Vinylmation Domination: Sorcerer Mickey

Last week, for our Vinylmation of the Week choice, we opted to begin a quick series (which we'll wrap up next week) of some of our favorite Vinylmation that are actually painted like Mickey.  Almost everyone who knows about Vinyl knows that they're shaped like Mickey, but there are actually quite a few that are painted as one Mickey or another, too; last week's was created to look like Mickey from the 1995 Disney cartoon, "Runaway Brain Mickey".

We actually had a comment (and a sort of request) last week mentioning the Mickey we've decided to feature today, so it makes us especially proud to bring you this week's choice for Vinylmation of the Week: Sorcerer Mickey.

Most people are already very familiar with this little guy.  Mickey in his sorcerer form is arguably one of the most iconic of the Disney characters and is always very popular with people.  He made his first appearance in public in the 1940 Disney film, "Fantasia", in the short "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and is a mainstay in all of The Parks.  He can currently be found roaming The Resort in character meet and greets (we've seen him in the Disney Animation Building in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot and in Mickey's House in Mickey's Toontown), and he's also a huge part of the Park "finale" night shows World of Color and Fantasmic!

This particular piece of Vinyl, just like last week's, was sold as a combo-topper (a limited edition piece sold as part of a two-pack), as a part of the Park Series 5 release.  He's pretty simplistic in terms of his appearance and is pretty much just how you would expect to see him based on his appearances in film and cartoon.  Same outfit, same sorcerer's hat, but complete with a mischievous wink which is no doubt a nod to his "trouble-making" side, which he showed the world by stealing said sorcerer's hat from his master Yen Sid, and using it to perform tricks and do his dirty work (cleaning) for him when he wasn't quite ready.  Bucket-carrying brooms, way too much water and one ticked off sorcerer, anyone?

Unfortunately, there's not a lot going on on the back of this piece (next week's has a pretty cool one, so stay tuned!), but we don't really think it detracts from how cool this little piece is very much.  We think you pretty much can't go wrong with a nod to this particular Mickey so we're glad we decided to add it to our collection when we had the chance, and it rounded out our Park Series 5 collection perfectly.

And there you have it! This week's Vinylmation of the Week starring Sorcerer Mickey.  Next week we'll wrap up our little Mickey collection (we only have one more so we'll be done) with what is arguably our favorite of the actual Mickey Vinylmation that we have.

We hope you're enjoying these as much as we are!  If you have any questions or comments for us, we love talking Vinyl and we'd love to hear from you.  Be sure to leave us a comment; we always answer!

Till next week, keep collecting!