I Bought A $1300 ADVENT Calendar?! *it's literally TERRIBLE*
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Yep. I spent $1300 on this Disney 100 Swarovski Advent Calendar. It was broken, misprinted, and was not even half filled with disney stuff. Figurines are crafted and artistically designed to be beautiful but they are so flimsy, have stickers??? inside, and i'm just honestly embarassed with how bad this is for the price. I think as a collector item it is nice, but not with how bad the quality is. As an artist I love crafty and hand made stuff, I love the history behind swarovski and find each piece lovely but not worth the price.
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1500 dollars for STICKERS and MISPRINTED ITEMS??? 😫 girl, they’re out of their minds selling that!
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Maybe the misprints are especially valuable collectors items. You know, like with coins. xD
they better hope, otherwise they're gonna have more returns then they know what to do with.@@lethfuil
©Disney though 😂
the fact that they had 100 YEARS of iconography from their films to choose from and decided to stick almost exclusively to mickey and minnie mouse themed things is actually insane to me
They've been going hard on Mickey and Minnie items lately, even before the anniversary kicked off. It's had me all worked up cause I want Donald Duck items, and his 90th anniversary is coming up, but it seems like they will barely do anything for that. They act like Mickey and Minie are the only characters people know and want. They've been struggling with promoting their own works since before the pandemic even started.
Another huge L for modern Disney. Unsurprising 😔
@@Magical_Trash- Disney didn’t make this. Blame the company that bought the rights to use the Disney stuff and decided to be cheap asses on it.
ikr!! mickey /minnie are my least favorite. I actually hate them. I was expecting princesses and villains. One mickey is more than enough
@@Z.A.M.1359 Personally I’ve never really cared for Mickey but I LOVE Donald Duck with a passion!!
For those confused as to why one of the ornaments is already broken, at 9:28 you can see the star drop on it, breaking the ear
That's what I was thinking
True and then she was like "I was very delicate with them" 💀
@@TheStepmonkeyIn all fairness, there is no reason why an ornament this expensive should have ever been able to break so easily like that. It was clear from the appearance of the break that the ears were not secured properly to the center disc. This is way beyond just some fragile ornaments not being handled with care, this was 100% atrociously shameful and faulty craftsmanship in every possible way. What an embarrassment of a product. I hope the majority of people who bought this calendar got a refund.
Yeah but it shouldn't break that easily....
Shouldn't break that easily.
You could have flown to Innsbruck, booked a hotel, and visited their Swarovski Kristallwelten museum for less than that calendar. Ticket entry wasn't cheap but the food was really good.
This would have been sooo much better if it had just been ornaments in an icon object from each major movie: Snow White's apple, Cinderella's slipper, Aladdin's Lamp, etc ending with the Mickey ornament.
Yes, great idea! 👏👏👏
Literally! The ornaments you can buy at the Christmas shops at Disney are waaay better in design and I am sure similar designs could have been made in crystal. Like a little crystal tinkerbell, maybe the castle, full 3D mickey, minnie, and friends ornaments instead of cheaply printing them on the back of a 2D one.
I said what crystal company representing Disney doesn't make a glass slipper? Disney is so much more than Mickey Mouse. I like you suggestion of the apple and lamp as well. The lady I watched unbox this a couple weeks ago got a refund.
I'm broke AF but I'd definitely buy what you're describing!!!!!
Yes!!
Swarovski is glass cut to look like diamonds, but it is just glass with a high price tag because of the brand. Pretty, but not actual crystal or gemstones in any way. It's synthetic. Such a shame they didn't make the whole calendar like the final ornament, they would have had a lot of happy customers if they had.
Thanks!
P.S. I think it’s actually made of crystal glass.
It’s actually crystal glass rather than regular glass but ye it’s not real diamonds.
@@EmilyCheetham What is the difference?
@@kristalburns3490 crystal class has 24% or higher of lead and other minerals added to it. It is much stronger than regular glass. Also specifically Swarovski is made using quarts sand (whatever that is- I’m not an expert).
I had no idea!! I have been using Swarovski beads thinking they were crystal... I am so disappointed! I looked it up after reading your comment. Wow.. Thank you for letting us know!! :)
Honestly HOW THE HELL does a MOVIE company celebrate their 100 year anniversary and the only thing in their gift box is their icon mascot?! WHO DESIGNED THIS?
Someone who is about to lose the copyright, so you flood the market and devalue it; I mean Mickey is no longer important for the health of disney now that they've got Pixar, Fox, Marvel, star wars, etc. Disney is about to lose the exclusive right, so might as well sell out before its public domain.
When said company is selling out everything it stands for and is making as many cash grabs as possible from their shrinking fan base before they completely squander their relevance to society.
Did anyone else notice that the entire shade of this is Disney's "go away green?" It's the shade they paint stuff in the park they don't want you to notice. For $1,300 to basically be told secretly to go away is interesting in and of itself. Also number five appears to be a hidden Mickey. Look at the outline of the frost and then you can see two eyes and a nose and then the facets are along the face line.
It's not quite the right shade, go away green paint is more dull olive, but it is funny that they made this whole calendar green since that is a well-known color of theirs lol
Agreed - I also saw the vague outline of the Mickey silhouette on the frosted ornament….
if i paid 1300 for a disney calendar and all i got was like 10 variants of mickeys head id lose my shit lmao
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I didn't even pay 1300 for it and I AM losing my shit here.
I’d be disappointed and return it.
This should NOT have been this difficult. The moment you opened day 7 I was expecting a Snow White themed ornament. A glass slipper is painfully obvious for this set, a red rose would fit the Christmas colors, the Frozen snowflakes you mentioned, the Genie’s lamp, a little steamboat to really highlight the 100 years theme… so many Disney characters/movies have reached a cultural point where they can be represented by a single image, this set had absolutely no business including a single ornament that didn’t have a direct connection to the brand.
