Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walt Disney Classics Collection

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The result was keep. The Placebo Effect (talk) 20:03, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Walt Disney Classics Collection

Delete unsourced one-liner about Disney collectables; not all collectables are notable and this series seems to be of import only to afficianados. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:25, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and expand. I'm getting plenty of relevant hits for this particular line, including a bunch of news hits; these seem to be a fairly notable line of collectibles. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 00:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I agree --Nengscoz416 (talk) 00:33, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep per TPH. Undeath (talk) 06:48, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The article as it stands is poor, but there are articles about these figures in reliable and independent sources, satisfying the requirements for notability. See The Daily Herald (Chicago), July 13, 1994, page 99, (subscription) which has a feature story on them. They are limited edition, hand painted figures based on the classic movies Walt Disney himself created, and the first figures had guidance from the original animators. They initially sold for $75 to $800. Today the top iprice (initial sale) is $1975. They were introduced in July, 1992, according to a fan website [1]. There were 50,000 members of a collectors' society and local clubs where collectors met to discuss them (people apparently had excess time on their hands even in the days before Wikipedia editing came along). A figure which sold for $199 initially sold for $1800 in the secondary market. They have since branched out to more recent Disney films [2]. Many of the hits I found from newspapers are just for ads or press releases, but there have been a number of articles in papers around the country in which these sculptures get substantial mention. It sounds like a major commercial enterprise of many years standing. Edison (talk) 19:11, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep The article is a stub to the extreme, and needs massive amounts of work, but it is definitely notable. Red Zion^X 20:27, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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