[Disneyana] Vente aux enchères d'une partie de la collection de Scot & Terry Rummell.

Le collectionneur Scot Rummell et son épouse Terry vont vendre aux enchères une fraction de leur vaste collection de Disneyland à Anaheim et de Walt Disney World à Orlando.

La collection des Rummell rassemble pas moins de 25.000 pièces qui font rêver (voyez les photographies).

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Disney collection to be auctioned as collector sells home, moves to the beach

The massive collection includes big pieces like a Rocket Jets rocket, an Autopia car and a buggy from Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.

Disney collector Scott Rummell just sold the four-bedroom Yorba Linda home that he and his wife, Terry, spent 23 years transforming into their very own “happiest place on Earth.”

Assorted ride vehicles, hand-silkscreened attraction posters, and other objects from the 25,000-piece Disneyland and Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom collection infuse almost every corner of the 4,569-square-foot house with playfulness. But none of it comes with the deal — the house fetched $2.24 million with multiple offers six days after listing on April 23.

It closed 12% over the asking price on May 17.

“I didn’t want to make it so kitschy that a family couldn’t move in with whatever their own spin on this house is,” says Rummell, a Hollywood voice-over talent who plans to relocate to Dana Point and auction most of his collection.

“The biggest auction where a guy like me sold off a whole house full of Disney stuff did about $7 million in two days,” he says. “If I do half of that, I will be very happy.”

Going to auction is “all the big stuff,” including four vintage ride vehicles seen during a recent tour of the Yorba Linda home. They include a Rocket Jets rocket, an Autopia racer car and a Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride buggy from Magic Kingdom with two rows of seats versus Disneyland’s one.

Another is the Skyway gondola, similar to one recently sold at auction for $600,000.

The gondola anchors the upstairs bonus room where it shares space with a 70-pound Monstro the Whale tooth, “Pirates of the Caribbean” pinball machine and handpainted attraction signs once attached to the side of the Disneyland Omnibus. A 1955 Disneyland opening day pennant hangs among the hundreds of narrow pointed flags covering a plank ceiling.

Also displayed are various props from movies whose trailers Rummell has voiced in that deep, resonant style he slips into so easily as he leads visitors through the house. Other times he goes into the announcer voice he used during a brief stint as the Voice of Disneyland in the early ’90s.

He doesn’t speak that way normally.

A lifelong Disney enthusiast, Rummell began building the collection with his Donald Duck collector wife after they married in the early 1980s. The pieces create designated Disney themes in their longtime home, from a Main Street USA living room to a formal dining room designed after the Mark Twain Riverboat and Sailing Ship Columbia, which Rummell’s grandfather helped build, he said.

Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room inspired the look of a bathroom in the workspace house addition, near Rummell’s office and glassed-in studio.

A Mickey Mouse recording light above the studio is among the keepers he plans to relocate to Dana Point, where a new studio was going up.

“Can you imagine the voice talents that have walked underneath that light? I always think of that whenever I’m in my studio,” he says.

Haunted Mansion plaques adorn a brick-covered passageway to the kitchen.

The open and airy kitchen combines different Disney restaurants, from Club 33 to Plaza Gardens. An original Club 33 foiled glass sign hangs above the doorway to the dining room.

According to Rummell, it was one of three initially made in the early days of Club 33.

When the time came to swap it for another, the sign maker held onto it. It ended up with a collector.

“That collector knew that it would be special to me,” Rummell says. “We had my dad’s 75th birthday at Club 33. Terry and I had our 33rd anniversary at Club 33. And so, I traded him for it. That doesn’t come with the house.”

The nearby Disney train room packs railroad artifacts, from bells to wheels. Overhead, a model train circled a tunnel painted inside a Grand Canyon Diorama mural and past a building where a miniature Walt Disney looks out the window.

It is one of several Hidden Mickeys on the property.

The old-fashioned movie theater behind a hidden door evokes Main Street Cinema.

Up the staircase with its replica Mark Twain Riverboat hand railings is the spacious Disney Dream Suite. A glass door opens to a balcony with ironwork inspired by Carnation Plaza Gardens.

The balcony overlooks a resort-style backyard with a half basketball court, an in-ground trampoline, and a swimming pool with a waterfall and waterslide behind it. Next to the waterfall is a Mickey Mouse topiary — yet another Hidden Mickey.

“Even though it seems like we’re leaving Disney behind, we’re not,” he says. “We designed our Dana Point house to look like the Disney Beach Club Resort in Orlando. We actually bought art that they had in the lobby and rooms so it has that Disney nautical feel. And so, we’re not leaving Disney completely behind.”

He takes a moment.

“We should move on before I start crying.”

The Rummells were represented by listing agent Casey Brookman of Paul Kott Realtors, Inc. Sung Won Byun of New Star Realty and Investment represented the buyer.

The Orange County Register - 21 mai 2021.

La décoration est chargée mais il faut avouer que leur collection est impressionnante et fait réellement rêver.
Certaines pièces de leur collection sont incroyables !

Je me demande bien à quel prix tous ces objets vont partir.


Avec tout ce qu'il se passe en ce moment dans le parc parisien, je me dis qu'il y a vraiment moyen pour DLP d'organiser une vente aux enchères. La demande est là !