They should hire you.. lol Id buy your box over this.
They should hire you! Those are great ideas. Imagine the poison apple for Snow White- apples are red too. Still I think it would make a good cooperate gift to someone who either collects Disney or is somehow affiliated with Disney. But I would rather have your calendar.
I love your ideas! This would've been the best!
Love your ideas. They missed the mark and have the audacity to charge that much!
Absolutely!!!!!!
Right before you picked up the broken Micky ears... You dropped that sharp heavy star on it. So you did break it
Another Disney product is a scam? What a shocker :D
$1300 and they included stickers. Stickers. I don’t care if they had crystals on them. They’re stickers.
The stickers were my favorite. Not worth the price, but they were the only item that had any razz-ma-tazz .
@@rtd1791 very true! Hadn’t thought about that. Might be worth it to hit up Michael’s for some small plain glass ornaments and use the stickers. Then you’ll have sparkles on your tree.
At least if it was a crystallized leather wallet, or compact at least, one of their fancy characters posed on a stand. SOMETHING SUBSTANTIAL for $1300.
What is it with advent calendars and stickers anyway??
There were stickers in the Chanel one too! 😅
With all the love in my heart: those ornaments are mostly ugly and don't feel like they were created with love and care.
They're preying on people's Disney Nostalgia.
And not just ugly, but insanely *cheap* looking--if you showed me those ones with print on the back I would've honestly guessed it was a freebie gift-with-purchase, there's no way those cost them more than $1/ea to manufacture.
yeah, it looks like something id find at the arcade or the flea market/swap meet, cheaply made out of plastic... it does not look like anything worth ~$54 each
They’re a good reflection of current year Disney then.
Anything Brand™ or fashion or beauty is a scam, how are the bitches (I can't say people, people aren't this fucking stupid or obsessed with dominance\status\ego\etc this much) still eating it up so willingly
I prefer Disney pins and standard Disney ornaments.
For that price every single ornament should have been a Disney character carved like day 25's Mickey.
"Alright, we got Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Daisy. I think that's all the Disney characters!"
"What about Goofy? Or Pluto?"
"Never heard of them."
"Huh? Okay... Well, we could also include Donald's nephews, or Pete. Hell, why not do Scrooge McDuck? He's based on Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. It doesn't get much more Christmas and Disney than that."
"Ted, I need you to stop making shit up."
Just noticed this, but the little door sizes are SO misleading. You get all excited thinking you're gonna open a bigger door so surely it's gonna be something cool/special, and then you see a huge blank wall of foam with a little cubby and most of the contents are ornaments that are all kind of the same size and in the exciting variety of: 1 of 4 different shapes?? That's wild
no, that's Disney magic
I've worked at a company that licensed Disney artwork - I promise most of these decisions were made and approved by Disney more than the creative team at Sworovski.
this. people really out her slamming Swarovski, as if Disney doesn't do this stuff with any other brand they can slap an image on. It's starting to get kind of gross that people keep paying for this crap, have some self respect y'all.
I believe you. They're so controlling.
Disney is really going downhill
Are you talking about the design or the quality of crafting?? Cause I have Disney themed Pandora beads on my bracelet and they are REALLY well made in sterling silver.
But I have a Swarovski ring, that is not themed and it is just as poorly made as those ornaments seemed to be... Cheap rose gold plated metal with the crystals glued on it instead of being set... Had to exchange it on warranty cause I lost most of the crystals within a month...
Most likely creative decisions by Disney, manufacturing by the other companies (with some Disney approval process)@@miss1of2
Alllll the characters they have, the simple yet cute ornaments that could have been made and this is what you get. That’s CRAZY
I bought a $130 wine advent calendar this year from "In Good Taste" and I love it. I don't like all the wines, but most of them are passable. The experience was worth it. $1300 for cheap looking Disney tiny ornaments and stickers?? nope!
I think the printed ornaments would have read as a lot more classy if they had laser etched the design instead. Then the designs would be sure to last and they'd look much more upscale.
Or be printed on both sides
Or if it was a double-sided print either with crystal on both sides to make it a round ornament. Everything looks so cheap 😅
Then it would have been way more expensive than just slapping a print on the back of a chunk of glass, but I agree it would have been beautiful
Why? The dumb veg will buy anything with a brand name on it anyway
With laser cutters that would probably have been cheaper to make, too!
Surprised no one has commented on the "gift" ornament. It's just a rectangle of glass with a bit of metal around it. No facets, no bow, it doesn't sparkle. It deserves some hate too.
**silently hating the "gift" ornament**
I'm not making it that far. This is beyond ridiculous. Maybe a lot of other people didn't either
Share the hate among all of them 😂
I saw it more as a Bible/cross than a gift/ribbon.
It has a little red bow on top but it's not a 'gift' style bow
If you want to have a great advent calendar, buy a nice wood calendar...then fill it yourself every year. I bought one when my kids were little and they absolutely love opening those little doors getting a piece of their favorite candy and a small thing they really like. A hotwheels car, a piece of jewelry, some stickers or temp tattoos, hair accessories, and this year, my teen son got paintable mini figures and a video game chip. and I guarantee we've never spent $1300, even with two teens 😅
Ok seriously stickers? Like if I spent 1300 on an advent calendar from a crystal maker, every single door better have a friggin crystal!
