In general it seems that last nights comments centered around what will happen to the quality, price and availability. As I said, I'm not familiar with Enesco so I have no background to comment on quality or price. I guess time will tell.
Availability: I have been told that on December 15th Enesco will purchase all of Westlands remaining Trail of Painted Ponies inventory. It would seem that based on the license actually changing hands on January 1, 2010 that Enesco would not begin selling Ponies until that date. The problem is that Westlands inventory is already very low, and there is one last boat on the water from China. I would estimate, based on the out-of-stock reports that I've seen from Westland that they have less than 50% of the current figurines in stock. From the report I received on what's coming on the boat from China, I can't see where it's going to change things much. It appears that everything on that boat has already been sold. I believe there will be major availability problems at least until January 1, 2010. Past that it depends on how prepared Enesco is.
I'll be posting more of the Trail of Painted Ponies email I received throughout the day. Thank you for your comments.
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