Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<It is a tremendous shame if WDCC is coming to the end of its life. I've never seen another 3D art form that captures the character and emotion of a scene.>> They are beautiful. I just never had the room for them and then there were so many ... it became like pins ... how many do you make before you're devaluing the product (we could talk about theme parks here too!)?
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Wonder what Spirit would think if he knew those PotC pieces that they had been selling at Cast Connection, they marked them down again...to $10, right before Christmas. >> He's think Disney should send him twenty Disney Dollars! I wonder if Disney ever sold ANY of these PoC pieces by the desperation pricing they sold them for. $10 is less than the price of most pins these days. <<We got the Toad pieces at DL's Company D for $20 each.>> I must have missed them ... or they were sold off very quickly. Were they just at DL? <<I have those, and about a half dozen other pieces as gifts through the years from my Mom. She got them when the last of the Galleries closed and they were selling them at 75% off + her employee discount. I think she has finally given all she had to me. While I like them, I always thought regular price was too expensive. >> Me too. I'd say 'average' price for a WDCC piece has steadily been in the $100-200 range with some going above (the really big ones had really big pricetags). As much as I like them, I'm very glad I didn't start buying them.
Originally Posted By hopemax > I must have missed them ... or they were sold off very quickly. Were they just at DL? < I don't remember what year, maybe 2004. But they did it at the same time as the NFFC convention. The word got out, and any collector who could get into Company D, got into Company D and then they sold very quickly. And then you could find them on sale day for more than $20. It was only DL, as they were DL exclusives.
Originally Posted By sjhym33 Its a shame really. Disney has a terrible habit of taking a good thing too far instead of excercising retraint. A reduced number of released editions would have allowed the collection to carry on for awhile. Instead they flooded the market making it seem impossible to collect them all. But that tends to be the way Disney does business. They did the same thing with watches as well as the Disney Store which opened in every mall across America which made it less than special.
Originally Posted By basil fan Went and saw them for myself. Here's what was in my T.J.Maxx (I use the term "my" loosely, as I never shop there): Esmeralda in red Clopin Quasimodo as the King of Fools The Old Mill (wow, is that nice) Several Nemo pieces The Ugly Duckling with a swan Tiger Lilly in Hook's boat (another great one) The Singing Harp (always had a weakness for this one--maybe if it drops lower) Tarzan vs. Sabor Cinderella and Prince Charming wedding Snow White and Prince wedding Chicken Little Dot Lilo Halloween Ludwig Von Drake (this one is awesome!!) Clarabelle as a cheerleader I own the Two Caballeros, which I bought on clearance, Timon, who was a gift, and Basil and Dawson, for whom I paid full price, and worth every penny. I always wanted the Brer Rabbit and some of the Jungle Book pieces. And, of course, the ridiculously expensive Slue Foot Sue. Besides the spot-on sculpts, I was always impressed with the more unusual characters when they were avaialable. Planet of the Apes <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/glitch/apesglitch.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...tch.html</a>
Originally Posted By u k fan basil fan, what were the prices like? Certainly some of those pieces are very nice. I have the Hunchback set and Zero (signed by the sculptor). My mum and sister also have a few pieces that they won. I have a Nanny from 101 Dalmatians that I won that is still in the box! My current quest is to find the really old Hop Low from Fantasia that my sister fell in love with recently!!!
Originally Posted By hightp I'm even more depressed. I went to the local TJ Maxx, and they don't have a 'housewares' department so they don't sell these type of pieces.
Originally Posted By basil fan I didn't check every piece, but: Dot and Chicken Little were $29.99. Clopin was $59.99. Ugly duckling, a huge piece, was, I think, $129.99. The price tags all had "box in back" written on them. Disney's Mouse Tales <a href="http://www.whatsitsaglore.com/disney/mice.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsaglore.com/...ice.html</a>
Originally Posted By hightp I did find them in the local Marshalls. They had quite a few including Flick, Atta, Ranger Woodlore, Chicken Little, Bubbles and Gil from Nemo, and the Harp from Mickey and the Beanstalk. There were none I really wanted, though.
Originally Posted By u k fan I went to TK Maxx here in the UK on the off chance yesterday, but they had none. That said, the shelves were very empty anyway. I'm going past a larger one at the weekend so I'll have another look!!!
