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Great White North – Don’t Mess With The Mouse

It was a regular, middle of March Tuesday in Edmonton. The fresh snow from the weekend was just beginning to melt and I was sitting comfortably in the office after lunch. Among my daily routines at work is to brose disneystore.com for sales, check out Vinylmation trading groups and forums, …

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Great White North – Happy Pi Day!

If you have 22 Vinylmation figures and you had to divide those equally amongst 7 friends, how many would each get? Okay fine, let’s be irrational today because today is the day we celebrate Pi.  Before we celebrate our Irish selves, let’s celebrate our Pi-rish selves. Pi Day might not …

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Great White North – Stick Tap to Stompin’ Tom

Last night, Stompin’ Tom Connors passed away. For many of you in the United States or around the world, this name might not ring a bell. I don’t expect you to be familiar with a 77 year old Canadian country artist. Stompin’ Tom is best known, however, for The Hockey …

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Thinking Outside the Blox: In Defense of the Single Box

Let me start out by saying this: I am not trying to determine WHY Disney made this decision. I think King Baltar lays out some excellent (and very legitimate) ideas as to the WHY. Honestly, as Greg from Vinylmation World has been reporting Vinylmation icons disappearing form D-Street, I doubt …

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Marvel Monday!!!

Hello everyone and welcome to the beginning of the third Marvel Series! The Marvel Series is a huge and massive universe so there are pretty much an endless supply of possibilities for series so MAKE IT HAPPEN MARVEL AND DISNEY! But I digress without further ado it’s Marvel Monday! MARVEL …

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Marvel Monday!!

Hello everyone and welcome to another Marvel Monday!! This week we will cover the various combo packs and nine inch vinyls that would go with Marvel Villains and Heroes Series 2! So without further ado it’s Marvel Monday! 3 inch Combo Pack Spiderman’s Girlfriends: I thought a really cool and …

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MARVEL MONDAY!

Hello everyone and welcome to another Marvel Monday! This week we will cover Marvel Villains Series 2 because it would be amazing! MARVEL VILLAINS SERIES 2 Doctor Doom: Doctor Doom is considered one of the most evil villains in the Marvel Universe. Victor Von Doom was born among the gypsies in …

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Marvel Monday!

Happy New Year Everyone! And welcome to another Marvel Monday! Today we will discuss a Heroes Series 2 Vinylmation set that I’m sure we all pray actually comes out! So without further ado, it’s Marvel Monday! HEROES SERIES 2 Captain America: Considered the First Avenger and the worlds first super …

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Marvel Monday!

Well hello and welcome to another Marvel Monday! Today instead of covering a specific series we will cover the 9 inch and combos that would go with Marvel Heroes and Marvel Villains Series 1. So without further ado it’s Marvel Monday! 9inch, 3inch Heroes combo pack Ant Man: One of …

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Great White North – Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of you at Vinylmation Kingdom. Up here in the Great White North, I can report that Santa and all of his reindeer have made it back safely and are resting quite comfortably. I hope all of you had pleasant visits from Santa. I know I did. …

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MARVEL MONDAY!

Hey everyone and welcome to the new weekly column Marvel Monday where each week I will list out a dream Marvel series, why they should be included and what the vinyl will look like because let’s face it ever since Disney acquired Marvel we’ve all been hoping for a Marvel …

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Is the Classics Collection struggling?

For weeks we’ve been anticipating the Classics Collection.  The hype has been huge, the excitement palpable.  And then there’s Oswald!  With all the excitement, you’d expect Day 1 sellouts, and long lines at launch.  Was that really the case?

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Thinking Outside the Blox: Why Generosity Pays Off

I’m Back from a very long hiatus. Life. Who knew, Right? For those of you who remember me from earlier this year, you’ll remember me talking about the TYPE OF COLLECTOR and what TYPE OF TRADER you can be. In those articles (and others) I have never shied away from …