Adventures In Vinyl: Animations and Muppets!

As usual, when we spend a Sunday evening in The Park we always leave with Vinylmation in our hands.  This past Sunday night was certainly no exception.

One of the great things about collecting Vinyl is, much like Pins, there's always some trading to do.  If we're not buying, one of us almost always has a duplicate we can carry with us, and we usually spend quite a bit of time just going from store to store for Mark to drop off his Muppets Series dupes (Chad has been very lucky recently and hasn't had many duplicates to trade).

This past trip, like most, Mark had two duplicate Muppets to try and score new ones for his collection with.  For the first time in quite a while actually, he was successful!  Lately he's been trading out Vinyl and receiving non-Muppets in return, but this week he brought "Waldorf" and "The Swedish Chef" in, and took "Rowlf" and "Bean" out.  Only four Muppets left until his first complete set.

Rowlf and Bean take their place near the end of the line

Meantime, if you've been following us at all in our adventures, we've mentioned that Chad is very close to completing his own first set; Park Series 5.  We're both sad (and elated!) to say that he's weak, however, and has given up on trying to "pull" them from cases.  Rather, he decided the best route to go was just to purchase the remaining three ("Penguin", "Anubis & Gem" and "Yeti") on eBay.  So far only the "Penguin" has arrived, but the others should come this week so the next time we post an adventure, we'll have our first complete set as a part of it.  Exciting!

It doesn't mean he didn't buy any on Sunday, though.  With Park Series 5 taken care of, he's moved on to Animation Series 1 now!  He picked up four (in a case that only had five(!) left) of the newly released Vinyl on Sunday evening in Westward Ho and for reasons that are probably obvious, he was very pleased.  He managed to get four completely different Vinyls (no dupes!), one of which was the "Pink Elephant Chaser".  The very first box he opened when he got home had it.  It's safe, and awesome, to say that our "Chaser" luck continues to hold out for us, which is a really good thing.

Quasimodo, Pinocchio and Aladdin - Animation Series 1

Pink Elephant Chaser - Animation Series 1

And that's all she wrote for this week.  Sunday night should be a big night for Vinylmation for us, but you'll just have to wait until next week when we file our report.  Should be a good one!  Be sure and come back to check it out.

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