I think a lot of collectors got excited when the Disney Parks Merchandise team released a new website with a whole section dedicated to Vinylmation releases and news. The preceding Vinylmation website by Disney left a lot to be desired! Collectors said it would take forever to load and crash their computers (I can attest to this) and it was ALWAYS months, even years out of date.
I like this new website a lot more. It has a clean, modern and fresh look about it, it's very easy to use and it gives information a lot of us want without being too confusing for those coming into the hobby. We get to see 360 pictures of upcoming figures with release date information, edition size (if applicable), the artist(s) involved in the design, where it will be available for purchase and the retail price.
There have always been some drawbacks, I guess no website is perfect, and Disney have covered themselves with fine print that the information is "subject to change". I'm thinking of the Park 12 Country Bear Jamboree set retailing for $10 above what the official Vinylmation page advertised, and the Park 12 Contemporary set retailing for $5 above what was advertised. It's not detrimental to collectors or the hobby, but when Disney are running the show and give out the wrong information, I think it gives the impression that Disney are not taking enough interest in the hobby, which doesn't exactly inspire or excite the collectors.
But lately I feel like perhaps Disney have been slacking more than usual. I've noticed that on the first day of a new month, take August for example, the next month's releases are up on the official Vinylmation website, which September's was on the first day of August. But now we're on September 17th and there's still no sign of October on the official page. Is this because Disney have been preoccupied with 13 Reflections of Evil? Are there no releases in October? Well with the October Poster Series figure due I don't think that's true. Or will this new website now suffer the same fate of neglect as the last one? Or am I just missing something?
What do you think?
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