Robert Olszewski's Disneyland Miniatures

Hello and welcome!  This is a little niche blog that I'll be using to chronicle my efforts to collect, repair, and customize miniature representations of Disneyland and Disney World buildings and attractions created by artist Robert Olszewski and sold by the Walt Disney Company.

I began collecting these miniatures in 2015, which if you know anything about the collection, is pretty late in the game.  Originally  Disney began releasing the collection in 2002, starting with Sleeping Beauty's castle.  Over 40 pieces have been released in the Disneyland collection alone since 2002, so I have had a lot of catching up to do.

Robert Olszewski's Sleeping Beauty Castle, 

image from Olszewskistudios.com

Little by little I've been grabbing pieces when I can at the parks or through the various Disney online retailers, including the Parks App.  Otherwise I'm stuck watching for reasonably priced second hand pieces on Ebay.  Since each piece of the collection has been a limited release with no guarantee of re-release in the future, it's been a bit of an uphill battle.

I can't be too picky with options so frequently I end up getting pieces with small defects ranging from cracked paint to missing parts.  I don't mind these defects because I'm confident that I can repair them.  My repair work also offers me an opportunity to experiment with customizing these pieces since their collector value is already impaired by the defects.

By using this blog to chronicle my efforts at repairing and customizing my collection,  I hope that it will help others who need to make their own repairs or who wish to try their hands at customizing their pieces.