The long wait is over. Finally, the production samples of Peanuts Halloween poseables have arrived. Here’s the line-up:
Charlie repeats his appearance in his trendy Vampire costume. Snoopy is wrapped like a mummy and his buddy Woodstock is the archeologist. Sally has the iconic hair of the “Bride of the Monster”. Linus, as the Monster, sports shoe lifts, neck bolts, manacles and face paint.
They each come with a cardboard backdrop for display. That’s all we’ll have out there for Peanuts Halloween 2010. Let’s see the creations we piece together for 2011. Muahahaha!
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August 18th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Terri,
Thanks for the update .. Glad to see there will still a Peanuts Halloween
August 18th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Will these still be exclusive to CVS ? Did TRU picj up anything this year for Galloween . I know in the past they used to do the Classic
August 18th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
These look great! Thanks! I am a traditionalist, so my Halloween & Christmas Peanuts displays usually consist of the holiday special characters, but I think I will expand my horizons — and display! — this year.
Now, who will carry these? CVS? TRU? Both? And should we expect these in September?
August 19th, 2010 at 8:35 am
You’ll find Halloween poseables at CVS. No place else, sorry to say.
By the way, we’d love to see pictures of Peanuts displays. We are in the process of revising our Forever Fun website to include a place for that. You’ll be able to show off, inspire and share ideas with others. We’ll let you know when it’s live!
August 19th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
The reason I asked about other places I know others on the boards have mentioned that CVS does not have a good track record of placing items espically these type of figures in the past. I/m also a purist when it comes to the Peanuts shows but willing to buy these figures . Also it kinda looks in some of the figures Forever Fun and Hallmark seem to be on the same page … Perhaps down the road ( 2011) if the line prove itself we could see Lucy as a Devil, CB as a Skeleton, But i’m getting ahead of myself . I hope the line continues forever
August 21st, 2010 at 9:42 pm
If it makes anyone feel better out of the four Peanuts lines at CVS the Great Pumpkin is the second easiest to find behind the Christmas stuff. It’s the Valentine’s Day and Easter ones that get the worst distribution and I have discussed this in person with CVS’ customer service reps. My local CVS even tries to get in the Easter and Valentines Day stuff because it’s a guaranteed sale with me buying the case and CVS still won’t send those to my area. (Vader – I think a werewolf would be next logically and quite frankly I’m surprised it wasn’t done in this wave. I‘m also not sure if a devil would sell well. I would also nominate Snoopy or Lucy as a devil instead of Sally. It fits their personality better.)
I’m kind of disappointed that these aren’t a bit more ambitious. A resculpted head for a Linus Frankenstein would have been great. I’m kind of disappointed in the Christmas items this year too. I’ll still buy it and I know it’s a tough marketplace right now but it would be nice if every year there could be some little thing new for those of us who have been with your lines since the beginning. This is the 11th season for Rudolph and I haven’t seen anything new, just the gimmick of building a tree. (Why not build the Island of Misfit Toys instead?) The red repaints are nice but it would be nice to see something that’s all new as well. Charlie Brown doesn’t seem to have anything new either other than the Deluxe figures. Not even the larger scale Wisemen playpack as had been hoped. I hear Drummer Boy has been cancelled and haven’t heard anything on Frosty.
(Has there been any progress in obtaining the classic Frosty rights? In that 2007 interview Bob said it might happen for 2009 and it didn’t. Have you given up? Will there ever be any new Frosty characters? That’s a line many of us have been dreaming of since it was first announced and pulled around 2002 or 2003.) Likewise it would be great to get a Drummer Boy in the scale of the action figures. One thing I found last year is there is a chain of Christian book stores that carries dozens of two Nativity sets, both generic and licensed. Have you ever tried that sort of venue for Drummer Boy since it seems to be a toy they specialize in and sell at great success. At this chain the various box sets ranged from 30.00 for a PVC sized with all the figures to the Nativity scene broken up into 3 50.00 sets. Surely you could beat that or compete with those rates on a Drummer Boy series sold there. This stuff did sell too. It may be worth exploring this avenue if only to get out Aaron and is animals. I also keep holding out hope that Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town may be revived from the dead now that it has aired on ABC twice a season for the last 6 or 7 years or so. It had not aired on network TV in decades when the line debuted and many believe that is why it failed. It was a great line and had a lot of promise and a level of detail none of the other lines have because the source material was more complex than Rudolph, Frosty and Charlie Brown. I know some people also hope you do the Grinch when McFarlane is done. Their stuff looks great but they might as well be resin figures. The fun with Christmas action figures is we can have the characters from our favorite Christmas specials interact in our displays.
I look forward to seeing this section of the site open to display our collections. For those interested, I too am working on a new section on my own website chronicling all of the various Christmas action figure lines that have been done in the last 30 years. Of course Forever Fun makes up a large chunk of that history and there’ll be plenty of photos from my collection there too. I’ll be sure to post a few in your forum as well.
I hope my post doesn’t seem to harsh. You will never find a bigger customer of your culminated product than I have been. I buy at least three of everything and have done so since Rudolph and Good Ol’ Charlie Brown debuted. Your lines are currently the only lines I still collect now that the Muppets are over and Disney aren’t made action figures since Treasure Planet. I love all your lines and hope we’re not seeing them slowly dying. I just don’t think I’ve been this disappointed in a wave as I am over this upcoming one. Not even when Forever Fun brought back the figures the first year with just reissues was this bad because it had been announced that the following year would see some new product and new lines. Is there any glimmer of hope for new products and lines from where we stand now? What can collectors do to get retailers to pick up these lines so they get more exposure? I wish we had more to look forward to this Christmas than what is being offered.
August 22nd, 2010 at 12:26 pm
I can’t wait!! I will scour CVS’sss near halloween time- love them!
August 23rd, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Cliff- start scouring now, not near Halloween. This is the week when Great Pumpkin has shown up at CVS in the past. Any week between this week and the end of September. October is too late.
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:27 pm
I too have to echo everything that Ed has said . I started collectring the figures when it was still Playing Mantis. I remember going into Target to purchaase the Charlie Brown Christmas figures boxed when it could still be called that . I have picked up every figure you guys have produced as well.
I know for the most part you are producing figures that CVS wants but I don’t know how many more Charlie Brown figure I can purchase either . I can’t justify paying $ 5.99 or more for the same core figures . I also wish that the Charlie Brown line could be expanded. Getting back to orginal figures some of which were produced by Playing but somwe like the protype Marcie figure which sadly was not ,
I’m still also holding out for a thanksgiving set or atleast Valentine figures the same size as the other Peanuts set . I’m also rather diappointed that CVS is the only player for the Hallloween items this go around . Their distribution is spotty. Any chance of the newer stuff in 2011?
August 24th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Hey Vader, can you post that link I emailed you? Maybe some others would like to see Shermie andViolet and the other characters we still haven’t got. I keep hoping this stuff gets released but I’m losing hope. I can’t believe no one took that box set scene with Linus, Sally, and Snoopy from the Great Pumpkin. That’s the main scene of the whole show. The same for the Linus stage where he reads from Luke. That’s the center of that show for most people. Hallmark even based an ornament on it; a very popular ornament I might add. Yet Toys R Us and others don’t want it. It’s baffling. I also can’t figure out why CVS carried 3 reissued Peanuts figures for Christmas that warmed the shelves till Valentines Day but for Easter and Halloween and the rest that are actually new they don’t go to all the stores. When you call as many stores as you can find around 3 major American cities and not one has this stuff something is wrong.
I miss the box sets too. It made life easier in finding the figures and the Play Packs are like that somewhat. But today the prices have inflated to where a box set is probably no longer worth Forever Fun to do. A 3 pack retaled at 20.00 when Charlie Brown debuted but back then a figure was around 6.00 each. Today the same figures with less accessories are 10.00. When Rudolph debuted 11 years ago Sam Goody stoes sold those exclusive 3 packs at 17.99. When they returned the following year they were 20.00 at most stores with Kohl’s running sales. Rudolph figures back then were 5.99 each, today they are 9.99 too. Box sets don’t seem to be a possibility anymore beyond the play packs.
At this point I doubt a Thanksgiving line would happen. When do they sell it? Halloween debuts at the end of August, Christmas comes in October. Is anyone really thinking about Thanksgiving in September? I’d love to have bought them but I can see why they have never been done. I think Valentine’s Day is possible but for some reasn CVS doesn’t. Target and many stores sell TONS of Valentines Day toys (most goes unsold) so I’m surprised they balk at Charlie Brown Valentines Day figures when these are well known characters and not generic ons.
Here’s an idea for you guys. Why not reissue the Great Pumpkin figures with the unreleased Marcie and Violet with the build a figure gimmick? What figure could we build? Why, the Great Pumpkin himself! That would be fantastic! You could even use toolings you already have. Linus’ light up Pumpkin could be the head, give him Lucy’s witch hat, Linus’ body, and Lucy’s party shirt sheet. That would make for a unique and interesting figure and people would HAVE To buy the figures CVS and other retailers think we don’t want if they want to complete the Great Pumpkin.
August 24th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
One other thought. What if next year Linus dresses up as the Great Pumpkin? That fits who he is to a T. He could wear all of the things I described above but have a Jack O’Lantern mask as well. It would be perfect.