I like how we watched her break the Mickey then 10 seconds later she found it and didn’t realize it was her 😂😭
9:26 - whooooops. Y'could even hear the lil' crunch. >_
Still shouldn't break that easily
Came here looking for this comment as well! Literally watched her break it 😂
@@mummasmith7010Me too! Ear is fine until she drops the diamond shaped rock on it & it broke right there
People on Amazon reviews when they claim the product came destroyed.
My main thought the whole time was "wow this is SO LAZY". If only the advent calendar contained 25 ornaments of the same quality as day 25 was, and every ornament was actually Disney themed and there was variety (not just micky and minnie 25 times etc), it could've been amazing.
Not sure about Swarovski, but the Disney company as a whole has been doing MOST things the lazy way with little regard to customer value, IP integrity, etc. It's a shame since they were the exact opposite for so long & are capable of so much more.
well said, that's everything I was thinking the whole time!
@@JustGettinBy1321 I agree, it really is a shame because I know they can do so much better
Completely agree. My thoughts exactly.
THIS!!!
"I feel like I would put this all on a Minnie-tree."
Well played.
I would never buy this, but rewinding you dropping that diamond chunk Crystal, it fell right onto Mickey's ear, so THAT broke it ... I also imagine if I DID buy this, it would go into a lighted cabinet, with a closed glass door, on a very small display "tree", as most do when they buy glass Disney figurines, they go into a "display case". The bad backings, bad clasps, things falling so easily off of the string, very valid points.
The snowflake, which is honestly probably the prettiest thing in this box, is last year’s design and it can be found (relatively) for cheap online right now
From my experience reselling Swarovski jewelry and statues, I don't even have to check to know those ornaments and necklaces will have abysmal resale value in the future. Very few look like they'd have any actual collector value as Disney or Swarovski.
@@Z.A.M.1359 correct me if I am wrong but as someone who often went window shopping for swarvoski's products in the early 2000s, I think their quality has declined drastically since mid 2010s and now the designs are generally really bland too
@msk-qp6fn I agree. It's that or they have a handful of really nice items surrounded by highly mass-produced, lower quality pieces.
@@Z.A.M.1359 I find the statement pieces are still very exciting. especially some of the more sculptural abstracts. However, I find that the design output as a whole has shifted towards minimalist, and not in a timeless or fun way.
I hadn't thought about it until you mentioned it, but I never realised I stopped caring about resale value. I think I subconsciously identified that there was none, awhile back.
“The Marilyn Monroe dress, you know the one Kim Kardashian ruined with her butt” I couldn’t stop laughing 😂
Though to be honest, her butt has ruined a lot of things! 😂
😂
I think she cut on it, & had it badly altered too. That's why designers were so upset. It was one of 2 made & she destroyed it. Smh. Ahh the ideas of someone famous for being famous. I mean "leaking" a sex tape to gain notoriety..? It worked I guess.
@@annatully6394 as far as I knew, she didn't have it altered (because it's technically an artifact), but just attempting to put it on she ruined it because it was custom made for Marilyn, who was quite petite. But besides irreparably ruining it, it was the sheer entitlement and disrespect to Marilyn's memory and legacy. Call me a hater if you will, but Marilyn had 100x the talent Kim K has. That dress was meant to be hers and hers alone, and Kim just steamrolled over everything because she wanted attention, and she can't get it unless she makes a scene.
@@Izzy-cp8ytAgreed 1000%. If you get hate then the haters are psycho for being a Kardashian “fan” lol
The green mickey with broken ear, only broke when you dropped the star on it. Glass against glass breaks easily, go back and watch where it lands when you drop it.
“I was very careful with them” but also drops them ten times 😂 hahaha the printing issue is horrible though
If I'm paying anything more than $30 for an advent calendar, it better give me the Christmas Spirits of past, present, and future. $1300 is insane! The moment I see stickers in anything that costs that much, I would return it. That is such a slap in the face. The only item in the box that was worth it was the final Mickey ornament. They should have made all of the ornaments a different Disney Character and skipped the stupid printed ones altogether.
I think what most people don't realize ist that with 30$ you have roundabout 1$ per item and still need to pull off the calender itself (and packaging like that is super expensive to produce) and then you still haven't made any profit. Yes, 1300$ is way too much but with 30$ you're not getting anywhere near your desired Christmas Spirits. Can't expect more than cheap chocolates and stickers within that budget ;)
@@hasenbommel I think the point she was trying to make was that people are going to expect a higher amount of quality for $1,300
Lego advent calendars are over $30 but at least you repair a Lego ornament if you brake it 😁
Yep, a missed opportunity by Disney
@polarboy5862 I'm not saying that a Swarovski crystal advent calendar should be $30, I'm saying that for $1300 I would be absolutely pissed to receive stickers in one of the slots. If it was an extra item given at the store it would be totally different. The ornaments were not $1300 quality. I don't care if the material was crystal, they looked like dollar store ornaments. This was a pure money grab on Disney and Swarovski's part.
I used to go to school with people who were also studying to be jewellers, goldsmiths, and silversmiths (I did clockwork) and whenever I hear the name Swarovski I remember one of the students telling me that Swarovski is the same quality as normal cubic zirconia and you're just paying for the name. This calendar is 100% a ripoff, though. This is not Disney. They do so many Disney products there is no excuse for them to not have the entire calendar be Disney. The stickers are also such a letdown. I hope you can get your money back.
Hmm, depends on who makes the cubic zirconia. Like so many things, the quality is in who makes, how it is made, and how cheaply. I’ve seen some good and some ruddy awful.
