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Kylo Ren probably. Though Darth in a Christmas sweater was a close second guess.

We started out at garage sales all morning. Found a few hallmark items. Then we went to a local festival to eat and grab some fair food. Then to grab groceries for today's activities. Then to the house to get my coupons. So I finally made the store about 5pm. Lots of wish list items still not picked up. They had a giant barbie box for photos. I opted out because we were heading to the gym next. Anyway quickly looked at the new releases. Grabbed the LE lady beauty of birds an the last three mystery fairies. Went to pick up my preorders and they could not find them. I was worried because I hadn't received a call. And I didn't see a tabletop FF piece anywhere. Finally they found them in the back. I didn't get the cardinal so my order was incomplete and was in the back. I got the Frosty tabletop, the premium Father Christmas, and dream horse I was OK with waiting on the cardinal because it was the ff piece I was worried about being out of stock permanently. The girls said they would be getting more in. I used my coupons, a punchcard, got the free ornie and a free burlap joy door hanger. I asked how many gold faires they had seen and the two sweet gals said no one had opened any yet for them to seem so I obliged. I got two red and one gold. We oohed and awed over the gold one. I left to hit the treadmill at the gym.
Going to hit an out of town store today.

One store had last year (2014] Disney monthly series 75% off. I got Daisy duck bewitching for Halloween, Donald duck St. Patrick, Mickey patriotic 4of July, and Mickey New Year ornament. Four for the price of one. Plus I get 100 bonus points for each ornament.

Got the $2. Survey after purchase. Used for three .99� Halloween cards. You get a 300 point bonus for 3 card purchase from now until the end of the year. Three cards for $1.04 not bad.

Holiday Darth Vader is one of my favorite Debut ornaments. Excellent recordings and detailing on the sweater. Are those Imperial Walkers with antlers on the sweater? [giggle]

http://www.hookedonhallmark.com/2015-Holiday-Darth-Vader_p_37046.html

http://www.starwars.com/news/weve-spotted-imperial-walkers-a-history-of-legged-war-machines

Do you get bonus points on old ornaments or only this year's releases? I thought we'd noticed before you don't get the bonus for those that are on sale.

Our Debut experience started later than usual, around 5:30 pm Saturday night!

The reason for that was that we had a Tour and Lunch at the Jim Henson Studios in Hollywood, starting early in the morning, so we drove up and spent the night at our usual hotel on Friday night. The event was a fund raiser hosted by the Disneyana Club.

The tour was AMAZING!! Getting to see the various rooms and buildings for creating these guys was so interesting! Lots of history there, since it originally was built by Charlie Chaplin, for him to make his movies in, then it was owned by Herb Alpert, when he was in charge of A&M Records! The lunch was in the largest building, where the movies were made by CC, so it was quite fun, to walk around and imagine what had gone on there during those years!

An unexpected surprise was that at the table we were assigned to was ALICE DAVIS, a wonderful Disney Imagineer, who was in charge of designing costumes for various aspects of Disneyland. Her husband was Marc Davis, another Imagineer, who did all kinds of things for Disney and Disneyland. He passed away many years ago. After lunch, we were able to get our photo taken with Alice, a real Disney treasure!

They had a pop-up store, with several things for sale. We came home with studio t-shirts and a coffee mug with a photo of the place, for my hubby's collection in his office at work.

After that, we spent 3 plus hrs in bumper-to-bumper traffic, to get to our Hallmark store where our pre-order was waiting. They didn't close til 7 pm, so we had plenty of time to get there, tho I wish the drive there hadn't taken so long!

They had my bag waiting and my order was complete. Had several swaps outs I needed to do for bad paint jobs and used all my coupons and GCCs, to help get the price down.

I really appreciate that our sponsor does such a great job of obtaining the orns we want!

I already got the 400 point bonus. As long as sale ornament is scanned and shows on receipt as ornament you get points.

All of the Premium Ornaments are Sold Out at my Store except the Baby's 1ST...
They say they have been told by Hallmark they will get another shipment..Wow, They now have a long list of customers who want one or more of them. Hope they do get more.

I had the Ruby Red Cardinal on my wish list that was submitted back in spring and am not happy that Hallmark way under shipped the supply to the store. (They ordered 24, received only 5). I didn't know about this until 3 pm on Sunday when it was too late to try to pick it up elsewhere. Bah Humbug. What's the point of filling out a wish list before stores place their orders if Hallmark doesn't honor them?

The manager of the Perimeter Mall (Dunwoody, GA) store said that Bubble Lights were under shipped to her store and there was not enough to fill all the wish lists. They decided to fill wish lists based on the date the list was turned in.

Got to the store (Hallmark Creations) at 10 AM, only to find out they had opened at 8 AM. No matter. It wasn�t that busy anymore and they still had what I came for -- the limited edition Rich Uncle Pennybags (the die cast metal one.) This turned out to be absolutely gorgeous. It�s thick, heavy, and detailed, and looks exactly like a giant Monopoly piece. It�s one of the few ornaments that I actually think is worth the list price ($19.95, in this case.) I�ll probably have to put it at the base of the tree as it�s too heavy to hang on one of the branches.

I also got the Tippity Tap Soldier for getting ornaments at the Premiere & Debut. It�s very cute and a nice bonus from Hallmark. Goes a long way in building loyalty!

...and I realized that I have 7 2015 ornaments so far. Usually at this time I have 0...the most I usually get before Christmas is 1. I guess all the stores being out of everything on Dec. 26 last year encouraged me to buy earlier!

Hallmark said that they are shipping more cardinals to the stores.

Packaging for the cardinal was in 2's, so I cannot see how the store only got 5. I physically held the balk boxes and know that they came in 2's.

Maybe the other one arrived broken? Or they may have called another store trying to get any leftover stock that store had to ship to them?

I'm assuming the display is shipped separately. If not, then the display may have been why they didn't have an even number.

My job decided to run production on Saturday and made it mandatory so I had to work from 3:30 am to 1:30 pm. I went to the first store which always holds my limited requests only to find out that the manager completely overlooked them this time. I had a BOB and Chipmunks request which both were sold out.

She apologized profusely for the oversight and tried to call two other stores to see if they had any. I called the new store closer to me and they had both and held them for me (against their policy) so I went straight there afterward.

I was overcharged for the premium Father Christmas but that wasn't a big deal. They credited back the difference today when I stopped in and it just gave me another chance to visit the ornaments.

The third store I always go to had my wish list held (including limiteds) and I was in and out with no issue.

Did anyone see the new display Sled? It's really expensive. I have one of the originals from a number of years ago and it is much nicer than this new one.

When I stopped in my Hallmark store today, they asked me to check on this here. Did other stores receive the Colin Kaepernick (SF 49ers) ornament? They did not receive their order.

Ted

Ted, I received all of my Football players including Colin ( I had quite a few players that we had wish lists for)

The Premium Ornament thread has a post that Cardinal and Fr Christmas are no longer available. Can this be true? Like Diana I "wished" way back in May. I have since found (with help from other kind collectors) but seems like the wishlist numbers were not a factor in how many each store received.
Here's hoping more are on the way!
Carol