As my blog name suggests, I enjoy collecting Frozen merchandise. But I'm also fussy - I won't collect any old thing, I subscribe to the idea of only owning things that bring me joy, and let's face it, there's a lot of Frozen related tat about!! But I'm really passionate about the things I do own, and I love geeking out over little details and differences and wanted to create a space for myself where I can do just that without boring my usual blog readers (although I do still post about Frozen there too, just in less detail!) I don't pretend to be an expert on anything, I never collected toys or anything before I started collecting Frozen so with a lot of these things I'm still learning.
Everyone always rolls their eyes when I say my favourite movie is Frozen because it’s so popular, but I can’t tell you how much this film means to me. I always loved The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen and illustrated a whole 32 page book based on it when I was at art college, so I was really excited to see Disney’s adaptation before it even came out. And it’s just a film that’s taken on so much personal meaning to me and I relate to certain characters, mostly Elsa, so much and I can’t tell you how important that feels when you’ve been made to feel like an oddball most of your life to then have that kind of representation. I’ve always loved Disney my whole entire life, but Frozen itself had kind of grown into something beyond even Disney to me. It’s just pulled me out of some really dark places and it’s more than just a film to me at this point.
Elsa and Hans are my favourite characters and who I enjoy collecting things of the most, especially Hans as, being the antagonist, he doesn't get included in as much merchandise as the other characters. So there will no doubt be a lot of him! I really love all of the characters though, there isn't anyone I dislike (except maybe Weselton...)
I actually received a new Hans though the post today, so it feels like a good place to start!
It's a plushie keyring that was released for Anna and Elsa's Frozen Fantasy at Tokyo Disneyland. Isn't he great?? I've wanted one for the longest time, but being from Tokyo their obviously quite difficult to get hold of for me in the UK. I bought him from a Japanese auction website (Mercari) and it cost a small fortune for it is with all of the shopping service and import fees, but it's worth it to me! He's a soft minky fabric, and he's so well crafted which plushie humans usually aren't. All of the main Frozen characters exist in this form, but obviously being me I wanted Hans the most.
He's about 17cm tall, and has both a saftey pin aswell as a keychain (although I think I'll be replacing this with something more strudy). Mine came with it's original tags, which it almost feels a shame to remove but I can't wait to use him! The details are just exquisite, and I love that decorative elements such as on his jacket are embroidered rather than printed like they probably would be if this was released in the West. Japanese merchandise is often much superior quality which is why I'm happy to pay for it.
Until next time!