August 25th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Ed: Here is the Peanuts site you sent me.
http://photos.figures.com/showgallery.php?cat=2277
I would love to see the reissue of the orginal figures from the Halloween line with figures that weren’t made. I think if they did the Playpacks with two figures plus the piece to make the Great Pumpkin figure it would be at a selling point if a larger chain ( ie TRU . Target ) pick them up. Unless they start doing Mini sets
I think the reality is that we are going to get the same figures ( perhaps dressed in diffrent costumes) until the line ends . I figures we will comtinue to see a CB, Lucy, Linus , Snoppy and rotating Sally. When the line came out they had Freida . Would be nice to have Marcie and Violet.
As far as Thanksgiving I think they could put them out along with the Halloween stuff. I have gone into a few CVS and Walgreens and they already have out Harvest stuff ( Thanksgiving) so it is possible,
On a diffrent note we know that CVS will be carrying the Halloween only . What about Christmas ? I guess it too soon to ask but Will be be seeing Valentine and Easter ?
August 26th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I like the play packs idea but I don’t think we’ll see that. I think you’re right on the reissues. I should do a count of how many variants of each Peanuts character I now have over all the lines. I must have 25 or 30 Charlie Browns alone. It would just be nice to get some of the other supporting characters every so often and even a standing Shroeder. I loved getting Franklin last year but he must not have done well since he’s not returning. Getting Patti in the Great Pumpkin line the year before was great too.
Freida and Pig Pen were in Wave 2 of the Great Pumpkin. Believe me, I know. I’ve been compiling the history of holiday figures for my website for about a month. It’s the Christmas stuff of 2002 and 2003 I can’tr keep straight since so many companies were making so much of it and it all blends together now.
Hmmm. If they could get CVS and Walgreens to support a larger line up than 4 figures maybe Great Pumpkin and Thanksgiving could be combined at the same release date or series? The Great Pumpkin sales should support the lesser known Thanksgiving (even though it still airs every year.) I also believe the Thanksgiving show won an Emmy but I may be wrong. That table as the building feature instead of the bases was a great idea. But even if they just redressed the gang as Pilgrims that would be cool. Can you imagine a Snoopy Pilgrim just like he appeared in the show?I keep hoping they release the big WWI Flying Ace. That’s Snoopy’s most popular alter ego so I would think it would sell. I just hink the retailers are stupid for not knowing how to sell stuff (I.E. poor distribution) or thinking we wont buy other characters than a core group. I miss the days when Playing Mantis released 6 new figures a wave, at least 2 deluxe figures, and multiple playsets. That certainly was the golden age. We could have got at least another Frosty character that way since there are only 5 carded. It would be great to get a 2 pack of the kids or the Andy Griffith Narrator then move on to the original Frosty. I hope WB buys Classic Media. Then we might finally get to see classic Frosty.
It can’t be too early to know about the oher holidays at CVS. The Easter Beagle I traded for was dated from October on his foot so they should know what CVS will carry right now.
August 26th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
By the ay, Vader. I bet you and I are probably the biggest fans/customers they have. I probably have you beat buying at least 3 of everything since 2000 (I bet I’ve put a few employee’s kids through college by now. Ha ha.) but I just love these characters and to get them in figure form is great. I wish Rankin/Bass recieved credit on the box like Schultz but the figures are great and I just wantto keep seing them do more. My display room is not yet full.
August 26th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
I have a suggestion for the new site. Is there anyway you could post the backgrounds from the inserts found in some of he boxsets over the years so we could print them out and make a backgrond for our displays? Some of those were really nice bt because of the packaging holes and tape they couldn’t be used for display. Since it probably doesn’t make sense to sell a display when retailers wont even carry figures how about making it a download for the collectors?
August 27th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Ed we probably are big fans . I know I am of the Peanuts stuff. I think it would be cool to have the backdrops espically for Halloween and Christmas. I have to look if the playing Mantis Good Olde Charlie Brown came with back drops?
Not sure if we would ever see Thanksgiving would rather be nice. I’m not sure but I thought on one of the boards here it waas mentioned that Franklin wasn’t added again to kind keep him as a collectible figure. Terri or some one from Forever Fun could shed light on that .
I would also love to see Shroeder also standing up as well. Terri when will the picture be updated ? I hope you can share with the collector frustration with no new characters added kinda makes it hard to buy .
August 30th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
I’m glad you’re intrigued with having backdrops offered. It’s a gimmick we are using to fill out the accessories and enhance displays. Obviously, this addition keeps in line with our lean tooling budgets! That exclamation is meant to accent our excuse (and frustration) for not executing the many new and fresh ideas that are possible with licenses that have such breadth and depth as Peanuts and Rudolph. We are also faced with the realities of short production runs, which necessitates fewer figures to each assortment. Our retailers who want to see only the ‘strongest’ characters in the assortments amplify the problems we face at Round2.
In spite of the challenges, we fight to keep the lines as fresh as possible. We’ve just completed our 2011 sales meeting and are moving forward with our Forever Fun plans. Some of them will remain a secret for now. One of the returning items will be the Peanuts poseable play packs that feature the Christmas play. In the assortment of two, Charlie, Lucy and Woodstock in the manger return and the three kings will be added, featuring Pigpen, Franklin and a new standing Schroeder.
I hesitate to share plans because I want to spare you the anguish of having them fall off the list when retailers don’t pick them up. We proposed ‘harvest’ poseables to CVS a couple years back complete with pilgrim accessories sculpted for Snoopy and Woodstock. Sometimes we get so close you almost think it will happen. For 2011 Easter, we had Pigpen in the assortment with colored egg dye smudges on his face and hands. They loved it but we couldn’t get our price even close to where CVS wanted it.
We think we’ve found a solution for this dilemma. Maybe we’ll feel comfortable enough to let it leak out sometime, soon. ….
August 30th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Terri : I’m not going to speak for everyone on these boards but for me personally I wouldn’t mind spending extra money if it meant we would see newest stuff in the mix. I know for me it’s frustrating because to see the same figures year after year . I know it equally frustrating for you guys at Forever Fun as well. As I stated how many Charlie Brown . Lucy , Linus in the same basic outfits.
I also would love to know what you guys have proposed just to see what could be . I love the idea of the back ground with different scenes would be nice . I think someone mentioned in one of the boards a propose tree lot . Perhaps a back drop of that would be nice . I would still look to see a mockup of the Harvest design if it even went that far . And as a matter of fact love to when you redo the boards perhaps a section on proposed ideas .
Again I think people are frustrated more at the companies like CVS then Forever Fun. After all you can only propose items . I’m now intrigued by what Forever Fun has in store for 2011… Jim
PS Pigpen would of been funny
September 2nd, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Terri – Thanks for the reply. I don’t mean to be harsh on you guys at all. I just wish things could be different. (I know it’s the retailers) I don’t mind reissues and variants but a few new items make it more fun and something to look even more forward to. Last year with the rest of the Misfit Toys finally being added really made it for me with Rudoph but Drummer Boy was the thing that got me the most excited. I’m so glad we have something new to look forward to for 2011!! This year is a real let down. (No offense.) Could you please reissue the clip on set as possables? That has yet to happen and sine you’ve done the Nativity version, why not a version in their outfits from the show (which there are already toolings for)?
Is there any progress on Classic Frosty at all? That’s something we all want to see. Can’t you at least add the Traffic Cop to the existing line since he’s in the song and when CVS made him he came from Frosty’s Winter Wonderland, not Frosty the Snowman. Many of us want to see hat dancing Frosty get made as well so we can finally have the North Pole sign for our displays. That’s an accessory everyone needs.
I agree with Vader. I’d like to know what might have been too. I still hold out some hope for unmade items while you’re still around. I may be wrong but I believe you’ll try to bring back the good ideas until they get made.
Backdrops are a great idea as long as they’re plastic so they’ll last. I suggested to Bob a few years ago that you should have bases come with the Rudolph characters that interlock to create the Island of Misfit Toys.
I also wouldn’t mind spending extra money on new characters just so they get released.
Will Macie and Patti get added to Easter since they were in that special a lot? Marcie has only been released once and a lot of us missed her. It would be great to have her in our collections too.
CVS charges a bit too much for some of your items. The Woodstock Easter figure from a few years back was way overpriced for what was only a PVC. I know a lot of others expressed the same thoughts.
Vader – There were no Peanuts backdrops as far as I know. There were only accessories but big ones and some playsets.
September 3rd, 2010 at 12:43 pm
The Halloween Peanuts figures are out in NJ. I picked them up the other day in Union Co, NJ . The price shot up by a dollar . The Figures include a backdrop but haven’t open it to see if the cardboard or plastic .
Ed: I woudn’t hold out breaths for a Marcie figure being made for Easter . Again the problem is CVS not understanding that people would like to see diffrent figures in the mix.
Terri: The Wise Men figures will they be 3 or 5 inches?
September 8th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Still nothing in PA. They claiim it will be 2 weeks before they set Halloween.
Someday I think we’ll see Marcie. At least I hope so.
I took it she meant they would be the full sized play pack. We’ve seen them smaller already. Plus she said standing Schroeder. He has never stood.
