpt a character with no intention of using it.

"Unless you're particular about the toys' condition, you should look into tips from toy "kitbashers" (as they're called in the anime and Transformers fan community) about how to safely remove sloppy paint aps and do your own touch-ups."

I'm particular about paint ops but I have some figures I've got over the years with wear I'd like to restore.


My first Disney PVC that really began my collection was the Applause one of Ariel sitting on a rock next to Sebastian. I really liked Sebastian and that's why I got it. I didn't really start the collection until Aladdin came around and 1993 I spent every penny of allowance and earned money on the Mattel PVCs in the store. We got a Disney Store the following year and it blossomed from there. In 1998 I started buying on ebay and made several italian contacts. I'd trade them US pvcs for european ones. Through them and Ebay I now have pvcs from all over the world. My gem is that I have every Hercules figure ever made when the film was originally released world wide. PVCs died out after Brother Bear and our Disney Store left that following spring. Believing that my collection was close to being over I bought 2 cabinets to put them in. Then I bought out a few collections a few years ago and that got me a complete set of the Choco Party pvcs and some rarities I was missing. I only get a new PVC every once in a while now but the Disney Store sets really interest me. I don't know the exact number but I'm sure I'm now over 2,000 or close to it because I was in the 800's 10 years ago. I need to do a new updated database. I did count up the empty Disney Store PVC boxes from last year and there were 19 or 20. At 6-7 figures a box that's more that 100 new PVCs right there. So they add up fast. I now need a 3rd cabinet but I can't get one that matches the other 2.


I don't count McDonald's Toys in my tally unless it's a character only available as a McDonald's toy. The Great Stone Dragon comes to mind as one. I could European McDonalds figures though. I have a set of Atlantis ones with characters not sold in the US (they're more like action figures than the little cars we got here) and I'm still looking for a few like in Japan they made Forte the organ from the Beauty and the Beast sequel and in europe there was a Tip and Dash from Little Mermaid II. So I'm always looking for new things when my funds allow for them. As for fast food toys, I have them in a tote in the attic. I want to get them out again and display them though.

I also have every Disney action figure for every animated feature since Little Mermaid except a bandum of Flounder. I'm still looking for that one. I just got the Scuttle one on Ebay last week. I'm looking to display my action figure collection as well.

I'm sure I have one of the most impressive Disney collections in my neck of the woods but I don't brag about it. No one in my area likes Disney. I also have a Christmas collection equally as impressive. I've thought about doing a My Space type site with my figures on it but I don't want to advertise for thieves to come and get me.

I'm also trying to complete my set of Tyco Sesame Street PVCs but it's hard to find them on ebay since no one knows who the remaining characters I need are except fans.

So that's the story of my collection. I hope you've enjoyed it. :D
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Interesting story UncleEd :)

When we were in Disneyland I picked up a number of figures and my collection sort of expanded from there. After I stopped eating McDonald's I didn't get any new characters for the longest time since there's no Disney Store here :( But whenever one of my parents goes to Vancouver I send my allowance along so they can stop at the one there to pick up a set for me.

So that's my tiny story, I currently have the following Disney Store sets

Pirates of the Caribbean
Narnia
Jungle Book
Cinderella - One with Lady Tremain, Anasatasia and Drizella

Although I do like the Cinderella one, I do wish they had taken out the extra Cinderella and added in Lucifer or at least attached him to Lady Tremaine :roll: Although I also wouldn't have minded having a set with the leftover characters like Prudence, the King, the Duke, Bruno, and maybe Perla, Suzy, Gus and Jaq to round things off but that's wishful thinking.........
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I was last at Disney World in 1996 but they didn't have much of anything as far as PVCs go. I think I only got a figment while I was there. I really wanted to get that whole trainset of the theme parks but had no access to it at the time of release. On the secondary market I could never afford it. I'd love to build a Disney World/Land/Adventure/Epcot for my PVCs to habitate.

Which Narnia set do you have? I guess there's 2 of those as well. Well, 3 if you count the 3rd version that combines some figures from both box sets.

There is a Bruno PVC. I got it at a Yard Sale so I have no idea where he comes from. I'd love to get a King and a Duke. I think there's one of the horse too but I don't have that.

In Europe and Asia they make the most obscure of characters into pvcs. For Hercules the Boar and Minotaur from the song were both made into PVCs along with all 5 muses and Amphitryon. About the only characters never made are Penelope the mule, the foster mother, and the other gods

What I like about the new Disney Store sets is we're getting films under represented in the US in PVC form and characters never done in the US like Phillipe, Rajah, and Ariel's Sisters. I just think that's great! Now if I only had the room to display them properly.... :D
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UncleEd,

Do you collect only Disney movie-based PVCs, or is it just Disney PVCs in general?

I have a lot of the Disney Afternoon character PVCs and other Disney PVCs from the 80's and 90's I've been wanting to get rid of in a lot sale/trade. Other than my Darkwing Duck stuff, I just don't collect them anymore. Because of budget constraints, I decided a couple years ago to just focus on Transformers and other specific items that happen to catch my fancy.

My days of being a completist ended when I got married.
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I now collect PVCs from anything Disney and other characters I like.

I've actually been looking for some of the 80's DA PVCs. I have the Kellogs ones and the carded set of 12 Gummi Bears Applause made. The few others I have are misc Applause ones. Email me a picture of what you have and I'll take a look.