@@LisaMarieFordone broke right away and all the other things wrong with them
@@caitlinwhatthefrick2361 Cubic Zirconia? There wasn’t any in this set. That’s what the original commenter was talking about and I replied about, not the Swarovski crystal glass in this set. They’re not the same thing.
swarovski isn't even crystal, it's crystal glass. it's almost entirely paying for the name at this point when there's so many equally priced alternatives
@@LisaMarieFord yes, they are both just glass. They even took the lead out of the glass so it’s literally just plain glass which is the same as CZ. (I used to also work at a jewelry store)
The fact that Disney 100 yr anniversary advent calendar is as disappointing as their movie, is honestly so fitting 😑
I don’t think the Mickey one was already broken, when you dropped the star ornament on it I think it broke it, when it came out of the box and when you first showed it, it was perfectly fine.
I would have expected so many more characters! Being Disney 100, I would have expected more than just Mickey characters...
I'm sure the "mouse shape" was the only copyright they could/ wanted to buy for this
@@ErisV_ yeah, Disney has their own ornaments in their shop, so they probably didn't wanna give up too many character licenses for this purpose to another company or would only do it for an exorbitant price tag. It's a shame, since most of what they offer look to be cast and painted figurine-like ornaments, and this collab had great potential to include some cool stuff like Cinderella's glass slipper, Olaf, Snow White's apple, the Heart of TeFiti, or more character figures like the final Mickey one.
This one is already broken... it wasn't me I didn't drop this one. Go back 10 seconds to her dropping the heaviest one on the fragile glass ear. 😅
I'm glad someone else said it, I was about to comment the same thing.
I was thinking the same thing.
You can actually see the ear break when she dropped the other ornament onto it.
I was going to say this. You see the heavy point drop right into it's ear. Very possible she didn't notice that it did. But from what I seen, it was definitely her being a little clumsy, as she says, tossing the ornament around.
Noticed that and was laughing 😂
I was just about to comment the same thing, you can literally see the ear break off when she dropped the star ornament on it.
It's almost like the biggest companies make the worst things!
Horrendous 😭 disney is out their minds. They cant even pay their animators/artists/writers a decent wage and ask this much for some glass in a box....smh
I have yet to see a single advent calendar anywhere from any brand that isn't an obvious collection of things they couldn't sell individually. And the overall value is never anywhere near the sticker price. The packaging is always very attractive. That's where they put all of the thought, into the packaging that gets people to shell out for it.
@Larissa-eo3pt All of the ridiculously expensive ones I'm seeing this year are embarrassing. If a company is gonna charge that kind of money, the items shouldn't only be of the highest quality. They should only be available in the calendar.
I have seen some calendars over the years that aren't available any other way. I'm not positive if it's still this way, but Funko usually has items unique only to their calendars. Sure they often have characters the have created full size before, but they're always unique poses etc.
I think Disney has so much money they've stopped caring.
Exactly! They are all rubbish, expensive rubbish.
I get the Bonne Maman Advent Calendar every year and I will vouch for it. It's tiny jars of Bonne Maman jam and they're exclusive flavors they don't sell at other times of year (at least not in grocery stores). The jams are great and the mini jars are glass so it feels like you're getting something quality. The labels use water-soluble adhesive so they slip right off in water which makes the jars really re-usable. I use mine for seed storage. Oh, and it's only $45. It feels like the more expensive an advent calendar is, the shittier it is.
I have a Nightmare Before Christmas Advent calendar where it's all paper craft ornaments with a pop-up tree to put the ornaments on.
Worth the price? Probably not. But the tree is nice for my small apartment, it has interesting artwork, and everything feels like it's been part of a homogeneous set made for this product so far 🙂
@@helgacucumber3871I was gonna vouch for them too, those advents are great
Disney has so many characters, there's no excuse for not making the entire set Disney character themed.
When you dropped the one ornament onto the other and it broke, I felt that in my soul. I dropped a large glass piece I had and it broke a small glass piece I had sitting next to me. It was my favorite piece and it broke
I hate it when stuff like that happens! I once had a glass jar and a glass bird on my bed and I was so sure they were balanced among the other stuff!
… then I turned around and heard a bright ”klonk” noise.
The bird’s head almost broke, you can see the line inside the head almost making a full circle. So close the whole piece would have shattered.
Learned my lesson, and the bird was important to me as I really really wanted one as a child and got it like, maybe 7 y/o?
My heart was racing after that for quite a while 😢
this entire video feels like a bass-boosted version of the time i walked into a crystal shop, saw small grape-sized piece of "opal light" priced at $25 a piece, and immediately turned around and walked away. THAT! IS! GLASS!
Drops the star on the green Mickey and says, "it was already broken. It was not me". 😅😅😅
I can imagine her walking into the shop, asking the staff to watch her video as proof it wasn't her😂
Right, so it's not broken through most of the video, but it still was somehow 'already broken', just because the shot of it breaking was inserted at the beginning, dropping a star item that hadn't even been opened at that time..? Ooo-kaaay..
I have a Bluey book advent calendar. I get 24 different mini books. So far after seeing what’s in other advent calendars, I feel like I made the right choice.
We got my kiddo a $30 Gabbys Dollhouse one. The gifts are all stickers and 3D printed characters and sleds/cupcakes. I'm exceptionally happy with our choice
I've got a cheap advent calendar containing 24 pieces of cheap chocolate. I feel I made the right choice. 😀
Day 7 was the first one that actually twinkled like a proper lead crystal. The ones before that looked like regular glass...
If all of the ornaments were different characters in the style of the #25, I think the box would be worth the price. At the average cost of $52, you’re really not paying for quality here: you’re paying for the Swarovski and Disney names. This certainly looks like they phoned in for a cash grab with this box. Had it been all Mickey head style ornaments, it would have been a good way to purchase lots of gifts for friends and family members who love Disney (by splitting it up and giving one ornament per person).