September 9th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
So to sum up, exactly what are the new items included in this year’s Halloween and X-mas releases for the Peanuts and Rudolph lines?
Rudolph: I guess the Rudolph line will have the repainted figures with nothing new, right (except for the “build a tree” thing, seen here: http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/timespacetoys_2124_833821 )? And are those ornaments actually new items, smaller sculpts, or just the small PVC figures?
Charlie Brown: ?
September 9th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
1.) I wish they’d do a matching Santa Claus with the hair effect this Mrs. Claus has.
2.) I wish that Forever Fun would pick up The Year Without A Santa Claus license and do a variant Mrs. Claus from that special in a red dress. That would be the PERFECT Mrs. Claus because we all know that Miss Jessica grew up to be that Shirley Booth Mrs. Claus. Plus if they got that license we would FINALLY see THE R./B Santa Claus puppet in his Santa suit rather than his South Town Street Clothes only.
3.) I wish that they would FINALLY do the Frosty the Snowman characters in this repainted variant style as they have always appeared on the advertising. That would add A LOT Of dimension to those flatly painted characters.
4.) Could you imagine if they had Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town now and could paint those characters all shiny like that? Wow!
September 9th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
For Charlie Brown the figures are Charlie repeats his appearance in his trendy Vampire costume. Snoopy is wrapped like a mummy and his buddy Woodstock is the archeologist. Sally has the iconic hair of the “Bride of the Monster”. Linus, as the Monster, sports shoe lifts, neck bolts, manacles and face paint. These are only at CVS … That’s it for Halloween .
September 9th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Terri : Again if Peanuts proves itself will might start seeing mini packs for Halloween? Easter ? Valentine? After seeing previews pix of the Christmas Pagent Mini sets .. I would love to see you expand them to the mentioned other Holidays. With the Min Pack three inch figures you can cram more into the package.
Halloween
Sally Linus in a Pumpkin Patch background with Snoppy rising out of the Pumpkin Patch three inch figure
Easter :
Marcie Patty and third figure
The point being if you can’t get companies to look at adding new Five inch fgures then go another way. Don’t get me wrong I would love for you guys to continue to add to the Peanuts.
September 11th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Terri: The Three King set for 2011 is that going to happening or is it just propposed?
September 13th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Disappointingly, the Three King set for 2011 is on hold. Wow, that was short and not so sweet!
I haven’t had time to update… crazy busy on prep for the Fall Toy Preview in Dallas.
September 13th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Thanks for the short answer. The Fall Preview? Any chance what it over with you could report back with information that you can share?
September 13th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Srub the last question about Fall Preview. Found the information on the web? Good luck .. Again I know you don’t want to share with fans what will be presented because there always a chance it won’t get made. But I hope you can keep us informed … Would still love to Peanuts Thanksgiving .. Perhaps cardvoard Pilgrim hats
September 14th, 2010 at 8:35 am
After Fall preview, count on some sharing!
September 14th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Thanks. Even if things that are proposed it would great to see As we know companies can orders . Again good luck and hope you can share good news upon your return Jim
September 15th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
You guys need to SERIOUSLY look atthat Family Christian Store chain to get Drummer Boy and the Peanuts Nativity stuff out there. I was there Sunday afternoon and they have now expanded the Little People Nativity line to include the Wisemen’s Caravan as a playset (Drummer Boy had this very scene in it!) and the Inn with the Innkeeper, etc. When they are able to sell that why WOULDN’T they jump at the chance to carry a set tied in with the most popular nativity themed Christmas special of all time ripe with playset possibilities? They also carry A Charlie Brown Christmas products so the Peanuts stuff would fit right in with them. Seriously, check them out. This my be the only hope to get this stuff made.
September 16th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
I think it a good idea in theory since Family Christian Stores carries Little Drummer boy product . But the reality is how many stores do they operate . Are they across the country? Reality is we see how hard it is for CVS to carry the Peanuts figures What Christmas Charlie Brown do they carry .
On a different note I notice a lot of Great Pumpkin stuff at K- Mart … Outside decor. Michael’s also has stuff . I’m guess for the 60th Anniversary of Peanuts
September 17th, 2010 at 1:45 am
CVS has started the change-over to Halloween merchandise this week in my local stores. The 2010 Peanuts Halloween figures are being displayed prominently in the beginning of the main Halloween aisle where they can be easily seen. That’s a good thing! But it also means that they’ll sell faster too! And of course, like the previous holidays, it doesn’t say Halloween anywhere on the front of the packaging, but the Monster costumes should clue folks in.
This year’s Halloween color is purple, so think striped purple for the packaging color with an orange band on the insert. And the individual character names and accessories are back on the individual inserts as well. Cool! Since these are the 5″ poseable figures, they come 6 to a display tray as usual, but what’s different is that there is only 1 Charlie Brown as the Vampire, 2 Snoopy’s as the Mummy, 2 Linus’ as the Frankenstein Monster, and 1 Sally as the Bride of the Monster. This is probably due to Charlie Brown being a repeat of last year’s figure, since he would normally get 2 figures per tray.
The cost is the same as last year’s Halloween blister carded figures and this year’s Easter blister carded figures, so Vader if you paid more, your area must be increasing the price for some reason. And one of the best parts of these figures is the scenic backdrop accessory that comes with each figure. There are TWO different backdrops: a pumpkin patch scene with a fence behind it and a completely black sky (comes with Charlie Brown and Linus), and a pumpkin patch scene with no fence and a clear blue starry night sky (comes with Snoopy and Sally). The backdrops are only cardboard, but glossy on the picture side, and come tri-folded, so that they stand up nicely when opened up. A great idea that I hope gets carried forward to the other holidays and other figure lines.
All in all, this is probably the highlight of my 2010 Forever Fun collecting year. I’m more of a traditionalist and prefer the “classic” characters and scenes from the television specials. And after the essentially re-issues of the 2010 Valentine’s Day and Easter figures, and the upcoming re-paints of all the 2010 Christmas figure lines (those that survived), I wasn’t holding out much hope for this year’s Halloween line (my favorite holiday too). But I must admit this Monster series has won me over.
So, if you have to do anymore Monster figures, can Pig-Pen be the Wolf Man/Werewolf ? After that, can we get back to figures and scenes from the “classic” television special? Or at least a mixture somehow. I think that’s what most consumers would be interested in since that’s what most people associate Charlie Brown and Halloween with. And there’s always new collectors coming along looking for the classic stuff. CVS must have had success with that route since they had the same exact figures for several years, year after year. Throw in at least one new figure or new something for us collector types, and we’ll be happy too.
Anyway, best series of the year. I look forward to seeing what you folks present at this year’s Fall Toy Fair.
September 17th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
monarchmike; My CVS already had these out the beginning of September . I already have mine . It was only one CVS had them mismarked . But it since been corrected . So yes the prices are the same as last year. I have only seen the CVS here in NJ where I live only have one tray of figures … So yes unless you get them right then they may be gone
I also have mixed feeling about adding the Monster line up because it not true to the Peanuts show . But reality is that if these toys are to be made then they might have to get creative . After all I think they are looking a wide range of audiences when they come up with figures to seel. Not looking at a xcollector but what will appeal to kids .
I would have to disagree that the backgrounds are the best part when other items could of been adding such as Ed suggested build a Great Pumpkin. But again the problem is the retailer will tell Forever Fun what the price point should be and that leave little except the figure and back ground . Would love to see additonal items . Only Time will tell if it will happen.
Adding older figure to the mix great idea .. Will it happen I think it been said over and over that retailer look at the top 3-4 figures. Not given up hope . Jim
September 17th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Terri: Again wish you and your team good luck at the Fall Preview. Just curious what period does this cover that you showing items? I would suspect that Valentine and Easter 2011 are already completed? Is this for next year ( Halloween , Christmas) . Again anything you could share once it over would be greatly appericated…
September 19th, 2010 at 8:53 am
Family Christian Stores is a NATIONAL chain like Toys R Us. CVS vastly out numbers TRU yet TRU carries more selection. Whatsmore, Family Christian Store carries DOZENS of the SAME figure unlike TRU. TRU only have maybe 2 cases of Drummer Boy in my area, FCS should easily carry 5 or more judging by the vast number of their other Nativity toy sets.
They had Charlie Brown DVD’s, cars, and ornaments last year.
Nothing at my CVSes again. Sigh….I’ll have to check out K Mart. Got some great Halloween stuff at Target last night.
September 19th, 2010 at 9:07 am
cards. not cars
September 19th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
I went to over a dozen CVSes today and not a one had the new figures. You know, it’s pretty ridiculous when a major market from Cleveland, Buffalo, to Pittsburgh gets little to no distribution of this stuff. It’s no wonder CVS moans about poor sales. The manager of my local CVS doesn’t even understand it since when they did get shipped there I’d always buy the whole case at full price. Unfortunately she has no control over what inventory her store gets.
