Packaging: Revised to provide greater protection.
Ears: Steamboat wheel production ears were porcelain with wire running through them-most broke in shipping; revised to be all metal ears.
SRP Change: Effective 03/15/94 to $235.00.
A training production kit has been created but has never been available on the open market. It was meant to be used by sales representatives to educate them as to the production process for Walt Disney Classics Collection pieces and shows each stage of WDCC production from resin master to painted resin master to whiteware to finished product. Four separate pieces comprise this set (picture 3).
Product ID: 41026
Contrabassoon: Cast metal.
Anniversary Backstamp: A special gold script message '50th Anniversary' was added to backstamp of sculptures crafted in 1992.
Released in: May 1993
Suspended: 09/97
Issue Price: $235 - Going Price: $235
