Stars: 2 out of 5
Pros: Captures images from a book
Cons: Really should tie better to the movie than an out of
print book
The Bottom Line:
Pin features fun scenes
Characters too cartoony
If you don’t know book
Over Stylized Pin
The Storybook Classics Pin series is basing the images off
the books that the Walt Disney Company released many years ago. I get that.
And for most of them, that works out just fine. However, for the Mary Poppins pin, it really doesn’t
work well.
Like the others in the series, the pin looks like a
book. There are even hinges, so it can
open. The cover has Mary Poppins written
on it in red on a dark pink background.
We can see lavender outlines of Mary Poppins and Jane and Michael Banks
as they float around during the tea party on Uncle Andrew’s ceiling.
When you open the book pin, you’ll find a full color
illustration of the three character’s walking to the tea party. They are smiling, but there is nothing behind
them but white.
Here’s my problem with the pin – the characters look nothing
like anything I’ve seen with them on it.
That’s because I have never seen the book that was the inspiration for
this pin. All I see are three cartoony
characters. Because I know this is Mary
Poppins, I can easily figure out who they are, but if I saw them out of
context, I’d have no clue. Yes, it is
unfair since they are basing it on something I haven’t seen. And yet, it might have been wiser to make the
characters look a bit more like they do in the movie. I’m not asking for perfection, but something
closer to the actors would help a lot.
Since the rest of this series is based on animated films, they don’t
seem to fall into this flaw.
Additionally, the writing on the top of the cover blends in so well it’s
next to impossible to read.
Because of the hinges and the two parts to the pin, it is
heavier than the average Disney pin and comes with two points to hold it in
place. You’ll definitely want to use
both of them if you wear this one.
Mary Poppins is the only pin I’m not completely happy with
in the series. I get what they were
trying to do, but for me, it just doesn’t work.
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