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- From: robert@world.std.com (Robert Sadowski)
- Subject: Re: Tiny Toons Production Cels
- Message-ID: <By6pop.E1p@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Nov21.211006.5912@cs.tulane.edu> <1992Nov22.235638.13327@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:48:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.235638.13327@ultb.isc.rit.edu> entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
- > I have commented here earlier on Disney's genius at making
- >money. The guy who invented the cel collection market takes second
- >place.
-
- The cel collection market is capitalism, pure and simple. Disney priced
- cels to sell at Disneyworld for under a dollar when they were first offered.
- The Courvosier galleries charged under $100 for Disney cels in an 'art'
- medium. Cels, by all accounts were a flop as 'art' until people started
- to decide that they were a neat nostalgic thing to have. Sure, now the
- cel market is inflated, but the market reflects the prices people are
- willing to pay. Disney charges anywhere from $1500 to $2500 for a limited
- edition release that is nothing more than the hand-painted Xerox drawing
- that you speak of. But when it sells out in a week (as did the last Beauty &
- the Beast scene (edition size 250) they offered) who can blame them ?
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- Robert Sadowski
- robert@world.std.com
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