It's time for the new introductions! There are so many new items and so many exciting story lines that i don't know where to begin. So i think it's best to introduce the year piece by piece, and we'll start with Christmas In The City.
I'm quite excited about this, since i actually have a Christmas in the City Village at home so i take an extra special and good look at these specific pieces. I'm really happy what dept56 has achieved this year. One of the cool features of this year, is that they made a special little selection of inner city shops; if you look at the 'new Christmas in the City list you'll see that Wakefield Books, Rachael's Candy Shop and the Atwater's Coffee House really belong with each other. You can put them in a row, or in a street and it will look like a real shopping street, with a coffee place, a book store and a candy shop. I think that is really nice and it really brings the line back to it's core: to create a real live city!
The image in the top left of this blog is the movie theater, and you can see that piece as an anchor of a shopping street, it will look really fun to see that lit up! Fun fact about the Fox Theater: the red and blue lines at the front of the building actually light up! It's a new neon light that Department 56 uses this year and may use more if it works out the way we all want it to. Soon we'll add a little movie, or a secondary image to the item so you can see what it looks like. Here we're very excited about this. Too bad it's still so far away until we can setup our houses :)

As an announcement, also just announced on our Facebook page: The new 2012 Snowbunnies are now in stock! They have arrived so are ready for shipping! We have limited quantities, so check out our selection of Snowbunnies.