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What is a Vinylmation figure worth?
The headline number for this search is wrong, and the reason is that four in five listings using the word are not figures at all.
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Figures asked a median of $17.00 on 2 September 2026, with the middle half between $12.00 and $25.00 and a top asking price of $89.00 for a limited-edition piece. That is 55 listings.
The reason to distrust any other number you see: we pulled 339 live US listings containing the word Vinylmation, and 270 of them are pins, 14 are apparel and bags, and only 55 are plausibly figures. A median computed over all 339 comes out at $13.00 and describes the pin market, not the figure market.
The 270-pin problem
| What the listing actually is | Count | Median asking | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins | 270 | $12.00 | $12.00 – $19.00 |
| Apparel and bags | 14 | $25.00 | $22.00 – $35.00 |
| Figures | 55 | $17.00 | $12.00 – $25.00 |
339 live US listings containing “Vinylmation”, classified on the listing title, 2 September 2026. Prices checked 2 September 2026
Disney has produced a great many trading pins featuring Vinylmation designs, and pin listings use the word freely. That is not a mislabelling problem to complain about — the pins are real Vinylmation merchandise — but it means the word alone does not describe a market, and anyone quoting one figure for “Vinylmation” is averaging two.
What a Vinylmation figure is
Disney introduced Vinylmation in July 2008, with the first figures arriving that November. They are vinyl collectible figures in a Mickey-shaped body, produced in three sizes: 1.5 inch (Vinylmation Jr.), 3 inch and 9 inch.
Most were sold blind: sealed packaging where the buyer does not know which design is inside until it is opened. A series typically held 8, 12 or 24 designs plus a rarer “chaser” figure. Production declined around 2015 and ceased until a 2022 revival.
The blind-box structure is why condition language matters so much in listings. An unopened box is a lottery ticket with a known set of outcomes; an opened figure is a known object. They are priced as different things and should be.
What moves the price
- Limited editions and anniversaries. The top figure-side asking price in our pull, $89.00, was a limited-edition series piece. A Haunted Mansion 40th anniversary item asked $190.00, though that listing is an earhat rather than a standard figure.
- Chasers. The rarer figure in a series is the one that carries a premium, and listings say so explicitly when they have one.
- Packaging. Only two listings in the whole pull described themselves as boxed or sealed, and they asked $24.00 and $28.00 against a $17.00 figure median. That is two data points, which is not a finding — it is a hint, and we are labelling it as one.
- Lots. Five listings sold multiple figures together, at a $10.00 median. Buying by the lot is consistently the cheapest route per figure in every collectible category we measure.
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The limits of this number
And these are asking prices. We have no sold data, so the $17.00 median tells you what sellers hope for rather than what buyers pay. For a discontinued blind-box line where most listings sit unsold, that gap is likely to be wide.
Frequently asked
How much is a Vinylmation figure worth?
Figures asked a median of $17.00 on 2 September 2026, with the middle half between $12.00 and $25.00. Limited editions asked up to $89.00.
Why do price guides say Vinylmation is worth $12 or $13?
Because 270 of the 339 live listings using the word are pins, not figures. A median over everything comes out at $13.00 and describes the pin market.
Are Vinylmation figures still made?
Production declined around 2015 and stopped, then the line was revived in 2022. Disney introduced Vinylmation in July 2008.
What sizes do Vinylmation figures come in?
1.5 inch (Vinylmation Jr.), 3 inch and 9 inch.
Is a sealed box worth more than a loose figure?
We cannot say from this data. Only two listings in 339 described themselves as boxed, asking $24.00 and $28.00 against a $17.00 figure median. Two listings is not a finding.
Sources and scope
- Launch date, sizes, blind-box format, series structure, the chaser figure and the 2022 revival: Vinylmation, Wikipedia, read 2 September 2026.
- Counts, classification and prices: CJ product API, US advertisers, in-stock filter, pulled 2 September 2026; 339 US-priced listings, classified on the listing title.
- All prices are asking prices. We hold no sold-price data.
Last verified 2 September 2026 against live US marketplace listings pulled during this run and the published product history
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How this guide was made. We research and draft these guides with AI, then a person checks every price, link and factual claim against the source before it publishes. We work this way because it lets us re-verify prices across hundreds of guides in a day, which is what keeps the numbers here current; it does not decide what we recommend. Anything we could not verify is labelled as unverified rather than filled in.