Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Star Wars, Variants, and More!!

This week has been very busy with the release of Star Wars and other news! To start off, there was a  signing event at D-Street with artist Mike Sullivan. We also found out that the chaser for this series is Obi Wan and there is a super chaser: Obi Wan as a ghost!! He is supposed to be super rare, with rumors stating 1/10 cases have him, though Disney will not confirm that. I personally LOVE Obi Wan as a ghost- awesome use of a clear vinyl and making a different version of a character that is involved with the story!

Going along with the variant super chaser of Star Wars, as you may have heard there are four different versions of the Pink Elephant from the Animation series. The normal chaser is clear pink and the variants are clear purple (hard to distinguish from the clear pink but definitely a different color), opaque hot pink, and opaque light pink. 

Also, Pinocchio has a variant! The normal one in the collection is Pinocchio as a donkey with the ears painted on and an accessory tail. The variant does not have ears (rather, the vinyl ears are just sky blue) and he does not have a tail. I do love this variant because of the simple fact that it is part of the story! 

The urban 5 combo pack has finally shown up on DisneyStore.com! This has been available in the parks and has an exclusive figure. Many completist collectors consider this to be part of the set, even though it was not originally part of the set. So far, this has been the least popular of the "toppers". It is often referred to as the "tonal Mickey". It is attached to a sealed blind box of the Urban 5. It is a random Urban 5 figure, you could get anything in it, even a chaser!

The following pictures are from DisneyStore.com





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