In other news, I was at a ma and pa type Christmas store today and they had a display of the scald down Forever Fun figures. I took a picture of it. It had Rudolph, Santa, and Hermey, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Linus, and Frosty. These were packaged as these figures appeared at CVS in past years, smaller blisters with little to no accessories. The header on the display was something like “Holiday Classics” or “Christmas Classics” Now, I’d love to see that title become the title of a line and include characters from the remaining WB and Classic Media owned specials. Then we could get the most popular characters from them all. Neca does this with horror films (including several properties owned by different studios no less in a series and wave.) so why can’t this happen with Christmas specials WB also owns?
It doesn’t look like there will be much new Christmas film/special related stuff released this year. Lowes and Kohl’s are set up and have very little. This Christmas store was also skimpy. The bright side is our wallets will sigh with relief this year. ha ha.
September 20th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Ed, let me know how you make our around Buffalo. I have been looking and have found nothing so far. We usually get the Halloween stuff — never Valentine’s and rarely Easter last year, with none last year — but it’s not looking good for Halloween this year. I am hopeful that what I have seen is not the complete CVS Halloween display so far, but if it is, I am screwed!
September 21st, 2010 at 12:26 am
The CVS weekly sales flyer this week now has Halloween items in it (no Peanuts figures or discounts). But this will alert the masses to start going to CVS for their Halloween supplies. So get your figures NOW if you haven’t already! Sally will probably disappear first since she’s new this year and is only one per display tray.
Hopefully, this year’s Toy Fall Preview will attract some new, and maybe some old retailers to support these lines. ‘Cause I’m not convinced that retailers are only looking for the top 3-4 characters in these lines. If that was true, all we’d ever see is Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, and Linus. Just recently we’ve gotten Peppermint Patty and Schroeder in last year’s TRU and CVS Halloween lines, Franklin in last year’s Christmas line, Sally in this year’s Halloween line, and Pig-Pen was proposed for next year’s Easter line.
It’s probably more realistic that retailers want MOST of the figures in a line to be from the top 3-4, but one or two figures could be from the secondary characters if it makes sense. And from my experience those are the figures that are always the hardest to find and sell out the fastest. How easy was it to find Franklin last Christmas? And those are the figures that make collecting fun. I say shoot for the stars, and IF the retailers say NO, well at least you tried.
Unfortunately, I’m not a big fan of those build-a-figure accessories. It causes folks who just want the completed figure to have to buy 5 or 6 individual figures that they may or may not want just to complete the figure. And for folks who just want the individual figure, they have to pay a higher price because their individual figure comes with an “arm” or “leg” (or “tree” piece) accessory that they don’t want and can’t use unless they buy the whole set. This only benefits people who plan on buying the whole set regardless. So, for the uber-collectors, this works great. But, for the average consumer, not so good. And unfortunately, it’s the average consumer that makes or breaks the continuance of any given line, not us collector types.
And as much as the idea of a Great Pumpkin figure sounded cool at first, I think I like it better of not knowing what he looks like, and leaving it to your imagination like it’s been for the past fifty years.
I am going to miss The Little Drummer Boy line this year too. I thought that it had been successful enough to warrant at least a re-issue of the same figures. I was hoping for maybe one new three or four pack with Ben Haramad and Ali, or maybe Joshua, Samson, and Baba in their animal poses during the “Why Can’t the Animals Smile?” song, like a lion, alligator, or caribou. The more national chain stores (big or small) these lines can be exposed to, the better it is for everyone. Meijer’s is more of a regional chain, yet they supported last year’s Peanuts Christmas line with their own scaled down (less accessories) version of figures. Hopefully, this year’s Toy Fall Preview will be successful on this front for most of next year’s lines.
September 23rd, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Mike – Some of us HAVE been looking to buy the new figures for over a month but our local CVSes haven’t had them. It’s just ridiculous!
I’m by far no expert but from what I know from the action figure industry is that retailers genuinely like character choices that sell. In the late 90’s this led to the short packed obscure character phenomenon. Because the Forever Fun stuff is now made in smaller and smaller production runs it may no longer be possible to support producing short packed figures. In the Frosty line I believe the three snow people reuse several parts and the snow kids are essentially the same body. I’d love to see the three main kids from Frosty’s Winter Wonderland and the Traffic Cop (When CVS did the Traffic Cop he was credited from this one, not the original) made as well as the narrator but I doubt we’ll ever see them. There’s tons of possibility for Frosty but for whatever reason we don’t seem to be seeing it expanded. I know a lot of us would love to get the North Pole sign and since the characters from Christmas In July were added to this line perhaps others could be added from the same film. King Winterbolt would be the best choice since he looks wintry and he was revealed to be the villain behind the scenes in many of the Christmas specials. He may be too obscure to merit making a whole new figure but what if a new head were added to a tweaked Winter Warlock body? I wonder if the costs come down when cloth goods are used rather than sculpted?
Target has a great pumpkin ceramic statue for 2.00 that looks very close to what I thought the Great Pumpkin looked like. He even has the witch’s hat that Snoopy’s tail seemed to suggest in the cartoon. Check it out!
I hold out hope that Drummer Boy isn’t dead forever. I’m still confident that Family Christian Stores might be the chain to pitch this too providing Forever Fun still has an option on the license. (Usually these are secured for about 3 years at a time in case you weren’t aware.) I still also think that a Holiday Classics line that can combine the most popular characters from various specials would be the best way to see many fan favorites done. We could actually get a Magoo and Gerald that way without the committal of a full line and other fan favorites like Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey and characters from Rudolph’s Shiny New Year (Which has been once again airing on NETWORK TV for a few years now) possible.
September 23rd, 2010 at 8:13 pm
TRDouble – Where are you at? I’m trying Buffalo this weekend. In my experience we always get Christmas everywhere, Halloween at 2-3 locations, Valentines Day at 2 other locations, and never Easter. yet if the sales are low CVS blames Forever Fun. Riiiight…
September 23rd, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Greeting to All. I know it only late September and many have not found the CVS Peanuts Halloween figure But wanted to pass along a sighting of the Peanuts Christmas figures at K-Mart, I was there today and they already have a setup the Christmas decoration for sale . They had the following figures
Charlie Brown with pathetic tree box of Christmas decorations .. No cardboard back drop with Gold Coin.
Snoopy dressed as Santa with Woodstock No cardboard back drop with Gold Coin
Snoopy with Woodstock dog house No cardboard back drop with Gold Coin
No build a tree looks like stripped down version cost $ 14.99 per figure
I think a little high price for what you are getting .
Block set
Word Peace $ 19.99
9 piece Mini set $ 29.99
Noticed not a lot of Peanuts stuffs at Walgreens this time around .. Mostly Disney Halloween. In years past they had Peanuts Puzzles etc. At K-Mart saw Mickey and Minnie dressed as Pilgrim door greeters,
September 24th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Here in NJ most of the CVS stores has not gotten to or just putting up the Halloween display. The two CVS I did find the figures they are either on the bottom shelf or top shelf . I remember last year they were displayed on the end cap.
To further get into my last post . K-Mart seem to offering Foreverr Fun items . This is the first time I ever seen this . I would guess they had stuff in years past . In think the only figure I would pick up from there would be the dog house with Snoopy and Woodstock. This is a carded figure. As I stated no extra stuff incliuding a background. I would pick it up because it not part of the build a tree set .
I hoping this is a goos sign that K-Mart is placing items because perhaps they could order a Harvest set. The currently have a huge section devoted to Harvest / Thanksgiving . As mentioned they have Disney characters ( Mickey , Minnie ) dressed as Pilgrims door greeters.
Wagreens is onnly carrying a Peanuts Trick or Treat bag
Walmart Snoopy Halloween socks
Target Nothing seen for Halloween .
Michaels has Arts and Crafts for the Great Pumpkin
September 25th, 2010 at 9:33 am
After reviewing pictures of the Christmas figures I have to correct about the K-Mart figgure . The only new figure is the Snooppy and Woodstock with dog house . The other two are part of the build a tree set. However there still was no back drop for these figures and again at K-Mart a little pricey at $14.99 per figure .
September 25th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Ed, I am in Buffalo and travel sometimes to Rochester. I’ve been searching Buffalo the last two weeks and have found nothing. My experience has been Halloween at about 3-4 locations, Christmas at most locations, Valentines Day never and Easter at one location two years ago, but not last year. Besides Halloween and Christmas, I have never seen anything at CVS besides a couple of the Easter Eggs at one location. I don’t even bother looking for Valentines and Easter anymore.
I got lucky and someone has picked up Linus, Sally and Snoopy for me. So I should have them for my Halloween display this year.
Good luck in Buffalo this weekend, Ed, and to everyone still looking for these. They shouldn’t be that difficult to find :^(
September 26th, 2010 at 1:22 am
Jeez, I’m in Los Angeles (not a small market) and there’s nothing yet, not even Halloween stuff.
Sean
September 26th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Yep, I’ve been finding Christmas stuff already too. Still insane I can find that and no Halloween.
Thanks for directing me to KMart. I’ll check them out this week. I agree, that seems very high as well. Can Terri please tell us if the gold coin will be in the build a tree set too? This may be the first thing they’ve done that I’ll have to pass on due to the price and the value. 14.99 for just a new coin is a bit much even to a seasoned seasonal collector such as myself.
Was the mini set the Nativity or their street clothes look?
