Kickstarter for Urban Vinyl Film

Evilos brought us information about a kickstarter that has been started by a indie film maker named Jordan Ahern. After watching the short video on his kickstarter page, I'm convinced we need to help this guy make his movie.

Here are the details. Jordan needs $13,660 to make his film, a documentary about Vinyl artists. At the moment we are posting this, he only needs $2,468 to make his film. The goal is to raise this money by March 13th 2013. This is a kickstarter so he needs to get his goal in order to get any of the money donated.

Now here's the cool part, when you donate, depending on the amount, you will get gifts. The basic gifts are digital download for $15 or a DVD for $25. But check out his site. For more money you can get packages of customs that have been donated to help raise the money. These customs are crazy cool.

Jordan has a tumblr at dopevinyl.tumblr.com
The kickstarter for the movie is at http://kck.st/12GHqQn

If you don't seem interested in donating, at least take a look at the site. It's a good example of the custom artwork that artists are doing in the vinyl world, outside of vinylmation.

Disney North: The Mystery of Mindstyle’s Mini Stitch Figures

As a collector of all Disneyana, I’m always on the look out for new items. I’m obviously a big Vinylmation fan (or I wouldn’t be writing for this site), so when I stumbled across the Mindstyle Mini Stitch figures, I was immediately intrigued.

Some history… Mindstyle is a pop culture toy company that makes a range of products from Disney to Looney Tunes. You may have seen some of the larger Stitch figures appear at San Diego Comic Con and the D23 Expo. Like 9” Vinylmations, they are limited edition designs based on the Stitch figure, called Experiment 626.

TRON Stitch

Urban like design

The company ran a blog talking about their new designs and I quickly added them to my Google Reader feed. Soon after I added them, they announced Stitch Mini Figures.

As per the company’s first post from May 2010:

The all-new Stitch mini figures are sized at 3″ tall featuring Disney’s standard and vault characters. The Stitch vinyl trading figures (VTF) come in a blind box and in a display tray of 16 blind boxes. In each display tray there is one complete set with doubles of the most popular characters, two variant figures and the chance of a randomly inserted “super-secret chase figure.”

I was instantly hooked. I thought that the figures would perfectly compliment my Mickey Vinylmations.

Skip ahead to December of 2010 and they company announces that series one would be available in quarter 2 of 2011.

Within a week of announcing when series 1 would be available, the company announced a series 2 coming out in quarter 3 of 2011!

Even before series 1 was released, I was instantly hooked. I patiently waited for more information. And then…. NOTHING! The last time the company posted anything on their blog was January 9th of this year (which I’ll talk about in another post). I’ve attempted to contact the company via email, but have not heard anything. Mindstyle also has a Facebook page, but it has also been quiet.

So, what has come of the Stitch Mini figure set? What has come of Mindstyle? The website still exists, but where are these awesome figures?

If you know of anything, PLEASE let me know. I would love to add them to my collection.

More Vinyl Collectible Mickeys

At the New York ComicCon recently, a new line Vinyl Mickey's were shown off.

These are licensed by Disney and produced by a company called Play Imaginative and were debuted at the Singapore Toys, Games and Comics Convention in August 2011. There are 5 different styles to choose from. These new vinyl Mickey's stand 6.5" tall, are individually packaged in open window boxes and include a "design your own" figure.

No word on price or where to purchase these vinyl figures yet. Now, Vinylmation has been my gateway to a ton of other Disney toy collectibles that I had never seen before, but I think I'll personally leave these alone for now. I do like the look and a couple of the styles, but would have to see a price point before possibly adding one. Let us know your thoughts on this new collectible  The first figure is called Vintage Mickey.

Vintage Mickey front

Vintage Mickey back

Next up is my favorite, Pinocchio Mickey.

Pinocchio Mickey front

Pinocchio Mickey back

The third one is called Porcelain Mickey.

Porcelain Mickey front

Porcelain Mickey back

And the fourth style is Robot Mickey.

Robot Mickey front

Robot Mickey back (with a driver in there!)