Disney tv snowdome series

This Donald Duck snowdome recently closed on ebay, so now its official. They were a series. Now the question becomes what other characters are there?

snowglobe boxes

I've mentioned these before but really didn't know anything about them. They are part of a series of 6 but the other three are not Disney characters. They are Bugs Bunny, Raggedy Ann and Popeye. They are 5" tall and the front item inside the dome slides back and forth. In Donald's case it is a figure of Pluto.

Today's photographs courtesy of Hank Millett.

The boxes look like this. If you happen to have a box for any in the series, please let me know.

I also would be very much interested in knowing what company made these. The Disney boxes say Walt Disney Productions but obviously thay are not the maufacturer since the other characters in the line are non-Disney.

Vintage Disney Snowdomes

My recent ebay listings lead to recieving an email from Hank Millett. He has a collection of vintage Disney snowdomes and wondered if I would be interested in his help with my book. As that guy on Jack Benny used to say..."OoooHHHH Would I!!!! And so we present the first 3 pictures he has sent me. He did a wonderful job of capturing the detail in these photos.

These three were made by a company called Monogram Products who began as a Disney licensee in 1972. Since the Disney tv show was titled "The Wonderful World of Disney from 1969 to 1979 that would seem to date these domes from 1972-1979. The company still exists today as Monogram International and is still a Disney licensee. You can download their 2007 catalog here, but they apparently don't make snowdomes at this time.

It's A Small World After All Department: I used to buy things from Monogram at the company I used to work for that stocks the prize games in the Walt Disney World arcades. Many of their smaller products such as keychains can be won in the Sports Arena arcade games in the Disney arcades and other arcades around central florida.

vintage Christmas snowdome

Now appearing in an ebay auction (not mine) is this vintage snowdome of Minnie with Santa Claus done by the Louis Marx company in 1961. This is the first Christmas one I've seen from this series which leads me to believe there must be others especially since Minnie is the character that is used. While there's certainly no reason not to use Minnie, it hardly seems likely that she would be the only character done.