Walgreens has a Snoopy pumpkin this year too and some dancing Snoopy plush. They also have a Charlie Brown Christmas Snow Globe that retails for 1.99. I’d love to see some Rudoph ones like this as Memory Lane planned to do about ten years ao and even later on.
September 27th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Vader – Snoopy & woodstock with the Dog House have been released in years passed. Do you mean these are only “new” this year or an updated version of the older version? Why they never release a dog house Snoopy can actually go inside I’ll never know. That’s one variant gimmick most collectors would probably buy.
TR- I agree. No. These should not be this hard to locate but they are. That is why I would say sales are sometimes poor. When each store gets 1 case and 1 full set is in a case that’s one colector per store. When CVS is ignoring large markets like Buffalo and Pittsburgh that’s a lot of Peanuts fans. My local CVS is contacting the company for me. This worked one Easter but not last year. We’ll see what happens now.
I got my set of Peace blocks today at K Mart. Thanks for that tip! I too hope this means Forever Fun will get into Kmart and with it the return of SCICTT and Drummer Boy!!
September 27th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Ed: I’m hoping that TRU or CVS will have them cheaper than $14.99,. What I can the figures at K-Mart are only two out of the five. It looked like no tree parts in eith figures . With the third a Snoppy with doghouse. It looks the gold coinns are atleast in the carded figures
The mini set was Nativity set .. With three Kings.
I haven’t seen the Snow globe .. I got the last year from CVS
Terri: Perhaps again once you are back from Fall Previews you can enlighten us on where the Christmas stuff can be found . Who will get what?
September 28th, 2010 at 8:45 am
Still busy as a bee! In addition to prep for Dallas, we had to prepare for a meeting with K-Mart in Hong Kong. The Collector Coins are on all Peanuts Christmas poseables for this anniversary year. Yes, our challenges with increased factory cost will ripple to the retail price. By next week, I should be able to update you on some products we are previewing in Dallas. Watch for the new Forever Fun website. It will show were to find this year’s Christmas products!
September 28th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
What’s the point of releasing products and exclusives when collectors can’t find it in the stores at all? I talked with CVS corporate today and they don’t know a thing about these. It’s a total disconnect and no one cares. It sure would be nice if you didn’t have to jump through hoops and call dozens of stores long distance to purchase something. These should not be this hard to find. Chase figures are easier to locate than these.
September 28th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Vader – The Nativity set at TRU had the kings last year. I still don’t see what the bog deal is when these were out last year too.
September 28th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Terri : We look forward to what you can share with us upon your return. It almost seem like Christmas is early with the surprise of finding stuff at K-Mart. Looks like they have an exclusive Block set … Very cool ..
September 29th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I’m not sure why everyone else is having this trouble but my local CVS (Dover, DE) had them and it just opened last week. I got Charlie as the Vampire (I know this is last year’s but we didn’t have a CVS last year so I didn’t have it) and Linus as Frankenstien’s monster. They had the other two as well but I couldn’t justify spending another $14 on them.
September 29th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Ed: I think it’s the fact or surprise that this is showing up at K-Mart which gives me hope that perhaps they might do exclusive items.. They altrasdy have an exclusive block set at K-Mart for Christmas . The word Peace for $ 12,99 Also I was reporting what I saw at K-Mart which seems to be beating alot of stores with Christmas decorations. So there hope that perhaps we can start seeing other things .. Perhap ( just speculating ) Valentine Figures.. Perhap as Terri said she can emlighten us after next week.
Jay: Glad to see a new poster. I Here in NJ it seems that CVS put out one tray perhap two begiining of September . The figure are long since sold out . And since it a limited run what out there is it. The harest figure seem to be Sally .
Terri; Hoping this is a good sign to add K-Mart which also owns Sears as a partner to bring the product out . Again best of luck with your meeting . Ican’t wait to see the new website
Jim
September 30th, 2010 at 4:58 am
Supposedly the DM of the east coast has a case on order for me to my local CVS. We’ll see. Very frustrating.
It is typical for new stores in any chain to be fully stocked to see what sells. A new Walmart often has more holiday stuff than an older store. A new Walmart is a great place to shop after Christmas by the way. Always tons of stuff left on sale there.
September 30th, 2010 at 9:29 am
There was another CVS that opened here over Easter and they certainly didn’t have the Easter figures. I hope this one will next year though.
BTW – I’m not exactly new I did post a couple times last year. Just haven’t since until now.
September 30th, 2010 at 10:39 am
Jay: Glad to see you back posting .
September 30th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
Vader: Thanks for the heads up about K-Mart. That was a great early Christmas find! I’m still in Halloween mode and never thought to start looking for Christmas stuff this early. The Forever Fun Christmas items don’t usually come out until the last week in October at TRU and the first week of November at CVS.
My local K-Mart had a few additional Forever Fun Christmas items, including some 2010 Rudolph products: the 21-piece PVC set (with the re-painted colors), the 5-piece Decor Blocks that spell out H-O-P-E-*, and several individual PVC ornaments of Rudolph, Hermie, Santa, and Bumble (with the re-painted colors).
As for Peanuts, they also had a deluxe Snoopy Contest Winning Doghouse Display Playset. This was labeled as a K-Mart exclusive for $19.99. It is very similar to the original Christmas playset that first came out in 2003 (and re-released a few more times in later years). However, there are a few differences for those of you who collect variants.
The 2003 playset came with:
3″ poseable Snoopy with BLACK collar, “closed” eyes, and either “straight line smile” or “singing” facial expression.
Doghouse in either RED or BLUE.
When you press the 1st Place Ribbon, the lights flash, and it plays 3 or 4 different phrases of dialogue from the Christmas special, like the gang saying “Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown”, or Charlie Brown saying “Lights and Display Contest?”.
Dogdish with stack of bones.
Box of unused decorations.
Snow base.
Snow covered background fence.
The 2010 playset comes with:
3″ poseable Snoopy with RED collar, “open” eyes, and “big curved smile” facial expression.
Doghouse in RED only.
When you press the 1st Place Ribbon, the lights flash, and it plays the “Linus and Lucy” theme music.
Dogdish with stack of bones.
NO Box of unused decorations.
Snow base.
Snow covered background fence.
For anyone that doesn’t have a K-Mart near them, or has one but doesn’t carry all the items, they all appear to be available online at kmart.com, plus many more non-Forever Fun Peanuts, Rudolph, and Frosty Christmas items.
As Vader mentioned, K-Mart has a huge Harvest/Thanksgiving section of items, so I could easily see them having exclusive Peanuts Thanksgiving poseable figures next year or later if this year’s Christmas items are successful. But that means consumers (including collectors) have to support these items there, even at what seems like higher prices, for that to happen.
October 1st, 2010 at 10:57 am
Jay ; Thanks for the heads up about online K-Mart. When UI went to a K-Mart near work they had the carded figures , Block set.. Didn’t see the playset but hope it will show up. I also hope it a good sign that the reps at Forever Fun are going to meet with K-Mart .. Again I would pay alittle extra if assure that new stuff would be coming out .. Ie Thanksgiving Figures next year .. One can only hope ..
October 3rd, 2010 at 9:35 am
Jay – My explanation on why they’d not have Easter is that there does seem to be some validity that many stores stock less Easter than Halloween. When I was a kid Easter was always no. 2 right after Christmas but now it seems Halloween has become no. 2 and to some even rivals Christmas.
Thanks for the further heads up on Kmart. I’m heading there now. Don’t forget they have a Kmart club where you can earn rewards points with purchases at both K Mart and Sears.
I got my Halloween Peanuts figures yesterday. Very nice, Linus is the best of the new, but the paint ops on these are very sloppy. It was only a big deal on Sally because she only comes one per case and it looks like this will be the only case I’ll have access to. I hope we see the Wolfman next year. Maybe Franklin since he has curly hair? Other than that very nice.
October 3rd, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Found the figures at K Mart today. There is a serious paint issue with the Rudolph PVCs. I had to go to 3 different K Marts sifting through a total of 24 box sets in all before I could find one that was passable as being semi clean. I cannot believe how sloppy the paint on these PVCs are. I’ve been collecting these since the debut in 2000 and this is by far the worst I have ever seen. There were stray paint brush marks all over the characters, very few followed the lines, and rubs were abound on MIB figures. The set I settled on was the “best” I could find 9With a Charlie in the Box who had a skin colored nose) but it’s still not up to par with the standards set in previous years. One thing the PVCs, ornaments, and Decor blocks hadin common was the Santa Claus’ beard had scuff marks on it. This was universal in every application of that figure this year but I have never seen this occur ever in past years. It is not my intetion to bash Forever Fun but to alert them that there is a major problem here. At 40.00 a pop I hope these don’t warm the shelves but looking like this I can understand if they do. If the TRU sets fare better I may return this one.
Does anyone know is the K Mart Peanuts Nativity set is a repaint? I’m not familiarenough with that set to know on sight.
For other Christmas film fans, K Mart has an exclusive Miracle on 34th Street village and Rite Aid has a It’s A Wonderful Life Popcorn Tin.
October 4th, 2010 at 9:26 am
@ Ed and Vader, Please stop giving me credit for the K-Mart thing that was Mike.
