Disney Store Finding Dory Deluxe Figurine Playset

Continuing my Finding Dory posts today with a look at the Deluxe Figurine Playset from the Disney Store. It retails here in the UK for £22.95 but I had a discount code so I managed to get mine a little cheaper.

The set comes with nine figurines but some of the figures have more than one character on them, so in terms of characters, you get Nemo, Marlin, Dory, Charlie, Jenny, Fluke, Rudder, Gerald, Hank, Destiny & Bailey.

They were an absolute b***h to get out of the packaging haha! They were really tightly packed into the plastic casing. Some of them were attached with the wire too but not all of them which was a bit baffling as none of them would have come loose as they were so tight in the plastic casing anyway. 

Hank is my favourite of the set as I just think he is the most detailed, but he is closely followed by Destiny and Bailey. I also really liked the wrinkles on each of the sea lions backs :) A shout out should go to Nemo too because he looked nice from all angles, whereas some of the others looked a bit suspect from side on etc.

I made mosaics to show you the figures from each side for all of them, except Destiny and Bailey who will have individual photos at the end because the software was for making them into square photos and it therefore cut off too much of the pictures of them and I don't have the patience to fiddle around sorting it out today hehe! But anyway, hope you enjoy them.

I'd definitely recommend getting the set as all the figures are pretty great and detailed and you get a nice selection of the characters for your money. Now obviously you could get a Busy Book that I showed in a post yesterday which comes with figures of all of these characters plus Sea Otter, for a lot cheaper than this figure back; but these figures really are superior (and larger) so if you are looking to get one set of figures as a collector, I'd say these are the ones to get. Also, these deluxe figure packs from the Disney Store get really sought after so if you don't get it now, you'll probably be looking at paying triple the price on Ebay later on ;)

Destiny & Bailey:

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Finding Dory Busy Book

I picked this Finding Dory Busy Book up a few weeks ago now as they had it in a discount store for a really great price in comparison to the prices in most other stores.

For those that don't know, Busy Books are story books that come with a play mat and a set of plastic figures in the back. They have done loads, including most of the more recent Pixar films, and loads of other Disney films.

I wasn't able to take a photo of the play mat as it was too big and I couldn't get up high enough with the camera to fit it in but you can see on the back of the book what it looks like.

The front part of the book is the actual book part and rather than tell a whole story of the film, it usually tells you some little rhyme or something about one of the characters. I haven't actually read it yet because the film is not released here until Friday and whilst I know what the characters are called etc., I know nothing of the story and wan't to keep it that way! All I have seen is the trailer and the clip of Baby Dory, the rest I want to be a surprise and enjoy it as it happens haha! So anyway, you can see a couple of the pages which gives you an idea what the rest are like, and then at the back are compartments with the play mat and figures in.

The figures it comes with are Fluke, Rudder, Gerald, Sea Otter, Hank, Destiny, Bailey, Dory, Charlie, Jenny, Marlin and Nemo. They are all fairly decent figures, not the greatest detailing or paint work in the world but not bad. As I haven't seen the film, I can't really comment as to whether I think there are any characters that I would have liked to have seen in the set that aren't, but for the price (I paid £2.99), you get a good bunch of figures for your money :)

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