I used to sell Swarovski. The items where they join round crystals together like the Mickey heads are notorious for falling apart and there is no way you can fix it. If you can find a glue that works, it eventually becomes discolored and shows through. Swarovski has made some beautiful holiday snowflake ornaments but they were much more ornate and substantial than those flimsy flakes. Those star ornaments look just like their hanging prisms you could buy for $20. I know things have gone up a lot and tagging the Disney name to it helps add to the cost but this is ridiculous. I bought a pair of blue crystal waterlily candle holders the size of baseballs for $200. Much more worth it when you see the hundreds of cuts on the waterlilies.
Cherry Wallace also bought the same advent calendar. She was really annoyed and disappointed and returned it & got a full refund. It seems Swarovski did a poor job their advent calendar(s).
Yeah, I watched her too! I was wondering if Chloe would get it too. Seems it's terrible quality all around for everyone.
This whole calendar is insane tbh. 1300$ for Christmas ornaments???? This is absolutely ludicrous! And the other big problem is the ornaments being made out of glass..! GLASS! This doesn’t make any sense I’m so mad at this lmaoo
People will buy it though. If they stop buying overpriced trash these companies would cease to exist, but the advertising is apparently really good.
Chloe out here fighting for her life with an attempt to be positive LOL
I can forgive them for not having Disney products for all 25 days, but I absolutely can not forgive them for their terrible quality control!
Its glass. Its going to be fragile. And if you drop one heavy pointy glass object onto another fragile glass object exactly on the thinnest part (where the ear joined) then its going to break. Nothing quality control can do about Chloe being clumsy!
@@AlexaFaie oh I totally agree. My comment on quality control was about the discoloration on the character's faces and the backward print of those little Minnie mouse on the round ornament. Chloe has always been clumsy lol but that's why I like her.
You really shouldn’t forgive anything about this, the comments make an excellent point about all the iconography they could’ve pulled from for inspiration but no, they only used Mickey and Minnie and Donald lol
A glass slipper or pretty red glass apple would’ve been so nice
Crystal isn't just cut to look like diamonds, it is actually a chemically different kind of glass that has higher clarity and sparkle than regular glass! Swarovski is just the best-known (and most expensive) brand of crystal.
Based on my knowledge of other, less brand-recognized companies like Crystal Passions and Preciosa, I would ballpark the upper-end pricetag of those snowflakes at 15$, the stars maybe, 30$ due to being so much more material, the glove, present and candycane around 40$, and the sculpted Mickey head around 50$. Those one-sided circle ornaments, however, even Swarovski should be fucking embarrassed to price higher than 10$, same for the stickers. The double-sided, embellished circles I could see at 25$, the flat Mickey heads 20$, and the necklaces maybe 50$ depending on the metal used.
That comes to $580.
If it involves Disney then you know you're being taken for a ride.
omg honestly though this is the 100 year anniversary calendar!! From an overpriced jewelry and knick knacks brand, I can't believe they didn't make every day of the calendar based on the actual other major disney movies in order of release? To celebrate 100 years? Why is it just mickey's head 90% of the time and then the two ducks? Not even Goofy, you couldn't even round out the mickey mouse main cast? I've seen their other glass sculptures, I know they can make glass in the shape of fullbody characters, they practically specialize in miniatures. If I were Disney I would have been mad this is what they came up with lol
Maybe Disney came up with it. Wouldn't surprise me a bit.
FYI, the Swarovski crystals in the ruby slippers were in the bows - not the shoe itself, that was just sequins.
I've heard that Disney is increasingly pushing on "whales" when it comes to its marketing strategy, and this seems in line with that. Expensive nostalgia farming for as little investment as possible on their side. I'm sure they payed as little as possible to the designers to create the whole set.
I went to jewelry school, and learned pretty quickly in gemmology, that Swarovski crystal is pretty much just fancy glass with a coating to make it extra sparkly and give it that rainbow shine. The coating will wear off if you handle it too much, and then you're left with dull looking glass. After school, I started working at a jeweler who sold Swarovski jewelry, and it was a nightmare. We sold lots of pretty things, but my heart would fall when customers would walk to the Swarovski window and point to anything there. Even though Swarovski jewelry *looks* silver, it's actually all copper with a silver or gold coating. So when you see a 268 euro necklace, you're not even buying a silver or gold necklace for that price. The silver or gold coating will wear off, and you will eventually be left with a copper colored necklace with dull stones. Its basically overpriced bijoux jewelry.
We'd get SO MANY returns! When I had to advertise it, I would silently hint that these pieces of jewelry were more for a fancy dinner, or for a prom night, but of course we'd have lots of customers who'd buy them for everyday wear. Woman who'd wear them and then spray perfume all over on them, or rings! The rings were SUPER sensitive to scratching as well! We had one woman who made a huge scratch on a ring by simply opening a door! It was hard to sell Swarovski jewelry. On one hand, they were a nice hit on the bank whenever we sold one, and they sold like hotcakes during christmas, but on the other hand I wanted to break out of my saleswoman act, and direct the customer to the much cheaper and better in quality silver items we had. Only time I did was when a guy wanted to propose with a Swarovski ring...😮💨
Soooo, I don’t think it’s worth the money regardless, but Chloe, you DID break the little green Mikey head by dropping the star shaped one on top of it, it’s at 9:26
I’m meaannn there is no way that is an acceptable level of rigidity
@@hollystop it is just glass after all. The connection point for those ears is not very thick. Wouldn’t take much, clearly, to break it.
She very clearly broke it.
I was hoping somebody else would notice!!
Same
It's so insane that someone would allow a product like this to be made at this price range.