@ Vader, the K-Mart Peanuts Nativity is identical to mine that I got last year from TRU.
October 4th, 2010 at 9:28 am
I Meant Ed. See now you’ve got me diong it.
October 4th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
I think the K-Mart nativity is a repaint .
October 5th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Sorry Jay…
October 7th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
I was talking to Mike, not Jay. Sorry.
So is it a repaint or not? Now I’m even more confused.
October 8th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Hope everyone was able to find the Halloween Peanuts.
October 10th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
First off I want to say that I am thankful to find this blog with info on where to find the products such as CVS & Kmart and TRU. Im disappointed that all 3 places are spotty at best with what they carry but I’ll take what I can get. Im just overjoyed to find them again
Secondly I want to thank Foreverfun for making the products that I love but havent finished collecting. So a huge thank you goes out to all of you
Next I wanted to throw something out to TerriR, I know that this is late, but in honor of Peanuts 60th Anniversary. Or for any other reason..have you guys thought about doing 3- 3packs of the rare characters? Such as:
Pack 1: Shermy(with optional Shepherd outfit), Voilet Gray & her best friend Patty(in checkered dress with matching bow)
Pack 2: “Dancing” Twins in matching purple outfits, and Franklin
Pack 3: Marcy, Peppermint Patty(of course with Marcy) and Pig Pen
Im sure you have heard these ideas before, but I figured it couldnt hurt to put it out there. Thank you again for all you do. Take care and have a wonderful day!!
Sincerely,
Shannon
October 11th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Shannon: CVS has been carrying the CVS Halloween for awhile . TRU did up until this year. K-Mart is the first time also in a long time that has started to carrying this line . Also if you read back Terri and Forever Fun were going to a Fall Preview to peddler ideas for the line . Also Terri promised that when she could she would inform us what to expect for line . Great idea for the combo packs but as we heard so many time before retailers only want the top 3-4 figures . But there is hope
October 11th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Ed: I’m pretty sure that the nativity isn’t a repaint if the image on Kmart.com is correct. If Vader has seen the actual set then he would know better.
October 12th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Those dancing twins were triplets in the strip named 7,8, and 9. I’d buy 3.
I doubt obscure 3 packs would sell. The general rule is you need a few anchor characters like the core group that will sell well to merit the obscure fan oriented one being carrired. This is why most such figures wind up short packed.
October 13th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Close, Ed, but those dancing twins really are twins named 3 and 4. They are the twin sisters of 5, the boy who dances between them with the cool shrugging shoulders dance moves. He usually wears an orange shirt, sometimes with a “5″ on it. The twins have only appeared in a couple of the Charlie Brown specials I think, most memorably in A Charlie Brown Christmas, but I can also picture them sitting in a sandbox in the school yard when Pig-Pen walks through and sucks up all their sand. 5 appears more frequently, but I don’t think any of them have had any speaking parts, mostly they just appear as background characters. In the strips, it was explained how they were given their numerical names by their dad when numbers began taking over all aspects of his life. But a 3-pack of 3, 4, and 5, as cool as that would be, will probably be a long time coming for all the reasons that have been mentioned above.
October 14th, 2010 at 12:00 am
I hope everyone got their Halloween figures too. They finally started showing up in my parts; I guess I was a bit impatient, but my luck with the other CVS Peanuts exclusives made me jump the gun a bit for these.
Meijers has Christmas Peanuts in-stock now — Charlie Brown w/Green Coat, Linus w/Light Brown Coat, Sally w/Orange Coat and Scarf and Snoopy w/Purple Hat and Woodstock on Zamboni. All with accessories. Time & Space Toys has pictures at their website.
I saw the K-Mart Nativity Box Set, but I don’t remember last years, so I cannot compare them.
What I will say is that when The Peanuts line was first announced way back by Playing Mantis/Memory Lane, I was shocked at how big they were when I saw them in person for the first time. I expected them to be the size of the figures in the Nativity Box Set. As much as I love my Peanuts collection, I wouldn’t be opposed to a reboot of the line in the smaller scale, especially if it was a way to get more characters and/or holiday themes into the mix. I am not sure how articulated the smaller figures are, but add some articulation below the waist on them — basically make them the same as the large figures, just smaller — and I would be on board. They might even be able to grab a few new collectors/casual Peanuts fans too.
October 14th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
TrDouble: I think if it a question of getting more if the figures were 3inches vs 5 inches Everyone ( Collector) would be on board . The only real people that can answer that would be the retailer and Terri.
Terri L Hopefully yoyu can share wiith us how the meetings went . Understanding of course that plans can change
October 19th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
I think those characters would be too obscure as a box set alone. Packaged with a character like Lucy or Charlie Brown might be a better sell. Shermie, Violet, and a few other obscure characters were planned a few years ago and mock up cards were even done at Toy Fair.
Are there any face variants in this year’s Charlie Brown set? I’d appreciate a heads up if anyone knows.
I prefer the larger figures as I can display them with characters from other Christmas films much better. The smaller ones are only in scale with the Simpsons WOS figure line. I’d love to see the characrers appear in both sizes though. Rudolph has done that with almost all of them except the eskimo.
Has anyone seen the figures appearing at TRU yet? Next week is the week they’ve arrived at my store for the last 6 years.
October 21st, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Has anyone seen any places that have the Christmas figures beside K- Mart yet?
October 23rd, 2010 at 10:03 pm
TRU begins expanded hours starting this Sunday, so I expect to see a lot of new product rolling in between now or right after Halloween.
October 25th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Terri: Is there anything you can share from those meetings?
October 29th, 2010 at 12:42 am
I just noticed that Diamond Select has the Christmas Peanuts and Rudolph figures on their shipping list this week, so comic shops and other specialty shops may have then in store now.
Sadly, I don’t see anything I need this year to add to my collection (6-Inch figures only; I don’t collect the PVCs).
October 29th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
I found that comic shop tend to be pricey with the figure because they can’t buy in bulk , I noticed a lot of cool dtuff from Walgreens ( mini snow globe, dish set,) CVS so far had Hallmark Peanuts Oaranments as well as Wal-Mart.. Except for K-Mart figure haven’t seen anywhere else.. Jim
October 31st, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Since Forever Fun has been silent here is some new info from me.
I have the first wave of new figures to hit my TRU in hand. My TRU didn’t have any out but an employee was kind enough to bring out a cart with what was in so far. I picked up the new Deluxe Charlie Brown figures and the Elf Band. They didn’t have any of the carded figures for either film or the push puppets and slide puzzles. The only surprise is that the Elf Band comes in 3 playpacks rather than as 6 carded figures and are a dollar cheaper this way. I haven’t opened them yet but to those who have poo-pooed this variant let me add my two-cents. To me this series makes sense to an extent because these are as if they are dressed up fancy for the performance we saw the rehearsal for in the film. The Mrs. Claus also makes sense somewhat because the red matches Santa Claus much more than her purple, also I prefer her character accurate purple. This was so interesting to me that it made me paint the dress of one of my duplicate Year Without a Santa Claus Mrs. Clauses red as well. Anyway, hopefully the rest will show up this week too.
There was a lot of repeat and for Frosty it looks like Jack Frost and the Snow Parson have both been dropped. The Peanuts Nativity minis come in 3 playpacks as well while the larger sets are the same as before, no large scale wisermen. There was a wisemen playpack in the minis for those of you who got the CVS version last year without them and don’t want to rebuy the whole set again. I’m not sure if either Nativity is a variant or not.
For Rudolph the talking Rudolph, Yukon, and Santa are back but Sam and the Bumble have been dropped. The 2 deluxe Frosty figures have returned as well.
That was all I saw. For those who collect other Christmas figures I also saw a Toys R Us Exclusive Ghostbusters 2 set with the 4 Ghostbusters and Slimer with Santa hats on. The ad has Slimer with a hat but I saw none for him in the box. Imaginex also has a Christmas train for 30.00 off as well. Also remember that today’s paper features a TRU book with a 10.00 coupon off every 75.00 purchase. I saw many people heading through the line multiple times with duplicate coupons. It’s a great way to save a few bucks here.
October 31st, 2010 at 2:23 pm
I forgot the Decor Blocks. Those were both there too. Both are variants of last year but the Charlie Brown isn’t as obvious. The biggest difference there is that the Christmas ornaments are painted metallic this year.
November 1st, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Can anyome from Forever Fun enlighten us on what happened at the meetings ?
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Went to diffrent stores in the area to see what was out.
CVS : They have. four figures ( Sall, Linus , CB, Snoppy) stripped down verison of TRU / K-Mart. These are figures that are basic .. No acessories . No background. $ 6.99. The CVS I went has also the six perce Navity set.. The interesting thing was they has 25%. I recieved a cupon in the mail from CVS for 20% on November 6-7…
TRU : They had the six figures ( Sally, Linus, Charlie Brown, two diffrent verison of Snoppy) Delux figure.. Acessories including as well as Gold Coin… $9.99. They also had the three pack Navity set.
K-Mart : As mentioned before the figures at $14.99.. Including in the mix Snoppy with his doghouse snow covered.
So my guess is. CVS is going for lower end .
