Stars: 4 out of 5
Pros: Detail; fun pose
Cons: Size
The Bottom Line:
Size
really matters
And it's the only black mark
On this ornament
It's All About Size with the Mrs. Potts and Chip Ornament
This year, the Disney Store released three ornaments based
on the characters from Beauty and the Beast.
Being such a huge fan of the film, naturally I snatched them right
up. The Mrs. Potts and Chip ornament is
bigger than the others and just seems too big.
I'll admit, I was thrilled at first to get this
ornament. The detail is amazing. As you may remember from the movie, Mrs.
Potts is the housekeeper at the castle who was turned into a teapot by the
magic spell. She makes up the majority
of the ornament. She's smiling, causing
her cheeks to bunch up. Her eyes are
wide open, however, and you can even see her eye lashes.
Next to her is her son Chip, a tea cup with a little chip in
one side. If you look closely, you can
see that they filled in Chip completely.
It's not obvious since the top of the cup is attached to Mrs.
Potts. As a result, the chip that gives
him his name is only a surface chip. But
I didn't even notice that until I started really looking at it, so obviously
it's not that obvious. And since the
ornaments are feel like they are made from a light but fragile plaster, you
definitely don't want to make it easy for them to break.
Most of the ornaments that the Disney Store released this
year have red ribbon in them to hang the ornaments from. This one has lavender, however. Since Mrs. Potts and Chip are mostly grey and
lavender, it fits quite nicely. Red just
wouldn't have worked in this case. The
ornament hangs straight from the ribbon, too.
Mrs. Potts is slightly leaning to one side, but they have
built up the base so that the ornament still sits level.
But, as I mentioned in the first paragraph, the ornament
just seems too big. It's the width, not
the height. All three ornaments from
this movie are about four inches tall, but the other two are about two and a
half inches wide. Mrs. Potts and Chip
are more of a cube because they are also four inches wide. Okay, I get that they couldn't do the
ornaments to complete scale because Belle and Beast would have to be super big
or the other two would be so small that you'd lose the detail. Even giving them leeway for that, Mrs. Potts
just seems huge. I think if she'd been
shrunk an inch in every direction, she wouldn't seem too huge and more in
proportion to the others.
Original Price: $9.50
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