Disney are getting desperate. They have lost so much money with their movies in the last 5,6 years
Well... if people are buying it...
sad.
“Swore-off-ski” also they have made these in the years past and I’ve seen several videos that are similar to yours. Unhappy and lots of broken pieces. 😢 Thank you for sharing 😊
CRA: drops clunky crystal onto dainty crystal. examines dainty crystal - it's broken. It wasn't me!
Me, who's favourite store is Dollarama, enjoying the luxury brand advent calendar drama year after year like I know what a crystal ornament is worth.
cherry wasn't complaining about color variation, the color on her ornaments were completely wrong - Donald Duck was completely pink!
Yes. The colors on the ones Cherry received were horrible.
Yeah chloe sounds so gaslightning
That's definitely not gaslighting lmfao she just mentioned there was colour misprints and didn't go into specifics about the errors others received.
A completely pink Donald would also be a misprint issue.
I saw a lot of people open this up and not a single person liked it. Broken ornaments, missing ribbons, misprints, variation in colours... 1300 $... Hell no!
A friend had a piece of expensive Swarovski jewellery bought for her. When her jewellery collection went in to be valued for insurance purposes, the assessors only valued three pieces of dress jewellery (this means jewellery not constructed of hallmark gold, silver, gemstones, diamonds). One was a Chanel collector's piece, one was a branded 1930's costume brooch, and the other was the Swarovsky piece. So while they aren't "real jewellery" they do retain some value in the resale market unlike most pieces of costume.
The crystals are a scam, the Disney brand overpricing is a scam. Girl willingly got herself scammed squared😂😭
It feels like they slid the decimal on the price. It should have been $130.00. I still wouldn't pay that much for this advent calendar, because it was very disappointing and doesn't appeal to me, but it would be at least worth that price. I'd give it a 2.5 out of 10. Its giving me flashbacks to dime store misprints I had to put up with when i was a child.
I’m not surprised at the price tag. Leotards with Swarovski crystals “bling” for gymnasts and figure skaters can run into the thousands of dollars.
@@LoyaFrostwind so overpriced just for some lil pieces of glass
I can't imagine what I could possibly do with a $50 sticker!?!?!
Send them back and demand a refund!!
Well they're reusable
The Mickey on day 25 doesn't even look like it fits with the themes of the other ones. It's so different in every way.
The reason it's filled with circular crystals with printed pictures of Mickey on them is because Swarovski has a line of nicer Disney themed ornaments that look like iconic characters and objects, and those are 200-400 dollars apiece on average. Filling an advent calendar full of those would've cost around 5000-10,000 dollars. I've seen nice, genuine crystal animal figurines made by other companies that were about 100 dollars apiece, and I think Disney could've probably put together a decent character Advent set for about 2500 dollars at that price point. They probably still would have had loads of people buying them with few complaints, and it wouldn't have looked like they were trying to rip people off.
The quality of this calendar doesn't surprise me. Their crystal itself is high quality and beautifully made, but their craftsmanship of actual products has tanked. My engagement ring was from Swarovski (and before anyone attempts to poopoo my partner for buying me crystal glass instead of diamonds, I was the one who told him if he ever proposed to buy a ring from Swarovski) and they ended up replacing my ring 3 times before I finally gave up and stopped wearing it because they crystals continued to pop out of the setting just from daily wear. It was so disappointing to love the quality of the crystal they make only to be left utterly disappointed in how poor their jewelry was.
That sucks, could you maybe take it to a better jeweler and get them to set the crystal in properly? I’ve never had jewelry expensive enough that I take it anywhere to be fixed so Idk if they could do it or not
@@Jessica-ch1yi unfortunately, no. I can't find the ring to see the details online because it was bought in 2011, but the setting is really weird. I think the inlay material was some sort of resin or jeweler's cement and that's where they fall out. I've never seen other jewelry with this setting and they don't seem to be using it on any of there current rings. And even if it was something another jeweler could fix, all the missing stones are long gone. 😩
I would never say anything about your fiancé not buying a diamond.
Diamonds are worthless and a huge waste of money. I think you two are smart for not buying into the diamond scam.
@@nicolecourter2870 I completely agree! It's a complete waste of money and the prices are all because of false scarcity created by jewelers. Someone wanting to make a lifelong commitment to another person is worth more than a shiny rock ever could, and I wish more people felt that way.
@@TwistyKitty ah, that’s too bad, maybe you 2 could go and find an affordable but nicer quality replacement some time
Evidently, the candy cane and the other "non-disney-but-copyright-disney" ornaments are just Christmas Swarovski things exclusive to the calendar. Though if I'm personally honest, I like the heavy, star-shaped ones: they're so pretty
Yes, they are. And I like the round things she compares to a christmas pudding. To me they look like round ornaments, the upper third of which is covered in frost, or snow. They have a nice wintry, christmasy vibe.
The star shape of a "merkaba," is reasonably similar ( interlocked triangular solids) It's a part of sacred geometry and represents the balance of spirit, body and light.
You can buy beautiful real gemstone ones for much, much less.
Happy New Year, happiness and blessings to you !
lol love that she did break the mickey head one when dropping the heavy star looking thing on it at 9:27
it strongly feels like they worked on the last one as an exclusive design, slapped a few cheap prints on some standard shaped crystals and then reused old designs of ornaments with a "Disney tag" to justify the price. I can understand that its a luxury brand name and like Chloe said it comes to about 54 dollars each which doesnt give much room to work with but they should've just released an exclusive 100 collection instead with actual thought out, well structured designs that are really worth buying for collectors
Considering it's all glass, that's a real rip-off for over a thousand dollars. I bought a glass hummingbird for my own christmas tree from the market for £8, and I like it better than all of these combined.