Walgreen: Nothing from Forever Fun as far as I can see ,, So cool Peanys Christmas nightlights , dish wear…
Hopefully this is a good sign that more are adding Peanuts that perhaps one of them will ofer something new for tyhe next Holidays… Jim
November 2nd, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Thanks for the heads up on the Snoopy variant. I’ll watch for that.
Peanuts stuff has been a staple at all retailers for years.
Since I last posted, I was looking over my new figures and before opening them I noticed the drummer elf I got is missing his drumsticks. I hate to return it over this but unless I can get some sticks from Forever Fun I’ll have to. Last year there were Drummer Boy PVCs missing sticks too. It’s very irritating.
November 6th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Terri With ll Christmas figures in the stores now can you let us know the future of the line for Valentine and Easter? Will there be figures? Also anything else you can share with us would be appericated. I know if probably hetic there . I’m still hoping for an expansion giving the faxct that the product is in K-Mart/ Sears , CVS , TRU … As a side note most CVS stores are only carrying 1 tray of the basic figures … Breakdown 1 Sally, 1 Linus , 2 Charlie Brown and 2 Snoppy …
November 6th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Went CVS tonight saw mini figures as well as the big figures.. Can you guys let us know what is out there ,,,
November 7th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Checked TRU and Kmart and saw all this stuff. Unfortunately both TRUs I went to had badly damaged Rudolph carded figures, so I was unable to purchase any.
Noticed the paint on the Rudolph figures, particularly the PVC figures, was quite poor.
So again to clarify, what is new this year? So far I see:
RUDOLPH LARGE FIGURES
Figures: Repaints only (no new figures)
Accessories: wire brush type tree with Rudolph figure, and mini ornaments with other figures
RUDOLPH SMALL FIGURES
Repaints (no new figures or accessories?).
RUDOLPH WORD BLOCKS
Kmart has ‘peace’
RUDOLPH DELUXE LARGE FIGURES
Nothing new?
RUDOLPH TRAIN
Is this the same as last year?
PEANUTS LARGE FIGURES:
Figures: nothing new (just the cloth scarves maybe?)
Accessories: trees parts, coins
PEANUTS SMALL FIGURES:
?
PEANUTS WORD BLOCKS:
Kmart has ‘hope’
PEANUTS DELUXE LARGE FIGURES:
Snoopy Snowboarding (is this new, or a rerelease?)
concert Snoopy (is this new, or a rerelease?)
FROSTY line
Nothing new
QUESTIONS:
1. Does this pretty much sum up the differences in this years releases?
2. Are there any variants?
3. Are the individual carded Peanuts figures at CVS the same figures that came on last year’s Word Blocks?
4. Is that ‘leaping Rudolph’ with snow base in the small PVC Rudolph set new? Or is it the same as was released on the Word Blocks last year?
5. Forever Fun- when will you be launching your message forum? Sure would be easier to talk with other fans via message board than this blog.
November 7th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Sorry, in question 3 above I meant individually boxed Peanuts figures, not carded.
November 7th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
And one more question- are the Peanuts Nativity Scene versions of the larger figures new this year? (most of my stuff is in boxes temporarily so it’s hard for me to tell what came out previously).
November 8th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
The mini figures I saw at CVS are exclusive to them. They look like Clip On// They retailer for $ 4.99.. THe Basic Figures at CVS are on sale 25% off ..
November 9th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
When will we see an update on the board?
November 10th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
For a company who does so many fan geared variants Forever Fun certainly isn’t great on keeping the collectors updated.
Here’s what I have to chime in.
1.) For Frosty Crystal’s apron now has snowflakes on it. Another variant. Frosty and the kids appear to be the same.
2.) The Peanuts figures are all new. It’s easier to variant them as the base Snoopy and CB are always the same.
3.) The reissued Decor blocks are painted different colors tis year.
4.) The leaping Rudolph was introduced last year. The Peanuts figures on the word blocks came out years ago as clip ons. Never as figures though.
5.) The Rudolph and Frosty trains have new decals. By my count these mark the third version of each train. If you ask me Forever Fun needs to make a series of box car variants only for we collectors who have no need in buying 2 new trains every year.
6.) I’m unsure about the Nativity sets being variants. I need to look at mine more closely I guess.
What’s this about even more new exclusives at CVS now?
Has anyone seen the push puppets and slide puzzles around? I haven’t found these yet. I haven’t seen the carded Rudolph figures in a store yet either.
In the Family Christian Store book this month they have the Charlie Brown Nativity set listed. Glad to see my suggestion was used and I hope this leads to picking up the Little Drummer Boy again. If they can’t sell it no one else can.
November 11th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Ed : The items I saw at CVS are mini Peanuts figures they are clip on figures .. Retail for $4.99 there is a set of six so far I only found them in one of the CVS by me. I pick up Charlie Brown and Linus . I haven’t seen the puzzles or puppets? I hope that Terri or someone from Forever Funj can let us what’s going and the future of the Figures .
November 11th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Ed- when you say the Peanuts figures are “all new”, I assume you’re talking about colors maybe? Because the figures I have are the same as other years, with the exception of the accessories or maybe colors (haven’t compared side by side to check).
I’ve been to about 6 TRUs and half have the carded Rudolph sets, but they packages were entirely crushed and bent. So it seems this damaged happened prior to shipping out to all stores. The other half don’t have the carded figures on the shelves, but their computers show them to be in the store somewhere- they just can’t find them (perhaps because they are also damaged and set aside somewhere where the brainiacs aren’t looking).
November 11th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Again I’m just hoping that that someone from Forever Fun post something . I’m assuming they are busy but atleast give us some hope for the future of Peanuts … We are 44 days out before Christmas .. And starting in January they will put suff out for Valentines if not after Christmas … Would be nice to know if we are getting same old Same old or anything new on the horizon.. Again I hoping something new because haven’t seen this many stores have Forever Fun / Playing Manntis is a long time ….
November 11th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
Hi! I’m new to the whole world of collectible Peanuts figures, but I have quickly caught the collecting bug! This blog is a great resource on where to find items. Just got a few new (for me) items from K-Mart today.. looking forward to more hot tips on what to find where. Can’t wait to see what Easter 2011 will bring!
November 11th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
The colors on the carded peanuts are different but I was talking about the Deluxe ones. The 2 Snoopy’s are dresed different as is Charlie Brown makingthem a new figure.
Still nothing on the carded Rudoph here or the rest. It sure would be nice if Forever Fun could post info on these things since we are so close to Christmas. They did send e replacement drumsticks for the pair I was missing from my box though.
November 12th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Jzone : Welcome You will find this is a good place to pick up infor where we sighted the figures.
Ed: I was hoping that someone from Forever Fun could post something as well.. I think we pretty much know where the Peanuts stuff is at .
November 12th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
As you can see, if I wait long enough, the bloggers will answer their own questions! I’m so sorry for ignoring this blog lately. We, the little elves at Forever Fun, have been buried with sales mockup request. We have been showing our products to various mass retailers. Sometimes that requires a bit of tweaking in our product assortments and PDQ sizes. That ripples changes throughout the system. Needless to say, there is a lot going on! I’ve been hoping to announce our new website going live. That will confirm much of what has been discussed above. I have other news about 2011 that I would love to share, but it is still premature. We’ve been fighting to keep the new tooling planned for 2011. As you know, for the last couple years, we have been struggling with cost issues and shrinking margins. Budgets have been tight. 2010 has many returning items, partly because we needed to streamline production and make things easier for the factories. This offset the rising costs a bit. OK. Enough with the doom and gloom, this is Forever Fun, right! We did manage a few new things for 2010. For Halloween, you’ve seen the monster accessories for Linus. The collector coin and the sectional build-a-tree debuted with the Christmas Peanuts poseables. We have a scattering of new tooling in the Rudolph line as well. The Frosty line-up repeats last years. We should be announcing the Forever Fun website launch within the next few days I hope, and it’s loaded with information. We’re all burdened with tons to do at Round 2 but the trends are good and sales forecasts are being met. That bodes well for our 2011 plans. (Fingers crossed!)
November 12th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Terri: Sounds Promising … Can’t wait to see what you have in store for the various lines.
November 12th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Terri: Sounds like you guys have been busy .. If the stuff that is stores now any indication that Peanuts will have a healthy life .. I know we must sound impatient but it that we are devoted to the Peanuts figures as well as other lines . I know when the time is right you will share the future with us …
November 13th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Can anyone help me with locating the Peanuts Halloween Decorative Block Set? I’m having zero luck on Ebay or anywhere else.. I know this is an older item, but surely a set is available somewhere? This is the block set that spells out “HALLOWEEN” – I found the “Christmas” and “Peace” sets, but would love to have the Halloween one too. Thanks for any help!!