I fear that when I get married my collections will be forced to hit the road too. I hope whom ever I marry is just a big a Disney fan as I am.
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I have the set with Peter, Aslan, White Witch, Otmin, Oreius and the Dwarf. At least I assume the Centaur is General Oreius instead of a random one. You should post a picture of your pvc's UncleEd.......or at least whatever ones can fit in the picture :lol:
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UncleEd wrote:I fear that when I get married my collections will be forced to hit the road too. I hope whom ever I marry is just a big a Disney fan as I am.
PVCs are a generally low-cost hobby compared to other collectibles.

But when you have 2000 of them, that's... uh, a whole different story.

I'm sure if you have them displayed nicely, your future wife will give you some space in your home for them. I have a space in the office for some of my high-end collectibles and favorite Transformers to be displayed. The rest are still boxed up in the garage as I have an ongoing inventory project and am slowly selling through various online outlets.

Thankfully, my collections didn't have to "hit the road" when we got married. In my case, it was a change of perspective, of priorities. Before I met my wife, collectibles were all I spent my disposable income on.

My wife also collected vintage Cabbage Patch, Care Bears, Barbie, and Elvis memorabilia. So it wasn't any big deal to her back then that I had a lot of stuff.

And looking back over everything I used to collect, I discovered that I didn't have as much attachment to them as I thought I did. It's been fairly easy for me to gradually sell them off. And I've given quite a bit of stuff away as gifts to fellow collectors too whom I've befriended over the years, or have traded for other stuff I'm still looking for.

And on the DA PVCs, send me a PM with your email and I'll get a photo for you later this week. I'd suggest deleting your email from the boards as you might get spammed from it by those software programs that spammers use to "spider" message boards to harvest email addresses.
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"I have the set with Peter, Aslan, White Witch, Otmin, Oreius and the Dwarf. At least I assume the Centaur is General Oreius instead of a random one. You should post a picture of your pvc's UncleEd.......or at least whatever ones can fit in the picture"


I'm going to photograph them all as soon as I get a camera card. I'll post my favorites in this thread if anyone wants to see them.


"PVCs are a generally low-cost hobby compared to other collectibles."


I'm keeping track this year but the last time I kept track of every Disney type thing I bought was in 1998 and it was around 1,000.00. I haven't kept track since then. And what I keep track of is anything that's a luxary like after Christmas sale decorations or a DVD or something like that. My 1998 list included Happy Meals too because of the toys. I don't really get that stuff anymore though. But I think about 1,000 a year on extra things is somewhat reasonable, and that's with all extra things. This month I'm at 150.00 with all of my purches but I had to but Cinderella 3 yesterday before it's gone and my Ratatoullie clearanced items are in there too. That's not typical for me but I used to get that stuff when it first came out when we had a Disney Store so I think I actually saved money.


"But when you have 2000 of them, that's... uh, a whole different story. "

My dream would be to have an attic or basement area just for my collections. I'm not into the typical sportsy things a lot of guys are but I'd love to have a basement theater where I could screen DVDs and have all the figures and action figures on display. I'm a book writer/artist so I'd need an office too. (I have 2 novels in print, 2 more on the way, a few children's books coming and this fall there's a Christmas comic book series starting up based on my first novel. So PVCs and figures come with the territory.) That's all I ask, my wife can have the rest of the house. You think that's too unrealistic to dream for?

I have found that a lot of women don't take animatiion or comic books seriously as a career. I have a degree in animation but since the hand drawn field shut down when I graduated there weren't many animation options for me so I've been doing books. I've had people tell me it's not a real career and I'm just wasting my time and need a realistic fallback. But I've been doing okay so far and feel it can only go up from here. Any other artists out there run into people like this?

"Thankfully, my collections didn't have to "hit the road" when we got married. In my case, it was a change of perspective, of priorities. Before I met my wife, collectibles were all I spent my disposable income on.

My wife also collected vintage Cabbage Patch, Care Bears, Barbie, and Elvis memorabilia. So it wasn't any big deal to her back then that I had a lot of stuff. "

I'm glad there are female collectors out there. More hope for understanding women! he he...

"And looking back over everything I used to collect, I discovered that I didn't have as much attachment to them as I thought I did. It's been fairly easy for me to gradually sell them off. And I've given quite a bit of stuff away as gifts to fellow collectors too whom I've befriended over the years, or have traded for other stuff I'm still looking for. "

I'm sure I could sell off the things I've acquired as an adult but the things I've had from childhood will be VERY hard for me to ever pass up because there's a lot of warm memories associated with them. Just handling them over again takes me back decades. It's amazing and I'd hate to lose that.

"And on the DA PVCs, send me a PM with your email and I'll get a photo for you later this week. I'd suggest deleting your email from the boards as you might get spammed from it by those software programs that spammers use to "spider" message boards to harvest email addresses."

I'm unable to send PMs and was told they reached their limit here on the people who can send them. Go to www.edmccray.com and email me through there.
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Still haven't had a chance to take those pics for you, UncleEd. Maybe later this week.

Just posting to give you a heads-up that I saw a memo last week that an "updated version" of the Fairies PVC set is scheduled to arrive in stores next week starting around 2.18-19.
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