It seems a lot of people are unaware that it’s glass. Also that “crystals” isn’t a synonym to gemstones.
I didn't expect print on the Crystal.
I thought they would be like the Mickey sculpted into Crystal.
The necklaces was cute.
LOL I probably take each individual one out and give it as a Christmas gift .
Cheap one ornament & a necklace.😉
Party on top comfy on the bottom. I love it! Your sweater is so pretty and the pants are adorable!!
The reason why Advent calendars usually only go untill the 24th is because it was originally a German tradition and in Germany you celebrate Christmas and open your presents on the 24th 😊
Walt Disney must be turning in his grave at how bad Disney is now. Crappy movies and now crappy advent calendars! 😄
He was turning in his grave as a racist, anti-semite, and a bigot he would have had an aneurysm over the inclusivity of Disney’s policies.
Exactly 💀💀
Dying laughing “I was very careful, it wasn’t me” meanwhile you just smashed it with the giant star ornament lol 🤦🏻♀️
EXACTLY WHAT I SAID!!!😂🤣 lol She subconsciously knows it was her lol.
She dropped another ornament later on. 2 droppings (1 which caused a break), clearly not careful...
@@lilredhead17yeah...
That calendar was a 5 out of 10. The only reason I gave it 5 instead of 3.5 was because of the Day 25 ornament. That was beautiful and should have been the majority instead of the pointy stars that made me think of the Home Alone and stepping on them barefoot.
Why would anyone buy an advent calendar for that price? Insane.
So, Swarovski used to sell components directly to consumers for crafting purposes, they stopped about a year ago and now only sell to manufacturers. About 2/3 of these (generously) just look like they were assembled from components that you could buy for a few bucks from the bead catalog. And yeah, crystal is just glass. Usually with lead in it to make it sparklier, but you'll find a lot of lead-free glass marked as crystal too.
I saw another person who is a Disney fan who returned it. I forget her name, but she popped up with the review video in my suggested over Thanksgiving. I would do the same. Look into it....1300 is too much to just settle.
CherryWallis did that. Not sure if that's who you're think of tho
@@airicastarwall1349 I believe it is! Thank you!
@@airicastarwall1349That's it! I watched it & it was a disaster 😆
Poor Cherry & now Chloe 😭
They paid WAY TOO MUCH 😕
So typical of Disney to RIP people off!
@@pettykittyfam I mean Swarovsky ripps people off as well so the combo of both is just a straight up desaster...
@pettykittyfam it's Swarovsky, not Disney doing the ripping off here
All the way through the video I had what was in door #25 in mind as a "why didn't they do this?" When I saw it I realized they did, but only for one figure...
They could have at least covered that print at 10:25 by some glass to protect it. It would cost them merely cents and they would be a lot more durable.
This advent calendar is wild 😳 where do they get the audacity to charge this much for barely Disney themed bad quality decorations?? I have a Disney Pandora bead of cinderallas crown and that is a cool actual Disney design, like that’s all they had to do 😮❤❤
There used to be this GIANT Swarovski Christmas tree in Zürich main station, a real tree fully covered in white Swarovski crystals and the way it sparkled in the light was truly magical! Loved to visit it every year! This calendar however is truly a very sad Train wreck…
I see what you’re saying, and I’m not sure I’d spend even half that for what you got. BUT I bet they are GORGEOUS on the tree with the lights, I imagine they will be quite sparkly! ❤
9:40 - we just watched you drop the big one on that ear.
Ok so back in the mid 90s my uncle got me and my mom several crystal ornaments. Every single one of them had weight to it, it was THICK crystal - comparing what I know of the ornaments and what I’m seeing here I’m lead to believe these have got to be a lower quality than what they sell on a normal basis. Excluding the last one, they all look (to me) like they were produced by hallmark - they aren’t cheap but in comparison to swarovski they are. I definitely hope you’ve got the return process started, it’s really disappointing this is what they put out.
Idk if that makes me a bad person, but i literally giggled every single time Chloe butchered the pronunciation of "Swarovski" in a new way 😂 (listen, as a Pole who constantly mispronounces English words, let me have this, ok)
How is it supposed to be pronounced? Because I'm Italian and we pronounce everything just the way it's written and I guess that's wrong as well 😅
Cracked me up too ! I'm French and just like you I don't care about wrong pronunciation etc but it made me laugh how it seemed to be different everytime and still wrong, but not wrong like saying it right but adding english accent to it but wrong like it's not the right word at all 😂
The SW in Swarovski is pronounced exactly that way. She pronounces it SHW.
@@alicegaiba i mean it is pronounced "as written" to me too, but I guess it depends on the rules of one's language 😂 basically w is pronounced like v and s like s, not like š. So it's just like S-var-OFF-ski haha
yeah it kinda irked me lol
I've seen this reviewed before so I was already crying for you but stayed for your reactions
The Noble Collection does a wonderful job with Harry Potter Charms, I was expecting something similar to that but with crystal. I also agree the last ornament you got was what more of them should have been but other characters or symbols of characters. This was not thought out or designed well.
Every christmas it is tradition in Sweden to see a show with different Disney cartoons. In one of them Mickey is decorating a tree with Pluto and Chip n Dale. Some of the ornaments in the calendar looks like a Swarovski version of the ornaments Mickey decorates his tree with. I do think that is the connection with Disney.
As someone from Sweden aswell, I can see it being like that but I still feel it being a stretch since there is no real mentioning of it.
I live in Finland, and we have that same tradition. The story about Mickey decorating the tree is my favourite cartoon ever, and I think my idea of what the perfect christmas tree looks like comes from how colourful that tree was - before the distruction.