November 14th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Very cool news … Saw in today paper the ad for CVS.. They are promoting the Peanuts clip on figures .. They retail for $4.99 but they are on sale for 25% off . this is the first time in a long time that CVS has put the Forever Fun figures in an ad. I also believe the large figure ( Charlie Brown , Linuis , Sally and Snoppy with Woodstock are also on sale … Jim
November 15th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
I hope “new tooling” means we’ll finally get to have classic Frosty characters. I see they’re back at Build A Bear for the 3rd time now. Why can Build A Bear do these characters but Forever Fun cannot? We all want to add Karen, Hocus, Hinkle, Santa Claus, and the Traffic Cop to our Christmas collections!! I’m sure they’d sell as well as Rudolph as these are the only other characters from a Christmas special that has been airing on network TV for nearly 40 years. Everyoe knows these characters while the sequel Frosty, which many are unfamiliar with, are not nearly as known. To base the sales these these characters could have on the sequel ones isn’t a fair assessment. Build A Bear has sold them well enough to bring them back for 3 years now, 2 in a row. That should tell both Classic Media/WB and FF something.
Vader – only the clip ons are on sale. The figures are the ame as the build a tree without the tree.
Found the Build a Tree Rudolph yesterday and you’re right, the boxes are damaged bad. This TRU had a lot of Frosty product smashed as well. I’m guessing a warehouse issue occured.
Target has the 4 Rudolph slide puzzles as ornaments. Not sure if these are the only release or if the toy version Time & Space has on their site was also done? Still looking for these and the push puppets.
November 16th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Ed, where are you located? I’m in Los Angeles and I went to about 7 TRUs so far in search of pristine Rudolph cards, but no luck. I was able to piece together a few undamaged cards but all the cards ranged from bent, curled, to VERY badly damaged/open.
Anyway I thought the damage was limited to the Southern CA area, but if not then that’s an even bigger problem for FF.
And does FF ever plan to launch an official message forum? If so I hope they include a buy/sell/trade section.
And Vader, if you want help to set up your Yuku FF board let me know as I’ve been running another Yuku board for years and can customize it and fine tune it for you if you want (you’d just have to add me as an admin). We just need people to post there, too.
November 16th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
The Rudolph figures in Dover, DE aren’t any better. The packages are damaged and the paint is terrible and the figure aren’t even secure, just loose no twist ties. I got Mrs. Claus but she has a part above her right ear that they missed painting. If I noticed that I wouldn’t have gotten her. Whoever is making the rudolph figures for FF is doing a terrible job. If it’s the same people as last year then why didn’t FF drop them before. The people that make the Peanuts figures do a much better job why isn’t Rudolph made by them as well.
November 16th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Yeah, it seems the Rudolph line has been suffering for the past two years from these issues. I think in the past they said the Rudolph figures were packaged (maybe manufactured?) at a different plant than the Peanuts figures. This seems to be the case this year too, as the plastic for the boxed figures has that unsightly recycle symbol right on the front (though it IS imperative that we recycle, don’t get me wrong), the figures paint isn’t up to par with the Peanuts line, and I saw several boxed Rudolph sets (that had UNdamaged packaging) missing important parts (like Yukon missing his nose, among other parts).
It seems only the Rudolph *carded* figures suffered the damage, though. Really odd since this seems to be the case across the country, which means maybe all the figures shipped together and then spread out across the country? Not sure how that works, but it’d be interesting to know.
But clearly somewhere along the way a shipping container (or a truck) was dropped onto the Rudolph carded sets. I wonder if this is why so many TRUs near me don’t even have them on the shelves?
November 16th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Ed: Must of been the cashier at the CVS by me I got 25% on the large figures last week..
Spacecrawler: I’m good thanks for the offer.
Terri: This would be my dream for the Peanuts line going forward .. Let see how close I get to your announcement.
Valentine Large figure use the exsiting Sally , Charile Brow Linus , Lucy etc ..
For Sally use the fgure from CVS with the mail box add a heart on the mail box and some valentine cards.
Charlie Brown can use the mail box or just add a letter ( Valentine) addressed to the little readhead girl
Linus : A large Valentine Box of Candy
Easter :
Marcie , Pepperimint Patty .
Summer Time Fun Perhap bring back the Good olde Charlie Brown
Halloween : Retro Figures Fredia, Pigpen.
Thanksgiving : Pilgrim Snoppy character dressed as Pilgrims
Christmas: Cardboard Christmas lot ( with Linus and Charlie Brown )
The Three Wise Men – large Figures
I’m guessing some of these will happening just from the hints you gave as well as more stores are carrying Peanuts ..
November 18th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
I’m in the Cleveland/Buffalo/Pittsburgh region and have seen the damaged Rudolph cards in all three areas now. I’ve got you all topped. I’ve seen elf band figures where the Big Elf has NO HEAD!! I’ve seen other Rudolph and Frosty damage as well. I have yet to see either Frosty deluxe figure have working batteries for instance and at one store the Frosty and Rudolph boxes were shredded. Very bizarre and I hope it doesn’t kill off either line for next year.
I compared a photo of both Peanuts Nativity sets so here’s the facts. The action figure size is identical. The smaller version has one difference. The old version gave Franklin a silver crown, now it is gold. It’s up to you if this is worth a rebuy.
Anyone seen the Rudolph push puppets yet? I have little to no faith that the Forever Fun site will be updated early enough to track them down before they sell out. Most of their stuff sells out by Thanksgiving in my area.
Rite Aid has some Charlie Brown Christmas mixed media figures that Forever Fun should do right. In these the characters are poorly done plush but the most novel idea was having a count down Christmas block set in Snoopy’s dog house with him snoozing on the roof. I’d love to see this idea done right!
The cardboard backdrops bore me because they will probably not hold up over the years but if they were stickers on a PLASTIC standee style thing (Palisades did this with many lines) then I’d be sold. The plastic base the sticker backdrop goes on would only need to be tolled once but the stickers could change year o year, line to line, character to character. Well worth the investment I’d home. Maybe even have this plastic backer interlocking so you can build a scene if you get the whole line and that could change from year to year, line to line as well. Just a thought.
November 20th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Can’t wait to hear any updates…
November 20th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Anyone live near a meijers that would be willing to pick up the Charlie Brown slide puzzles and PVCs for me that are mentioned on the Peanuts section of the Forever Fun site? I assume the Rudolph push puppets I can’t find are there as well.
November 22nd, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Terri: With Christmas already known to many of us I was hoping you can perhaps shed some light on the next two Holidays . Valentine and Easter which are most likely in production as we speak for 2011. Anything new?
Ed: I like the idea of Plastic standee but I’m wondering if cost is a factor , Of course I would gladly pay more if there were newer items ..
November 22nd, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Still caught in the sales mockup cyclone! Sad to say, there will be no Peanuts in 2011 Valentines or Easter. Let’s see what sticks for Christmas…
November 22nd, 2010 at 7:33 pm
That not a good sign… I would of thought atleast a repeat of the old stuff … Is there a upside at all or is the Peanuts only going to be a Halloween and Christmas event?
November 22nd, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Terri : Did you mean to no new stuff or no stuff at all for Valentine and Easter
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:02 am
None, nada. We showed many mock-ups to loads of buyers. The stuff we presented represented a wide range of price points, from novelty to decor. Peanuts translates well into product for the Spring season. I believe the product was great and would sell. We just didn’t get past the buyers and onto the shelf! Once the dust settles on Halloween and Christmas for 2011, we’ll work on an ‘upside’ for 2012 spring.
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:24 am
Terri: Thanks for breaking the news… It’s going to be a long year without seeing any Forever Fun stuff for those seasons. Any chance that you could give us an idea as to what was propposed? In the meantime I started to look at the figures that were put out now and in the past to kind of make my own Valentine Display
For Valentine I’m taking the exsiting figures from the Good Olde Charlie Box set and adapting them
Charlie Brown with the red shirt and going to utilize the mailbox from the Sally figure .. Add a mini Valentine card ..
Sally : Wearing a pink dress and making a cardboard Heart .
Linus : Either the Good Olde Charlie Figure or the Easter Figure
Lucy : Easter Figure
Pepperimint Patty : Halloween Figure with a mini Valentine card
Easter : The existing figure but add Patty with a basket and Pig Pen ..
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:07 am
Terri : Any chance any of those retailer were looking at Harvest figures with Halloween?
November 24th, 2010 at 9:42 am
Happy Thanksgiving to One and All
November 24th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Terri will there be a point when Valentine and Easter would return? I no nothing for 2011 but is there hope for the future or will Forever Fun Peanut just become Halloween and Christmas offerings. I know you have to keep your post cyptic but it bringinmg me crazy to say the least .
November 24th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
I just put up a new post with images of our ‘failed’ spring offerings. We’ll find out if anyone is taking our Halloween items pretty soon. I’ll post that news as soon as we know.
November 24th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Yerri Thanks I know how hard you guys are trying to get new stuff out there.. Just a thouight how many figure would need to be sold to justify a run.. Even itt just one figure like Pigpen? The reason I’m asking is too see a place like Time and Space Toys could sell them? As you said there is always next year .
November 26th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Thanks. Saw the Spring offerings… Were the Valentine figure going to be full size? Here hoping that some retailer takes Halloween… Would be ashame if the figures were just annual
November 30th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Terri I would like think that these were not failed figures but just figures that haven’t been put on the shelves yet …
December 1st, 2010 at 10:18 am
Yes, that’s a good way to put it! They haven’t made it to the shelves…. Thanks Vader!
December 1st, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Your Welcome… Hoping that they find their ways to the shelves in 2012
December 3rd, 2010 at 2:54 pm
What the timetable of knowing what was picked up for Halloween?