"Designed and crafted to capture the essence of evil at its best, the Villains Designer Collection re-imagines the stylish wickedness of classic Disney Villains." Introducing the Disney Villains Designer Collection dolls... Maleficent Cruella de Vil Evil Queen Queen of Hearts Ursula Mother GothelThere are 13,000 of each of the six dolls, and every villain doll will come with a Certificate of Authenticity.Beginning in September, the dolls will be available in select stores in North America and Europe. These original bad girls of Disney will also be available online on http://disneystore.com, http://disneystore.co.uk, http://disneystore.fr and http://disneystore.de. Each doll will be available for $79.50 US/$87.50 CAN/50/65.An online-exclusive set including all six dolls will be available for pre-order on Monday, August 20th. This will be the only opportunity to guarantee a purchase of all six dolls. The entire set will be delivered on or shortly after Monday, October 15.And there's more! Here is a glimpse of the complete Disney Villains Designer Collection coming soon, featuring delightfully chic beauty, apparel, and home products. Inside the Disney Villains Designer Collection ArtworkDesigner Steve Thompson is one of the main creative masterminds behind the designs of the six villains in the new Designer Collection..Steve Thompsons career with The Walt Disney Company began at age 19. While attending CalArts, Disney Consumer Products offered him a job as a Senior Character Artist. He jumped at the opportunity and moved up in the company, eventually spending 10 years working for Disney Feature Animation and Disney Toon Studios as a Clean-up Artist and Character Designer. He currently works as a Principal Designer for Disney Store North America, where he has been since 2005.Steve Thompson at Disney Store's Fahion Night Out Event in 2011 with the Disney Princess Designer Collection.This is an excerpt about the Disney Villains Designer Collection from Steves personal blog, where he posts awesome examples of his work and inspiration. So excited about finally being able to talk about these! Its the second outing for myself and fellow designer Sang Plumlee for the Disney Stores Designer Collection series, whom I was lucky enough to work with on the princess designer series as well. Six dolls in all, the villains were a whole different challenge than the princesses. The princesses were inspired by fashion illustrations from the 50s and 60s. The villains were inspired by something all together different. I wanted them to be more modern. So, I looked at art, architecture, texture, theatrical costumes and of course fashion by some of todays more avant-garde designers. These villains are inspired by the film characters through a designers eye. We didnt want to just take a doll and put it in a fancy dress. We wanted them to look like a fashion sketch come to life. I wanted to capture the essence and attitude of each character, but represent them in an unexpected way. For example, Maleficent in the film is very angular in design. So, I keep that same feeling with the structure of her dress. Also, since in the story she becomes a dragon, so we used a leather-like fabric and the