YuleLog Ornament Collector's Bulletin Board Forums Discussion Ornament Collecting Discussion Nesting Doll Surprise

Congrats to the select few who have received the bear. Good luck to those waiting for their purchases and fingers crossed you get the bear.

$30.00 without the bear at Hooked on Ornaments and one on Ebay as well for 29.00 -no bear.

No bear for me or my friend . I do like the ornament. Maybe Hallmark will offer the bear as a product for next year.

DeniseC

Awww, I had high hopes for both of you, Denise. That was such a great way to do a reveal. That would be a splendid idea if Hallmark did come out with the bear later. I'd like to see folks' disappointment turn to delight.

No bear here either...another great design by Terri Steiger, nicely done. Would have been better with the bear.

I still haven't opened the Dreambox or other club ornaments. Husband and I got into a discussion over dinner then watched The Greatest Showman. Oh my. Definately going to buy it to watch again, and again, extras too. Amazing. Eight years in the making start to finish. We loved it.

Will finish opening the boxes tomorrow after work.

Congrats to all who got the bear.

Lisa

Sorry that you didn't get the bear either. It is a disappointment, but I still really like the ornament. Hopefully Hallmark will market the bear in their product shop next year.

DeniseC

DeniseC, I'd like that too. Perhaps we'll see a colorway of it with the bear for the KOC Event in 2019, though it's probably too late to make that happen. Not sure.

Lisa

No bear for me.

Linda

I really like Luckdragon's idea of just having two different surprises for the fourth piece. I like it much better than item or no item. So far all the mystery boxes up until the bear you'd at least get something. Maybe not the gold version, but something. I don't like the feeling of losing out completely.

My husband's ornaments arrived yesterday and his nesting dolls did include the bear. It's very adorable. When I said "Yes, I got a bear... he said, what do you mean? The box was address to me, so I got the bear!" Lucky for him, I knew that he was joking. :-) Anyway, I am very happy to have it!

Angela

He sounds just like my husband Angela. He is probably one of the luckiest guys I know when it comes to winning RTW ornaments and he doesn't collect. I get so excited for the ornament and he makes it a point to tell me it is his.

Some of his luck includes:
2005 two Northern Cardinals
2010 Owliday greetings
2012 Christmas Cardinal
2013 I can do it Crayola
2014 Mary's Angels Dahlia and the Puppy Love

And I am sure there are more.... and the one time I take my 10 yr old daughter (at the time) to a signing event she won the 2010 Berry Sweet Vanilla Bear. Thank goodness for their good luck as they all eventually make their way to me.

Exactly!

He generally wins much more than I do. And since (like you) I also end up with the ornament, I don't mind at all that I don't win as much as he does.

:-)

Angela

I received my ornaments and membership today. However my surprise with the nesting dolls was that I didn't get the bear and I didn't get the penguin! I opened the snowman and found NOTHING inside! I was shocked! Also the Winter Wonderland ornament was broken. The Snowmen were broken off. Plus I did not receive my membership card....Not a good start to the 2018 season!

Oh no! I hope Hallmark replaces the ornament for you. One with the bear would be nice.

DeniseC

They are sending me new ornaments to replace them and even the Hallmark representative said "Maybe this one will have the bear inside!" That would be nice!

I haven't received my Kit or Membership card yet but I did get the Nesting Doll Surprise today. It was so exciting opening it not knowing what I would get. To my surprise I did get the Bear!!

I decided to order one, it should be at the store next week

Two of the pieces of my Nesting Doll ornament were defective. The Santa is really bad and the Snowman has a smaller defect on the back. HM is sending me replacement set--but they charged my credit card for it. Another call to Hallmark to get it refunded. I'll wait until I get the replacement set to be sure it is OK before I call. It seems like HM could figure out a way not to charge my credit card for a replacement ornament. They told me to discard the defective set I received. I'll probably give it to my granddaughter to play with when she is old enough.

Mine were delivered to my store today. These ornaments do not seem to be really well done, but they are quite cute (at a distance). My Santa has a pretty poor paint job. My snowman has the same defect on the back where they don't fit quite right. The penguin isn't really well painted, either, but when they are on the tree, they will still look fine. No bear for me, but there probably would have been something wrong with him, too, so am looking on the sunny side of things.

I hate to hear that--I sure hope the replacement set is better than the set I received first especially since they charged me again for the replacement set. I know they will refund it but it is another hassle to go with the hassle of sending pictures, explaining the defect, etc the first time.