I Bought A $1300 ADVENT Calendar?! *it's literally TERRIBLE*

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Yep. I spent $1300 on this Disney 100 Swarovski Advent Calendar. It was broken, misprinted, and was not even half filled with disney stuff. Figurines are crafted and artistically designed to be beautiful but they are so flimsy, have stickers??? inside, and i'm just honestly embarassed with how bad this is for the price. I think as a collector item it is nice, but not with how bad the quality is. As an artist I love crafty and hand made stuff, I love the history behind swarovski and find each piece lovely but not worth the price.

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[SuperRaedizzle]

1500 dollars for STICKERS and MISPRINTED ITEMS??? 😫 girl, they’re out of their minds selling that!

[KeyushTheStuntDog]

Swarovski is glass cut to look like diamonds, but it is just glass with a high price tag because of the brand. Pretty, but not actual crystal or gemstones in any way. It's synthetic. Such a shame they didn't make the whole calendar like the final ornament, they would have had a lot of happy customers if they had.

[keanan]

For those confused as to why one of the ornaments is already broken, at 9:28 you can see the star drop on it, breaking the ear

[jenniferm]

You could have flown to Innsbruck, booked a hotel, and visited their Swarovski Kristallwelten museum for less than that calendar. Ticket entry wasn't cheap but the food was really good.

[sheylanope]

if i paid 1300 for a disney calendar and all i got was like 10 variants of mickeys head id lose my shit lmao

[xena]

This would have been sooo much better if it had just been ornaments in an icon object from each major movie: Snow White's apple, Cinderella's slipper, Aladdin's Lamp, etc ending with the Mickey ornament.

[cheshirewolf]

Honestly HOW THE HELL does a MOVIE company celebrate their 100 year anniversary and the only thing in their gift box is their icon mascot?! WHO DESIGNED THIS?

[inspiredbystarr]

Right before you picked up the broken Micky ears... You dropped that sharp heavy star on it. So you did break it

[kingtut]

the fact that they had 100 YEARS of iconography from their films to choose from and decided to stick almost exclusively to mickey and minnie mouse themed things is actually insane to me

[PupCake]

This should NOT have been this difficult. The moment you opened day 7 I was expecting a Snow White themed ornament. A glass slipper is painfully obvious for this set, a red rose would fit the Christmas colors, the Frozen snowflakes you mentioned, the Genie’s lamp, a little steamboat to really highlight the 100 years theme… so many Disney characters/movies have reached a cultural point where they can be represented by a single image, this set had absolutely no business including a single ornament that didn’t have a direct connection to the brand.

[HarryCopperPot]

For that price every single ornament should have been a Disney character carved like day 25's Mickey.

[tuber]

Did anyone else notice that the entire shade of this is Disney's "go away green?" It's the shade they paint stuff in the park they don't want you to notice. For $1, 300 to basically be told secretly to go away is interesting in and of itself. Also number five appears to be a hidden Mickey. Look at the outline of the frost and then you can see two eyes and a nose and then the facets are along the face line.

[lenlaegrim]

Just noticed this, but the little door sizes are SO misleading. You get all excited thinking you're gonna open a bigger door so surely it's gonna be something cool/special, and then you see a huge blank wall of foam with a little cubby and most of the contents are ornaments that are all kind of the same size and in the exciting variety of: 1 of 4 different shapes?? That's wild

[rockpaperskizzers]

I think the printed ornaments would have read as a lot more classy if they had laser etched the design instead. Then the designs would be sure to last and they'd look much more upscale.

[SethKotta]

"Alright, we got Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Daisy. I think that's all the Disney characters!"
"What about Goofy? Or Pluto?"
"Never heard of them."
"Huh? Okay... Well, we could also include Donald's nephews, or Pete. Hell, why not do Scrooge McDuck? He's based on Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. It doesn't get much more Christmas and Disney than that."
"Ted, I need you to stop making shit up."

[ImagesofJosephSmithJun.]

I would never buy this, but rewinding you dropping that diamond chunk Crystal, it fell right onto Mickey's ear, so THAT broke it ... I also imagine if I DID buy this, it would go into a lighted cabinet, with a closed glass door, on a very small display "tree", as most do when they buy glass Disney figurines, they go into a "display case". The bad backings, bad clasps, things falling so easily off of the string, very valid points.

[sarahisquiethere]

With all the love in my heart: those ornaments are mostly ugly and don't feel like they were created with love and care.
They're preying on people's Disney Nostalgia.

[triciac.]

$1300 and they included stickers. Stickers. I don’t care if they had crystals on them. They’re stickers.

[allwomn]

The green mickey with broken ear, only broke when you dropped the star on it. Glass against glass breaks easily, go back and watch where it lands when you drop it.

[jolynnaerobert]

I bought a $130 wine advent calendar this year from "In Good Taste" and I love it. I don't like all the wines, but most of them are passable. The experience was worth it. $1300 for cheap looking Disney tiny ornaments and stickers?? nope!