We do that in Denmark as well "Disneys Juleshow"
Its called Pluto’s Christmas tree and it’s from 1952 if anyone was wanting to check it out. It’s a 5 ish minute short and I think it’s a nice classic short. (Unless there’s another similar one lol.)
@@laurens3857 Yup! I looked it up, it's on Disney+, and it's still just as good as it was when I was a kid.
So when did Disney become basically just Mickey and Minnie Mouse?! I mean there are hundreds of Disney characters and other than the two cheap looking Donald and Daisy Duck there are no other characters or Disney items. The non Disney ones could have been made Disney easily, like snow whites apple, a Cinderella glass slipper, beauty and the beasts rose etc. For the money this is such a rip off.
The only way to make the best of that purchase, is to wear the ornament pieces as pendant necklaces throughout the year. 🥰 Remember to reinforce those bails though, if they were to slip off the chain at that height, they would surely shatter.
Many many years ago when I was still going to school as a science project we had to drop an raw egg from a second floor balcony and the egg was not to break once it hit the ground... My dad collects Swarovski Crystal and so I used one of their box's filled with foam and I was one of the very few people who still had a whole egg at the end of the experiment... Those foam boxes look boring but they are very strong and it makes it harder to break anything 😅... Writing this just as she finds the broken ornament 😊
Also to make red crystal you use melted gold that is why the Crystal can look different because of the gems melted into the glass
I commented similar on Cherry Wallis’ video as well: As someone who has collected some crystal over the years and who has made Pieces of Light with genuine Swarovski crystals, here’s my thoughts. (I do not work for them nor do I collect the expensive figurines.)
- Even though Swarovski has a higher price point, it’s for the made in Austria, old company quality of excellence and how they’re made…. or supposed to be made. For the price point on that advent calendar the price should have been at the bare minimum half and that is being VERY generous. All of the individual pieces used to make each ornament do cost, especially if they are crystal glass, then there is the making them together, but at that price point even with inflation and brand tax it doesn’t add up. Not even figuring in the packaging, presentation, and handling does it add up. If they were all Day 25 quality, maybe.
- Sticker rhinestones, regardless of whether they’re crystal or not, don’t go with a set in that price point. I know they’ve been pushing their stickers and little jewelry things for some years, but I prefer the legit crystals or at least the crystal beads.
- As for the set, in Swarovski and Disney’s defense two things; Just about all Swarovski sets come with either snowflakes, stars, or Edelweiss, or the first two, or all three. It’s a Disney and Swarovski set, not just Disney. And technically everything in there could be based upon any number of Disney things; including Silly Symphonies, shorts, or even Disney World decorations. Not saying it shouldn’t have had more than just mouse ears, but I think that’s kind of the theme they were going for. Most of those ornaments, as others have already said, goes with Mickey decorating the tree with Pluto and then there’s the Donald Duck one before Chip and Dale show up. It was a missed opportunity that at least half the days weren’t like Day 25.
- When Swarovski changed several years back I’d noticed more things seeming to be outsourced and not of the same caliber as their true crystals made in Austria. I never bought the other stuff for my creations, just the legit crystals and crystal beads. I’m guessing the printed ornaments were made or printed by a third party. The crystal doesn’t even look the same quality, let alone the misprints. And those are most notably tagged “Disney”.
- As part of that; I have a couple genuine Swarosvki sets for their anniversaries and things. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, was always trademarked with the little symbol by the brand name. That it’s not on the packaging for the advent calendar leaves me with some questions. Even if they did outsource the manufacturing of the packaging it should have had the trademarked brand name; unless everything was. Genuine Swarovski Crystals also have the teeny tiny symbol in the crystal. It’s difficult to see from here, but I wonder if they all did. I saw the little tags for Disney, but not Swarovski, which makes me wonder if Disney had more of a hand on those pieces. In the past when they’ve partnered with brands they’ve etched both brands into the crystal, which was annoying and awful in my opinion, but still seems weird.
- For that price point they should have included more pure crystal glass items. They sell Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Cinderella’s glass slipper, and so forth. Granted all these figurines are extremely expensive, but a miniature ornament would have been easier. There honestly should have been no rhodium plated jewelry nor rhinestone stickers, and definitely not printed on crystal cabochon styled ornaments. They are quite capable of etching their crystals. Etched crystals with characters faces would have been much better and a much better quality. Honestly, those printed ones looked more like acrylic or cheap glass and not crystal. You can have slight color variation or effects variation in well made crystal, and I know that is the company statement, but not to the scale some of these these sets have.
- Also the frosted circle, which oddly enough both you and Cherry thought of pudding, is meant to be for a traditional globe style Christmas ornament or bauble; often blown glass and frosted. It’s one of THE most used shapes for ornaments, but instead of a full globe they compressed it to be somewhat flatter.
I wouldn’t be surprised if returns are soon no longer an option or will not be for future sets by the amount of buyers’ remorse returns they get with this one…. especially when opened already. They should, since like Cherry you had some defects, but they might for exchanges not allow full refunds so definitely get on that ASAP… especially since you opened it on video.
Really interesting! Thank you for having taken the time to write such a long comment 😊
@@Scholar_of_the_Dark_Arts Thank you kindly for reading it and replying. 😊
Very interesting pov. I’m not an expert whatsoever but I too have noticed a decrease in their quality. To be honest i feel a lot of brands are going down the same road
But it's just ordinary glass. It has no value, just hype
@@sarax4493 Thank you kindly. Yes, I agree with you. Unfortunately, that seems to be a recurring thing with too many companies; lower the quality to lower costs but don’t lower the price to consumers, maybe raise it instead. ☹️ That “race to the bottom” as my dad always says. It makes no sense.